concerts that you've been to...

 Madonna's show was actually great - entertainment ++++! DH got tickets for me as a gift and he paid $300/seat. At that price we were still quite a ways back. For the hot concerts in Toronto you can expect to pay around $250.

Cathy, Eric Clapton I would love to see as well as the Eagles.

The venue is so important for concerts. The big sports centre here is no good at all. Too big to see anything and the sound is not good. I love the up close and personal venues. Back in the 60's we used to go to a little pub called the River Boat. A young folk singer named Gordon Lightfoot used to play there every Saturday night. Anyone remember him? 

Ohhhhhhhh YUHHHHH!!  You got to see Gordon Lightfoot when he was flatly at his best!! Wow. 

I like this weird broad spectrum from major hard rock to folk to classical and under and over and in between LOL.  But it's too funny -- David and I have a lot in common in musical taste and some that's just ... *not* in common.  I'll go to Pink Floyd stuff with him but .. er ... cos I love him, not cos I like it LOL.  and I'm much more the Fleetwood Mac fan than he.  But we both completely enjoy a good concert and live theatre.

 We don't watch TV, no cable but we spend that $$ going to see concerts and shows.  And *I* didn't have to watch ANY political ads the last year!! pffffttttttttttttttttttttttttt

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i was wondering if he was related to Woody Guthrie. I actually have listened to quite a bit of woody guthrie...mostly because one of my favorite bands (wilco) have covered a lot of his songs, so i kinda checked him out.

He does Disney every year (the "Flower and Garden Festival" -- and Epcot runs concerts daily for 2 months and he's always one who comes back every year).  This past spring he mentioned that the family has archived all they can compile of what Woody did and he has like 450+ songs that he 'wrote'.  Mostly words with no tunes (he carried those in his head apparently).  Some the family remembers from family music nights but they're all trying to put tunes to some of those 'words'.

This was one of Woody's that he sang (with Abe who is Arlo's son) that is just SO awesome.  We're talking about concerts and this is a clip from one of his:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSoQHmr360

Now you know rock's been around a while when a discussion of concerts winds up a history lesson LOL

In concert, I've seen the Who, Kansas, Billy Squire, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, the Nelsons, Steppenwolf, The Turtles, Arlo Guthrie, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Shake Russell, Johnny Rivers, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Credence Clearwater Revisited (the old band minus John Fogerty), Dan Fogleberg (RIP), The Platters, Three Dog Night. I'll try to remember more, if I can.

Dang Ron -- you just brought another whole bunch to mind! LOL  " Credence Clearwater Revisited (the old band minus John Fogerty)" -- Tom Fogarty isn't with them either because he passed away a few years ago - it's just the other two but they are REALLY good (and still recording thankfully).

Didn't see Three Dog night but saw One Dog Night (Chuck Negron) and another year Two Dog Night (the other two) -- sorry, I'm being facetious cos Chuck Negron just goes by Chuck Negron and the other two DO bill themselves as Three Dog Night (but it's just two).

I saw Johnny Rivers years ago at a 4th of July celebration and wow what a great concert he gave.  He's still got an awesome voice. 

David and I both would still like to see the Who, but they didn't come to Orlando or anywhere near last year. 

It's really interesting to see who endures -- I mean WHO would have thot Mick Jagger would still be jumping around onstage *now*.  But to see how many "families" have emerged in music -- like the Nelsons -- Ricky Nelson used to SING about "Gunnar and Mathew .. the family twins" and now they do their own music and his.  Bill Medley's son Darren sings with Paul Revere and the Raiders when he's not singing with his Dad (Righteous Brothers?  Bobby Hatfield passed away a couple of years ago but Darren's not the baritone Bill is so they blend really well singing the Righteous Brother's stuff).

But even just thinking how long groups like Matchbox Twenty have been around ... who'll be talking about where Rob Thomas is 20 years from now?  Kinda fun. 

But there is some really good music out now -- I missed Linkin Park when they were here.  The House of Blues has some good concerts. 

Probably the biggest disappointment ever was Aretha Franklin.  She cancelled her first concert at the House of Blues because she won't perform anywhere there is air-conditioning.  (*rolling eyes*).  And the night she DID go on (picture an indoor concert in FLORIDA with no air-conditioning .... ugh) she was such a diva and wouldn't sing any of her "old" stuff.  Really disappointing -- she simply wanted to sing more operatic pieces and things she wanted to make popular that people who mentored her did.  She did Spanish Harlem and that was about the only recognizable thing she did.  I was really disappointed. 

I have not attended alot of concerts, I do not get into the screaming, holding lighters aloft thing.

But the ones I did attend I enjoyed.

Arlo Guthrie, Pearl Jam....in a dive in Wisconsin before they were well known, Gordon Lightfoot, Raul Malo, John Prine, Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Police, Rolling Stones and The Scorpions.

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The Turtles,

Oh, I'd loved to have seen the Turtles

I used to go to concerts all of the time, so my list is kinda long.

