Zappa.com

I was considering using the smiley on this one, Fritz... What can I say about a rock concert I went with my Mother?

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Even out here in red neck western SD. I saw Paul Mccandless with his band about 20 years ago.

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Confusion will be my epitaph

aerosmith (multiple times)
Alice cooper (multiple times)
Anthrax
Anvil
Bachman/Cummings
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
Black sabbath (multiple times)
Blue Oyster Cult
Blue Rodeo
Bruce Springsteen
Cathedral
Cheap Trick
Corrosion of conformity
danzig
Deep Purple
Dio (multiple times)
Dokken
Down
FM
Foriegner
goddo (multiple times)
Guns and roses
Heaven & Hell
Helix
Iron Maiden (multiple times)
Jethro Tull (multiple times)
Jon Anderson
Judas Priest
Kim Mitchell
King Diamond
Kiss (multiple times)
Loverboy
marillion
Megadeth (multiple times)
Mercyful Fate
Metallica (multiple times)
Molly hatchet
Motorhead (multiple times)
Neil Young
ozzy Osbourne
Paco De Lucia
Phil Collins
Pink Floyd
Queensryche
Quiet riot
roger Waters
Rush (multiple times)
Saga (multiple times)
Scorpions
Smashing Pumpkins
Suicidal Tendancies
Ted Nugent
Teenage Head
testament
The Dangerous Kitchen
The ramones
The rolling Stones
The Tragically Hip
They Might Be Giants
Triumph
Van Halen
WASP
Yes
Yngwie Malmsteen
ZPZ (multiple times)

that's almost all, I've forgotten a few and forgotten many-an-opening act. I don't see as many live shows these days, just Rush and ZPZ when they come through town.

My concert going started in 1981 (Rush), so any of those older acts like Tull/Floyd were seen in the eighties. Don't listen to as much metal as I used to so most of those metal bands were seen in the late eighties and early nineties.

I got heavily into Zappa's music around 85-86 and the only chance I would of had to see him live would of been Buffalo on the '88 tour. Unfortunately I found out about the show about a month after it took place. I guess the stupid rock station I listened to didn't deem it worthy to mention.

I hate you ...

I'm probably one of the few people that even mentions his name when talking about some progressive, far out and experimental music ... you know ... the kind that most "progressive" folks are not even considering ...

Yeah ... I would love to see him play ...

Hi,

Goodness ... how am I supposed to remember 40 years?

(... all this started in Madison, WI in '69 I think)
The Who
Herman and the Hermits
The Blues Maggoos
Sugar Loaf
Mason Profit
Brownsville Station
The Crow
Chicago
Sons of Champlin
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Steve Miller Band
Grateful Dead
Pink Floyd (Hollywood Bowl 72)
Tangerine Dream (1st tour)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Tangerine Dream (2nd tour) Greek Theater (picture on the live album of the trees burning from the lasers)
Nektar
Babe Ruth
Iggy and the Stooges (Janita Haan from Babe Ruth made Iggy look really stupid and just an idiot!
Yes - Tales of Topographic Oceans tour
Roxy Music
Nazareth
Rare Earth
Deep Purple (walked out - out of tune and too loud!)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon tour
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals tour (Anaheim Stadium)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Roger Waters - 5 years ago
Robin Williamson and his Merry Band
Lana Lane and the Rocket Scientists
Buckethead
Brand X
Magma
Bondage Fruit
Gong (several times and photo'd it also)(w/ Moerlin and also Pyle and Thomas)
Porcupine Tree
Per Lindh Project
Alan Stivell - Portland 1988
Tangerine Dream - Portland 1988
Damo Suzuki - Portland 2004 or 5
Queensryche and Dream Theater tour
Dream Theater 2010
Group du Jour (Portland experimental and progressive)
Todd Rundgren
Carol Rossio
Firesign Theater (for the umpteenth time)
Hawkwind and Man - Space 1999
Status Quo
Renaissance
Robert Cray
Styx
Fates Warning
Stevie Ray Vaughn
George Thorougood
Eddie Money
Black Sabbath
Queen
Peter Gabriel
Random Hold
PDQ Bach
Andres Segovia
East Meets West (Menuhin and Shankar)
Ozric Tentacles
...
(I'll add more as I think of them)

Very impressive, Moshkito!

