So... how many bands have you seen Live?
 

It seems that Ive seen 100s of concerts over the last 18 years (Def Leppard with Tesls being my 1st in 87) I just thught it would be kinda fun to figure out who we have seen and how mant times.

here goes (I'll probably add as I think of them)

Def Leppard
Tesla X2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake X2
Judas Priest X5
Cinderella
Iron Maiden X7
Testament X 2
Megadeth X3
Anthrax X3
Metallica X4
Black Sabbath X2 (1w/ Dio 1w/Ozzy)
Ozzy Ozbourne X3
Children Of Bodam
Dio X2
Deep Purple
Skid Row X3
Kiss X7 (1 more in July)
Aerosmith X3
Ted Nugent X2
Corrosion Of Conformity
Iced Earth
Motorhead X2
Metal Church X2
Accept
WASP
Alice Cooper X6 (one More In July)
Jackyl X3
Brides Of Destruction
Vince Neil
Great White
Winger
Slaughter
Pantera
Suicidial Tendencies X2
Danzig
Halford
White Zombie
Rob Zombie
Quiet Riot X2
Poison (1 more w/ Kiss in July)
Warrent
AC/DC X3
Faifth No More
Scorpions
Dokken
Dee Snyder
Van Halen X2
LA Guns
White Lion (probably the worst live band I've seen)
Exodus
Helloween
Dangerous Toys
Gun N Roses (Axl was probably the worst singer live)
Slash's Snakepit
Queensryche
Powerman 5000
Ace Frehley
Beyond the Embrace
Jag Panzer
Rush
Alice In Chains
Collective Soul
April Wine
Smitherines
Arch Enemy

probably more but I'm doing this on a whim

waaaaaaaayyy to many to be as young as I am. The few years I lived in Austin I was catching shows 3-4 times a week.

Metallica X2
COC
Godsmack X2
Disturbed X4
Spineshank
Godhead
Skrape
Limp Bizkit
Stone Temple Pilots
Drowning Pool X2
Kittie
AFI
Sum 41
Good Charlotte
Rancid
311
Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies
Blue October X5
Canvas
Stereomud
Adema
Korn
Powerman 5000
System of a Down
Systematic
Bone Thugs N Harmony
Vallejo X2
Seven Channels
Pushmonkey X4
Days of the New
Montell Jordan
Greatness in Tragedy
Dave Matthews Band
Junior Brown

Adam Ant
Anti-Flag
Atari Teenage Riot
B-52's - 2
Babes In Toyland
Bad Brains
Barenaked Ladies - 6
Beastie Boys
Beck
Better Than Ezra
Bif Naked
Bim Skala Bim
Book Of Love
David Bowie
Bruce Springsteen
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Collective Soul
Concrete Blonde
Elvis Costello
David Lee Roth
Def Leppard - 2
Depeche Mode - 2
Dio
Dream Theater
Dropkick Murphy's
Duran Duran - 3
Elton John/Billy Joel
Erasure
Everything But The Girl
Faith No More - 4
Fantomas
Fight
Fishbone - 3
Foo Fighters
Frente - 3
Gang Starr
Garbage
Genesis
George Clinton/P-Funk - 3
George Michael
Girls Against Boys
Green Day
Halford
Happy Mondays
Harry Connick Jr. - 2
Helmet - 3
INXS
Iron Maiden - 2
Jewel
Journey
King's X - 4
Kiss
Kurtis Blow
Lionel Richie
Live
Living Colour
Melt Banana
Melvins
Metallica - 2
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - 4
Ministry
Morrissey - 2
Motorhead
Mr. Bungle
Natalie Merchant
Negativland
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
OMD
Ottmar Leibert
Pearl Jam - 3
Pet Shop Boys
Peter Frampton
Peter Gabriel - 2
Peter Murphy - 2
Phil Collins - 2
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Polyphonic Spree
Power Station
Primus - 2
Public Enemy - 2
Queensryche
Radiohead - 2
Rage Against The Machine - 3
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM - 3
Rolling Stones - 2
Rollins Band - 3
Run DMC
Rush - 7
Santana - 2
Sarah McClachlan
Seal
Simple Minds
Simply Red
Sixpence None The Richer
Skatalites - 2
Sonic Youth - 2
Soulfood 76
Soundgarden - 2
Sting - 2
Stone Temple Pilots
Terence Trent D'arby
The Breeders
The Cure
The Go-Go's - 2
The Hunger - 3
The Pietasters
The Specials
The Suspects - 3
The Urge
The Who - 2
They Might Be Giants - 3
Toad The Wet Sprocket - 2
U2 - 3
Van Halen - 2
Violent Femmes - 2
Voodoo Glow Skulls - 2
Weapon Of Choice
Weezer
Yes
Zwan
ZZ Top - 2