Country  George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Kevin Fowler, Django Walker, Cross Canadian Ragweed, David Alan Coe, Reba McIntyre, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Brooks & Dunn, Allan Jackson, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, Eli Young Band, Jason Boland & the Straglers, Wade Bowen, Robert Earl Keen.

Rock  Disturbed, Tool, Seether, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters, Gravity Kills, Lords of Acid, Kiss, ZZ Top, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker, The Rolling Stones, Third Eye Blind.

Pop  Regina Spektor, Feist, A Fine Frenzy, Gnarls Barkley, Mika, Erykah Badu, New Kids on the Block (their first tour, not the current one) New Edition, Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson.

Rap  Usher, Kanye West, T.I., Eminen, Snoop Dog, Puff Daddy, Shaggy.

Other  Andrea Bocelli, Tans Siberian Orchestra.

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Oh, I'd loved to have seen the Turtles

"Flo" and "Eddie" still perform all the time -- they're one of the groups that come to Epcot EVERY year for the Flower & Garden Festival ("Flower Power Concert Series";) and it's still the same two and still the same acerbic tongue-in-cheek as always.

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I used to go to concerts all of the time, so my list is kinda long.

Country  George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Kevin Fowler, Django Walker, Cross Canadian Ragweed, David Alan Coe, Reba McIntyre, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Brooks & Dunn, Allan Jackson, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, Eli Young Band, Jason Boland & the Straglers, Wade Bowen, Robert Earl Keen.

Rock  Disturbed, Tool, Seether, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters, Gravity Kills, Lords of Acid, Kiss, ZZ Top, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker, The Rolling Stones, Third Eye Blind.

Pop  Regina Spektor, Feist, A Fine Frenzy, Gnarls Barkley, Mika, Erykah Badu, New Kids on the Block (their first tour, not the current one) New Edition, Paula Abdul, Debbie Gibson.

Rap  Usher, Kanye West, T.I., Eminen, Snoop Dog, Puff Daddy, Shaggy.

Other  Andrea Bocelli, Tans Siberian Orchestra.

I would LOVE to see Feist, Andrea Bocelli and TSO............im green with envy!

 i havent been to many big venue concerts. i am cheap. plus i prefer the intimacy of a smaller location.

i went to this blues festival back in the early 90's. b.b king, buddy guy, and some other people i never heard of before. i really enjoyed watching buddy guy. b.b. king was good too, but he came on so late. we had been at this place for about 6 hours before he came on. so we left about 1/2 way through his set.

the only other big-ish band i went to see was the jon spencer blues explosion. they were playing a bar in columbia, sc with some other band. i really enjoyed that. 

other than that, i have mostly just been to see local or regional bands at college bars around clemson.

My Ist concert ever, Judas Priest.  It was my 17th birthday present, in 1984.  Cost was $16.

2nd, Deep Purple, Feb 1985

3rd, ZZ Top, April 1986

And I got dragged to the Irish Rovers with my foster mom and a couple of her friends.  I think I was 18.

I have enough hearing problems, not all related to head-banging music, that I can't really go to concerts any longer.  Not to mention the prohibitive price...EEEK!

I honestly havn't been to many. I saw N*Sync when I was in JR high, saw Little Big Town at the state fair, Trace Adkins 2 years ago (that man is a GIANT!!!) Dierks Bently last year and on November 22nd we're going to see Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Eric Durrance (he's new). It's the CMT On Tour concert. Tickets (after fees & taxes) were $36.00 a piece but it is general admission.

I'd love to go to a rock concert, but I'm small and a mosh pit would kill me so I stick to calm country

I haven't been to any concerts since I was like 14 I think. But from the time I was like 9 til then I went to a bunch, lol.

I've seen:

Bush (my first concert, 1997)
No Doubt x...3 or 4? maybe 5... My sister has always been obsessed with them.. I went with her every time.
Eminem (AWESOME freaking show..holy crap.. I think this is the last concert I went to...in 2002?).
Madonna (honestly, wasn't that great to me...but I've never really loved Madonna..just went because my mom and sisters were all going).
Plus like..5? HFStivals. HFS is (was? I think it's gone now) an alternative rock radio station in DC/Baltimore, and every year they have this huge music festival, with tons of big names. Saw Green Day a couple times there, Third Eye Blind, Beck, the Offspring, Live, Chili Peppers, Limp Bizkit, 311, Bush, Good Charlotte was there on the local stage a million times (they graduated to the big stage in like 2001 lol), Blink 182, Coldplay, Incubus...plus a bunch of others.. Really cool concert every year...

I think that's it...

I'm pathetic....I have been to 1 concert my entire life. JoDee Masina at the NC State Fair, 2 years ago.

Sad, right? And we have good concerts in Fayetteville every month!

Edited : on top of that....price was $15.....nose-bleed section! And **I** got yelled at by the guy behind me for standing up, dancing, and doing the most red-neck thing ever....LIGHTER WAVE!!! Woot!!! Of course, myself and the lady who I was with, promptly turned and told the kind gentlemen to bite our buts, it was a concert, thats what your sapposed to do...have fun! He and his wife moved back 3 rows. XD