bands i've seen play live...
This was originally the "50 Bands" note that was going around on Facebook a few years ago... the instructions were to list the first 50 bands you remember seeing play live... It has turned into a list of all of the bands I remember seeing play live. I think at some point I had a list, but must have lost it in one of my many moves. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but here's what I remember... I'm just recording it here for my own memories...
Sleater-Kinney (Fillmore Philadelphia 2019 with antares93)
Tori Amos (Tower Theater, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Christian Death (Trocadero, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Thurston Moore (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Mike Watt (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Meat Puppets (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Stiff Little Fingers (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Muse (Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia 2013 - with antares93)
Thirty Seconds to Mars (with Muse, Wells Fargo Center, Philly)
Peter Murphy (Keswick in PA; Trocadero Philly 2013; Trocadero Philly 2014)
Peter Murphy & David J. (Union Transfer in Philadelphia 2019)
English Beat (2013, World Cafe Live, Wilmington, Delaware)
Big Country (2013, at The Note in West Chester, PA)
John & Brittany (2013, at The Note in West Chester, PA - opened for Big Country)
Dead Can Dance (2012, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia)
X (Riot Fest 2011, Keswick 2013; Underground Arts 2017)
Seven Seconds (Riot Fest 2011)
Descendents (Riot Fest 2011)
Hot Water Music (Riot Fest 2011)
Samiam (Riot Fest 2011)
Menzingers (Riot Fest 2011)
Naked Raygun (Riot Fest 2011)
Suicide Machines (twice: warped tour 2000 & riot fest 2011 @ The Festival Pier, both in Philadelphia)
Ke$ha (Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing, Philadelphia; Golden Nugget, Atlantic City; Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA; BB&T Pavilion, Philadelphia)
Pitbull (with Ke$ha @ Golden Nugget)
LMFAO (with Ke$ha @ the Festival Pier)
Semi Precious Weapons (with Ke$ha @ Musikfest, Bethlehem)
Gene Loves Jezebel (three times - at the Note in West Chester, PA, at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia & at the Airport Music Hall in Allentown, PA)
The Residents (World Cafe Live in Philadelphia - with antares93; NYC with katey501)
The Swans (at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA with Monika)
GBH (The Note in West Chester, PA with Monika)
Outernational (opened for GBH a The Note in West Chester, PA)
Sleep Chamber (at the Rat in Boston with Kelly Makros)
Patti Smith (the Trocadero in Philadelphia - with alycia)
Blondie (the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia - with alycia; Keswick 2013 with Monika)
Debbie Harry (solo tour - Tower Theatre, Philadelphia)
The Cramps (The Ritz NYC, Warfield in SF & Newport Music Hall in Ohio)
Chrome & Helios Creed (Philadelphia M-Room; Philadelphia Kung Fu Necktie 2018)
Marc Almond (Trocadero in Philadelphia - with alycia)
Sonic Youth (Tower Theatre in Philly & Lollapalooza in Columbus, Ohio)
The Pretenders (Wilmington, Delaware with Monika)
Crime and the City Solution (Revival in Philadelphia)
Sisters of Mercy (Philadelphia Trocadero)
Alien Sex Fiend (Revival in Philadelphia)
Psychic TV (six times: Great American Music Hall in SF & Ritz in NYC & Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia & Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh & Boot & Saddle in Philadelphia & Rubin Museum in NYC, Boot & Saddle again)
the Cult (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia)
Divinyls (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA - opened for The Cult)
New Order (twice - UPenn & Mann Music Center Philadelphia)
Echo and the Bunnymen (Mann Music Center Philadelphia; Mann Music Center again in 2017)
The Alarm (Tower Theatre Philadelphia; Queens World Cafe Live Wilmington, DE)
The Cure (3 times, The Tower Theatre, the Spectrum, and then again at the Spectrum, all in Philadelphia)
Tom Tom Club (Tower Theatre, Philadelphia)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Lolapalooza Philadelphia; Electric Factory Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
L7 (Four times: Lolapalooza Philly, Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio & the Trocadero in San Francisco, CA; Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA 2018)
Legendary Pink Dots (in San Francisco, I think it was at the Trocadero)
Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone (in San Francisco at the Trocadero)
Nina Hagen (in SF at DNA Lounge with Monika)
Godfathers (at the Owl's Nest at Temple University, Philadelphia)
Thrill Kill Kult (The Ritz in NYC, Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio & SF)
Revolting Cocks (NYC The Ritz)
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel (The Philadelphia Trocadero)
Social Distortion (a few times, at the Trocadero in Philadelphia)
Henry Rollins (twice - Jams in Reading, PA & the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Dead Milkmen (three times - Jams in Reading, PA & the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA, Riot Fest 2011 at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia, PA, maybe more but I can't remember)
Moby (the Warfield in SF)
Traci Lords (dj tour with Moby at the Warfield in SF)
Hole (twice in Ohio - Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH and Lolapalooza)
Lords of Acid (Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio; Trocadero, Philadelphia PA 2017)
KMFDM (the Ritz NYC; Underground Arts Philadelphia 2017)
ohGr (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017)
Skinny Puppy (I've seem them more times than I can count - about 5? I saw them at Trenton City Gardens, the Trocadero in Philadelphia and the Ritz in NYC. I think I saw them at the Troc multiple times.)