Camper Van Beethoven
Jimmy Cliff
Primus/Fishbone
Big Dipper/Fugazi
Deep Wound/Dinosaur Jr. (many times)
Bewitched/Sonic Youth (many times)
Dead Milkmen
Disposible Heros of Hiphoprisy/Arrested Development
Tribe Called Quest/De La Soul
The Cure (a few times)
The Smithereens
PiL
The Pixies
Blake Babies/Lemonheads ( a few times)
Youth of Today/Slapshot
Ten Thousand Maniacs/World Party
My Bloody Valentine (loudest show ever?)
Catherine Wheel
Elvis Costello
They Might be Giants (a few times)
Jane's Addiction/Rollins Band
Jawbox/Nation of Ulysess
The Bats

...that's all I can think of right now. I haven't been to a show in years.

I'm 40. I started going to concerts when I was in high school. When I was in my 20s I played in rock bands and used to hang out in rock clubs almost every night. You do the math.

Off the top of my head:
Metallica (x2)
Van Halen
Whitesnake
Dokken
Aerosmith
Def Leppard
Tesla
Great White
Frehley's Comet
Iron Maiden
Infectious Grooves
Ozzy
Rush
Primus (x2)
Opeth (x3)
Porcupine Tree
Dimmu Borgir
Cradle of Filth
Meshuggah (x2)
Testament
Slayer (x2)
God Forbid
Tool (x2)
Strapping Young Lad
Blind Guardian
Symphony X (x2)
Devin Townsend Band
Lacuna Coil (x2)
Type O Negative (x2)
Nine Inch Nails
Motley Crue
Queensryche (x3)
Dream Theater (x2)
Machine Head
Beyond the Embrace
Nevermore
Iced Earth
In Flames
Porcupine Tree
King's X
Fishbone
Medeski, Martin, & Wood
Wynton Marsalis
BB King
Public Enemy
Joe Satriani (x2)
Steve Vai
Eric Johnson
Evergrey
David Grisman
Fates Warning
Moonspell


and too many local bands to count between here and Austin, where I used to live

DMB- 5x
Dave Matthews and Friends
.moe- 2x
Guster- 2x
The Other Ones
Phil Lesh and Friends
Jerry Garcia Band
Vertical Horizon
Blind Melon
Gin Blossoms
Matchbox 20/Train
R.E.O. Speedwagon
BNL- 2x

Far too many local bands to count

if everyone lists all the shows they've been to, this might be a ridiculously long thread...

Ok... here goes. I'm going to put them in order of when they come back into memory.

311 (3)
Incubus (5)
Audioslave
Queens Of The Stone Age
Dave Matthews Band (6)
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Dave Matthews & Friends
Hoobastank
Jay-Z
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
N.E.R.D.
Talib Kweli
O.A.R.
Ben Folds
Keb Mo
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (3)
Nickel Creek (2)
Bryan Adams
Eddie Money (2)
Tim McGraw
Michelle Branch (2)
Jason Mraz
The Calling
The Darkness
Nappy Roots
U2
P.J. Harvey
Garth Brooks
Blink 182 (2)
Green Day
Saves The Day
New Found Glory
The Roots (2)
Foo Fighters
Third Eye Blind
Goo Goo Dolls
Vanessa Carlton
Pearl Jam
Taproot
Buzzcocks
Joshua Bell
MC Supernatural
Rooney
Jane's Addiction
Deftones
Phantom Planet
Jurassic 5

That's all of the more well-known bands that come to mind. I might be missing one or two.

Plus this summer...

