Alice in Chains
Beck
Butthole Surfers
Def Leppard
Guns N Roses*
Jerry Cantrell
LA Guns
Linkin Park
Local H*
Men at Work
Metallica*
Michael McDonald
Motley Crue
Nickelback
Pearl Jam*
Ratt
Red Hot Chili Peppers*
Rush*
Scorpions
Skid Row
Smashing Pumpkins
Staind
Steely Dan
Stone Temple Pilots*
Van Halen
Velvet Revolver

*More than once

Wish list: Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, U2, Megadeth, NWA, Genesis, Tool, Korn, Journey, Ozzy, and The Police.

Al Hirt
Brown Sugar
Cate Bros.
Finnigan and Wood
Fly By Nite Band
Holy Modal Rounders
Michael Murphey
Notary Sojac
Overtime
Pia Zadora
Pleasure
Portland Symphony
Rare Earth
Roberta Flack
Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd

Queen ( 2 )
Billy Squier
Def Leppard ( 2 )
Motley Crue
Rufus Wainwright ( 4 )
Brian Regan ( 3 )
Eddie Izzard ( 3 )
U2 ( 4 )
Rage Against The Machine
Tool ( 2 )
Primus
RHCP
Spoon ( 3 )
New Pornographers ( 3 )
Scissor Sisters
Steely Dan
Beck

Oh now I gotta check my iTunes...let's see

AC/DC ( 3 )
REM ( 2 )
Alanis Morissette
Amy Grant
Rilo Kiley
Secret Machines ( stunner of a show that was )
Andrew Dice Clay
Jerry Seinfeld ( 2 )
Beastie Booys ( 4 )
Paul McCartney
Ben Fold ( 1 ) and his 5 ( 2 )
Big Head Todd and The Monsters
Billy Joel
Elton John ( 2 )
Robert Plant
Black Crowes
Brian Jonestown Massacre ( Terrible. Walked out )
Concrete Blonde
Crowded House ( 3 )
Dandy Warhols
James Angell ( Local musician who blew me away )
NIN ( 3 )
Bowie ( 3 )
Depeche Mode ( 2 )
Live ( 2 )
Garbage
INXS ( 2 )
Journey
Mojo Nixon ( at a shady bar in Independence, Oregon )
Oingo Boingo
Yes
A Perfect Circle
Pixies
Prince
Raconteurs
Radiohead
Remy Zero
Rush ( 2 )
The Shins
Shudder to Think
Sloan
Soundgarden
Squeeze ( sentimental favortie - knew every song )
Violent Femmes
Stereophonics ( I will not miss another show of theirs in PDX )
The Subdudes
The Tragically Hip
White Stripes
The Who on their final tour...in '82
Buckethead
Craig Carothers
Pearl Jam

Must see before I die.

Daft Punk
The Police
Cheap Trick
Dread Zeppelin
Foo Fighters
Green Day
Living Colour
The Cult

Good God CJ, I am JEALOUS!

Lessee ...

AC/DC (4)
Rush (2)
Queensryche
Metallica
Guns N Roses
Kiss
Slaughter
Winger
The Black Crowes
Alice In Chains
Styx (2)
Chuck Mangione
Wynton Marsalis (2)
Lionel Hampton
Sam Kinison
George Carlin
Quiet Riot (at Cascade Pizza in Sedro Woolley, WA!)
Van Halen (2)
Boston
Iron Maiden

heck I'm drawing a blank now ...

Wow. You guys have seen some amazing shows. I am not sure I could make a complete list with any accuracy. Here is a handful of performances -- from some well known and not so well known folks -- that made an indelible impression...

Laurie Anderson*
Mel Brown*
Camper Van Beethoven*
The Cannanes
Vic Chesnutt*
The Chills
Clan Macleay*
The Clean
Crackerbash*
Dead Moon*
Paul deLay*
Dharma Bums*
Eleventh Dream Day*
Guadalcanal Diary*
Guided by Voices*
Hazel*
Heatmiser*
Robyn Hitchcock*
Kind of Like Spitting*
Love with Arthur Lee
Thera Memory*
Bob Mould*
Nirvana*
Obituaries*
Poison Idea*
Pond*
Portland Symphony Orchestra*
Red Pony Clock
Sonic Youth*
Throwing Muses*
Treat Her Right*
Walkabouts*
Brian Wilson with the Wondermints
Whammadiddle Dingbats* (what a great name!)
Stevie Wonder
Young Fresh Fellows*
Neil Young* with Booker T. & the MGs

...and a happy disaster to finish.

