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There honestly isn't room on this message board for me to list even the biggest names (which means largely ignoring 13 consecutive Olympia Experimental Music Festivals averaging about 20 acts each, plus uncountable smaller shows), but everyone I can think of in one sitting before my fingers get tired...
Eartha Kitt
Sonic Youth (about 30 times)
Burning Spear
The Dictators
The Ramones
Debbie Harry (essentially Blondie but not billed as such)
The Tom Tom Club with Jerry Harrison
Green River
Mudhoney
Mother Love Bone
Melvins (many times, including once with Leif Garrett singing "Smells Like Teen Spirit")
Fugazi
Beat Happening
Bikini Kill
Unwound (many times including their last show ever)
Big Black
Pussy Galore
L7
Coffin Break
The Cramps
Pere Ubu
Rocket from the Tombs
Built to Spill
Elliott Smith
Palace Brothers
Painkiller
Jackie-o-motherfucker
Cobra
Elliott Sharp
Amy Denio
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
Sun Ra
Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists
Chris Knox
Karp (they played my 30th birthday)
Universal Order of Armageddon
Rye Coalition
Sun City Girls
Jandek
Dub Narcotic
Artis the Spoonman
Soundgarden (yawn...)
Urge Overkill
Les Thugs
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Wolf Eyes
Green Milk from the Planet Orange (including live on my radio show!)
Irving Klaw Trio
Old Time Relijun
The Wailers (who totally rocked)
Mission of Burma
Live Skull
The Soft Boys
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians
R.E.M. (YAWN!)
Hole (choke)
Beck
Yo La Tengo
Pavement
Doo Rag
Tchkung
Einsturzende Neubauten
The Orb
Journey (heh)
Public Enemy (big letdown!)
Fitz of Depression
Love Battery
Dead Moon
Wipers (in 1986!)
U-men
Thee Hypnotics
Bugskull
Noggin
Kronos Quartet
Diamanda Galas (way overhyped!)
Thrones
Atari Teenage Riot
Autechre
Thee Smugglers
Mecca Normal
Screaming Trees (in 1986 when they were amazing!)
Girl Trouble
Babes in Toyland
Nirvana (with 3 other people in the audience the first time!)
Skin Yard
Walkabouts
Codeine
Stereolab
Witchypoo
Some Velvet Sidewalk
Godheadsilo
Jad Fair
Nation of Ulysses
Steve Fisk
Negativland
Bill Horist
Wayne Horvitz
Bill Frissell
The American Analog Set
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Butthole Surfers
Grateful Dead
Fastbacks
Blood Thirsty Butchers
Acid Mother's Temple
Legendary Pink Dots
Andrew Liles
Nurse With Wound
Gary Numan
Rebecca Moore
Blowhole
Lois
Firehose
Hood
Steel Pole Bathtub
Dwarves
Kill Dozer
The Black Supersuckers (who became the Supersuckers)
Bratmobile
Neil Young
Allen Ginsberg
Ray Manzarek
The Mummies
The Phantom Surfers
The Beastie Boys (sucked)
Fishbone
Eugene Chadbourne
Sleater Kinney (and Heavens to Betsy & Excuse 17 their original bands who were better)
Huggy Bear
Azalia Snail
Sacharine Trust
Savage Republic
Crank Sturgeon
No Neck Blues Band
The Dickies
The Fall (big letdown, but I'd try again)
Helios Creed
John Cale (tragic letdown)
John Fahey
Lydia Lunch
The Master Musicians of Jajouka
Nice Nice
NoMeansNo
Bird Songs of the Mesozoic
Nomy Lamm
Roughage
Digital Underground
The Accused
Danzig
Gang of Four
Malfunkshun
Alice in Chains (honestly, before Facelift, they were really damn good)
Hamerbox
Helmet
Cop Shoot Cop
Miranda July
Black Anger
C-Average
Kicking Giant
Melt Banana
Swans
Violent Femmes
Donovan
Shellac
Blood Brothers
Celebration
Robert Cray
Jello Biafra
King Sunny Ade
Two Foot Flame
Thurston Moore solo
Jesus Lizard
The Chills
Eleventh Dream Day
The Thrown Ups
Los Lobos
Young Fresh Fellows
True Believers
Band of Susans
Tad
All
Bad Brains
The Gits
7 Year Bitch
Steven Jesse Bernstein
Blood Circus
Icky Joey
The Derelicts
Quasi
Tiger Trap
Janes Addiction (pre Ritual de Habitual, really quite good)
Cornershop
The Feelies
Gas Huffer
Babyland
Upright Citizens (hardcore band from Germany opening for SY in '85!)
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Team Dresch
Lisa "Suckdog" Carver (fed her dinner actually)
247 Spyz
Lunachicks
Dame Darcy
Miss Murgatroid
Baby Gramps
No Man
Tupelo Chain Sex
Imij
Christ on a Crutch
Hellcows
o.k., this has to stop...
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