Rush
Dave Matthews Band/O.A.R. (2)
Ben Folds/Guster/Rufus Wainwright
Phish (2)
Counting Crows/Graham Colton Band (probably)
John Mayer/Maroon 5
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones/Keller Williams (2)
Keb Mo/Willy Porter

I don't even know if I could, but here's some:

Pink Floyd
Metallica
Suicidal Tendencies
Hepcat
Blink 182
Green Day
Beastie Boys
The Ramones
Pennywise
Flogging Molly
Dropkick Murphys
Bad Religion
The Specials
Dave Wakeling (sp?)
The Aquabats
Bouncing Souls
D.I.
Thursday
O.C. Supertones
Benjamin Gate
Poison
Go Betty Go
Good Charlotte
Reel Big Fish
Goldfinger
GWAR
Misfits
Citizen Fish
Subhumans
Sex Pistols
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
Transplants
Rancid
Distillers
NOFX
MxPx
No Motiv
Lagwagon
Tiger Army
The Vandals
New Found Glory
A.F.I.
Descendents
Bleach
Bombshell Rocks
Five Iron Frenzy
Relient K
John Rueben
Dashboard Confessional
The Anniversary
Everclear
Jimmy Eat World
Taking Back Sunday
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Less Than Jake
Millencolin
Save Ferris
Pax 217
Sum 41
Sublime
Switchfoot
Hippos
Living End
Mighty Bosstones
Slackers
Homegrown
Assorted Jelly Beans

Tons and Tons more....

Dave Matthews Band
Incubus
Staind
Deftones
Live
Stone Temple Pilots
Bob Dylan
Zwan

Way too many to list, but here's a try (not in any sort of order)...

Phish (37x)
Widespread Panic (15x)
String Cheese Incident (14x)
moe. (7x)
Guster (4x)
Trey Anastasio Band (3x)
Modest Mouse
Nine Inch Nails (3x)
Cracker
Old 97's (4x)
The Roots (2x)
Pavement (2x)
A Tribe Called Quest (2x)
Beastie Boys (4x)
Kiss (4x)
Particle (3x)
Liz Phair
Keller Williams (3x)
The Damnations TX (2x)
Slobberbone (2x)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (4x)
Pearl Jam (2x)
Spoon
Cody Chesnutt
Galactic (3x)
Los Lobos (4x)
Robert Randolph and the Family Band (2x)
Drive-By Truckers (2x)
North Mississippi Allstars (2x)
Michael Franti & Spearhead (2x)
The Mr. T Experience
The Dandy Warhols
The Gourds
The Shins
G. Love & Special Sauce (3x)
Ween (2x)
REM (2x)
Jack Johnson
Ben Harper & the Inncocent Criminals (2x)
Medeski Martin & Wood (3x)
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (2x)
Kings of Leon
Soulive
The Polyphonic Spree
Crooked Fingers
Robert Walter's 20th Congress (2x)
Wilco
Kaki King
Robert Earl Keen (2x)
Willie Nelson (2x)
Tool (3x)
Los Lonely Boys
Tricky
Whale
Ted Nugent
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Slaughter
Guns N Roses
Metallica
Faith No More
The Lo Fidelity Allstars
Paul Simon
Bob Dylan
Rob Wasserman
Jazz Mandolin Project
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Pork Tornado
Tea Leaf Green (3x)
Great Big Sea
Bela Fleck (2x)
John Mayer
DJ Shadow
Cowboy Mouth
Grandaddy
Fire Theft
Saves the Day
Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues Band
David Byrne
Everclear
David Bowie
Prince
Blink 182
RL Burnside
Biz Markie
Public Enemy
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Live
Love Spit Love
The Lemonheads
Bullalo Tom
Speedball Baby
Crooked Fingers
Korn
Cypress Hill
Devo
Primus
Alice in Chains
Dinosaur Jr.
Fishbone
Arrested Development
Front 242
Babes in Toyland
Rage Against the Machine
Sebadoh
Cell
Unrest
Tool
Mercury Rev
Mosquito
Free Kitten
Royal Trux
Tsunami
Mutabaruka
A Lighter Shade Of Brown
The Coctails
Scrawl (Columbus)
Lucious Jackson
Genitorturers
Truly
Eggs
Girls Against Boys
Thurston Moore
Glue
Karl Hendrick's Trio
Hurl
Smashing Pumpkins
George Clinton (3x)
Bob Weir
Breeders
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
L7
Green Day
The Flaming Lips
The Verve
The Boo Radleys
The Frogs
Guided By Voices
Lambchop
Girls Against Boys
The Pharcyde
Shudder To Think
Lucious Jackson
Charlie Hunter Trio
Shonen Knife
Souls Of Mischief
Black Crowes
Dave Matthews Band
Rusted Root (2x)
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Wu Tang Clan
Snoop Doggy Dogg
James
Eels
Julian Marley
Ben Kweller
Fountains of Wayne
Fun Lovin Criminals
Moxy Fruvous
Jane's Addiction
Leftover Salmon
Rhett Miller
Uncle Kracker
Sigur Ros
Soul Asylum
Split Lip Rayfield
Garage a Trois
Super Furry Animals
Neil Diamond (2x)
The Temptations
The Four Tops
Tommy James & the Shondells
Tin Hat Trio
Violent Femmes
Mocean Worker
World Party
Yamagata


Tons more local acts. Tons more national acts. That's just what I've got ticket stubs for...