The Replacements

*more than once

Yes*
Poco
The Moody Blues
Supertramp*
Bob Seeger* (The best concerts I've ever been to)
Pure Prairie League
The Guess Who
Wishbone Ash
Firefall
Three Dog Night*
Brewer and Shipley
Mama's Pride
Dichotomy
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Ted Nugent
Charlie Daniels
Marshall Tucker
John Prine*
Arlo Guthrie*
Steve Goodman
The Beach Boys
Emerson Lake and Palmer
Bon Jovi
Journey
America
Fleetwood Mac

There are probably a few more, but I can't remember that far back!

I was going to start a new thread, but need to hijack this one for a minute...

If anyone has, or knows of, any extra tickets For Phil Lesh and Friends at the Crystal Ballroom on the 28th and/or the 29th please keep me in mind...not that I can afford the scalper prices...but I'd love to go, I totally screwed up on this one...

Back to concerts:

Grateful Dead, probably more than 200 times
GD Members solo/combos, many times
Van Halen
Lyle Lovett*
Stevie Nicks
Motels
Black Flag*
Billy Rancher*
Chuck Berry
Prince
Tom Petty*
Paul McCartney
AWB
War
Earth Wind & Fire
Peter Rowan*
Dandy Warhols
James Angell (Loved also, CJ)
Little Women*
America
Righteous Brothers
Kiss/Nugent
Who
Dylan*
Santana
Blind Melon
Phish*
Gipsy Kings*
Nanci Griffith*
Bella Fleck*
The Police (think it was KGON .92 cents?)
Ziggy Marley*
Steel Pulse*
BB King
Five for Fighting
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Gin Blossoms


Oh man, there's a ton more, I gotta wrack my brain...

Billy Rancher for me too. Also, the Malchicks!

(Almost all of the late 70's to mid 80's local acts save jazz.)

has nobody seen the greatest of them all SPRINGSTEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does peeking through the KSTW Tent at the Puyallup fair count? If not,

Then:

Steve Allen at Jazz Alley.

Frankie Valli and the four seasons twice, third time was cancelled

Beachboys once, but the first time I was going to see them was when they played at Cleveland stadium with Chicago in 1975, but my father died so I couldn't go.

Moody Blues at the Gorge.

The Vogues

Jan and Dean post accident.

Smothers Brothers

Some Irish Fiddle Group that was on PBS, then toured.

on the local music scene,

Annie Rose and the Thrillers
P.K.Dwyer and Donna Beck.
John Reese and Backbeat.


Ok so I don't get out much..................

...."Camper Van Beethoven* ......

Take the skinheads bowling, take them bowling....

Oh yeah, two more:

Lita Ford and Def Leppard, both at the Buffalo Chip Campground just outside of Sturgis, SD. Wild time, it was the 50th biker rally at Sturgis and the Buffalo Chip was the Hells Angels personal campground ... they had some big acts come through, these two I saw.

WOW. All those groups and not one mention of the greatest ever, "Pink Floyd"! And no Solo Sammy Hagar either!

Doesn't Van Halen with Sammy twice count? hah

Sammy Halen was good but his solo stuff, well that was Sammy Hagar at his finest.

As I can remember them...no particular order...

ZZ Top & 38 Special ('81?)
Rush...
Grateful Dead 4x
Steve Miller
The Who (in Miami)
The Rolling Stones (in Miami)
Iko Iko
The Mavericks
AC/DC
Kiss (in Miami on Halloween!)
Ratt/Hollywood Vampires/LA Guns (it WAS the 80's...)
Lollapalooza 1 & 2
Metallica
Pat Benatar (KGON Rising Star .92 cents!)
The Cars (Candy O)
Eric Clapton (in Miami)
Oregon Jam 1 & 2
Aldo Nova ('82?)
Loverboy ('81)
David Bowie (Toronto: Glass Spider)
Robert Plant & The Black Crowes (Manic Nirvana)
Jimmy Page
Moody Blues
I.Malmstein (Paganini ripoff guitarist!)

To get the rest, I'd have to dig out the shirts and stubs...We've got a great collection of shows going here!

Brianl: I saw Lita at the Rally too! The 50th was great...Can't remember all the bands I've seen at Daytona...

I can't even come close to any of the above lists but I can say I have seen Bruce Springsteen at the LA Coliseum in 1984 and solo Sammy Hagar...opening for Boston at Mac Court in 1979.

Other than that the list is too short:
U2 (before they were huge...concert wasn't even a sellout)
The Alarm
R.E.M.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Oregon Jam 1 & 2
Angel City
Missing Persons
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Trashcan Sinatras
The Shins

Guess I don't get out much either.

Sammy Hagar - 3 Lock Box Tour
Night Ranger - Midnight Madness Tour (Opened for Sammy)
Pat Benatar - Get Nervous Tour
Journey - New Frontiers Tour
Van Halen - 1984 Tour
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Tour
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Tour
Def Leppard - Pyromania Tour
Styx - Pieces of Eight Tour (3rd row tickets and was cancelled. Tommy Shaw had a case of Laryngitis...Major Bummer)
Neil Diamond - OK, YA, I Admit It, That Man Can Sing Though. (Love Brooklyn Roads)

I only have a short list. There are some others that slip my mind for now.

