AeryFairy
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I've likely seen MC Lars the most times (probably between 30 and 40). Failsafe, Twin Atlantic and The Skints are all 10+. Not my most seen by far, but I've seen The Cure 3 times 
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Dedalus
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Wow - VV's music lovers are impressive! Sadly, this nerd has not racked up the number of lives shows the VV crowd has...but here are some bands / musicians that I've seen on multiple occasions:
Neil Young
The Replacements
David Bowie - (also met in person.)
Husker Du
Bruce Springsteen - (spent time backstage w/ Patty Scialfa and Clarence Clemons)
Rush
Big Country (w/Stuart Adamson)
Rolling Stones
Drive-by Truckers
The Damned
Ours (met Jimmy Gnecco backstage)
The Jayhawks
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
U2
...there are likely more but it's Monday.
Neil Young
The Replacements
David Bowie - (also met in person.)
Husker Du
Bruce Springsteen - (spent time backstage w/ Patty Scialfa
and Clarence Clemons)Rush
Big Country (w/Stuart Adamson)
Rolling Stones
Drive-by Truckers
The Damned
Ours (met Jimmy Gnecco backstage)
The Jayhawks
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
U2
...there are likely more but it's Monday.
Not my most seen by far, but I've seen The Cure 3 times
I'm jealous,
I've never seen them.
Heh, off-topic, but that name for a rock band sounds a bit ridiculous to me. Back in the day, "Husker du?" was a show on Norwegian TV featuring the kind of extremely boring and un-cool music that really old people would listen to. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course
Just saying!
Dedalus
Mercurial and fleeting
Heh, off-topic, but that name for a rock band sounds a bit ridiculous to me. Back in the day, "Husker du?" was a show on Norwegian TV featuring the kind of extremely boring and un-cool music that really old people would listen to. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course
Interesting! In these parts - that name conjures up hardcore punk rock - played at deafening volume; lots of thrashing about and shouting style vocals; no old people allowed, lol.
I had to look it up:
They owed their new name to a rather sloppy rehearsal of the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer". Unable to recall the French portions sung in the original ("qu'est-ce que c'est"), they began shouting any foreign-language terms they could remember, when someone said "Hūsker Dū?", a board game that had been popular in the 1970s. The term, without the umlauts, means "Do you remember?" in Danish and Norwegian. The group added Heavy metal umlauts to complete the name.
AeryFairy
Anachronism
I'm jealous,
They're amazing - if you ever get the chance, do it!
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Husker Du suits them somehow. Sometimes a band name seems just right to me, like The Ramones or Opeth. I couldn't imagine them being named anything else
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Now, I'm jealous. I would have loved to have seen that. I am getting to see Gojira and Devin Townsend again in February. I will get over it with another band
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I saw that. It was...a sight. It made me love him more, of course, but giant alien vagina was a bit...Devin
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Oh! I saw The Cure once. For the Wish tour. It was my first concert!
I recently looked through my envelope of concert ticket stubs and was really really sad that the venue I saw Fiona Apple at charged an additional $10 to get real tickets instead of electronic tickets, and I didn't pay the extra fee, so I don't have a stub for that show.
I recently looked through my envelope of concert ticket stubs and was really really sad that the venue I saw Fiona Apple at charged an additional $10 to get real tickets instead of electronic tickets, and I didn't pay the extra fee, so I don't have a stub for that show.
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Today's random weirdness: Dillinger Escape Plan, followed by Ravi Shankar, followed by Clint Mansell
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Elvis Costello, Midnight Oil, Red Hot Chili Peppers are amongst my favorite artists. I've been a big fan of Neil Young, too, even way back in the 70's before it was cool, when he was this weird Canadian guy with a southern drawl and one-note leads. Ska bands such as English Beat, The Specials, Selector, Sublime back in my youth.
Some great shows I've seen; Frank Zappa (amazing guitarist), Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Pat Metheny, The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo (later shortened to Oingo Boingo), Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I saw Storm Large last year and she was amazing.
Some more recent artists I like are Weezer, Ben Folds Five, Cake. Acts that currently have my attention: JD MacPherson, The Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket.
That's really just a random sampling, though. I like so many types of music and artists, I will listen to just about anything, but my preference is probably blues, roots rock, alternative/indie and anything driven by thoughtful lyrics backed with skillful guitar work and if it has keyboards I'm hooked.
Elvis Costello, Midnight Oil, Red Hot Chili Peppers are amongst my favorite artists. I've been a big fan of Neil Young, too, even way back in the 70's before it was cool, when he was this weird Canadian guy with a southern drawl and one-note leads. Ska bands such as English Beat, The Specials, Selector, Sublime back in my youth.
Some great shows I've seen; Frank Zappa (amazing guitarist), Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Pat Metheny, The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo (later shortened to Oingo Boingo), Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I saw Storm Large last year and she was amazing.
Some more recent artists I like are Weezer, Ben Folds Five, Cake. Acts that currently have my attention: JD MacPherson, The Alabama Shakes, My Morning Jacket.
That's really just a random sampling, though. I like so many types of music and artists, I will listen to just about anything, but my preference is probably blues, roots rock, alternative/indie and anything driven by thoughtful lyrics backed with skillful guitar work and if it has keyboards I'm hooked.
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Does anyone on here have preferences on how they want to hear a certain band? For me, I have to hear some artists live and the studio recordings of other artists. Gov't Mule is a band I have to hear live. I almost completely disregard their studio recordings in favor of the live ones. Anyone else do this?
Yes. This is the case for for me with Widespread Panic, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and The Roots. There is something magical about their live performances that gets lost in the studio work.
