Monday, August 10, 2009

69 Concerts

OK, here are the rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 or so artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. 

1. KISS

2. Judas Priest

3. Cheap Trick

4. Queen

5. The Rolling Stones

6. The Who

7. Rush

8. Crosby, Stills and Nash

9. Joe Walsh

10. Jon Butcher Axis

11. Stevie Nicks

12. Sparks

13. Squeeze

14. Stray Cats

15. Jetboy

16. Crash Test Dummies

17. Crowded House

18. Squirrel Nut Zippers

19. Rod Stewart

20. Robby Krieger

21. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

22. Billy Idol

23. The Cult

24. They Might Be Giants

25. NRBQ

26. Flight of the Conchords

27. Jill Sobule

28. Los Bukis

29. Burton Cummings

30. Little Feat

31. Giant

32. Kenny Loggins

33. Meatloaf

34. Right Said Fred (I know!)

35. Great Big Sea

36. Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers

37. Paul McCartney

38. The Waifs

39. Jimmy Eat World

40. Weezer

41. Dashboard Confessional'

42. The Old Ceremony

43. The B-52s

44. Beatlemania

45. T-Bone Burnett

46. Rick Springfield (don't you judge me!)

47. American Music Club

48. Nick Harper

49. The Spring Standards

50. Chris Difford

51. Aimee Mann

52. Alice Cooper

53. Stevie Wonder

54. Little Richard

55. Brian Wilson

56. Elvis Costello

57. Nick Lowe

58. Carbon Leaf

59. Southern Culture on the Skids

60. Dwight Yoakam

61. 1964

62. Blur

63. The Specials

64. New Order

65. Imelda May

66. Vintage Trouble

67. Ace Frehley

68. Iron Maiden

69. Ghost

This was my second concert, Cheap Trick. They played at the Charleston Civic Center in W.Va. My friend Ikechi and I waited outside all afternoon and managed to be in the very front. Again, this shot is without any kind of special lens. This was how close I was to the stage. This is Rick Nielson (in case you didn't know already).

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