Phish - 10x
Jimmy Buffett - 7x
Keller Williams - 6x
Moe. - 3x
String Cheese Incident - 3x
Trey Anastasio Band - 2x
Bob Dylan - 4x
The Dead
Phil Lesh & Friends
Gov't Mule
Styx
Bad Company
Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
O.A.R. - 3x
Yonder Mountain String Band
The Recipie
Dark Star Orchestra
Jack Johnson
Billy Idol
Ted Nuggent
311
Kenny Loggins - 2x
The Beach Boys
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Mofro
The Flaming Lips
Pete Yorn
The Big Wu
Soulive
Umphreys Mcgee
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
North Mississippi Allstars
Eric Clapton
Galatic- 2x
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon
Nickel Creek
Seth Yackavone Band
The Slip
Cyro Baptista's Beat The Donkey
Karl Dension Tiny Universe
Hootie And the Blowfish
Rage Against the machine
Stone Temple Pilots
Deftones
Cypress Hill
The Lloyd Dobbler Effect
Jefferson Starship
Emmits Swimming
Rusted Root
Steve Miller Band
Pat Benetar
bloodhound gang
Papa Roach
Eminem
Ludacris
George Clinton & p-Funk
CCR
Robert Walter's 20th Congress
Billy Squire
Third Eye Blind
Oasis

Couldn't even guess.

Acoustic Alchemy
Aerosmith
Chet Atkins
Autograph
TheBeach Boys
George Benson
Blessid Union of Souls
Bon Jovi
Cinderella
Collective Soul
Al Di Meola X2
Dixie Dregs
Dokken
Dream Theater X4
Rik Emmett
Extreme X2
Fates Warning
Galactic Cowboys
I Mother Earth
Jan & Dean
Eric Johnson X2
Stanley Jordan
Lillian Axe
Little Richard
Yngwie Malmsteen
Manhatten Transfer
Paul McCartney
Metallica
Mr. Big
Pink Floyd X2
Poison
Prince
Queensryche
Rush X3
Saddleback Shark
Saigon Kick
Stevie Salas + Color Code
Joe Satriani X2
Scatterbrain
Scorpions
Smithereens
Steelheart
Tangier
Ugly Kid Joe
Steve Vai
Van Halen X3
Vixen
Warrant X2
Winger
Weird Al Yankovic X2
Dweezil Zappa

I would guess approx 1,000.

Pearl Jam (22)
Sparta (3)
Mudhoney (2)
Iggy Pop (2)
Fastbacks
Mudvayne (4)
Chris Cornell (solo)
Gravity Kills
Nixons
Toadies
Cracker
No Doubt (2)
Fishbone
311
Bon Jovi
Goo Goo Dolls
Filter
Neil Young (3)
Counting Crows (2)
Wilco (2)
Incubus (4)
Dashboard Confessional (2)
Kittie
V Shape Mind
Rage Against The Machine
Anti-Flag
Aerosmith (3)
Cheap Trick (2)
Foo Fighters
RHCP
Tool (3)
Evanescence
Revis
A Perfect Circle
Fantomas
Mindless Self Indulgence
Korn
Staind
Godsmack (2)
Tantric
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals (5)
Brad
The Who (2)
Robert Plant
Tuatara
System Of A Down (2)
Drowning Pool (RIP Dave)
POD
Ozzy
Black Lable Society
Our Lady Peace
Weezer
Deftones
Bad Religion
Def Leppard
Bloodhound Gang
Slash's Snakepit
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Neil Finn
Martin Sexton (2)
3 Doors Down
Theory of a Deadman
T.A.T.U. ( on the Jimmy Kimmel show)

and many more i can't think of off the top of my head

Some nice bands posted, it's cool to see all the metalheads in these posts.
So here's my list, excluding some of the unenjoyable openers

