In The Flesh

My previous blog contained an entry that recounted all the live bands I have seen so I want to move that entry here so as not to forget what I had already remembered.

Some unknown band.

In a recent conversation I tried to recount all the concerts I’ve been to and became proud when I realized I couldn’t. So for posterity I will be doing my best to list them all out as they pop back into my head. Keep checking this space for updates. In no particular order:

Björk (Twice but one was DJ set)

AR Rahman
Bad Bunny
DJ Shadow
Crystal Castles (A top ten show for sure.)
Tool
Sade (Love Deluxe and Soldier of Love tours)
The Cure
Blink 182
Massive Attack

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

New Order

Zachery Allan Starkey

Makeshift Tapedeck

Psychedelic Furs

Stone Temple Pilots (minus Scott Weiland )': )

Peter Frampton

Night Drive

The Midnight
OMD

Sofi Tukker

The Fixx
Fischerspooner
Pink Floyd (without Roger Waters)
Roger Waters (The Wall and Us+Them tours)
DJ Spooky

Haiku Hands
Peter Murphy
Goldie
Depeche Mode
Incubus
Ministry
Skinny Puppy
DJ Rap

BABYMETAL (Way better live than expected.)

Skyharbor
Paul Oakenfold
Phuz

Decoded Feedback
Tiesto
The Go Gos (I hugged sweaty Jane Weidlan!)
The Horrors (Easily in top 10 performances)
Trisha Yearwood
She Wants Revenge
MIA
Spoon
Silversun Pickups
Wovenhand (3 times now)
My Morning Jacket
Polyphonic Spree
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Thievery Corporation
Ted Nugent

Clan of Xymox
Dieselboy
Creed
The Methods
No Doubt
Natalie Merchant
Chris Isaac
KISS (original lineup!)
Gloria Gaynor
Erasure
Muse
Experimental Dental School
John Legend
Green Day
Perry Farrell (DJ)
Book of Love
David Bowie
Peter Murphy
Kristeen Young
Less Than Jake
Goldfinger
Peaches
KC and the Sunshine Band
Meat Beat Manifesto
Morrissey
Asobi Seksu
New Found Glory
Nitzer Ebb
Josh Wink
Ellypseas
Crystal Method
John Mayer
Blue October
Jack Johnson
Tavares
John Waite
Numbers
Lynyrd Skynyrd

J Balvin
Girl In A Coma
The Duke Spirit
Jane's Addiction
Lionel Ritchie
Cee Lo Green

Boris
Holiday Mountain
Poe
Tamed Fury
Ace Frehley ( Definitely top 10)
Blonde Redhead (sadly disappointing)
Chelsea Wolfe (twice)

Big Black Delta

Gary Numan
A Flock of Seagulls (lead singer's own band)

RZA

A Perfect Circle (No Judith?!?!)

Mount Kimbie

Phantagram

Justice

Little Big Town

Leon Bridges

Run The Jewels

Lorde

Front 242

Com Truise

(I am including DJs but purposely leaving out cover bands, tribute bands, and other festival type performers who don’t release formal albums and such. I am also not mentioning the opera, symphony, or other live musical events I have attended.)

Notable for their absence are the following shows that I wanted to see but for some reason couldn’t:

Bjork (During her Debut tour in the tiniest of venues! (Numbers night club) I will always kick myself for missing that one.)
U2 (The original Joshua Tree tour!! Huge regret for *giving* away my tickets a day before the show. Stupid! To add insult to injury I missed the 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour also.)
Bassnectar (My favorite dubstep DJ but I had some clash of schedules so paid tickets went unused.)

This list is by no means comprehensive. I have been to several shows that due to too much intoxication of one form or another I simply cannot recall. If and when I do I will post here. But in case I go way overboard this time, tonight we are seeing Jane’s Addiction!! [P.S. It was a great show.]

New section: Bands I could have seen but missed.

LTJ Bukem, Recently remembered tickets I had but the show was cancelled.

Wish List:

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