Def Leppard
The Rolling Stones
Foringer
Styx
Aerosmith
Cheap Trick

metallica(1)
machine head(1)
the sword(1)
cheap trick(1)
the eagles(1)
heart(1)
journey(do not like them much anymore,they were playing with cheap trick)(1)
btw, are there any good hard rock/ metal bands on tour right now or soon that are coming near virginia? :)

Motley Crue
Velvet Revolver
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Label Society
The Melvins
Porn
Bowling For Soup
Army of Freshmen
Zebrahead
Bloodhound Gang
LostProphets
The Automatic
The Blackout
Biffy Clyro
The Matches
Blood Red Shoes
+ Loads of local Welsh bands
++ I had tickets to see +44 and White Stripes, but they cancelled tours.

Mastodon (worst show iv'e seen in awhile)

Metallica
Pearl Jam
Mastadon
The Raconteurs
Alice in Chains (without Layne Staley unfortunately)
Velvet Revolver
Deep Purple
Steppnwolf
Les Claypool
STYX
Nickelback (...ticket was free)
Chevelle
Trapt
Smashing Pumpkins
311
ZZ Top
Eric Clapton
Candlebox
Stone Temple Pilots
Every Time I Die
Chariot
Rush
Modest Mouse
Silverchair
Silversun Pickups
Dave Matthews Band
Allman Brothers
Kansas
Widespread Panic
Zappa plays Zappa
etc.

trivium
all that remains
mastodon
iron maiden
norma jean (suck)
lamb of god
chamaira or however you spell it
unearth
gwar
behemoth
as i lay dying
in flames
btbam
more........

Look, never having been insanely rich, and being something of a small time hermit, I honestly haven't been to too many shows - sometyhing about crowds, ya know? Despite my over 1000 CDs, my attendance at rock shows has been appallingly minimal...


But I will say every show I've been to has been highly enjoyable!

They have included...

R.E.M
The Church
Neil Finn / Tim Finn
Augie March
Midnight Oil
The Whitlams
Radiohead

i see you like gwar. I live 4 blocks away from the drummer. pretty awesome huh.

Smashing Pumpkins
Placebo
Iron Maiden (twice)
Metallica (twice)
Alice In Chains
Arcade Fire
Silversun Pickups
Biffy Clyro (twice)
Feeder (twice and im not ashamed)
A7X (they were a joke)
Alkaline Trio
The Zico Chain
Arctic Monkeys
The Who (legendary!!)
REM
Rage Against The Machine
Audioslave
The Strokes
Foo Fighters (twice)
Nine Inch Nails
Trivium (crap)
Lauren Harris (crap but boy is she hot)
Manu Chao (cool as ****)
The Raconteurs
The Frames
Jimmy Eat World
Queens Of The Stone Age (twice)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
PJ Harvey

... and a few more which i can't recall at the moment

Deep Purple
Thin Lizzy
Kings Of Leon
Wolfmother
Foo Fighters

at brooklyn music hall was AWESOME

dualing drummers.

is nuts aswell

Testament
Biohazard
Nuclear Assualt
Metallica
Van Halen
AC/DC
Rammstein
Korn

Blue Oyster Cult
John Mellancamp
Little Big Town
Selfish Gene

I saw the Raconteurs in summer 2006 on some festival, and I was so looking forward to it, and they sucked. Don't know, maybe it was just me

Manu Chao played there too, agree with you

damn, I want to see Pj Harvey!

I am aching to see the Church again... hope they are eventually going to tour stateside again...

I saw Manu Chao at a festival a couple of years ago, he's the ultimate festival act :D him and his band created such a great party atmosphere and went down a storm even though 95% of the crowd that saw him (including myself) hadn't a clue who he was.

Man PJ Harvey is good live, i saw her over 5 years ago and she played a lot of her classic material.

Metallica x2
Testament
Black Label Society
Down
Lamb Of God
Ozzy Osbourne
Tenacious D
HIM
Anathema
Trivium
Cancer Bats
Judas Priest
Megadeth
Jimmy Eat World
Bon Jovi
Linkin Park
Nickleback
Staind
Smashing Pumpkins
QOTSA
Alkaline Trio
In Flames

Thats all I can think of at the top of my head, there are more though.

It's hard to say which was the best, probably Down, BLS or Inflames. At Down we met Pepper Keenan, he was so sound! Trivium was surprisingly good too, but I made the mistake of wearing a corset that opened at the back, so was standing topless for alot of it. At the barrier when Matt Heafy jumped down, he just winked at me.

