Concerts

Damn, that sounds awesome. I saw Waylon, Willie, and David Allan Coe around that time.
One of the best I saw was Ziggy Marley in a ballroom in one of the casinos in AC for his Dragon Fly tour. There was only like a couple hundred people there sitting on the floor. I was right up front. It was like seeing Bob reincarnate. Surreal.
I've seen the Allman Brothers a lot but I regret never seeing them with Duane still alive.
Could you imagine seeing Duane and Eric Clapton playing together with Derek and Dominos? That woulda been something.

 

A few memorable ones, mostly 1980s:

Husker Du
Buzzcocks (these guys were so fun)
Meat Puppets
Pixies
TSOL
Ramones
Circle Jerks
Dinosaur Jr. Tiny club, mind blowing volume. Parts of my ears i didnt know existed were vibrating
Pretenders
The Cult
Lush (Amazing - chicks playing 12 string Rickenbackers VERY loud)
Zappa (he must have been having an off night - seemed pissed off and bored)
Stranglers
Janes Addiction
Lou Reed
Guided by Voices - Sam @ Dogfish is a GBV fan and brought them to little Milton Delaware for a show.

 

Good treade. This is all I can think of off the top of my head and by going through my collection. There's actually a lot more. X is for bands I've seen more than once, in some cases multiple times. H is for ones that by some strange twist of fate I got to meet and in some cases I ended up hanging out with. I'm no fanboy, it just seemed to work out like that sometimes. Not listed is probably an equal number of local bands I've seen and in a lot of cases played with. In no particular order...

And for the guys that got to see Led Zep, esp. in their prime...despite all the great music I've been lucky enough to see, I'm jealous. Jimmy Page is the reason I picked up a guitar in the first place.

ACDC
Motley Crue
GnR
Van Halen
Scorpions
The Cult
Ratt
Dokken
Queensryche


Pink Floyd
Stones
The Who
Grateful Dead (too many times to count)
Allman Brothers x
Eric Clapton

REM
U2
The Cure
Korn
Pearl Jam x
Soundgarden x
Queens of the Stone Age
All the early lollapaloozas
Jane's Addiction x
Siouxsie and the Banshee x
NIN x
Ministry
Mr Bungle x
Fantomas
Jesus Lizard xH
Melvins x

Metallica x
Motorhead x
Iron Maiden
Rage Against The Machine
Lacuna Coil
The Sword x
COC xH
Pantera
Mastodon x
Ozzy
Black Sabbath x
Zakk Wylde\Black Label Society
White Zombie
Rob Zombie x
Dillinger Escape Plan
Ozzfest multiple times
Slayer (had all access backstage passes once) xH
Tool x

Clutch (+20 times) xH
System of Down xH
The Black Keys
The Reverend Horton Heat
Alabama Thunder*****
Helmet xH
Fishbone
Stone Temple Pilots
Incubus
Primus xH
Sausage
Gogol Bordello
Secret Cheifs
Porno for Pyros
Dinosaur Jr.
The Cult
The Church

The Presidents of the United States of America (first show they ever played, it was done as a joke,
they never meant it to be anything more than one show)
Cypress Hill
Public Enemy
Ice T
Ice T and Body Count
Snoop Dogg
Tribe Called Quest
Beastie Boys

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Squirrel Nut Zippers

Blind Melon
Phish x
Widespread Panic xH
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit
Eddie Brickell and the New Bohemians

Violent Femmes
Social Distortion
NOFX
Rancid
Suicidal Tendencies
Bad Religion
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Pixies
Circle Jerks
Butthole Surfers
Alice Donut
Rollins Band xH

Hank Williams Jr
Hank Williams III


What can I say, I like music...

 

There were some other big names performing that night. Can't recall them all. Don't know how the ship pulled them all together for one concert. One heck of a show. That was my last month in the Navy.
[video=youtube;NyAtSpdv630]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyAtSpdv630[/video]

 

Dinosaur Jr.
April 1 8:30 pm Cat’s Cradle: Great Small Club. Just saw GBV there.

It's a Saturday, too. Any takers in the greater Raleigh/Durham area??

 

Tight, I like them but haven't seen them live before.

 

The best live bands I've seen: Pink Floyd, Beastie Boys, The Avett Brothers, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, Neil Young, Guns and Roses, Metallica, TOOL, Elton John, Tom Petty, Radiohead, Meshuggah, Prince, Van Halen, Tom Waits

Crazy shows I've attended: Pantera, Wu Tang, Dying Fetus, Suffocation, Terror, Manson, Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, Run the Jewels, Gwar, Melvins, Limp Bizkit, Ramones, Fu Manchu, Suicidal Tendencies, Dillinger Escape Plan

Bands I've seen the most: Between the Buried and me, System of a Down, CLUTCH, Mastodon, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Periphery, The Smashing Pumpkins, 311, Tesla, Shadows Fall, Hatebreed, DOWN, C.O.C., Deftones, Steve Miller Band, Hank Jr, The Allman Brothers, The Ocean, Nothingface, Better than Ezra

Worst bands I've seen: Job for a Cowboy, Avenged Sevenfold, Dog Fashion Disco, Fear Factory, Spin Doctors, Powerman 5000, Crazy Town, Creed, Good Charlotte, Hootie and the Blowfish, Black Eyed Peas, 5 Finger Death Punch, Dave Matthews Band