All the Cconcerts you can ‘Remember’ Attending?


Despite my age of 24 I am a fan of music from older generations I have made it a goal to see and hear all the pioneers of the music history while I still can … Before artists stop performing ..touring ..or pass on to Rock and Roll Heaven. Another mantra of mine is to see as much variety as possible. While I have not had the opportunity to see any of these classic rockers in their prime I have been more than thankful to be their audience and have taken something away from every performance.

Making a list and seeing it on paper brought back great memories and emotions! What shows have you seen so far in your lifetime ?

My list: (in no specific order) (does not include many small club shows..too many to remember ..or not remember!)

Guns N Roses
Phish x30
David Lee Roth
Willie Nelson
Bela Fleck x2
Tom Petty x4
Dave Bruebeck
Allman Brothers x7
Bob Dylan x3
Jimmy Page Robert Plant x2
Black Crowes x6
Maceo Parker
P-Funk
Mettalica (Second Row Giants Stadium)
MMW x3
AC DC
Further Festival x4
God Street Wine
Weezer
REM
Slash x2
Santana
YES
ZZ top
John Fogarty
Doobie Brothers
Huey Lewis
BB King
JGB
Stone Temple Pilots
The Machine
Jaw Box
HORDE
Rod Stewart (First Concert 1987 with my parents!)
Chick Corea
From Good Homes
OZZY/Manson
Jimmy Heath
Rolling Stones (First Row Giants Stadium)
Lenny Kravitz
Gilby Clarke
Chucho Valdez
James Brown
Meat Puppets

I also worked as a part time stagehand at the Meadowlands and saw the following shows for free…! (well they paid me to see them!)

While not my musical favorites …You can’t truly mock these performers unless you have seen them live! Should I decide to talk trash I have a real frame of reference.

Brittany Spears
N’SYNC
Back Street Boys
Madonna
Aerosmith
Bon Jovi
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Showing 8 responses by richingoth