Impromptu Concerts:

250 cassettes, a bitchin stereo in the Mustang, and cruising Vancouver and Lower River Road on Friday and Saturday nights while playing them loud.

Drag racing on that road in the Chevelle...oh, yeah...
Then back up to the DQ Triangle!

Then off to Columbia Park to hang out and Jam on some good tunes. Didn't the stoners used to hang at Wintler? Wasn't it nicknamed "Beer Bottle Beach" and "Stoner Cove"?

Add:

EHS Plainsmen 82 Ruled!

BGHS Tigers '82 RULED! We went back out to The Farm after the races for the all weekend keggers!

I think you're correct on the place names, sir!

Weird Al Yankovic ("Bad Hair Tour", Clark County Fair, circa 1997 or so)
Neil Diamond circa 1999 @ Rose Garden
Blue Man Group a couple years ago @ Rose Garden
Stomp in 2000? @ the Memorial Colosseum
Philip Glass Ensemble, performance of "Koyaanisqatsi" in 1998 in Vancouver, BC

.........and I don't know if this really counts as a "concert" or not (because they only played three cuts) but I heard/saw Weezer playing live during a race at Washougal MX park several years back.

Let's hear it for EHS Class of '02! ;o)

Pink Floyd here! In the crappy Kingdome. RIP.

Entre - did you stay at the Buffalo Chip .. ?? That was the most insane month I have ever seen ... not just a week but the buildup was intense, at least in Deadwood.

Let's see I saw Pink Floyd in 1977 at the MC,the Kingdome and then at BC Place.

I've seen Springsteen three times and I don't know what the hype is all about. When he gets sick and tired of people requesting songs he puts on an awful show.

However on the Tunnel of Love Tour in Tacoma he was great since the crowd was great.

So if the audience is made up of people who want a greatest hits show sell your tickets and move on, as it won't be that great of a concert.

But if it's hardcore Bruce fans in attendance, your in for a treat, much as the same can be said of U2.

Saw U2 twice here in Portland, once at BC Place, once in Tacoma and once in Oakland and they were all great shows.

Hermans Hermits
Dave Clark
Kenny Rodgers
Oak Ridge Boys
Outsiders
Carpenters
The Who
Chuck Berry
Linda Rondstadt
Buck Owens
Roy Clark

Brianl: Nope, tried to stay away from the HA's as much as possible! Especially when wearing my "Support Your Local Outlaws" shirt from the Netherlands... The only colors I've ever flown. I used to have a friend who had a house just outside Deadwood.

ChickenJuggler you suck because you got to see Queen twice. I am jealous.

Johnny Cash (vague memories of my parents taking me and my brother to see him one year at the Oregon State Fair)
Kenny G (it was free but I still regret it)
Kenny Wayne Shepard
Alannah Miles
Peter Frampton (Best show I have seen by far)
John Cafferty & The Beaver Blues Band (extremely underated)
Dream Theatre
Limp Bizkit (mini set at WrestleMania 19 in Seattle)
Steve Miller
Jesse McCartney (worked the show at the Oregon State Fair this summer)
Chris Daughtry (ditto as above, I liked the show but heard really bad reviews after the fact from others who had already seen him elsewhere)
Screaming Trees
Beck
Matchbox Twenty (why do people give them so much crap?)
Alanis Morrisette
No Doubt
Eurythmics

OHH!!!! I forgot Roy Orbison at Bumbershoot one year. That fellah could sing.

ZZ Top
Motley Crue (2)
Iron Maiden
Ratt
Tesla (3)
Judas Priest
KISS (5)
TKO
Mercyful Fate
Slayer
Queensryche
Quiet Riot
Black N' Blue
Van Halen (3)
Van Hagar (2)
Pink Floyd
Oingo Boingo
Duran Duran
Night Ranger
LA Gunns
Poison
AC/DC (5)
Bon Jovi
Journey
Steve Miller
Scorps (2)
Leppard (2)
Y&T
Skid Row Opened for KISS
Cinder Road
Simple Plan
Madonna (2)

Trixter,

Madonna??? Twice????

Don't know if I'd admit to that!

Just messin with ya!

I just wanna know why the hell "Trixter" is not on his list! I mean like totally for sure.

Wow Entre ... my dad and stepmom ran a bed and breakfast in Deadwood, I got relegated to the attic that week as my room was rented out. I have a feeling we can sit and talk stories for hours on this.