Nine Inch Nails (They opened for Skinny Puppy at Trenton City Gardens)
Jane's Addiction (twice - Trenton City Gardens & TLA Philadelphia)
Clan of Xymox (TLA Philadelphia)
Pop Will Eat Itself (TLA Philadelphia)
Butthole Surfers (Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia)
Frontline Assembly (The Ritz NYC)
Controlled Bleeding (twice? NYC & The Trocadero in Philly?)
MC 900 ft. Jesus (twice? NYC & Trocadero in Philly?)
Ministry (NYC Ritz circa 1990 and the TLA in Philadelphia in 2015 with Monika)
Laibach (TLA Philadelphia 2015 with Monika)
Orbit (in SF, I think they opened for L7)
Berlin (4 times - Allentown Fairgrounds, Mann Music Center, Elizabethtown & the 10! show)
Thompson Twins (3 times? - all in PA - The Allentown Fairgrounds, the Spectrum and once more, I think... not sure where... )
Einstürzende Neubauten (Trocadero in Philadelphia)
Babes in Toyland (in some kind of parking lot converted into a concert area in San Francisco)
Frank Zappa (the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Violent Femmes (Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio; Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA with antares93)
'Til Tuesday (Mann Music Center PA)
Behemoth (Ozfest in Camdem, NJ)
Ozzy Osbourne (Ozfest in Camdem, NJ)
Cranberries (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Diamanda Galas (Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania, PHiladelphia, PA)
Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones (in Columbus, Ohio)
Laurie Anderson (Annenberg Center, UPenn, Philadelphia)
Cocteau Twins (Keswick, PA)
Hooters (opened for The Alarm at the Tower Theatre)
OMD (They opened for the Thompson Twins at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA)
Culture Club (Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)
Curve (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Lush (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Marilyn Manson (the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA)
the Breeders (at Lolapalooza Philadelphia)
the Mission UK (at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA - am I right about this?)
Moev (TLA Philadelphia, with Clan of Xymox)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (twice @ Temple University Spring Fling)
Fishbone (w/ chili peppers @ Temple U)
Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet (Khyber Pass, Philadelphia)
the Fleshtones (@ the Owl's Next at Temple University)
R.E.M. (The Spectrum in Philadelphia)
Melissa Etheridge (Columbus, Ohio)
Supernova (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Dilana (Spectrum Philadelphia)
The Panic Channel (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Seven Year Bitch (Great American Music Hall in SF)
Pansy Division (Great American Music Hall in SF)
the Fall (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Sinead O'Connor (Lollapalooza Ohio)
Riverside (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA with Megan)
Ocean Blue (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA with Megan)
Power Station (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Stone Temple Pilots (Mann Music Center in Philadelphia)
the Muffs (warped tour 2000)
Anti-Flag (warped tour 2000)
Green Day (warped tour 2000)
Static X (ozfest)
the Pogues (opened for PWEI at the TLA?)
Meat Beat Manifesto (twice? once at the Ritz in NYC, once at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA)
Nitzer Ebb (Trenton City Gardens)
Current 93 (touring as Soft Black Stars, NYC)
GWAR (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
That Petrol Emotion (TLA, Philadelphia - I think they opened for someone, but I'm not sure... maybe The The?)
The The (TLA)
Here are the Facts You Requested (twice in SF)
National Wrecking Company (JC Dobbs in Philly)
Albannach (Celtic Fling 2017; Celtic Fling 2018; Pennsylvania Rennaisance Faire Halloween 2017)
Kilmaine Saints (Celtic Fling 2018)
The Town Pants (Celtic Fling 2018)
Enter the Haggis (Celtic Fling 2018)
Kid Congo Powers (Boot & Saddle Philadelphia 2018)
PS. I just noticed I apparently already posted this on LJ in Jan. 2014... but this list is more up to date.
