darn i wish i'd kept up saving all my tickets. this year: health, pre, holy fuck, devastations, blonde redhead, these new puritans, kills, public enemy, dr octagon, bomb squad. sure there's more but i can't think.

first = guns n' roses, 1993
last = evan parker, last night

First (exclusing local gigs) : Roger Waters
Last: Public Enemy

First - My parents took me to the WOMAD festival in 1989, which was probably my first gig experience.

Last - The Breeders

i literally cannot say how many bands/performers etc i have seen live. there are just too many!

I'll give it a try, I'll list just the ones I really liked:

Sonic Youth 4 times
Text of Light
Radiohead
Einsturzende Neubauten
Jesu
Mono
Keiji Haino
Charalambides
Oren Ambarchi
George Michael
Christoph Kurzmann
Jan Jelinek
Zbygniew Karkowski
Pan Sonic
Islaja
Es
Kemisilvat Ytsavat (typo, probably)
Vladislav Delay
Tori Amos
Konk Pack
Fugees
4walls
Philip Jeck
Supersilent
Noel Akchote
Siewert / Hinterreger / Roisz
Six Organs of Admittance
Liars
DJ Shadow
Melvins
Fuckhead
DJ Shadow
Koji Asano
Depeche Mode
Rehberg+Bauer
Fennesz
Murcof
Mary Timony
Pastacas
Erase Errata
Soulfly
A Silver Mt. Zion
The Gathering
Coldcut
No Neck Blues Band
Kammerflimmer Kollektiff
Mogwai
Wu-Tang Clan
Max Tundra
Huun-Huur-Tu
Stuart Staples
Zeitkratzer
Hood
M83
Massive Attack
Schloss Tegal
Pixies
Garbage (yes, for real. I was at the festival, punchdrunk)
Einleitungszeit
4walls
Dizzie Rascal

... and many more, I've got holes in my memory to remember them all .

first:
1993 - guns n' roses

last:
last night - times new viking

if i had to make a list of ALL bands i've seen it would consist of hundreds of names, if not over a thousand. just in the first five months of 2008 so far i must've seen about 70 (international) bands/artists already, including festivals and support acts, etc.

guns n roses were shit by 93. i pity you and toilette.

thanks.
i was young and foolish. support acts were the cult and soul asylum.

most kids in my class weren't allowed to go by their parents (it was 2-3 hours away by train), but my mom was the coolest so i went together with a friend.

well i woulda gone to see the cult.

ps nefeli they were no better in 91
haha that's when they started the riot at the stadium in stl. i think my mom was there.

guns n roses were shit from day one, but i got taken to the concert by my aunt and uncle

Drool...

starting at age 12

David Lee Roth
Tesla
Cinderella
Motley Crue
Def Leppard
Dead Horse
Academy Black
Nitzer Ebb
Skinny Puppy
Revolting Cocks
Ministry
Skate Nigs
Tony Bennett
Butthole Surfers
Ice Cube
Lush
Meat Puppets
deschmog
Rusted Shut
The MIke Gunn
Pain Teens
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Sebadoh
Dinosaur Jr
Mudhoney
Phish
Green Day
No Doubt
Afghan Whigs
Daniel Johnston
firehose
Reverend Horton Heat
Fugazi
Explosions In The Sky
L7
De La Soul
Tribe Called Quest
Fear
Parts & Labor
Tapes N Tapes
Westbury Squares
They Might Be Giants
Gumball
Sigur Ros
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Bardo Pond
Charalambides
Buena Vista Social Club
Tristeza
Interpol
Liars
Awesome Color
Wolfmother
Shellac
The Roots
Regina Spektor
EyeHateGod
White Zombie



etc.


and countless local acts

I see a 100 bands a year, it would be impossible for me to list every band I’ve seen. Here’s 25 I’ve seen over the years.

1. Cheap Trick
2. J Geils Band
3. Joe Perry Project
4. Van Halen (83)
5. DRI (83)
6. The Fall (83)
7. Pussy Galore (2x)
8. Swans (86 + 89)
9. Sonic Youtherini (87 and a buncha times since)
10. Black Flag (2 or 3x)
11. Die Kreuzen (2x)
12. Kilslug 7 or 8 times
13. Upside Down Cross
14. Dinosaur (85 and 86 and 88)
15. Sleep (5 or 6 times)
16. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (10 x)
17. Glenn Branca Orchestra (at the WTC)
18. Other Dimensions in Music (at least a dozen times)
19. Ras Moshe Quartet (buncha times)
20. Royal Trux (4 or 5 times)
21. BARDO POND (at least a dozen times not including tonite)
22. Psycodrama (2 or 3x)
23. Boxcar Willie (Fryburg Fair circa 1982)
24. Greatful Dead
25. Master Musicians of Jajouka

honorable mentions: Village People (in the Navy tour) and Steve Martin (2nd album tour)

xanopticon live?

I bet that was headache inducing..

Fuck I would have loved to have seen thinking fellers union local # 282 ten times!

Best "Rock" band ever...

first: walflowers 97'

last: no fun last week

hahahahahaha.

i wanted to go and mom tried to get me tickets but, and this is when ticketmaster started here, the lines where blocked from people buying them and when she finally got an answer, the show was sold out.

a few years later i thought that perhaps it was for the better, i'd hate to see them with chicks singing backups and the three hour solos in between songs.


it was loud as fuck but totally fun.

First gig - World Domination Enterprises, London Powerhaus, Feb 1990

Most recent gig - Pissed Jeans, The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch - two weeks ago.