[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

in no particular order:

Sister Nancy
Kiddus I backed by legendary China Smith
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus
Israel Vibration backed by Roots!Radics!
Sly and Robbie
Sonic Youth
Subhumans
Mary Timony
Shannon Wright
A Global Threat
The Varuckers
Queen Ifrika
Anthony B
Sizzla
Midnite
Naked Aggression
Eek-a-mouse
Gregory Isaacs
Bunny Wailer
Stephen Marley
Ziggy Marley
Damien Marley
Culture
Morgan Heritage
The Itals
Groundation
Don Carlos
Deftones
Toots and Maytals [well only Toots but it was billed as Toots and Maytals]
The Grouch feat Zion-I
Pato Banton
the Gladiators
Steel Pulse
the Abyssinians
Easy-Star All-stars do Radiodread

[terminal pharmacy]

not a chance of me remebering the gigs ive been to in the past 20 odd years

[atsonicpark]

Haha. Jesus. Uh... "Everybody you can think of."

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Haha. Jesus. Uh... "Everybody you can think of."

list em.

[atsonicpark]

At the top of my head and I know I will forget a bunch... and I've forgotten the names of lots of opening acts, but... melt banana, xbxrx (two times), ghost mice, racebannon (four times), shellac, deftones, coal chamber, ozzy osbourne, islands, q and not u, puppy vs dyslexia (two times), mecca normal, mindless self indulgence, sump pumps, el guapo, phoenix bodies, ultra dophins, daughters, the locust, filter, rancid, tub ring, copycat massacre (six times), the ghost, mt st helens, for the birds, brick layer cake, lollipop lust kill (ick), hair police, strikeforce diablo, idiot flesh, dillinger escape plan, unicorns, xiu xiu (two times), make believe, end, black moth super rainbow, tod, the alien dead (five times), body soil, this bike is a pipe bomb, maps and atlases, tool, necrophagist, mae, red wizard, roxanne jean polise (twice), yellow swans, busdriver, mud kids, mahjongg, los gates negros, death kill, lenore syndrome (three times), when sparks fly, bleach, we quit, civil hands, role reversal, element x, sunset rubdown (ick), sleepy time gorilla museum, hentai lacerator......

That's all I can think of at the moment but there's more...

[Dead-Air]

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...

[Everyneurotic]

gawd, first one was bon jovi, last one xanopticon. you fill in the ones in between.

[Pookie]

I like the first and last idea better.

Big Country.................................Nurse With Wound

[✌➬]

Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth(DN tour)
Thurston Moore.

[fugazifan]

im not going to list local bands only international

om
electric masada
peter brotzmann X2
eddie prevost + john butcher
blood stereo
machinefabrik
sonic youth
the stooges
melvins
porn
big buisness
sleater kinney
wooden wand
thurston moore
bark haze
whirlwind heat
BYOP
flaming lips
deerhoof
animal collective
eric copeland
pearl jam X 2
my morning jacket
X
rollins band
faust
(tonight im seeing aids wolf)
lightning bolt
de la soul

i think there is more, but im not sure....

[Cantankerous]

okay ill try

sonic youth a bunch of times
iggy/stooges
dinosaur jr
patti smith
sebadoh
animal collective
flaming lips
scratch acid
MIA
roger waters
spiritualized
madonna (i witnessed her get hit in the face with a water bottle and nearly pissed myself)
silversun pickups
white stripes
man or astro man?
big black
shellac
cocorosie
black rebel motorcycle club
brian jonestown massacre
the duke spirit
the rolling stones
bob dylan
jarvis cocker
bjork
blonde redhead
ghostface killah
cat power
jackie o motherfucker
devendra banhart
deerhoof
jesus and mary chain
roky erickson and the explosives
happy mondays
giant drag
yeah yeah yeahs
bardo pond
swervedriver
portishead
prince
aphex twin
the verve
akron/family
neil young
uffie
beastie boys
radiohead
nine inch nails
the distillers (a very long time ago when i was just a mere slip of a girl)
goldfrapp


that was what i could rattle off the top of my head, there are more.

[uhler]

first and last

fugazi----cat power (last october)

[Death & the Maiden]

Sonic Youth
The Scientists
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Ghostwood
The Rakes

I've only been to two concerts.

[stu666]

all i can think of:

Babes In Toyland
Bivouac
Breeders
Credit To The Nation
Die Cheerleader
Dinosaur Jr
Heather Leigh Murray
Hush Arbors
Jesus Lizard
Madder Rose
Mambo Taxi
Sonic Youth
Therapy?
Thurston Moore
The Wedding Present
Trumans Water
Voodoo Queens

probably a few more i've forgoten about

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by stu666

Bivouac
Credit To The Nation
Die Cheerleader
Mambo Taxi
Voodoo Queens

There are some bands from my past you don't hear about much these days. And quite rightly so.

[copper]

mudhoney
motorhead (lol)
bob dylan
tall firs
underground railroad
shellac (twice!!!!)
allroh
iron & wine
a place to bury strangers
sunset rubdown
calexico
paul weller
motorpsycho
ryan adams
dinosaur jr
battles
sonic youth
black rebel motorcycle club
buffalo tom
patti smith
a silver mt zion
vic chessnut
soko
jesu
sun o)))
the ex
dream/aktion unit w/ thurston moore


there are more of which i can't remember, gonna see black rebel motorcycle club again in about a week, deerhunter in july and also neil young in july and calexico again in october.

[copper]

Originally Posted by Cantankerous

swervedriver

reunion show?

how was itttttt?

[davenotdead]

animal collective
battles
SY
white rainbow
atlas sound
valet
be your own pet
cat power
joanna newsom
dark meat

snuck into a festival in ausstralia where i saw arctic monkeys and bloc party briefly, and many many hot and illegal aussie ass

[Cantankerous]

Originally Posted by copper

reunion show?

how was itttttt?

eh. it was ok.

oh yeah i forgot: cb's last show ever! with all the old punks, patti smith and t.v. etc
now there's a sign on the awning that says SPACE AVAILABLE and it's really sad.

[hat and bread]

abridged...

Mike Watt ( @ the Engine Room in Houston. Probably 2000ish. This was the first show I ever went to on my own. Funny thing: a then completely unknown band called Hella opened the show. I think there were only about 7 or 8 other people in the audience at the time. I bought their first CD-R which came wrapped in Kodak photo paper with number stickers stuck on it. I wonder if it's worth any $$$ now? )

Skip eight or so years...

LSD March a few weeks ago.
On Monday maybe this:
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER
Jim O'Rourke Vs. Merzbow
Vampillia with Tujiko Noriko