I was totally let down with the Pumpkins, they put NO soul in to it. You could tell a mile off they didn't want to be there. (Last time they played in Ireland some woman died in the Pitt, so they were banned playing here for 10 years or something. )

sounds good to me!
:thumb:

In 2007 I finally saw them too at a festival, and they were the last band to play on the big stage with tv broadcasting.
yeah well, but everybody seemed to have come for the second last band, so while the Smashing Pumpkins were playing, there were huge amounts of people leaving the crowd.. that was awkward and probably really strange for SP themselves, but with tv broadcasting they still had to put on a good show.
and I enjoyed the space to dance :D


you can see at the very beginning (0:08-0:13), there's a lot of space between different people, maybe it doesn't look that bad, but if you compare how fucking crowded it had been before.. well

The list is too long, so here are the highlights:

1. GTR
2. Genesis
3. Jon Anderson - Animation Tour
4. Plant/Page tour
5. Steve Hackett - 2005
6. The Boss - many times

No they weren't banned, they played the Olympia in 2000 before they split. But yeah the RDS show was a bit of a dissapointment, they were just going through the motions and Billy was up his own arse

Seen far too many, my 5 best though ---

1. Architects. Passion, energy, interaction with the audience etc etc, ****ing brilliant.

2. Gallows. Rawest and grittiest punk rock show I've been to.

3. Atreyu. Amazing live, enough said.

4. Alexisonfire. Don't even need to explain.

5. August Burns Red - same as above!

Cryptopsy (with Lord Worm mind you)
**** the Facts
Mass Grave
Archeon
Decrepit birth
Veil of maya
Throne apart
Primus
1349
Wolven Ancestry
Behemoth
Dimmu Borgir
Kataklysm
DevilDriver
Unearth
Neuraxis

Would have loved to have seen Genesis live, but I somehow feel that i might have missed that boat, unless they decide to tour at least one more time - I really should have gone out to see them in 2007 when they reformed to tour, but alas, who knows if they shall ever "turn it on again" to use a bad pun.... :-)

I saw the Swingin' Utters a couple weeks ago. They were pretty good live.

Black Sabbath (3 times, once with Dio twice with Ozzy)
Ozzy
Aerosmith
Kiss
Yngwie Malmsteen
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Iron Maiden
Arch Enemy (2 times)
Opeth
Moonspell (3 times)
In Flames
Iced Earth
Evergrey (2 times)
Children of Bodom (2 times)
Judas Priest
Lacuna Coil
Slayer
Dimmu Borgir (2 times)
Rush
Prototype
Enertia
Into Eternity (4 times)
Brainstorm
Pain of Salvation
Trans-Siberian ORchestra
GWAR
Danzig
Kataklysm (2 times)
Alabama Thunderpussy
Motley Crue
King Diamond
Behemoth
Nile
Beyond Fear
CHris Caffery (2 times)
Exciter
Soilwork
Dark Tranquillity (2 times)
Hypocrisy
Mnemic
Havochate
Russell Allen
Jacob's Dream
Siki Spacek
Trouble
Death Angel
Mors Principium Est
Raven
Evermourn
Twisted Tower Dire
Manowar
Rhapsody
Holy Hell
Accept
Axel Rudi Pell
Candlemass
Dragonforce
Edguy (3 times)
Finntroll (2 times)
Hammerfall (2 times)
Holy MOses
Kreator
Metal Church
Metalium
Morgana Lefay
Naglfar
Nightwish
Obituary
Oomph!
Sentenced
Tristania
Within Temptation
Dreamscape
DC Cooper
Stride
Orphaned LAnd (2 times)
Therion
Conception
Angra
Moonsorrow
Primordial
Thyrfing
Sonata Arctica (2 times)
Devane
Stuck Mojo
Forever Never
Vader
Amon Amarth
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
D'espairs Ray
Emperor
Fear Factory
Gamma Ray (2 times)
Lake of Tears
Michael Schenker Group
Nevermore
The Scorpions
Victory
Whitesnake
Circus Maximus
Mercenary
Freak Kitchen (2 times)
Pyramaze
Jorn
Epica
Thunderstone
Katatonia
Monsters of Japan
Sanctity (2 times)
Enslaved
Destruction
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Secret Chiefs 3
The Haunted
Scar Symmetry
Megadeth
Cheer Accident
Symphony X
Echoes of Eternity
Halcyon Way (4 times)
Cellador
Pagan's Mind
Raintime
After Forever
Threshold
Communic
Circle II Circle (2 times)
Jon Oliva's Pain
Savatage
Ensiferum
Turisas
Tyr
Eluveitie
Helloween
Manticora
Moonspell
Winds of Plague
Skeletonwitch
The Machine

Dude, thats ALOT of bands to see live.... you must have one hell of a busy live music schedule...