I also left out (worhty remember):
Aliéksey Vianna with Paul McCandless
Geraldo Azevedo

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

* = met members from the band

Aborted
The Absence x2*
Abigail Williams
Animals As Leaders
Amon Amarth x4
Arch Enemy x2
Arsis
Athiest
Augury x4*
Beneath the Massacre x2*
Between the Buried and Me
Bigelf x2*
The Black Dahlia Murder x4*
Blackguard x2*
Belphegor x2*
Black Label Society x2
Bob Dylan
Brian Wicklund
Buddy Guy
Cannibal Corpse x4
Cattle Decapitation*
Cauldron
Cephalic Carnage
Children of Bodom x2
Chimaria x2
Cornmeal x2
Corpse Show Creeps*
Cryptopsy
D.R.I.*
Dark Star Orchestra x2
Dark Tranquility
The Dead Kenny G's
The Dead Pets
Death Angel
Decapitated
Decrepit Birth x3*
Deny Thy Nature
Destroy Destroy Destroy
Divine Heresy
Dream Theater x3*
Dreaming Dead
Dropkick Murphys
Dumpstaphunk
Dying Fetus x3*
Ensiferum x3*
Eluveitie x2*
Emmit-Nershi Band
Enfold Darkness x2*
Evile
Exodus
The Faceless x4
Future Rock
Finntroll
Firewind
Flogging Molly x3*
Furthur x2
Gnostic
Goatwhore x3
God Dethroned
Gorgatron
Gov't Mule
Hate
Holy Grail
Hot Buttered Rum
The Hue
Hypocrisy
Immolation
Impaler
Iron Maiden
Kataklysm
Kivimetsän Druidi
KoRn
Kreator
Krisiun
Lancaster County Prison*
Land of Atlantis
Lazarus A.D. x2
Leo Kottke
Les Claypool
Leviathan
Lotus
The Macpodz
Marilyn Manson
Mantic Ritual*
Marduk
Mastodon
moe. x4
Moonsorrow
Mudvayne x2
Municipal Waste
Mushroomhead
Nachtmystium x2
Necrophagist x2*
Neuraxis
The New Mastersounds
Nile
November's Doom
Obscura x2*
Origin*
Ozzy Osbourne
Pagan's Mind
Parliament Funkadelic
Pestilence
Phish
Phobia
Powerglove*
Psycroptic
Primus x2
Project/Object*
“Queen”
Rancid
Revocation
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation
Rob Zombie
Roger Waters
The Rolling Stones
Rumplestiltskin Grinder
Rush
Sacrificial Slaughter*
Salsa Celtica
Scale the Summit x2*
Secret Chiefs 3
Shadows Fall
Sick of it All
Skeletonwitch x2*
Slayer
Solas
Stanley Clarke
Static-X
Stone Temple Pilots
STS9
Suffocation x2*
Swallow the Sun
Swashbuckle
That 1 Guy x3
Tool
Trampled By Turtles
Trey Anastasio
Turisas
Umphrey's McGee x3
Vader x2
Victor Wooten x2*
Vital Remains x2*
Voivod
Vreid
Warbringer x2
Woe of Tyrants
Yonder Mountain String Band
Zappa Plays Zappa x4*

This summer Im also going to Summer Camp Music Festival, Wakarusa, Bonnaroo, and Electric Forest, Plus Im seeing Phish 5 times, Seein to Bela fleck and the flecktones and The Dark Star Orchestra at the Zoo and of course Im not gonna miss ZPZ in my home state (MN) Might go see them in Wi the day before too, depends on the sets. Im also seeing Shpongle in Wi and EOTO and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings before leaving for Fests/Phish. Im 19 years old if your curious.

OK here is the best I can do but I know I forgotten so many especially punk/new wave bands that I should remember...but what the f#ck I'm getting old, I almost forgot that Cheech & Chong was my first gig at a college when I was in 8th grade...they had a band that opened for them that rocked...I was hooked...I should try to find out who that was.

Well here it is imperfect as it is...

Cheech & Chong
Spooky Tooth w/Gary Wright
Jo Jo Gunne w/Joe Walsh
Edger Winter Group w/Rick Derringer
Van Morrison
Rare Earth
Earth Wind & Fire
Seals & Croft
Eagles
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Rolling Stones (X2)
Rod Stewart
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin
Ten Years After
Yes
Paul McCartney & Wings
David Bowie (x2)
Budgie (X4)
Van Halen
UFO
The Tubes
Ted Nugent
Kansas
Blue Oyster Cult
Pink Floyd
Grand Funk Railroad
Chicago
The Who (X2)
Frank Zappa (X4)
Todd Rundgren (X2)
Todd Rundgren & Utopia (x4)
Hall & Oats (X3)
Roxy Music
Santana
Police
Oingo Boingo (X3)
XTC
Devo (X3)
Echo & the Bunnymen
Talking Heads
B-52s
English Beat
Specials
Special Beat
The Cars
The Pretenders
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Bangels
Black Flag
Fishbone
Red Hot Chile Peppers
Sisters of Mercy
Gene Loves Jezebel
Iggy Pop w/Slash
Journey
Tom Waite
Peter Frampton
Steely Dan
George Carlin
Slipnot
Drowning Pool
Disturbed
Pure Rubbish
Lisa Loeb & Dweezil Zappa
ZPZ (X6)

