How many concerts have you been to?

I started a similar thread in another forum last year and the "Best band ever?" thread got me thinking about it again. It's clear that there are a lot of music fans here and we seem to fall into a relatively tight age range compared to the other forum which had an older crowd so I am curious about how many avid concert-goers we have here.

I went to my first concert in 3rd grade (Rod Stewart) and have kept the trend going ever since. One of the best stories was when I was in 4th grade and I went to the nurses office because I was falling asleep in class. She said "Why are you so tired? Are you having trouble sleeping?" and I replied, "I was at an Aerosmith concert last night and I didn't get home until 2am..." She didn't really know what to say.

I'm 29 and here's my list of all I can recall at this point:

*=best live shows

# Artist
3 311*
5 30 Seconds To Mars
1 A Tribe Called Quest
1 Action Action
1 Aerosmith
2 AFI
2 Aiden
1 Alexisonfire
1 Alien Ant Farm
2 Alkaline Trio
2 All-American Rejects
2 Anberlin
2 Armor For Sleep
1 Atari Teenage Riot
3 Atreyu
1 Avenge Sevenfold
1 Bayside
1 Beastie Boys
1 Biz Markee
1 Bon Jovi
1 Brand New
3 Circa Survive
1 Cobra Starship
1 Dashboard Confessional
1 Dave Matthews Band
1 Dropkick Murphy's
1 From Autumn To Ashes
1 From First To Last
2 Funeral For A Friend
1 G Love & Special Sauce
1 Genesis
1 Hatebreed
2 Hawthorne Heights
2 He Is Legend
2 Head Automatica
1 HIM
1 International Noise Conspiracy
1 It Dies Today
1 Jackal
1 Jethro Tull
1 Jimmy Eat World
1 June
1 Killswitch Engage
1 Korn
1 Lunachicks
5 Men, Women, & Children*
1 Method Man
1 Morning Wood
1 Motion City Soundtrack
1 Mute Math
3 My Chemical Romance
1 No Doubt
1 OAR
1 Paramore
1 Placebo
1 Radio 4
1 Rage Against The Machine
1 Rise Against
1 Rod Stewart
1 Run DMC
3 Saosin
1 Saves The Day
2 Senses Fail
1 She Wants Revenge
1 Shooty's Groove
3 Silverstein
1 Slightly Stoopid
1 Spitalfield
2 Story Of The Year
2 Street Drum Corps
1 Stretch Armstrong
5 Taking Back Sunday*
1 Talib Kweli
1 The Almost
2 The Bled
2 The Bravery
1 The Bronx
2 The Format
1 The Honorary Title
1 The Offspring
1 The Pink Spiders
2 The Prodigy*
1 The Receiving End Of Sirens
1 The Rolling Stones
2 The Starting Line
2 The Used*
1 The Vandals
2 Thrice
1 Thursday
1 Tokyo Rose
2 Underoath
1 Vanilla Ice
1 Warped Tour
1 Wu-Tang Clan
1 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1 Young Love
141

The hands-down best show was Prodigy. Nothing even comes close.

OMG!!!!!!!!

The majority of these were over about 2 years... I also haven't been to a show in over 6 months but at times would go to more than a dozen in a month.

...that's one heck of a list an in alpha order to.

and i second that, Prodigy FTW Massively, love those freaks.

I'm only 22 but let's see if i can give you a run for your money :fighting0030:

6 A Static Lullaby
4 Alexisonfire*
1 America
3 Anberlin
1 Avenged Sevenfold
3 Bayside
1 Beach Boys
1 Bela Fleck and The Flecktones
1 Biffy Clyro
3 Carboard City (it's like the same 3 or 4 groups who always tour with each other)
3 Circa Survive
3 Codeseven*
7 Coheed and Cambria
1 Days Away
1 Drawn From Endings
1 Evergreen Terrace
1 Finch
7 From Autumn to Ashes
2 Funeral For a Friend
2 Glassjaw***
2 Goldfinger
1 Greely Estates
1 Gym Class Heroes
2 Head Automatica
2 Hawthorne Heights (2 too many times. Ugh)
1 House of Blow
1 Manchester Orchestra
1 Minus The Bear
4 Moneen
1 NOFX
2 NORA
3 Park
1 Portugal The Man
1 Saosin
6 Saves The Day
2 Say Anything
2 Scary Kids Scaring Kids
3 Senses Fail
3 SGT
3 Silverstein
2 Snapcase
1 The Almost
2 The Chariot
3 The Early November
2 The Honorary Title
1 The Sleeping
1 The Starting Line
1 The Toasters
3 Thursday
1 Tokyo Rose
2 Yes

