Music, sweet music

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This post by Emma (inspired by this post by Eden) got me to thinking…I had actually made a list quite some time ago with intentions to blog, but never got around to it. And I have no idea what happened to the list, so I’ll do my best to reconstruct it from memory. Here are the various concerts (live performances) I’ve attended throughout my life.

  • Richard Marx
  • De La Soul
  • Rusted Root
  • Arrested Development
  • Deep Blue Something
  • Bon Jovi*
  • Extreme
  • Billy Joel*
  • Elton John
  • Weird Al Yankovic*
  • Blackhawk
  • Diamond Rio
  • Martina McBride*
  • Collin Raye*
  • Garth Brooks
  • Reba McEntire
  • Faith Hill
  • Pam Tillis
  • Sammy Kershaw
  • Mark Chesnutt
  • Goo Goo Dolls*
  • Matchbox 20
  • Third Eye Blind
  • Sara Evans
  • John Mellencamp
  • BB King
  • Koko Taylor
  • Jackdaw*
  • Greg Klyma*
  • Ookla the Mok*
  • Anais Mitchell
  • Ani Difranco
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • The Proclaimers
  • Hothouse Flowers
  • Black 47
  • The Saw Doctors
  • Carbon Leaf*
  • Great Big Sea*
  • Carolyn Dawn Johnson
  • Journey
  • Foreigner
  • Styx
  • REO Speedwagon
  • Sloan
  • Steve Hackett
  • Hawksley Workman
  • Lowest of the Low*
  • Ron Hawkins (solo)*
  • Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails
  • John Michael Montgomery
  • Clint Black
  • Pat Benatar
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Eve 6
  • The Low Millions
  • The Day Sleepers
  • Life Between Us
  • The Snitches
  • Billy Bragg
  • The Marble Index
  • Phil Collins
  • Rush (oh dear Lord, how did I forget RUSH…)
  • Jump Little Children
  • Spirit of the West?
  • Train
  • Sugar Ray
  • Big Leg Emma
  • CO Jones
  • Steam Donkeys
  • Blue Rodeo
  • Klear
  • Stephen Stanley
  • Universal Honey
  • Lance Diamond
  • Alison Pipitone
  • Mexican Cession
  • McCarthyizm
  • Last Conservative
  • Scott Celeni
  • Agent Me
  • The Sauce Boss
  • Grand National

*seen multiple times

Whew. I’m 100% sure I’m not done. In the past, oh, 6 years or so, I’ve been to a heckuva lot of music festivals and such. The only local act I’ve got here (besides Ookla) is Jackdaw, and that’s just because I’ve seen them so many times. I’m sure there are a zillion local performers I’ve seen once. I’m also likely forgetting people I saw as opening acts. (I’ve got some of them, but not all…)

I went through a period where I was listening to a lot of country. Country performers tend to play at fairs, and the tickets are pretty cheap, hence the extensive country acts I’ve seen.

Then I moved to Buffalo, and discovered the joy that was Darien Lake. My first couple of years here, there were a lot of cheap Darien Lake shows. I saw Journey/Foreigner/REO Speedwagon/Styx in various combinations at Darien Lake.

Also not included here, the various groups/singers I’ve seen at the filk conventions I’ve gone to with Rand over the past two years.

That’s a lot of music. 😉

ETA: Thanks, Jen…for reminding me of all those bands that I just added! 🙂

9 thoughts on “Music, sweet music”

  1. As I told Emma, I’ve seen George Carlin & Fleetwood Mac. Granted I was in Row N for FM, so close I could tell what color polish Stevie had on and Lindsay was HAWT.

  3. Hmmm. I may do a post myself with my own prodigous list, though being me I’ll probably annotate it with lengthy observations about each show. (Like how in retrospect the reason Steve Earle didn’t impress me much in 1989 was likely because he was in his heavy-using, pre-prison period. He blew me away in 2004, though …)

  4. Though before I do the annotated post (surely not tonight and probably not tomorrow), I’m just going to brainstorm here: Asylum Street Spankers (three times), Bob Dylan (seven times, I think), Bruce Cockburn, Neil Young, Jewel, Afghan Whigs (Jewel and the Whigs were opening for Neil), Steve Earle (twice), Phil Keaggy (four times, once with Randy Stonehill), Carbon Leaf, Lyle Lovett, Emily Slade, Little Johnny England, Ookla the Mok (about a googleplex times, though only two or three times in a club/bar setting), The Fibs, Sting, the Moody Blues, Patty Loveless, Cherish the Ladies, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash (with June Carter and her sisters, naturally), Petra (twice — had a mainstream-Christian rock period awhile back, which also accounts for Glad, DeGarmo & Key and Altar Boys), Alison Krauss & Union Station, BR549, Tietur, Vienna Teng, Abra Moore, Brave Combo, Little Feat, The Samples, Tarbox Ramblers, The Kennedys, Steve Taylor, Resurrection Band, America, Three Dog Night, Deep Purple, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Roger Daltrey, Ronnie McDowell, Lee Greenwood (wasn’t my idea), The Campbell Brothers, The Lonesome Sisters, plus a bevy of Rochester regional artists and lots and lots o’ filkers.

    Whew.

  8. Jump Little Children.
    Ike Reilly (were you at that show?)
    Spirit of the West?
    Train
    Sugar Ray
    Big Leg Emma
    CO Jones
    Steam Donkeys
    Blue Rodeo
    Jim Bryson
    Klear
    Stephen Stanley
    Universal Honey
    Lance Diamond
    Alison Piptone
    Mexican Cession
    McCarthyizm
    Last Conservative
    Scott Celeni
    Agent Me
    Juliet Dagger?

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