IF that is any consolation to you, I just missed him playing with Naná Vasconcellos a week ago...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

For both of our consolation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMRz_c7DF8o

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

I've always stayed away from the "pop music" side of things. Somehow most of it did not interest me that much, and when I got to California in 1972, it was such a fad that seeing anyone that was hip and cool, just was not gonna happen ... I didn't like the moronic mentality that you had to see this or that to be cool, and never did it!

The bad part of being in the Portland/Vancouver area is that this area has no idea what the word "arts" mean, and they think that Portland's 3rd rate Symphony is what the "arts" are all about. Considering what they play, which has been played in 10k places before out there, I would say that they are a 5th rate Symphony, and that most of the concerts that you get in Portland are the worst and the cheapest. And this town is notorious for bad places and lousy systems and what I have seen them do to a couple of bands, including Ozric Tentacles is sad, and if it were me ... I would not play in those places ... period! Basically no one in Portland knows keyboards and you can find them in the mix when listening to a band ... but you will get the drums and the guitar if Dream Theater comes to town, and the rest of the band? ... non-existant!

It's the shit-iest mixing and work I have ever seen. I've seen smaller places with better music and mixing ... but here ... they are too stupid to know music and learn it and appreciate it. And both the Rose Garden and the place next door are also in that mode ... bad sound and mixes! Only Paul Allen can get the good recordings off the board from the Rose Garden ... the rest of us? ... screw it! Take the money and get out of town!

Tangerine Dream sounded good at the Arlene Schintzler Hall, but they brought their own and setup their own, and no one is going to touch their material ... and that is the reason why they will never play here again!

In no particular order....some were opening acts of various talent..and I tried to eliminate doubles, triples, etc....for example...I've seen Rush like 12 times, Chicago something like 8 times, etc...

Foghat
Chicago
Harry Chapin
Ozzy Osbourne
Rossington Collins Band
Rainbow
Ted Nugent
Judas Priest
Asia
Lovorboy
The Cars
Rush
Emerson, Lake and Powell
Pink Floyd
Yes
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe
Genesis
U2
Kansas
Billy Joel
John Mellancamp
Live
Styx
Jethro Tull
Z Z top
Dave Matthews Band
Roger Waters
Black Sabbath
Elton John
Blue Floyd
The Who
Steely Dan
Rick Wakeman solo
Ian Anderson solo
Jon Anderson solo
Barenaked Ladies
The Musical Box
Gov't Mule
Jimmy Buffett
Blue Man Group
The Police
The Aussie Pink Floyd
The Allman Brothers
Zappa Plays Zappa
Yes (Howe, Squire, White)
Carpenters
BeachBoys
Foreigner
Maynard Ferguson
Def Leppard
Buddy Rich
Tonight Show Band
Roger Waters
Sweet
Orleans
Tom Chapin
Motorhead
Scorpions
Riot
Krokus
Iron Maiden
Chris DeBurgh
Zebra
Quiet Riot
Wang Chung
Y&T
Bricklin
Tommy Shaw solo
WCMD
ELO part2
Texas
Catherine Wheel
King Crimson
Rusted Root
Lenny Kravits
Neil Young
Nil Lara
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer
Cheap Trick
Manbreak
Luscious Jackson
Geggy Tah
Agents of Good Root
Paula Cole
Ben Harper
Blues Traveler
Boy Wonder
Godsmack
Drain STH
The Star People
The Young Dubliners
The Getaway People
Chantel Kresaviauk
Corey Harris & the 5X5
Willy Porter
Norah Jones
Robert Plant solo
North Mississippi All Stars
Butterfly Boucher
Gavin DeGraw
Nikki Barr
Galactic
Blue Merle
Earth, Wind & Fire
Tim Ferrell
O.A.R
Umphrey's McGee
The Pretenders
FictionPlane
G-Love & Special Sauce
Nicola Congiu
Doobie Brothers
The Black Crows
Bob Weir and Ratdog
Gamma (Ronnie Montrose)
Gary Moore
Zac Brown Band