I'm racking my brain trying to think of more. I'll check ticket stubs when i get home :thumbsup:
Edited for remembering some more. Alos, OP, i'm incredibly surprised over the similarity of bands we've seen lol. I've probably seen you at a couple of shows. Between NYC and Long Island there are always good shows.

smashingpimp01 said:

I'm only 22 but let's see if i can give you a run for your money :fighting0030:

6 A Static Lullaby
1 America
3 Anberlin
1 Avenged Sevenfold
1 Beach Boys
1 Biffy Clyro
3 Circa Survive
3 Codeseven
7 Coheed and Cambria
1 Days Away
1 Drawn From Endings
1 Evergreen Terrace
1 Finch
7 From Autumn to Ashes
2 Funeral For a Friend
2 Glassjaw
2 Goldfinger
1 Greely Estates
1 Gym Class Heroes
2 Head Automatica
1 House of Blow
1 Manchester Orchestra
4 Moneen
1 NOFX
2 NORA
3 Park
1 Saosin
6 Saves The Day
2 Say Anything
2 Scary Kids Scaring Kids
3 Senses Fail
3 Silverstein
2 Snapcase
2 The Chariot
3 The Early November
2 The Honorary Title
1 The Toasters
1 Tokyo Rose
2 Yes

I'm racking my brain trying to think of more. I'll check ticket stubs when i get home :thumbsup:

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Wow, looks like we have VERY similar taste in music. Seems like we may have been at a few of the same shows as well. I have been dying to see SKSK and Coheed and Cambria but my girlfriend doesn't dig most of my music and none of my friends do either... I'm not about to go to shows solo.

man im jealous. i really dont like huge shows but both of your lists sound awesome.

Anyone going to (ACL) Austin City Limits Fest later on this month?

KingOfJericho said:

Wow, looks like we have VERY similar taste in music. Seems like we may have been at a few of the same shows as well. I have been dying to see SKSK and Coheed and Cambria but my girlfriend doesn't dig most of my music and none of my friends do either... I'm not about to go to shows solo.

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SKSK puts on a great show. One of the few bands i've seen that can scream just as well in live as they can on the cd. The guy from Senses Fail can't scream at all in concert. He' sings all the singing parts. I remember seeing them for the first time and they started playing Angela Baker and my Obsession with Fire and i got pumped for that opening scream and the freakin guy just sang it instead of screaming. I was pissed lol.
Coheed puts on an amazing show too. They're fantastic. I'm pumped cause next month i'm seeing them 5 times lol. I got tickets for their show at Terminal 5 and i'm so excited.
Wed - Second Stage Turbine
Thurs - In Keeping Secrets
Friday - Good Appollo
Saturday - Acoustic Show and Then later Sat Night No World For Tomorrow
That should be awesome. It sold out in minutes but i got tickets for me and my friend. Each night they're doing an album in its entirety.

25+ Slow Gherkin (local band with weekly shows)
2 Saves the Day
1 Goldfinger
1 Save Ferris
4 Lets Go Bowling
2 Rx Bandits
2 Alkaline Trio
1 Jimmy Eat World
10+ Sneaky Creekans (Local Band)
1 Lagwagon
1 Suicide Machines
1 Paul McCartney
1 Billy Joel
1 Flogging Molly
1 Rise Against
1 Norton Buffalo
1 The Aquabats
1 MXPX
1 Mustard Plug
1 Unwritten Law
1 MU330
1 No Use for a Name
1 Strung Out
5 Craig's Brother
3 300 pounds
8 The Woodsmen

I know there is more, I'll add to it when I wake up more.

I must have seen the dead several hundred times over the course of 5 years back in the day, Rush about 100, Yes and Led Zeppelin ~50. At least 1000 other quality and non quality bands back in the day as I used to be in the music business. I would see at least 15 bands a week when I was really in the scene.

Now, not so much as I have a wife and kid. Last band was Junky.

I would love to have a job in the music industry. I'd make a kick ass scout i think. I love going to shows and placing bets on what bands make it and stuff.
Any tips on how to break into that??? :wub:

I see at least one show weekly... since I work them lol

Perks of the job i guess

havent been to concerts lately but Ive seen:

H.I.M
Zion I
Kottonmouth Kings
Gavin DeGraw
311
Kanye West
Benny Benassi
Cedric Gervais.

I've been to so many shows, that I can't count them honestly. Just between the festivals like Woodstock 99 and Lolapalooza and warped tour, Ozzfest, there would be a couple hundred bands. I'm 35, and have been going to concerts since I was a little kid (both parents are also musicians). So yeah, somewhere in the thousands I'm sure.
The last show I went to was a week ago... new band called Innerpartysystem. If you haven't seen/heard them, do it now...one of the best live shows I've seen in a looooong time. Very professional for a new band.
Here's one of their videos.