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[serene]

onionsniper posted a survey where one is supposed to list twenty bands/acts one has seen live.

I'm not counting little local acts in coffee shops, etc.

1. 1980/81: Bob Seeger
2. 1981: Leif Garrett (Shut up, it was at the county fair)
3. 1981: A Rod Stewart impersonator (I said shut up).
4. June, 1982: Sister Sledge, Grad Night at Disneyland
5. The Doobie Brothers, ditto
6. 1991: Took my mom to see Harry Belafonte
7. 1992 or 1993: Took my mom to see Joan Baez
8. 1993, I think: Mary Chapin Carpenter
9. 1993 or 1994: Wynonna
10-15. 1998, I think: Lilith Fair: Sarah McLachlan, Shawn Colvin (who I saw again in 2002), Paula Cole, EryKah Badu, Indigo Girls, Sophie B. Hawkins
16. 2000 or 2001: John Gorka, who I saw again in 2003
17. 2002: Rickie Lee Jones
[edit: 18. Some time in the '90s: a fabulous Bette Midler show
19. 1993: 10,000 Maniacs]

Not sure, but I think that may be it. I'm pretty bad at remembering details, though.

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[kiya]

Goodness. I don't think I can do twenty either. Let me see . . .

1. Billy Joel.
2. Moody Blues.
3. ... a Beatles impersonation band whose name I've forgotten.
4. Boston.
5. The Kingston Trio. (Under similar circumstances, misc. other people; they opened Fenway Park for a game. However, they not only performed "The Star Spangled Banner" but also MTA.)
6-9. King's X, Joe Satriani, Dream Theater (same concert)

Uhhh. Probably some others . . . can't remember.

. . . a bunch of miscellaneous and mostly terrible amateur stand-up. ("Little acts in coffee shops", that would be, though mostly it was in a terrible comedy dive somewhere in Massachusetts and in a pub near London.)

[kiya]

. . . I forgot Great Big Sea . . .

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

There is absolutely no way I can remember years, or even chronological order - it's information my brain does not retain. But let's see who I can remember seeing, in no particular order:

1, 2. Yes. Twice.
3. Harry Chapin
4. America
5. William Ackerman
6. Taj Mahal
7. The Young Americans (hey, my mother dragged me to that one!)
8. Jethro Tull
9. Indigo Girls
10. Doobie Brothers
11. Rick Wakeman, solo
12. Emerson, Lake and Palmer
13. The Eagles
14. Pink Floyd
15. Huey Lewis and the News
16. Jackson Browne
17. James Taylor
18. Joni Mitchell
19. Billy Joel
20. Crosby, Stills and Nash

[onionsniper.livejournal.com]

It's hard to remember even if you go to a lot of shows. I probably couldn't put most of those in chronological order, you're braver than me!

[berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's a pretty good list.

My County Fair story is B. J. Thomas.

My mother has fun mildly teasing me about not remembering when I saw Elvis. I was one (it was at the Seattle World Fair).

But except for my recent trip to see the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Dixie Hummingbirds, my concert daze are pretty over, which makes me feel depressingly middle aged. I might try to see U2 on their next swing around, though. Seen them several times, with some excellent backing bands ... The Pretenders (! because they deserved to be headliners) and Lone Justice stand out.

Let's see, who else of note ... Simple Minds, Waterboys, Blasters, Los Lobos (when they were New Stuff outside LA), The Pogues, the Indigo Girls.

Steve Winwood played for a conference I was at. (That was during the No Expense Spared boom.)

I listened to the Ramones from outside when they played the Student Union at UC Davis back in early 1980.

The Chieftains give Good Concert. That is all.

And Luka Bloom raised ghosts at the Fillmore when I saw him play there. That is also all.