Allman Bros Band
Grateful Dead
Mountain
Leon Russell
Edgar Winter Group
Humble Pie
Frampton's camel
Jo Jo Gunne
Tucky Buzzard
Hickory Wind
Gentle Giant
Deep Purple
Steely Dan
J Giels Band
Rolling Stones
George Harrison
Paul McCartney
Eric Clapton
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Jethro Tull
Kiss
Nazareth
Blue Oyster Cult
Johnny Winter
Steve Miller Band
Ted Nugent
Aerosmith
REO Speedwagon
Styx
Steppenwolf
Rush
Eddy Money
Van Halen
White Lion
Great White
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Stray Cats
Dave Edmunds
John Fogerty
Arlo Guthrie
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
CSN&Y
Billie Joel
The Doobie Bros
Elton John
Marshall Tucker Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Charlie Daniels Band
ZZ Top
Tommy James
Little Feat
Catfish Hodge
Jimmy Buffett
David Allan Coe
Hank Williams Jr
Savoy Brown
Foghat
Poco
Santana
John Prine
Bonnie Raitt
Mommas and Poppas
Beach Boys
Frank Zappa
Black Oak Arkansas
Amboy Dukes
Weezer
Bare Naked Ladies
Green Day
Blink182
Elvin Bishop
Foreigner
Gary Wright
Chicago
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Huey Lewis and the News
Reverend Horton Heat
ELP
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Jerry Lee Lewis
Fats Domino
The Outlaws
Molly Hatchett
Root Boy Slim
The Roadducks
Jazzbo Mcmann
Gashouse Dirty
Atlanta Rythmn Section
Rufus w/Chaka Kahn
Monarch
Linda Ronstandt
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Earth Opera
The Doors (with Morrison) (1968)
The Doors (without Morrison) (1972 Carnegie Hall)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)
Ten Years After (1970)
Mott The Hoople (1st US gig!!)
Frank Zappa and The Mothers (1970)
Frank Zappa (1988)
Eric Clapton (1974)
The Rolling Stones (2 nights in 1975 & Voodoo Lounge Tour-Giants Stadium)
Sha Na Na (Fillmore East 1970 & Carnegie Hall 1971 -with guest Keith Moon)
Santana (1977...with special guest Al Dimeola)
Poco ( FDU-free concert 1973)
Twisted Sister (when they were a "bar" band. Walked out, after 1 song.)
CSNY (1974 & 2000)
Johnny Winter ( 1979 & 1981 or so)
John Sebastian (when he still could sing-1979)
Woodstock Reunion 1979
CSN (1990's & 2000)
Stephen Stills (1998-1999)
Neil Young (2000 Friends & Relatives Tour)
CPR (1998)
U2 (2001)
probably more....but this is all I can remember.

Remembered some more:
The Allman Brothers Band (1972 & 1973)
Albert Collins (Stanhope NJ...um forget the date)

And the worst concert I ever went to:
Hank Williams, Jr. (Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ.)
He was drunk out of his mind. Half the audience left.
The only highlight of the show was meeting a girl I
knew from high school. We exchanged numbers.

How did I forget this show???
Peter Green (1971-Capitol Theater, Passaic NJ)
Funny thing is, he wasn't even scheduled to appear.
I had tix to see QMS. The promoter comes out, as
we're waiting on line to go in and says" I'm sorry
people...but Quicksilver have just broken up in
the dressing room. They won't be playing....but.
We have another act....Peter Green. If you want
a refund, we'll honor it."
I was psyched! Peter Green's band was:
Carl Palmer on drums, Alex D. on bass, and
the violinist guy from ELO!
He performed "The End of the Game" album live
and did two Fleetwood Mac tunes "Black Magic
Woman" and "A Fool No More."
I was totally blown away. He was excellent!
The next surprise band was Soft Machine.
I left after one tune. They were putting me to sleep.

