Artists You've Seen Live

[The Deadman]

Let's see, the list of mainstream bands I've seen over the years:

10 Years (twice)
Fair to Midland
All That Remains
Asking Alexandria
Smile Empty Soul
Taproot
Bullet for My Valentine
From Ashes to New
Creed
3 Doors Down
Finger Eleven

I'm sure there's more but I cant remember off the top of my head

[Barkworm]

Pearl Jam (twice)
Alice in Chains (twice)
Metallica
Ghost
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tool
Mastodon (three times)
Foals (twice)
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals (twice)
Die Ärzte (one of Germany's most famous bands)
Queens of the Stone Age
The Black Keys
Meshuggah (maybe not exactly 'mainstream')


And countless other smaller bands. I loved going to concerts but working full time and being a dad makes it difficult.

[Prowler]

The only one anyone here can recognise is the Iron Maiden.

I saw a few small/local bands as well, but no point naming them since no one will know them.

The Iron Maiden concert was back in 2013 already. Haven't been to a concert ever since. I was big into metal when I was 18-24, but never was a concert goer, really. Which meant I'd lose cred with most metalheads I knew, but whatever, I don't care.

There isn't any other band I'd like to see live. Iron Maiden are one of those exceptions of an old band with all of its members still being around and kicking. And they also haven't sold out like Metallica did. Would I have liked to see the likes of Alice in Chains, Guns n Roses, Judas Priest Slayer, Megadeth, etc. in their prime? Ofc I would. But I either wasn't born yet or was a little kid, so...

[Powder]

Most of all, I'd like to see Gorillaz in concert, but until then, here's who I have seen.

The Misfits
Nihilistics
Agent Orange
Belakiss
Roger Waters (x2)
Chuck Berry
Ozzy Osbourne
Rob Zombie
Explosions In The Sky
Lichens
Necro (x2)
Mr. Hyde
Sabac
Riviera Regime
Sean Strange
Nems
Agnostic Front
Shai Hulud
Hatebreed
God Forbid
Kidz In The Hall
Little Brother
Murs
Between The Buried & Me
Veil Of Maya
Horse The Band
Wu-Tang Clan
Video Games Live
Cattle Decapitation
Dying Fetus
Cerebral Bore
Rancid (x2)
The Interrupters
The Bird & The Bee
Dropkick Murphy's
The Bronx

Countless other lesser-known acts, too, of course. I also used to PLAY live a fair bit, which included opening for acts like Cage, Killer Mike, Riff Raff, Army of the Pharoahs, & more.

[Barkworm]

Most of all, I'd like to see Gorillaz in concert, but until then, here's who I have seen.

The Misfits
Nihilistics
Agent Orange
Belakiss
Roger Waters (x2)
Chuck Berry
Ozzy Osbourne
Rob Zombie
Explosions In The Sky
Lichens
Necro (x2)
Mr. Hyde
Sabac
Riviera Regime
Sean Strange
Nems
Agnostic Front
Shai Hulud
Hatebreed
God Forbid
Kidz In The Hall
Little Brother
Murs
Between The Buried & Me
Veil Of Maya
Horse The Band
Wu-Tang Clan
Video Games Live
Cattle Decapitation
Dying Fetus
Cerebral Bore
Rancid (x2)
The Interrupters
The Bird & The Bee
Dropkick Murphy's
The Bronx

Countless other lesser-known acts, too, of course. I also used to PLAY live a fair bit, which included opening for acts like Cage, Killer Mike, Riff Raff, Army of the Pharoahs, & more.
That‘s an awesome list. Between the Buried and Me is one of my favourite bands from the last couple of years. And you‘re a musician yourself? Opening for someone like Killer Mike is pretty huge.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Can someone please change this to artists and groups, instead of limiting it to bands.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I am only listing bigger name bands. My old band opened up for:
- The Toasters
- Mustard Plug
- Against All Authority
- The Queers
- River City Rebels
- The Koffin Kats
- A Global Threat
- Valient Thor
- Agent Orange
- I think that there is more, but I jist can't think of any more.