Well here it goes as they appear on stage:
Humble Pie/Grand Funk Railroad (12-70 MSG)
Cowboy/Jethro Tull (5-71 Filmore East)
?/ELP (5-71 Filmore East)
Poco (7-71 Central Park)
Mahavishnu Orchestra (?-71 Cental Park)
Yes/Humble Pie/Mountain (7-71 Gaelic Park)
Black Oak Arkansas/Alice Cooper/Black Sabbeth (7-71 Gaelic Park)
Led Zepplin (9-71 MSG)
James Gang (11-71 Hunter College)
Sweathog/Black Oak Arkansas/Humble Pie (3-72 Academy of Music)
Led Zepplin (5-72 Nassau Coliseum)
Dust/Flash (7-13-71 Prospect Park)
?/?/Altman Brothers (7-13-71 Gaelic Park)
Blue Oyster Cult/Flash/Argent/Jeff Beck Group (8-72 Gaelic Park)
Jo Jo Gunn/J.Geils Band/Yes (8-72 Gaelic Park)
Ramatan/Ednar Winter/Humble Pie (8-72 Gaelic Park)
Silverhead/Fleetwood Mac/Deep Purple (8-72 Gaelic Park)
Lindisfarne/Yes (11-72 Nassau Coliseum)
?/Jethro Tull (12-72 Nassau Coliseum)
Black Sabbeth (?-72 Capital Theater)
To Be Continue
Here's some more:
Black Sabbath (2-74 Nassau Coliseum)
Golden Earing/Yes (7-75 Roosevelt Stadium)
Pink Floyd (8-75 Nassau Coliseum)
Elton John (8-76 MSG)
Genesis (2-77 MSG)
Pink Floyd (7-77 MSG)
?/Styx/Aerosmith (11-77 Nassau Coliseum)
?/Styx (3-78 Suffolk Forum)
Les Dudek/Kansas (7-78 Nassau Coliseum)
Genesis (7-78 MSG)
Pierce Arrow/UK (10-78 Palladium)
Peter Gabriel (10-78 Stony Brook University)
Angel/Styx (12-78 MSG)
Sad Cafe/UK (3-79 Palladium)
Supertramp (5-79 MSG)
Yes (6-79 Nassau Coliseum)
Todd Rundgren (?-79 Belmont Park)
UK/Jethro Tull (10-79 MSG)
UK/Jethro Tull (10-79 Nassau Coliseum)
Renaissance (? ?in Glen Clove)
Steve Hackett (? ? in Glen Clove)
Steve Hackett (? ? college in Nassau County)
next will be in 1983, see u soon
I also remember seeing X last night at the House Of Blues, Orlando,Fl. Great to see all the orginal members back together. Another classic rocker punk band that you should see.
and more:
Berlin (3-83 Stony Brook Union Ballroom)
The Fixx/Supertramp (8-83 Brendan Byrne Arena)
The Police (8-83 Shea Stadium)
Talking Heads (8-83 Forest Hills Stadium)
Asia (8-83 Forest Hills)
Talking Heads (8-83 Forest Hills)
Rush (9-83 Radio City)
Echo & The Bunnymen (4-84 Savoy Theater)
Thompson Twins (4-84 Hofstra Playhouse)
The Clash (4-84 Hofstra Gym)
The Clash (4-84 Stony Brook Gym)
China Crisis/Simple Minds (5-84 Beacon Theater)
REM w/special guests (6-84 Capitol Theater)
REM (7-84 Goodskates in East Setauket)
REM (7-84 Beacon Theater)
Bruce Springsteen (7-84 SPAC)
Echo & The Bunnymen (8-84 Beacon Theater)
Missing Persons (8-84 Beacon Theater)
REM (10-84 Capitol Theater)
APB (11-84 Hofstra USA)
B-52's (11-84 C.W.Post Theater)
Joan Jett (2-85 Beacon Theater)
The Smiths (6-85 Beacon Theater)
New Order (8-85 Felt Forum)
REM (8-85 Radio City)
Replacements (?-85 Peppermint Lounge)
Shriekback (9-85 The Ritz)
Tears For Fears (10-85 Radio City)
X (10-85 Beacon Theater)
The Cure (11-85 Radio City)
Simple Minds (11-85 Radio City)
The Alarm (?-85 Stony Brook Union Ballroom)
Echo & The Bunnymen (3-86 Felt Forum)
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians (3-86 Irving Plaza)
Flock Of Seagulls (5-86 The Ritz)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (5-86 Radio City)
PIL (6-86 Beacon Theater)
Depeche Mode (6-86 Radio City)
The Cure (7-86 Jones Beach)
PIL (7-86 Palladium)
The Cramps (8-86 The Ritz)
Psychedelic Furs (8-86 Jones Beach)
Neil Young w/Crazyhorse (10-86 Msg)
REM (11-86 Felt Forum)
New Order (12-86)
Balaam & the Angel/Mission UK (4-87 Heartbeat in Bayville)
The Mission UK (4-87 The Ritz)
Lone Justice/U2 (5-87 Meadowland Arena)
Replacements (7-87 Beacon Theater)
The Cure (8-87 MSG)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (8-87 Felt Forum)
Echo & The Bunnymen (Jones Beach)
Joe Walsh (9-87 MSG)
Nancy Griffith (9-87 Bottoml Line)
PIL (11-87 Beacon Theater)
The Pogues (11-87 The Ritz)
The Mission UK (2-88 The Ritz)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians (3-88 Beacon Theater)
