The List (of bands seen live)

Let's keep this simple...I maintain a running list of bands I have seen live, although I don't count bands I didn't pay any attention to while they performed, nor do I count having seen a band if I cannot remember the experience at all. Thus, I have left out a good number of opening bands I ignored or just plain didn't like...that's the other thing; in the case of festival-type shows, I don't bother counting bands I didn't care for in the least. I won't include a band I didn't specifically intend to see unless I enjoyed them.

Also, it doesn't matter to me whether I saw the band play in the backroom of a bar or on stage at MSG so long as it was a formal show, typically with tickets available for purchase (in other words, not just a practice session). And I do include smaller, lesser-known bands along with the bigger, well-known ones. So here's my running list, from age 13 until age 27 or from 1997 until 2011, of the bands I saw, remembered, and liked enough to include. I'm sure some have been forgotten.  

This is what people mean by "the list," right? :)

* -- more than once

** -- five times or more
+ -- interviewed them, in addition to seeing them live

100 monkeys **+
active child
adam green
aerosmith *
albertans
alice cooper
alice in chains (with a layne staley replacement)
amanda palmer/ evelyn evelyn
american memory project
amina
and you will know us by the trail of dead

anthrax
a perfect circle
a place to bury strangers *+
arcade fire *
arctic monkeys
a.r.e. weapons
atari teenage riot
audioslave
avett brothers
bauhaus *
beach fossils *+
best coast
be your own pet
billy corgan (solo band)
billy idol
bjork *
black keys
black mountain
blonde redhead

the blow
blue man group *
blue velvet *
bob dylan
bodega girls

bon iver
braids
bright eyes *
busta rhymes
broken social scene/ brendan canning +
candlebox
cat power
chevelle
christopher paul stelling *+
clap your hands say yeah
coathangers
cold war kids

coldplay *
computer magic
counting crows
daft punk
daniel johnston
dark star orchestra
david bowie
dd/mm/yyyy
dead elvi, with ray manzarek
death from above 1979
death vessel

deftones *
depeche mode
dinosaur feathers
dinosaur jr
dinowalrus
does it offend you, yeah?
dr. dog
dresden dolls
drew and the medicinal pen *+
dub trio
duke spirit
eels
eskalators
faint *
faster dear pilot, we're going down
fiasco
film school *
filter
fiona apple

foals
fool's gold

foreign islands
freelance whales *
garbage
general miggs *
genuine imitations *

giraffes *
godspeed you! black emperor
goes cube **+
gogol bordello
gold panda
grandchildren **+
green day
guns n roses, with buckethead
gutter twins
hank and cupcakes

health +
ho-ag
honey brothers
horrors
incubus
indian jewelry
interpol **

isis *+

jane's addiction
japanther
javelin *+
jay brannan
jeff the brotherhood
jens lekman
jesu
jesus and mary chain
j mascis
joan jett
joe semz
julianna barwick
justice
kissing club **+
klaxons
korn
la laque
lcd soundsystem
legendary pink dots
le loup
live *
local natives
lovvers
m. ward
man man
marco benevento *
marilyn manson
mars volta
mason jennings
massive attack

max bemis (hehe) *
meat puppets
mechanical people

melissa auf de maur +
melvins
mercury landing
mgmt +
mighty mighty bosstones
miike snow
mindless self indulgence *
mission of burma
moby +
modest mouse *
mogwai *
monotonix
moonrats
mudhoney
my bloody valentine
my brightest diamond
my way my love
naam
national rifle

newvillager
nine inch nails **
nofx
no joy
no one and the somebodies **

o'death *
ohgr +
old time relijun
outernational
ozzy osbourne
pains of being pure at heart
paper cranes
patti smith
pax cecilia
peaches
peelander-z *
pelican
peter murphy (solo)
phantogram
pissed jeans
pixies
poison
pomegranates

proclaimers
queens of the stone age
rage against the machine
raveonettes
regina spektor *
religious to damn
richard ashcroft
rilo kiley
ringo starr
rob zombie *
roger waters
rolling stones

roots tonic +
rufus wainwright *
santogold
saul williams
save ferris
school of seven bells +
scissor sisters
sebastien grainger
she wants revenge
sigur ros *
skeletonbreath **
soft moon
so many dynamos
sonic youth
so so glos

sponge

stationary set
steel train
stevedores **
strange walls
suuns
system of a down
tamaryn
thurston moore
tin tin can **
tire fires **
toadies
tom morello (solo)
tool
twisted sister
valiant to vile
vast
vhs or beta
vibration *

wailing wall *
wallflowers
wavves *
weekend
what cheer? brigade
when dinosaurs ruled the earth
whigs

the xx
yet cut breath **
zwan

Of course, this leaves me with a lot of bands I still need to see, like Radiohead (!!), TV on the Radio, The Kills, Animal Collective, Explosions in the Sky, and whatever Jack White ensemble. It's safe to say that more live music is in my future....

[photo of tool by me]