I try to get to as many concerts as I can.

My list of upcoming shows, if your interested:

Upcoming concerts

2/23 - Ground Zero in Spartanburg - Septic Flesh/Atrocious Abnormality/Mysteriarch/Ironside
2/24 - Orange Peel in Asheville - Satyricon/Septic Flesh
2/28 - Orange Peel in Asheville - Tesla
3/12 - Masquerade in Atlanta - Evergrey/A Lower Deep
3/21 - Orange Peel in Asheville - Soilwork/Darkane/Swallow the Sun/Warbringer
3/30 - Volume 11 in Raleigh - Tyr/Alestorm/Suidakra
4/02 - Sunrise, FL - Iron Maiden
4/04 - Masquerade in Atlanta - Destruction/Krisiun/Mantic Ritual
4/22 - The Earl in Atlanta - Acid Mothers Temple
4/23 - Ground Zero in Spartanburg - Kataklysm/Toxic Holocaust/Trap Them
4/24 - Masquerade in Atlanta - The Haunted/Nachtmystium/Kylesa/Intronaut
4/25 - The Earl in Atlanta - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
5/03 - Jaxx in West Springfield - Korpiklaani/Eluveitie/Primordial/Moonsorrow/Blackguard/Swashbuckle
5/7 - 5/9 - in Indianapolis - Templars of Doom fest
5/14 - Masquerade in Atlanta - Nightwish/Volbeat
5/15 - Orange Peel in Asheville - Kreator/Exodus/Belphegor/Warbringer/Epicurean
5/21 - in Memphis - Opeth/Enslaved
5/22 - 5/24 - Maryland Deathfest
6/16 - Swayze's in Atlanta - Ares/Xeroderma/Axial Discorrelation
6/25 - Masquerade in Atlanta - Absu/Glorior Belli/Averse Sefira/Sothis
9/09 - Center Stage in Atlanta - Mindcrime/Pagan Maximus
9/11 - Center Stage in Atlanta - Andre Matos/Royal Hunt/Sabaton/Diablo Swing Orchestra/Tomorrow's Eve/Powerquest
9/12 - Center Stage in Atlanta - Fates Warning/Brainstorm/Pagan's Mind/Orphaned Land/Circus Maximus
10/3 - Orange Peel in Asheville - Obituary/Goatwhore/Krisiun/The Berzerker/Warbringer

those must cost quite some money!
two festivals, Iron Maiden + several others.. like 300-500 bucks, right? damn!

3 fests, actually, the one at Center Stage is the ProgPowerUSA festival. One more if I can make it to Europe again this year, haven't been to a fest in Europe since I last went to Wacken in 2006.

Will be a bit expensive, but well worth it. Going to a concert is my favourite thing to do for fun.

I haven't seen too many but:
Escape the Fate (2)
30 seconds to Mars
Green Day(5)
Bring Me the Horizon
MSI
Rise Against

unfortunately ive only seen one band live. Bullet for my Valentine. They were pretty good.

'Tallica. Twice.
Machine Head
Mastadon
Cradle Of Filth. Twice
God Forbid
Soil
Arch Enemy
Iron Maiden
Stone Sour
Lacuna Coil
In Flames
Dragonforce
Tool
The New Guns 'n' Roses tribute band with Axl Rose.
Ozzy
Black Label Society

Plus a host of unnamed/unsigned metal bands over the years.

=> NIRVANA <=
Pink Floyd
Nine Inch Nails + David Bowie
Korn and Rob Zombie
Tool (2)
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Tragically Hip (3)
Nine Ich Nails 2008.....If anyone else saw this show they will know what I know

These aren't in order....Not to many but definately quality

Oh ya forgot Pantera "far beyond driven

i'v seen whitechapel (2)
iwrestledabearonce(4)
beneath the sky
rob zombie
ozzy

and local metal bands

judging from your avatar you would think MM was on the list.
Nirvana, that's something to brag about really. imo

Rush (2)
Styx
Samashing Pumpkins (96')
Collective Soul (90's)
Deftones (99')
Steely Dan
Haste The Day (5) All in Indy (1w/ Jimmy)
MATSOD
He Is Legend
The Showdown
Chiodos
Disturbed
Three Days Grace (blah)
Staind
Avenged Sevenfold
My Chemical Romance (1st Album)
The Offspring
Billy Idol
Atreyu (blah)
Killswitch Engadge

Some good bands in that there list Crash, you're makin' me quite jealous!

Damn, me too!