Sleater-Kinney (Fillmore Philadelphia 2019 with antares93)
Tori Amos (Tower Theater, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Christian Death (Trocadero, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Thurston Moore (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Mike Watt (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Meat Puppets (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Stiff Little Fingers (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
Muse (Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia 2013 - with antares93)
Thirty Seconds to Mars (with Muse, Wells Fargo Center, Philly)
Peter Murphy (Keswick in PA; Trocadero Philly 2013; Trocadero Philly 2014)
Peter Murphy & David J. (Union Transfer in Philadelphia 2019)
English Beat (2013, World Cafe Live, Wilmington, Delaware)
Big Country (2013, at The Note in West Chester, PA)
John & Brittany (2013, at The Note in West Chester, PA - opened for Big Country)
Dead Can Dance (2012, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia)
X (Riot Fest 2011, Keswick 2013; Underground Arts 2017)
Seven Seconds (Riot Fest 2011)
Descendents (Riot Fest 2011)
Hot Water Music (Riot Fest 2011)
Samiam (Riot Fest 2011)
Menzingers (Riot Fest 2011)
Naked Raygun (Riot Fest 2011)
Suicide Machines (twice: warped tour 2000 & riot fest 2011 @ The Festival Pier, both in Philadelphia)
Ke$ha (Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing, Philadelphia; Golden Nugget, Atlantic City; Musikfest, Bethlehem, PA; BB&T Pavilion, Philadelphia)
Pitbull (with Ke$ha @ Golden Nugget)
LMFAO (with Ke$ha @ the Festival Pier)
Semi Precious Weapons (with Ke$ha @ Musikfest, Bethlehem)
Gene Loves Jezebel (three times - at the Note in West Chester, PA, at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia & at the Airport Music Hall in Allentown, PA)
The Residents (World Cafe Live in Philadelphia - with antares93; NYC with katey501)
The Swans (at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA with Monika)
GBH (The Note in West Chester, PA with Monika)
Outernational (opened for GBH a The Note in West Chester, PA)
Sleep Chamber (at the Rat in Boston with Kelly Makros)
Patti Smith (the Trocadero in Philadelphia - with alycia)
Blondie (the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia - with alycia; Keswick 2013 with Monika)
Debbie Harry (solo tour - Tower Theatre, Philadelphia)
The Cramps (The Ritz NYC, Warfield in SF & Newport Music Hall in Ohio)
Chrome & Helios Creed (Philadelphia M-Room; Philadelphia Kung Fu Necktie 2018)
Marc Almond (Trocadero in Philadelphia - with alycia)
Sonic Youth (Tower Theatre in Philly & Lollapalooza in Columbus, Ohio)
The Pretenders (Wilmington, Delaware with Monika)
Crime and the City Solution (Revival in Philadelphia)
Sisters of Mercy (Philadelphia Trocadero)
Alien Sex Fiend (Revival in Philadelphia)
Psychic TV (six times: Great American Music Hall in SF & Ritz in NYC & Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia & Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh & Boot & Saddle in Philadelphia & Rubin Museum in NYC, Boot & Saddle again)
the Cult (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia)
Divinyls (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA - opened for The Cult)
New Order (twice - UPenn & Mann Music Center Philadelphia)
Echo and the Bunnymen (Mann Music Center Philadelphia; Mann Music Center again in 2017)
The Alarm (Tower Theatre Philadelphia; Queens World Cafe Live Wilmington, DE)
The Cure (3 times, The Tower Theatre, the Spectrum, and then again at the Spectrum, all in Philadelphia)
Tom Tom Club (Tower Theatre, Philadelphia)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Lolapalooza Philadelphia; Electric Factory Philadelphia 2017 with antares93)
L7 (Four times: Lolapalooza Philly, Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio & the Trocadero in San Francisco, CA; Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA 2018)
Legendary Pink Dots (in San Francisco, I think it was at the Trocadero)
Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone (in San Francisco at the Trocadero)
Nina Hagen (in SF at DNA Lounge with Monika)
Godfathers (at the Owl's Nest at Temple University, Philadelphia)
Thrill Kill Kult (The Ritz in NYC, Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio & SF)
Revolting Cocks (NYC The Ritz)
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel (The Philadelphia Trocadero)
Social Distortion (a few times, at the Trocadero in Philadelphia)
Henry Rollins (twice - Jams in Reading, PA & the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Dead Milkmen (three times - Jams in Reading, PA & the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA, Riot Fest 2011 at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia, PA, maybe more but I can't remember)
Moby (the Warfield in SF)
Traci Lords (dj tour with Moby at the Warfield in SF)
Hole (twice in Ohio - Newport Music Hall, Columbus, OH and Lolapalooza)
Lords of Acid (Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio; Trocadero, Philadelphia PA 2017)
KMFDM (the Ritz NYC; Underground Arts Philadelphia 2017)
ohGr (Underground Arts, Philadelphia 2017)
Skinny Puppy (I've seem them more times than I can count - about 5? I saw them at Trenton City Gardens, the Trocadero in Philadelphia and the Ritz in NYC. I think I saw them at the Troc multiple times.)