I'll be back I am sure in three years, it'll be my 20 year high school reunion and I graduated from Lead. Good times indeed! hah

I didn't mention a desire to see Led Zeppelin for any other reason than I didn't want to get disappointed by a non-tour by them. I've bought into the hype ( albeit deserved with them ) and been burned before when it didn't happen. ( How many Halen reunions were promised before it actually happened? )

Then I just read this...

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1574740/20071120/led_zeppelin.jhtml

Kill two birds, eh? I'm in if it happens.

Speaking of Billy Rancher: does anyone know what Alf Ryder is doing these days? I have some of his works and memorabilia I'd like to return to him. They were in the basement of a building for years and I'm sure he thought they were lost. Please email me for details...thanks!

Madonna back in 85' on her first tour she came to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
with the Beastie Boys. Nobody knew who the hell the Beasties where and Madonna had only a couple songs out at the time. The second time was in Seattle and they were COMP tickets so my girlfriend at the time wanted to go. FREE is good....

Well, I'll do my best to remember off the top of my head. This is only about half of them.

Jeff Beck w/Jan Hammer Group
Peter Frampton/Lynyrd Skynyrd/J. Geils Band/Dickie Betts & the Great Southern (all on the same bill)
Van Halen/Ronnie Montrose/Journey (all on same bill)
Heart/Ian Hunter
Doobie Brothers
Steppenwolf/The Animals
Charlie Daniels
Willie Nelson
AC/DC
Fleetwood Mac
Rush
Blue Oyster Cult/Rainbow
Dixie Dregs
Todd Rundgren
Utopia
The Who/Santana/The Clash (same bill)
the Pretenders
Queensryche
Dream Theater
Bruce Springsteen
Death Cab For Cutie
Guns N Roses
Scorpions
Deep Purple
Bonnie Raitt/Chris Isaak
G3 1997 - Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Joe Satriani Steve Vai with opener Robert Fripp
Les Paul
Page & Plant
Adrian Legg
Eddie Izzard
Bill Cosby
Pat Metheny
Allan Holdsworth
Fishbone
Oingo Boingo
The Cure
Ricki Lee Jones
Muddy Waters
Eric Clapton (with Albert Lee)
the Funk Brothers
John Lee Hooker
Christopher Parkening
Renaissance
The Indigo Girls
David Bowie
Rick Derringer
The Drifters

also:
other acts I've seen:
Living Colour
Paul McCartney
Mojo Nixon
Emmylou Harris/Ricky Skaggs/Bill Monroe (same bill)
The Judds/Mary Chapin Carpenter

as far as my wish list, well, that's a long list - and most of the people on it are dead. Unfortunately.

Philly, we share more than a few.

When did you see Rainbow?
Where did you see Mojo?

( Living Colour - yes! )

"Alf Ryder is doing these days?"

Haven't heard since he had that band with those two dancing girls. Buck Munger at Two Louies ought to know.

Cool...thanks, Skeptical!

I know I must be leaving something out, but...

Elton John (2)
Beach Boys
Blood Sweat & Tears
Doobie Bros.
Heart
Firefall
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Wings
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (many times)
Judds (headliner for NGDB)
Poco
Barenaked Ladies (my wifes idea, but a good show)
Semisonic
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Glen Phillips (solo)
Steve Martin (does this count?)
John Sebastian
Moody Blues
Seals & Crofts
Bruce Hornsby
Rush
Tori Amos (not Amus) ;)
Sprague High School Camerata & Orchestra (countless - 1996-1999)

Good work on Firefall and Poco.

Firefall was part of a triple header with Heart & Commander Cody, Aug. 29, 1976.

Commander Cody blew them all away!

yea Buck Munger would know ,he had his head so far up billy ranchers ass its a wonder his Magazine was not called "two Billys" ....Iwill admit Two louies is the finest music mag around , why cant i find it anymore?

Hey CJ!

I tried to respond to this yesterday, but for some reason it didn't post. anyway, you said:

"Philly, we share more than a few.

When did you see Rainbow?
Where did you see Mojo?

( Living Colour - yes! )"

Yes, we do share quite a few - okay,
Rainbow - September 1979, the Spectrum in Philly. They opened for Blue Oyster Cult.

Mojo - around '94 or '95, in a small bar in Eugene, can't think of the name of the place. It was just Mojo and his guitar. The place was packed!

Living Colour - I saw maybe 6-7 years ago at the Crystal; local band Floater opened.

You saw Eddie Izzard 3 times! I love Eddie Izzard. I saw him here in PDX on the Sexie tour.

Yeah. That Eddie show was early in the tour and I thought was off by quite a bit. If I remember right, even he mentioned that the later L.A. shows would be tighter...so " come to those."

Dress To Kill will always be THE ultimate performace for me. Not just for him, but for any comedian. Glorious is a very close second though.

And yeah, I think that's when I saw Mojo. He was on his way up to Bumbershoot and played along as he trekked up. Same here. The place was packed.