50 Bands I Saw

20 Feb

Another one of the many things I got sucked into on Facebook:

OK, here are the rules. Test your memory, and your love of live music by listing 50 artists, or bands (or as many as you can remember) you’ve seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival, and opening acts count, but only if you can’t think of 50 other artists. (This was tricky.)

1. Freddie Jackson
2. Color Me Bad
3. Eddie Money
4. Richard Marx
5. Celene Dion
6. L.A. Guns
7. Cher
9. Duran Duran
10. Luther Vandross
11. Andy Taylor
12. Belinda Carlise
13. Beach Boys
14. Zoogz Rift
15. Earth Dies Burning
16. Sheila E.
17. Cherry Bombz
18. Chicago
19. David Bowie
20. Prince
21. Tuff
22. Warrant
23. Poison
24. Wasp

25. Suicidal Tendencies
26. Youth Brigade
27. Wasted Youth
28. 7 Seconds
29. Mau-Mau’s
30. Flipper

31. Public Nuisance
32. DOA
33. Sin 34
34. TSOL
35. Jeffrey Lee Pierce
36. Henry Rollins
37. Sebastian Bach
38. Helmet
39. Guns ‘n Roses
40. Skid Row
41. Motley Crue
42. KISS
43. The Pretenders
44. Steve Jones
45. U2
46. Secret Affair
47. Edgar Winter
48. Human Hands
49. Romeo Void
50. Pratt & McClain

Honorable mentions: Your mom

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3 Responses to “50 Bands I Saw”

1. 1
   Scott Says:
   

   Man, the first 30 was easy and then I started to struggle. My memory is terrible.

   1. Bad Religion
   2. Fugazi
   3. Government Issue
   4. Killing Joke
   5. Siouxsie and the Banshees
   6. DOA
   7. The Jesus Lizard
   8. Shellac
   9. The Cramps
   10. The Dead Milkmen
   11. Warzone
   12. Agnostic Front
   13. Flipper
   14. The Dwarves
   15. The Pogues
   16. The Meatmen
   17. Cop Shoot Cop
   18. Firewater
   19. Naked Raygun
   20. Subhumans (UK)
   21. Citizen Fish
   22. Gang Green
   23. The Freeze
   24. The FUs
   25. The Fall
   26. JFA
   27. Cosmic Psychos
   28. Slapshot
   29. Stiff Little Fingers
   30. GBH
   31. Straw Dogs
   32. Mudhoney
   33. Tad
   34. Superchunk
   35. MDC
   36. GWAR
   37. The Reverend Horton Heat
   38. Ministry
   39. Ed Gein’s Car
   40. New Bomb Turks
   41. Psycho
   42. Sonic Youth
   43. Mission of Burma
   44. Butthole Surfers
   45. The Melvins
   46. Crash Worship
   47. Murphy’s Law
   48. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
   49. Fishbone
   50. The Pixies

   February 20th, 2013 at 4:52 pm
2. 2
   Charles Says:
   

   Oh jeez. I don’t know if I have time for 50. Let me try a few notable ones.

   1. Jefferson Airplane (opening act: Iron Butterfly)
   2. The Fifth Dimension
   3. Frank Zappa
   4. Ramones (at the Whisky a Go Go)
   5. Agent Orange
   6. Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer (opening for Fleetwood Mac)
   7. Yes
   8. Fishbone
   9. Johnny Winter (opening act: James Brown)
   10. Uriah Heep
   11. The Cramps

   That’s about all I can think of, off the top of my head. Forgive me for such a short list, I was geographically deprived and only rarely had good acts come to my area. And goddam that hippie shit and prog rock. You could probably guess I was desperate for something different. But I still love the Guitar Gods like Jeff Beck and Johnny Winter.

   February 20th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
3. 3
   Mike E. Says:
   

   Scott and Charles:

   Some really great bands on those lists!

   Mike E.

   February 21st, 2013 at 1:44 pm