Nine Inch Nails (They opened for Skinny Puppy at Trenton City Gardens)
Jane's Addiction (twice - Trenton City Gardens & TLA Philadelphia)
Clan of Xymox (TLA Philadelphia)
Pop Will Eat Itself (TLA Philadelphia)
Butthole Surfers (Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia)
Frontline Assembly (The Ritz NYC)
Controlled Bleeding (twice? NYC & The Trocadero in Philly?)
MC 900 ft. Jesus (twice? NYC & Trocadero in Philly?)
Ministry (NYC Ritz circa 1990 and the TLA in Philadelphia in 2015 with Monika)
Laibach (TLA Philadelphia 2015 with Monika)
Orbit (in SF, I think they opened for L7)
Berlin (4 times - Allentown Fairgrounds, Mann Music Center, Elizabethtown & the 10! show)
Thompson Twins (3 times? - all in PA - The Allentown Fairgrounds, the Spectrum and once more, I think... not sure where... )
Einstürzende Neubauten (Trocadero in Philadelphia)
Babes in Toyland (in some kind of parking lot converted into a concert area in San Francisco)
Frank Zappa (the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Violent Femmes (Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio; Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, PA with antares93)
'Til Tuesday (Mann Music Center PA)
Behemoth (Ozfest in Camdem, NJ)
Ozzy Osbourne (Ozfest in Camdem, NJ)
Cranberries (Tower Theatre in Philadelphia, PA)
Diamanda Galas (Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania, PHiladelphia, PA)
Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones (in Columbus, Ohio)
Laurie Anderson (Annenberg Center, UPenn, Philadelphia)
Cocteau Twins (Keswick, PA)
Hooters (opened for The Alarm at the Tower Theatre)
OMD (They opened for the Thompson Twins at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA)
Culture Club (Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)
Curve (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Lush (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Marilyn Manson (the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA)
the Breeders (at Lolapalooza Philadelphia)
the Mission UK (at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA - am I right about this?)
Moev (TLA Philadelphia, with Clan of Xymox)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (twice @ Temple University Spring Fling)
Fishbone (w/ chili peppers @ Temple U)
Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet (Khyber Pass, Philadelphia)
the Fleshtones (@ the Owl's Next at Temple University)
R.E.M. (The Spectrum in Philadelphia)
Melissa Etheridge (Columbus, Ohio)
Supernova (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Dilana (Spectrum Philadelphia)
The Panic Channel (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Seven Year Bitch (Great American Music Hall in SF)
Pansy Division (Great American Music Hall in SF)
the Fall (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
Sinead O'Connor (Lollapalooza Ohio)
Riverside (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA with Megan)
Ocean Blue (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA with Megan)
Power Station (Spectrum Philadelphia)
Stone Temple Pilots (Mann Music Center in Philadelphia)
the Muffs (warped tour 2000)
Anti-Flag (warped tour 2000)
Green Day (warped tour 2000)
Static X (ozfest)
the Pogues (opened for PWEI at the TLA?)
Meat Beat Manifesto (twice? once at the Ritz in NYC, once at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, PA)
Nitzer Ebb (Trenton City Gardens)
Current 93 (touring as Soft Black Stars, NYC)
GWAR (Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA)
That Petrol Emotion (TLA, Philadelphia - I think they opened for someone, but I'm not sure... maybe The The?)
The The (TLA)
Here are the Facts You Requested (twice in SF)
National Wrecking Company (JC Dobbs in Philly)
Albannach (Celtic Fling 2017; Celtic Fling 2018; Pennsylvania Rennaisance Faire Halloween 2017)
Kilmaine Saints (Celtic Fling 2018)
The Town Pants (Celtic Fling 2018)
Enter the Haggis (Celtic Fling 2018)
Kid Congo Powers (Boot & Saddle Philadelphia 2018)
PS. I just noticed I apparently already posted this on LJ in Jan. 2014... but this list is more up to date.