Opeth x4
Devin Townsend Band
PanterA x3
Down
Slayer x2
Dream Theater
TestAmenT
Nevermore x3
Superjoint Ritual x3
M.O.D.
Black Label Society x2
Strapping Young Lad x3
Morbid Angel x3
Vader
Cephalic Carnage x2
Symphony X
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
Goatwhore
Ozzy Osbourne
Macabre
GWAR
MegadetH
Tool
In Flames
Napalm Death
Cannibal Corpse x2
Kreator
Hate Eternal
Arch Enemy
Dark Tranquillity
Children Of Bodom x2
Iced Earth
Evergrey
Hypocrisy
Dimmu Borgir
Destruction
Immolation
Vehemence x3
Lacuna Coil
Danzig
Nile x3
KMFDM x2
Pig x2
Bile
Vio-lence
Sentenced
Origin
Deeds Of Flesh
Savatage
Dark Funeral
Deicide
Jackyl
Sephiroth
Tenacious D
Nashville *****
Meshuggah x2
Paradise Lost
Cathedral
Tapping The Vein
Motive x2
Incantation
Trail Of Gore x2
Burn Victim
Inducing Terror
Killswitch Engage
Imperiled Earth
Speeddealer
The Berzerker x2
Pissing Razors
God Forbid x2
December
Static-X x2
Soulfly x2
Angel Dust
Weezer

Many. I'd say at least 100.

lordy, i honestly can't remember them all... and i'm only 22. here's my best shot:

marilyn manson x3
nine inch nails x2
a perfect circle x4
david bowie x3
flaming lips
u2
pj harvey
sleater-kinney x7+
built to spill x2
the pixies
modest mouse x7+
R.E.M.
radiohead x2
coldplay
depeche mode
zwan
smashing pumpkins x3
the polyphonic spree
macy gray
outkast
moby x4
beck
filter x3
limp bizkit x4
korn x3
rob zombie
primus
powerman 5000 x3
tool
tricky
beta band
joan osborne
motorhead
murder city devils x4+
hole
L7
kid rock
monster magnet
static-x
rammstein
dope
godhead
reverend horton heat x3
save ferris
rancid
deftones x2
nofx
civ
neko case
posies
death cab for cutie
decemberists
bad religion
ani difranco
quasi x2
melvins (with adam jones)
poe
blue man group
rinocerose
the roots
busta rhymes
our lady peace
foo fighters x2
tori amos
bush
luscious jackson
ben lee
redman
method man

Smashing Pumpkins (3x)
Zwan (2x)
Glenn Tilbrook (5x)
Squeeze(2x)
Tom Petty (3x) (w/ Bob Dylan once)
Bob Dylan ( w/ Tom Petty)
Chris Cornell
Incubus
System of a Down (opened for Incubus)
Billy Joel (2x) (w/ Elton JOhn once)
Elton John (2x) (w/ Billy Joel once)
Mustard Plug (Ska vs. Racism)
Less Than Jake (Ska vs. Racism)
James Taylor
Genesis
Phish
The Dead (2x)
Yes (2x)
David Bowie
The Who
U2
No Doubt (opened for U2)

that's it i think

-Paul Jacobi-

Man, some of you have seen tons of concerts.

Here is my list.
Bands on one line were all part of one concert event


U2 - First leg of the Zoo TV tour

Midnight Oil, Hothouse Flowers, Ziggy Marley

Go-Go's, B 52's

Sarah McLachlan

Lilith Fair x 2 (two different years. Artists consited of Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Paula Cole, Heather Nova, others I can't recall)

Jonatha Brooke x2

Alanis Morissette, Garbage

Major bands? A ton. Bands in clubs? A thousand? I don' t know... some bands I've seen 20, 30, and a couple even over 100 times.

Let's see... going out to shows 3-4 times a month from '85 to '91. 2-3 times a week from '91 to '98. Slowing down to about 1 show a week from '99-01. Now it's about 1 show a month. Each show I've seen at least 1 band, but sometimes up to 8 bands (sometime's I'd hit 3 clubs in a night). Let's make it 3 bands a night when I go out to keep it simple...

That's a lot of shows! 4314 performances by looking at the most conservative estimates. Probably should cut that in half to make it sound even remotely realistic. Many of those bands were duplicates (seen the Supersuckers about 30 times, Goo Goo Dolls 30 times, Rugburns/Poltz over 100 times).

Damn! Glad I still have my hearing!

God forbid the Goo Goo Dolls make you lose your hearing