Bands that I have seen live that were not local (Most of these bands I have seen multiple times). I went to a lot of warped tours back when they were good:

- Aquabats (I got to dress up and fight MC Bat Commander on Stage)
- Phenomenauts
- The Adicts
- Bad Religion
- Muse
- Whole Wheat Bread
- Gym Class Heroes
- Rise Against (I don't like them)
- The Code
- Against Me
- The Urge
- Anti-Flag
- Sub-Humans
- Agnostic Front
- GBH
- Rancid
- Nofx
- The Offspring
- Goldfinger
- Mxpx
- Lit
- Simple Plan (I hate them)
- Afi (old stuff used to be cool)
- Swingin Utters
- Tiger Army
- The Unseen
- Lower Class Brats
- Less Than Jake
- Streetlight Manifesto
- Reel Big Fish
- The Casualties
- The Flatliners
- Flogging Molly
- Murphy's Law
- The Transplants
- Catch 22
- RX Bandits
- Sublime With Rome
- Leftover Crack
- Days n Daze (I don't like them)
- The singer from MU 330's solo project
- The Suicide Machines
- Mad Caddies
- Bouncing Souls

I am probably missing a decent amount.


Most of the Metal Bands I saw at Ozzfests or Pointfests

- Pantera (I got to see the real Pantera at Ozz Fest 2000)
- Metallica
- Volbeat
- Slipknot
- Marilyn Manson
- Mudvayne
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Black Label Society
- Static X
- Incubus
- Linkin Park
- Crazy Town (they suck)
- Disturbed
- P.O.D
- Methods of Mayhem (they also suck)
- Breaking Benjamin
- Prophets of Rage (2 bigger name bands opened up for them, but I thoughtthey sucked and don't remember them)


Actually I decided that I will add to this just for fun. I'll see how much I can remember.

[DarkFell]

Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Otherwise, I've seen Kansas, Boston (including one concert without Brad Delp), and a few other musicians.

Kudos for anyone that's seen Ozzy on-stage. He's sort of banned in my city for taking a p*ss on the wall of a historic building that draws in a lot of tourists on a daily basis.
(Hopefully, it's just a rumor.)

[triplexxx]

Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band

Admittedly, am not much for live music, but in Bruce's case, definitely keeps the blood pumping, and made for a fine occasion with friends.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Thank you for changing. Now, I can proudly tell you I've seen Dolly Parton performing live, twice. (Video films not filmed or uploaded by me)

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[DarkFell]

Bruce Springsteen..
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So far, my favorite song from him despite it being a cover song done by Johnny Cash.

[tmntpower1988]

Sepultura is the only band I've seen.

[kerorokatak]

Here’s my list:

Tame Impala: Insane light show and great vibes.
The Arctic Monkeys: Killer performance with a lot of energy.
Billie Eilish: Unique and super engaging.
The Killers: Great live sound and crowd interaction.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

The Iron Maiden concert was back in 2013 already.

This one? (Lisbon, 29 May 2013)

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[Rabbit Kraken Zeo]

Back in the day I went to harvest crusades with my youth group and church gatherings but that was a long time ago---can't remember who we saw but they were good and the crowds were insanity. As for the smaller venues i can't remember if it was breaking benjamin or somebody else but i saw a band play at a smaller venue---a bunch of years ago... if only i could see LP LIVE but that's impossible for me really.

[Andrew NDB]

Barely any, really. Willie Nelson as a kid, then Oasis later on. That's it, I think.

[Barkworm]

I‘m going to see Kvelertak in two weeks, a Norwegian Rock/Metalband I‘ve been a huge fan of for the last 15 years and who are on their farewell tour now. A bit sad to see them go but they released five strong albums and better to finish like that than to drag on and **** out mediocre material for years.

Then, in August I have tickets for Queens of the Stone Age who might just be my favourite band ever. I‘ve only seen them live once which was almost 18 years ago and I’m beyond excited.

Are any British members going to the final Black Sabbath concert in Birmingham? Tickets are expensive (starting at 200 Pounds) but on paper, it sounds like the greatest concert of all time with Sabbath in their original line-up, numerous amazing metal bands performing as well as Ozzy doing a solo set.
Might of course be huge disappointment since Ozzy can‘t walk anymore and is heavily suffering from Parkinson‘s disease. Also, Bill Ward hasn‘t performed at all in about ten years?
But still, it could be the greatest thing ever.