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"The largest land mammal is the absent mind" (Don Van Vliet - 1971)

International acts I have seen in Australia

Frank Zappa (FZ/OZ concert)
Weather Report
Little Feat (with Lowell)
Focus
John Mayall
Great Guitars (de Lucia, McLaughlin & DiMeola)
McLaughlin One Truth Band
Andreas Vollenveider
John Fogerty
David Lindley
Chad Wackerman Band
Terry Bozzio (solo)
Dr John
Bonnie Raitt
Taj Mahal
Kurt Elling
Tony Joe White
Junior Brown
Dixie Hummingbirds
Angelique Kidjo
Bo Diddley
Steve Vai (X2)
Dire Straits
Ben Harper
Jeff (Skunk) Baxter (demoing the Roland guitar synth)
Jon Entwistle (at a music trade show)
Live
Stranglers
Buzzcocks
BB King (who I met the night before in an elevator!)
AC/DC (1975 at the local Civic Centre before they got famous)

Most noteworthy Aussie acts I've seen;

Ayers Rock
The Birthday Party (Nick Cave)
Radio Birdman
Billy Thorpe
Mental As Anything
Sebastian Hardy (who blew Focus offstage)
Jimmy & the Boys
Cold Chisel
Split Enz (with Neil Finn)
Skyhooks
Mi-Sex
Daly-Wilson Big Band
Buffalo
Ariel
Finch
Pseudo Echo (my gf made me go)
Crooked Fiddle Band
Chase the Sun
Petulant Frenzy (I'm an ex-member..heh)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (Stravinsky)
Australian Chamber Orchestra

so, a pretty feeble list considering I'm a 54 year old muso....I just don't get out enuff

Wow. I bet this was loud, weird, and fun. I wished I could have seen the Birthday Party live as well.

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FZ x3
ZPZ
Project/Object x3
Yes x3
Genesis
Phil Collins
Peter Gabriel
Jethro Tull
King Crimson x4
Adrian Belew
The Bears x3
Tony Levin Band
California Guitar Trio
Van der Graaf Generator
Peter Hammill
The Strawbs
Monte Montgomery x3
Michael Hedges x7
GTR
Dio x3
Metallica x3
Acid Mothers Temple
Iron Maiden x3
Judas Priest
Porcupine Tree x5
Matthew Sweet
Colin Hay
Richard Thompson
Faith No More
Helmet
Rollins Band x3
Henry Rollins spoken word x9
Jello Biafra spoken word
KISS x2
AC/DC
Rush x6
Whitehouse
Morphine x2
Either Orchestra
Chick Corea Acoustic Band
Pierre Bensusan
Turtle Island String Quartet
Kronos Quartet
John Zorn / Masada Sextet
Dan Reed Network x4
King's X
The Sundays
The Alarm
Anthrax
Heaven & Hell
Megadeth
Seal x2
Robert Palmer
Joe Satriani x2
Mike Keneally x2
Marillion x4
Fish x4
Stryper
Petra x2
Jean-Luc Ponty
Aerosmith
Tom Petty
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
KMFDM x6
Ministry
The Roches x2
Ozzy Osbourne
The Bangles
Night Ranger
Roger Waters x2
U2 x2
PJ Harvey
Laurie Anderson
Tori Amos x2
Radiohead x2
Cy Curnin & Nick Harper
Mansun
Kula Shaker
Morrissey
Nik Turner
Cop Shoot Cop
Jesus Lizard
Southern Culture on the Skids
Tool x2
A Perfect Circle x2
Cheap Trick
Jake Shimabakuro
Young Dubliners
The Young Gods
Steve Hackett
Renaissance
Leo Kottke
Paul McCartney
The Necks
Neil Young
Stevie Nicks
Alice in Chains
Atomic Opera
Red House Painters
Chastain
CJSS
Suzanne Vega
Nitzer Ebb
Charlie Sexton
Sting
Joe Walsh
Simple Minds
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction, Cleveland 2009

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Yeah, that was an unexpected surprise..I only went ços my brother was a fan
It was loud and mock evil heavy...sorta makes up for never seeing Crimso live..heh
Totally different music but a similar effect I'll bet

i saw willie dixon and the chicago allstars at the stanhope house with blues harp MONSTER "sugar blue" way back when. also saw albert collins, jb hutto, i was the biggest blues freak when i was a kid. i think it was a good place to get excited about music and get a good fundemental base.then i got to where i couldn't listen to another 1-4-5 progression or i'd get nauseous. happy to say i can enjoy the blues again.

other concerts of note-art ensemble of chicago, roswell rudd, joe chambers, elvin jones, mcoy tyner, ron carter, hobolema (allan holdsworth), stevie wonder hyde park 2010, kila, solas, david lindley, charming hostess, black sea surf, edessa, petar ralchev, ballet africans (guinea), coulibaly family (burkina faso)

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http://www.myspace.com/originalfacelift
http://www.balkanmusic.org/
http://thesurfonics.com/index.html

Since morphing into KU2 I can add the Tubes(9)/ZPZ(8)/Return to Forever IV/The Yardbirds/Mike Keneally Band/Bryan Beller Band/Travis Larson Band/Adrian Belew Power Trio(2)/Stick Men/and next week I can add Weird Al(5).