Sinead O'Connor (4-88 Beacon Theater)
Pylon (12-88 Palladium's backdoor)
Gang Of 4 (? Reds in Levittown)
Fields Of The Nephilum (? Cat Club)
much,much more especially the GOTHIC stuff! enjoy
Here's some more:
Let's Active (84/85 Nassau Community College ?)
Ramones (? Stony Brook Gym)
Ramones (? Malibu Nite Club, Lido Beach)
Tom Tom Club (? Malibu Nite Club, Lido Beach)
Joan Jett (? 2 days at her home town bar, Island Park)
The Strawbs (79/80 My Father's Place, Roslyn)
Mike Oldfield (80/81 My Father's Place, Roslyn)
The Gunn Club (84 My Father's Place, Roslyn)
Bob Dylan (? Beacon Theater)
Warren Zevon (? Beacon Theater)
My Friend's Wamboozy Festival (95,96,97,98,99 at Lake Grove Farms; apple orchard in Modena; Snow Ridge Ski Area in Turin; John M's Estate in Bayshore)plus many, many cover bar bands from the mid 70's to 80's until MADD started to make noise and the clubs started to close.
I still have most of my ticket stubs going back to 1971 (Filmore East Juthro Tull, one week before Aqualung release $3.50); Shafer Music Concerts in Central Park (Wolmonth ice skateing rink)$1.75; and 1971-72 concerts in Gailic Park (Riverdale section of the Bronx)$5.00, became friends with head of security and resold tickets collected at gate split money and received stage passes. some of those shows include Yes (2x);Black Oak Arkansas,Black Sabbath,Alice Copper (all in one show);Black Sabbath again; Mountain (Felix Papparandi? came from this neighborhood too); Beck,Bougart&Appice (advertised as the Jeff Beck Group); Moody Blues; Fleetwood Mac;Altman Brothers (2 different concerts in one day the other being Dust and Flash free WNEW-FM show in Prospect Park, Brooklyn). note some of these group weren't even headliners. Led Zepplin (2x); Pink Floyd (4x); Yes (10x); Genesis (5x);etc... However the best shows were later after this dinosaur rock became stagnete and started going to clubs (in Greenwich Village). That's will be another post. Got to go home to retrived the other 500? shows.To be 18-19 again. Peace, Love & Happiness. Rich
Here is some that I've missed from the above posts:
Genesis (6-29-80 MSG)
Genesis (6-30-80 Brendan Byrne Arena)
Ambrosia (7-22-80 Westbury Music Fair)
Styx (3-14-81 Nassau Coliseum)
Joe Walsh (6-19-81 Nassau Colisem)
Dan Fogelberg (10-18-81 Brendan Byrne Arena)
King Crimson (?-81 Town Hall)
Pink Floyd (?-87 Nassau Coliseum)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (10-20-88 Radio City)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (10-21-88 Stony Brook Gym)
Jethro Tull (11-3-89 Nassau Coliseum
And finally the nineties:
Gang Of 4 (7-2-91 Malibu Nite Club in Lido Beach)
Raggae Sunsplash (7-5-91 Brookhaven Amphitheater)
The Sisters OF Mercy (7-18-91 Brookhaven Amphitheater)
Helmet/
Gang Of 4/
Public Enemy/
The Sisters Of Mercy (7-24-91 Radio City)
Thrill Kill Kult/
Siouxsie & The Banshees (12-4-91 CW Post Tilles Center)
Neil Young (2-14-92 Beacon Theater)
Helmet/
Sepultura/
Ministry (12-3-92 Paramount)
Black Crowes (3-31-93 CW Post Tilles Center)
White Zombie/
Reverend Horton Heat/
Nine Inch Nails (1-6-95 Nassau Coliseum)
H.O.R.D.E. Festial/
Black Crowes (8-8-95 Jones Beach)
Santana/
Jeff Beck (8-11-95 Jones Beach)
Gang Of 4 (10-8-95 Limelight)
The Cure (7-9-96 Nassau Coliseum)
Scorpions/
Alice Cooper (8-2-96 Jones Beach)
Sunshine Blind/
Switchblade Symphony (96 or 97 ? Cherry Ln club,Floral Pk)
Sunshine Blind/
Switchblade Symphony (96 or 97 + 1 day Batcave, Downtime)
Dead Can Dance (? Symphony Space)
Front Line Assembly/
Switchblade Symphony (5-6-99 Irving Plaza)
Razed In Black/
Switchblade Symphony (7-30-99 Batcave, Downtime)
The Sisters Of Mercy (9-24-99 Roseland Ballroom)
Gene Loves Jezebel/
The Mission UK (10-18-99 Irving Plaza)
The Cure (2-28-00 Roseland Ballroom)
The Cure (6-20-00 Jones Beach)