Bands you have seen live?

starting in 1977 and in no particular order

nazareth
kiss
sweeny todd
beach boys
forman young band
cheap trick x 2
cars
rush x 2
kinks
red ryder
streetheart x 2
toronto x 2
harliquin
garth brooks x 3
pink floyd
dwight yoakam
brooks and dunn x 2
cher x 2
chilliwack
trooper
supertramp
ian tyson
sawyer brown
cyndi lauper
ozark mtn daredevils

and a few i cannot recall….alot of these shows had good opening acts

The who october 8th, my first concert! cant wait!

Where did you see dragonforce???? If they were in the vancouver area and i missed them i will be so disappointed with myself

In melbourne (australia) I lived there the last 6 months. Thats where I also saw bleeding through. Dragonforce really impressed me live though!

Talib Kweli
Metallica
Pearl Jam
A Perfect Circle/Tool
Our Lady Peace
Everclear
Ben Harper
Jack Johnson
Smashing Pumpkins
Deftones
Silverchair
Foo Fighters
Nickelback - back when they played the old China Beach club in Langley
Default before they hit it big
quite a few in festivals such as Summersault and something else i forget.
one of my highlights is going to the Juno awards when they were in Vancouver last. so many good canadian bands from all genres. it was interesting.

also my fav live show was seeing radiokiller in all the balaclava'ed goodness.

my list spans 3 decades:

the tragically hip (x7)
the police
REM
the eurythmics
peter gabriel
david bowie
U2 (x2)
54-40 (x3)
no doubt
dire straits (x2)
the pretenders
nickleback
metallica
tool
acdc
the cult (x2)
rush (x2)
the rolling stones
michael jackson (yes him)
the pixies
the cure
marilyn manson
rob zombie
ozzy osborne
ministry (x2)
skinny puppy (x3)
DOA (x3)
kiss
black flag
beastie boys
the b52s
the go-go's
alien sex fiend
faith no more
screaming trees
sound garden
mudhoney
nirvana
midnight oil
the presidents of the united states
10,000 maniacs
the sugar cubes
inxs
cars
tom cochrane
pearl cam
sarah mclachlan (x3)
b.b. king (x2)
john lee hooker
buddy guy (x2)
pink floyd
harry connick jr.

… and numerous 80's and early 90's garage and punk bands where i was either too fuct up to remember or weren't worth remembering :D i'm sure there are more that should be on that list but i can't remeber them all. i started going to gigs when i was 14 in '82

City and Colour
Machete Avenue
The Februarys
Hot Hot Heat (x2)
YSP! WSD!
Bend Sinister
Millencolin (x2)
Rufio
Ten Foot Pole
Roses Are Red
A Thorn For Every Heart
Boys Night Out
Louis XIV
The Futureheads
Minus The Bear
The Used
Underoath
Alexisonfire
DFA 1979
Elizabeth
Controller Controller
The Bravery
Maximo Park
Nickelback (i was offered a free ticket and i got drunk)
Taking Back Sunday
Matchbook Romance
Fall Out Boy
Incubus
30 Seconds To Mars
Story of the Year
From First To Last

ok some more since then
Fall Out Boy (again)
Hawthorne Heights
All American Rejects
From First To Last (again)
The Hush Sound
Metric
Islands
Panurge
Alexisonfire (again)
Everytime I Die
Gym Class Heroes
Moneen
Nofx
Afi
Joan Jett
Silverstein
Thursday x2
Minus The Bear (again)
The #12 Looks Like You
The Weakerthans (only band at arts county I saw during my drunken stupor)
The Foo Fighters acoustic
Timmy Curran
Wolfmother

and I have tickets to:
Story of The Year
w/ Hawthorne Heights, Halifax and Anberlin
Panic! At The Disco
w/ Dresden Dolls and The Hush Sound
City and Colour
Red Hot Chili Peppers
w/ The Mars Volta

Skid has seen some great ones, only one on the board so far to see Bob live.

not anymore, saw Bob 3X : Rastaman Vibration, Kaya and Survival tours and still have my ticket for War Memorial Gym show that was cancelled in 1981 for the Uprising tour.
Nat Bailey has also seen Bob I'm sure.

Man some of you bastards are older than the dirt we ride on

Greenday
Coldplay
Tragically Hip
Sum 41
Blink 182
Simple Plan

Warped Tour in Toronto… a few years back…

Yeah the broing run of the mill bands…

but then again, I am not really into large concerts.