They're not all, just a few that I remember with pleasure

FZ (1984)
ZPZ
Jeff Beck (Terry Bozzio on drums)
Ozric Tentacles x3
Nick Cave x4
Laurie Anderson x2
David Bowie
John McLaughlin x2
Lou Reed
The Cure
Einstuerzende Neubauten
Suzanne Vega (opened by Michael Hedges)
Jaco Pastorius
Philip Glass
Pierre Boulez x2
Sigur Ros
White Stripes
Jeff Healey
David Sylvian x2
Orbital
Chick Corea
La Monte Young
Al Di Meola ladies and gents...

This was a fun brain exercise for a Tuesday...

Kiss x 3
King Diamond x 2
Suicidal Tendencies x 6
Pink Floyd x 2
ZPZ x 12
Dream Theater x 2
Iron Maiden x 2
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones x 2
Slayer x 4
Alice in Chains
Megadeth x 6
Steve Vai x 3
Joe Satriani x 4
Eric Johnson
Puscifer x 3 (after tomorrow!)
Tool x 3
A Perfect Circle
Ozzy x 2
Dio
Black Sabbath w/Dio
Heaven and Hell
NIN x 5
Pantera
Anthrax x 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Andreas Vollenweider
Michael Hedges
Z
Lisa Loeb
The Cranberries
Billy Joel / Elton John
James Taylor / Carol King
Return to Forever
The Wiggles
Spinal Tap Unwigged and Unplugged
Janes Addiction
Live x 3
Opeth
Queensryche x 2
Metallica x 3
Steely Dan x 5
R.E.M.
Stone Temple Pilots
AC/DC x 3
BB King x 2
Buddy Guy x 2
Clutch x 5
Danzig x 2
The Dead Milkmen
Yngwie Malmsteen
Blue Oyster Cult
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians x 2
Primus x 2
I Mother Earth
Infectious Grooves x 2
Blue Man Group
Jeff Beck x 2
Santana
Rush x 6
Stone Temple Pilots
Evanescence
Warren Haynes
Collective Soul
Ted Nugent
Helloween
Exodus
The Rolling Stones
The Police
George Duke
David Sanborn

King Crimson - 2
Frank Zappa - 1
Rush - 3
Caravan - 1
Magma - 2
Hawkwind - 1
Porcupine Tree - 1
Steve Hackett - 1
One Shot - 1
Peter Gabriel - 1
Grateful Dead - 1
Robert Fripp - 1
Nektar - 1
Yes - 2
Clutxh - 1
Motorhead - 2
Slayer - 1
Metallica - 2
The Cult - 1
Stone Temple Pilots - 1
October Project - 1
The Black Keys - 2
Pat Metheny - 1
The Fools - 1
Prong - 1
Jupiter Coyote - 1
Megadeth - 1
Aerosmith - 1
Kiss - 1
Lou Reed - 1
America - 3
Lucinda Williams - 2
Heart - 1
The Guess Who - 1
The Animals - 1
The Avett Brothers - 1
The Mighty, Might Bosstones - 1
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - 1
The Musical Box - 7
Thinking Plague - 1
Black Flag - 2
Rollins Band - 1
Janes Addiction - 1
ZZ Top - 1
U2 - 1
Cro Mags - 1
The Muffins - 1
Wobbler - 1

...I'm sure there are more, I'm doing this from memory.

Part 1 from 1976 - 1988. All concerts in SoCal. Except my first one was in Maryland.
Steppenwolf
BadCompany(2)
RobinTrower/WishboneAsh/EddieMoney
BlueOysterCult/UFO
Boston/BlackSabbath/VanHalen/SammyHagar(stadium)
Yes(2)in the round,(2)w/TrevorR
Aerosmith/VanHalen/UFO/AprilWine/BoomtownRats(AC-DC cancelled)stadium
CheapTrick
Gary Numan
AllmanBrothers
FleetwoodMac
Genesis(3)
BobSeger
Rush(5)
BillBruford/PatrickMoraz
Spirit
JudasPriest
IronMaiden
GreatWhite(2)
Whitesnake
GTR
Al Di Meola
Jean-Luc Ponty
Metallica/Queensryche
Metallica/FaithNoMore
PinkFloyd
DeepPurple
Aerosmith/Guns N Roses

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ahhh...something to savor