Also:

Herbie Hancock
The Fall
Squarepusher
Silver Jews
Radiohead (outside at Stone Mountain, touring for Kid A/Amnesiac)
Bruce Springsteen solo (free)

and soon, Tom Waits

I just remembered that I've actually seen the Rolling Stones and AC/DC live. I don't remember a thing and I didn't enjoy either set very much but there you have it.

ha, no it was at the merriweather post pavilion at the first horde tour.

6. stabbing westward - i've seen them twice and they're not near any of my favorite bands. i liked them at the time (mid 90s) & find them kind of annoying now. only reason i saw them twice was that they played summerfest a few times and were the best thing on at that moment AND i just happen to be at that spot on the summerfest grounds.

oh, i saw them at stabler arena at lehigh. with soul asylum and screaming trees.

was that the one with blues traveler and allman brothers?

if so, we was at the same sho, yo

WE WAS TOTALLY AT THE SAME SHOW.

tha's crazy.

The Real Kids (who sucked, btw)
Television Personalities
Treat Her Right
The Dictators
Bruce Cockburn

Shit, they were the house band at our fraternity's Columbia chapter from like '88 - 'early 90. Saw 'em lots.

Miles Davis
Wire (Wasn't until '85ish, but at that time I never figured I'd ever get the chance)
The Cramps
The Feelies
The Pogues (w/Joe Strummer on guitar)
Siouxsie & the Banshees (w/Robert Smith on guitar)

Dylan
Stones (x3)
Bruuuuuce!
Fugazi
DBT 4 times in a year
Peter Yarrow (at his house)
Willie Nelson

They were amazing around that time. I caught three or four times over the span of Ideal Copy and Bell Is A Cup.

One of my favorite live concert experiences is Drill---ten to fifteen minutes of crescendo. Spectacular.

Other stuff:

Love and Rockets as The Bubblemen
Dramarama pre-Wonderamaland

Jerry Lee Lewis
Pearl Jam
Guns 'N Roses
Cheap Trick
Willie Nelson
Radiohead
Metallica
Soundgarden (3 times)
Smashing Pumpkins
The Cult (2 times)
Afghan Whigs (Gentlemen tour)

public enemy, stetsasonic in 1989
jawbreaker
mr. bungle twice
dismemberment plan 8+ times

and not a band but...

andrew dice clay in las vegas

ditto. Especially the first time in 1992 when they were still wearing masks.

-I CAN'T BELIEVE the scene at the first Lollapalooza in 1991. It was before "alternative" became mainstream so there wasnt the more fratty/meathead crowd that you had in later years. It was like all these little clusters of goths, pseudo hippies and punk rockers from all over Atlanta finally found themselves in the same place at the same time. Like "Damn, I've seen some freaks around town, but I had no idea there were enough chicks in purple lipstick,black and white tights and 18-eye Docs and scary looking acid casualty dudes to fill up the Lakewood Ampitheatre. My own acid casualty brain was sure they were gonna just lock the gates, get on the stage and make the announce ment in a Chief Wiggam voice, "Alright freaks, we gotcha"

Edit: Also The Butthole Surfers both at that show and subsequently.

I can't believe I saw them either especially Lux Interior wearing leopard print speedos, no shirt and stiletto heels.

I'm glad I saw X in the late 80s (maybe early 90s -- whenever Exene was preggers with Viggo Mortenson's baby). I declined seeing them on their new/latest tour (didn't want to erase great memory of them so long ago).

Ermm...also I should say Cocteau Twins even though I saw them 3 times in total but not until the 90s. I was completely obsessed wtih CT from my junior year of highschool through to college. At college, I barely had even seen pictures of CT as they never had them on their releases. Then I started getting a hold of some copies of magzines with them in it and was completely in awe of Liz and her magnetic eyes. Then, I travelled to D.C. to see them (all three times) -- thought they would never tour the US (then I met Simon Raymonde at a record store and subsequently embarrassed myself just like I'm doing in this post).

Ok, I'll just stop there...because I'm a spaz.

Same outfit as when I saw him, and his felatio performance on the mic would have made Linda Lovelace blush.

Ohhh, and Poison Ivy!!!

Dead Can Dance -- 1993 at the Vic Theater in Lincoln Park
Cocteau Twins -- at the Riviera for both Heaven or Las Vegas, and Four Calendar Cafe
Nirvana, October 1991 at the Metro the night Kurt met, and hooked up for the first time with Courtney Love.
Jane's Addiction -- UWM Ballroom -- Nothing's Shocking Tour.
Robert Plant -- 1988 Marcus Amphitheater
New Order / Sugarcubes / PiL -- 1989 Marcus Amphitheater
Smashing Pumpkins -- Unicorn Bar -- Milwaukee -- Siamese Dream tour with maybe 150 people.
R.E.M -- Green Tour at Alpine Valley.
Soundgarden AND Faith No More, OPENING for Voi Vod at the Vic in Chicago.

Longest night of life thus far. Accepting ticket from friend to go see, AC/DC with Yngwie Malmsteen opening... God Awful.

One of the times I caught 'em, Lux was breaking microphone stands over his head. The pants were very shiny leather, with pumps. And yeah, Ivy.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Police
The Rolling Stones
Van Halen (WITH David Lee Roth)
W.A.S.P. (this is "I can't believe I saw this band!" in the same vein as "I can't believe I used to watch 'Eight is Enough'!")

Roy Ayres in a tiny little building which wasn't really a club and wasn't really a wearhouse.

all the white kids were young and grungy, all the black dudes were in their 50's and dressed like they were going to church. It was pretty awesome.

XTC with Wall of Voodoo
The Smiths
Blur with Smashbox
Suede
Catherine Wheel
Rolling Stones with Guns n Roses
Bruce Springsteen
Van Halen at my high school

And at a mountain rave back in '96 (I think), Underworld, The Orb, Meat Beat Manifesto and Orbital.

quicksand
sublime
madness
gang of four

I caught that tour. That was at a point in my life when I enjoyed Spin Doctors way, way more than I should ever admit to in public...especially this board.

In no order:

1. The Cure (Disintegration tour) at Dodger Stadium with opening bands being the Pixies, Love and Rockets, and Shellyan Orphan (Sept. 8, 1989)
2. Nirvana was opening for Sonic Youth and was right before Nevermind came out. Also saw the third to the last show Nirvana ever played on December 30, 1993. One of the most intense shows I have ever seen, unbelievable.
3. Echo and the Bunnyman and New Order together on two stright nights.
4. "Call the Cops" Featuring the Happy Mondays, Adamski, and 808 State.
5. Teenage Fanclub (Bandwagonesque tour) at Fairfax High in Los Angeles.

I couldn't stop at five so here are the next five:

6. Pink Floyd at the Rose Bowl around 1994 or so.
7. David Bowie –Glass Spider tour and in the summer of 1990.
8. Jane's Addition with NIN
9. the Smiths I happened to see three times.
10. Depeche Mode wins with about twelve times seeing them.