Man some of you bastards are older than the dirt we ride on

Tell me about it! And some smell worse than the dirt you ride on. I didn't think you young'uns even ride on dirt anymore, just wooden structures and big freakin rocks and such.

for anyone that has seen Cars live, and heard 'Moving in Stereo' live, I am forever in your debt

Duran Duran (first concert)
violent femmes
david bowie (x4)
pink floyd
the who
rush
Nirvana
red hot chilis (x3)
butthole surfers (x2)
suicidal tendancies
curious george
fishbone (a bunch of times
Fugazi
blind melon
fela kuti
Allman Brothers
James Brown
alpha blondy
ACDC
death sentence (all the punk bands of the late 80's early 90's)
Beat Farmers
peter gabriel
Spice girls (x2)
Rolling stones
Tragically Hip (a bunch)
Janes Addiction (x2)
the pixies
rollins
doa (too many times to mention)
no means no (same)
Santana
lenny kravitz
foo fighters
crosby stills and nash
grateful dead
toots and the maytals
alpha blondy
nirvana
hole
foo fighters
ralph myerz
spearhead
linton kwesi johnson
pearl jam
body count (I went to the very first lollapalooza and all the others that followed)
U2 (lame concert)

looks like we've all been hanging out in the same dark smelly mosh pits……

avenged sevenfold
flogging molly
drop kick murphys
the transplants
billy talent
alexisonfire
mad caddies
poison the well
and countless local shows.. im still young, plenty of time to catch up to the likes of this so called 'neo'

Nat Bailey has also seen Bob I'm sure.

Oh yeah. Twice - once at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, and "Babylon By Bus" show, at the Pacific Coliseum. I was holding for War Memorial too. I was standing on Hwy 99, hitching to work outside the Husky station at Whistler when I heard Bob died. A local bro pulled over and told me he just heard it on the radio - saw me standing there, and thought I'd want to know. Funny how you remember shit like that.

I've resisted posting to this thread, because like, I've seen a LOT of bands, and it's not because I'm cooler or hipper; it's because I'm older and lucky to have been around and able to sneak into the Commodore starting in about 1976. Also, I was in some punk bands for a while, and toured and stuff, and got to see some cool stuff that way too. So, here are some highlights, lowlights, acts from different genres, special shows and stuff. Not a complete list by any means.

Major Acts I've Seen More Than 10x
The Ramones
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys

Major Act You've Never Heard of That I've Seen More Than 10x
Jonathan Richman

Biggest Band in Smallest Venue
Green Day at The Nappy Dugout

Glad to Have Been There
The Clash at the Commodore, the PNE Forum and the Kerrisdale Ballroom
Bob Marley at the QE and Pacific Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at the New York Theatre
PIL at the Showbox
Beck at the Howden Ballroom
Nirvana and The Melvins at the Crocodile

Best Show I Thought I Would Hate
Kid Creole and The Coconuts at Expo86

Could Have Done Without
The Cars at Pacific Coliseum

Hard to Believe They Played the Commodore
U2
Talking Heads
The Police

Loudest
Motorhead at the I-Beam in SF. No contest.

Longest
Parliament

Weirdest
Mike Meyers as "Dieter" from Sprockets, playing a "surprise" set of Sprockets Euro-trash at the Viper Room.

Reggae, and a lot of these with 'skid
Bob Marley and The Wailers
Ziggy Marley
Peter Tosh
Jimmy Cliff
Black Uhuru
Gregory Isaacs
Steel Pulse
Linton Kwesi Johnson (with Aswad)
Burning Spear
Eek a Mouse
Leroy Sibbles
Third World
UB40
Culture
Alpha Blondy
Ini Kamoze
Mikey Dread
Shinehead

Ska
(Original)
Skatalites
(Second Wave/Two Tone)
The Specials
The English Beat
The Selector
Madness
(Third Wave)
Operation Ivy
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Fishbone

Went because of a girl :cuffs:
David Bowie
Boz Scaggs
Beach Boys
10,000 Maniacs

Punk Rock Shows
Best Band To Open For My Band
- The Offspring
Worst Band to Open For My Band
- Grateful Dead Kennedys
Best Band We Opened For (Meaning they were nice and stuff)
- Faith No More
Worst Band(s) We Opened For (Meaning they were not nice)
- (tie) Social Distortion (hypocrites) and The Angry Samoans
Favorite Punk Rock Shows of All Time in Vancouver
- The Clash, Kerrisdale Arena
- The Descendents, Arts Club on Seymour
Favorite Punk Rock Shows Anywhere
- Mr. T Experience, Gillman Street in Berkeley
- NOFX, Raji's in Los Angeles
Honored to Be There
- Fugazi, Washington DC, private party (acoustic!)

OK, I'm getting fried. So many to list, like X, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, RHCP, Bad Brains, James Brown, Dick Dale…

Funny enough, and I took some ribbing for this, but I totally stand by it - the most fun I've had a show in a long while was The Wiggles. Went there with Nat Jr, front row Coliseum, 3PM show. We were home by dinner. It was a great show, and can't wait for them to come back.