[IMJ]

Alice In Chains (with DuVall, not Staley)
Bloodhound Gang
Bon Jovi
Bullet Boys
Carlos Santanna
Chevelle
Cinderella
Crossfade
Deadsy
Disturbed
Dokken (twice)
Eve 6 (twice)
Everclear
Filter (probably 4 times now)
Fiona Apple
Gravity Kills
Hoobastank
Huey Lewis and the News
Joe Satriani
Jon Petrucci (from Dream Theater)
Killswitch Engage
Korn (I think 4 times)
Limp Bizkit
Linkin Park
Lit
Local H
Nickelback
Night Ranger
Pearl Jam
Poison
Puddle of Mudd
Rammstein
Ratt
Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts
Serj Tankian (solo)
Sheryl Crow
Shinedown
Slaughter
Sponge (at least 4 times)
Spike 1000
Stabbing Westward
Staind (Twice I think)
Static-X
Stone Temple Pilots (probably 6 times I think)
Stone Temple Pilots w. Chester Bennington
Sugar Ray
Survivor
The Crystal Method
The Exies
The Monkees
The Naked & Famous
The Wallflowers
Theory of A Deadman
Velvet Revolver (I think 5 times)
Violent Femmes
Weezer
Wild Orchid (the group that put Fergi from the Black Eyed Peas on the map)

I am absolutely confident I'm missing a few.....

Sepultura is the only band I've seen.

Brooooo........ That is awesome. Never seen them live. Would love to. Them and the original Pantera lineup.

[member_removed]

The Offspring x 2
Iron Maiden
Linken Park
Chris Cornell
Judas Priest (while working as a psych nurse, I got to escort a patient)
Anthrax (with John Bush)
GnR twice (once without Slash and Duff and once with).
AC/DC
The Rolling Stones (before Charlie Watts died).
Black Sabbath (The End Tour with Ozzy, Tommy and Geezer)
Smashing Pumpkins
Duran Duran
QotSA
Ben Folds
Dragonforce
PUSA
Steel Panther x4
Lady Gaga x 3
Dandy Warhols
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Kiss x 2
The Wiggles.

Had tickets to see Van Halen, but the tour was cancelled.
I regret not seeing Queen (pre the movie coming out). Aleady had tickets to see Lady Gaga and Dandy Warhols in the same week, if I went it would've been 3 nights in a row and that gets expensive. I thought, it's just Adam Lambert. Both Roger Taylor and Brian May were in the VIP box for Gaga, as they were playing the same venue the next night.

Then the movie came out, they did a stadium tour and tickets were way more expensive.

[IMJ]

I had to amend my list there to add The Monkees... :lol: Yes the band from the 60's T.V. show! :lol:

Also remembered that I've seen The Exies a few times as well. Great band - a lot of you might remember the song "My Goddess" which got huge radio play everywhere in it's time. ANnnndddd The Naked and Famous. That was a cool show - at a small, small club in Evanston, IL 07/02/2018 - it was sort of an acoustic thing similar to the old MTV Unplugged shows. Very cool.

[ResidentEvil7]

Back when my sister was in high school, like 15 or so years ago, I came out here to Arlington Heights, IL where I now live, but not then, the summer festival came in time for July 4th and Styx was performing.

If I were to go to a concert, I would love to see the following:
KMFDM
Rob Zombie
Gravity Kills
Fear Factory
Marilyn Manson
Slip Knot

[XERO]

So, I literally went to my first Linkin Park concert last night. One of the greatest experiences of my life.

[IMJ]

Went to "Shen Yun" yesterday. We were interviewed and photographed by their in-house press person - it will be hysterical if we are put in a catalog or something for the show. They are notorious for that.

The show was great in many ways, fine in others. The narrative was constructed of a series of vignettes placed across various periods of Chinese history, and the most clear overarching theme I was able to pick out of it was basically "people against oppression". And, there was a substantial amount of "heaven and Earth" interaction yet no clear Daoism or dichotomous Yin-Yang style depictions. Which really makes me wonder if there is something to to the "cult" narrative of the Shen Yun movement - but I suppose acquitting myself of that nicely would take a true blog post about the show. On another note, the costuming was terrific and the 8k projection (or whatever it is) was actually pretty mystifying and unique. The music was great.

I'd say that it's worth seeing but not remotely worth seeing at the ticket level we bought. Basically any of the cheaper tickets will do. The only thing you get from rows 1-3 are the "experience" of the rolling fog machine covering the first few rows in fog during a vignette here and there.

[IMJ]

Saw Billy Corgan and the Machines of God last night. He played a lot of the Smashing Pumpkins material from Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (which I think was the point of the tour).

Here was the setlist:
Le Deux Machina
Glass' Theme
Heavy Metal Machine
Where Boys Fear to Tread
Pentagrams
The Crying Tree of Mercury
Stand Inside Your Love
Zero
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Sighommi
Glass and the Ghost Children
999
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Muzzle
1979
Here's to the Atom Bomb
Edin
The Everlasting Gaze
White Spyder
Tonight, Tonight (solo acoustic with Kid Tygr)
If There Is a God
Bodies
The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)

I have to say that note-for-note and vocal quality he and his band sounded terrific. I was really impressed with the sound quality. But also, he's a pretty "safe" player - he doesn't press himself vocally and basically relies mostly on that really unique tone he has always sung with to make the impression, so it's not a "risky rock show" as much as a solid one. He's a better guitar player than I knew. His other guitarist, Kiki Wong is a raging babe - omfg. I had no idea. :lol:

If you're a Gen X'er and haven't seen Billy Corgan or the Smashing Pumpkins, I'd say that it's in the "Required Viewing" category at least once.

[Stu_Padasso]

Weird Al Yankovic.
Beeb.
Blues Traveler.
Lots of local acts and cover bands. I’m poor.

[Barkworm]

My brother and I went to see The Hives the other day and they are just a wonderful bunch of megalomaniacs. Guys had wi-fi LED lighting on their suits. Awesome stuff.

[sdp]

Is there a good site that shows all tour dates bands have had over the years? As a teenager I went pretty much to most rock/metal concerts that toured were I lived, I'd like to make a list that's accurate with all the opening bands and such, if I go by memory I'm going to forget a bunch of artists or how many times I got to see them but to name a few:

Marilyn Manson
Evanescence,
Cold x2
Static X x2
Papa Roach x2
Staind
Godsmack
Sevendust
Morbid Angel
Cradle of Filth x2
NIN x2
POD
Korn x2
Limp Bizkit
Rob Zombie
Rammstein
Unkle
Massive Attack
Adema
Pigface
Lacuna Coil
Slipknot
Judas Priest
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
Black Label Society
Dimmu Borgir
Slayer
Kiss
Roger Waters
Gwar
Portishead
Moby
here are some more from going over the thread that I've also seen: Finger Eleven, 10 years, Taproot, Smile Empty Soul,, hate b reed, mudvayne, disturbed,, chevelle, killsiwtch engage, puddle of mudd, shinedown,


I gotta work on this list, there's tons I've seen. Also just because I saw them doesn't necessarily mean I wanted to, but they were either the opener or headliner. I would've never paid to see Kiss or shinedown :lol:

[IMJ]

Is there a good site that shows all tour dates bands have had over the years?

Most individual band fansites keep pretty good concert chronologies.

[Barkworm]

When I still used some social media, I had a last.fm account where making lists of concerts you visited was relatively simple.

[IMJ]

Saw the Stone Temple Pilots again on Saturday night at the Genesee Theater in Waukegan, IL. It was a great show - really well mixed and man... Dean DeLeo (who is now unbelievably 65 years old) is an honest to God guitar master. Honestly, he adds so much to each song now that it's like Eddie Van Halen placing in all sorts of little small songs within the main song and not missing a beat. Dean belongs on Satriani's G3 tour for real.

Very happy to see those guys again.

[Barkworm]

My wife and I went to a John Coltrane tribute show with Isaiah Collier backed by a state-funded Big Band. I‘m not a big Jazz fan but it was absolutely great.

[IMJ]

My wife and I went to a John Coltrane tribute show with Isaiah Collier backed by a state-funded Big Band. I‘m not a big Jazz fan but it was absolutely great.

That probably was cool.....

Interesting timing too - I've been into Don Shirley a lot recently here. Maybe Coltrane is next....

[Prowler]

I actually went to a concert last month. Went to see Tormentor. A black metal band from Hungary. It was nice.

[ProphetofGanja]

My favorite band I ever seen more than once is probably Warpaint. They sound kinda like an all-female version of Pink Floyd if they were from California instead of England :lol:

[TylerD]

Foo Fighters came to my city (Regina) a few weeks ago. They were awesome. Put on a good concert.

[ToTheNines]

I’m seeing Rush tonight

[TylerD]

I’m seeing Rush tonight

Nice!!! Enjoy !

[Powder]

A few weeks ago, I went to two great shows two nights in a row. The first was Gorillaz, opened by Little Simz & Deltron3030, the next night was Public Enemy. Fantastic, both of them, but I was particularly impressed by the energy & stage presence of PE, considering Flavor Flav is 67 now.