Concert Meme

[saavedra77]

Instigated by drglam :

* Reply to this message telling me which of these 20 artists you have also seen.
* Take the ones from my list that you have seen, and post them in your own LJ.
* Add more until you have 20 (recent, favorites, or just go for diversity ...).

1. B-52s
2. Barbarito Torres
3. Bob Mould
4. Boiled in Lead
5. Bow Wow Wow
6. Chieftans
7. Cordelia's Dad
8. Los Lobos
9. Lyle Lovett
10. Martin Carthy
11. Michelle Shocked
12. Mekons
13. Omara Portuondo
14. Oyster Band
15. Poi Dog Pondering
16. Randy Newman
17. Ramones
18. REM
19. Richard Thompson
20. Taj Mahal

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there have been 20 acts I've seen live that I can remember the names of. Possibly.

I think the only band from this list I've seen live is also the band I've seen the most live -- Cordelia's Dad.

I think I saw one or two members of the Mekons with the This American Life road tour (they also had a guy playing a theremin!)

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

It took me a little while to think of all 20, too; there are a few bands there that I've just seen over & over: Cordelia's Dad, Michelle Shocked, the Ramones ...

[drglam]

I didn't think I could either, and then I remembered three more this afternoon: Jim's Big Ego, Al Green, and Brian Wilson. How could I forget that I've heard Brian Wilson sing Good Vibrations live?

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

Well, I saw REM, of course. ;)

The only other band on your list I've seen is Los Lobos - at JazzFest in New Orleans when I was in high school.

You saw the B-52s?! And the Ramones?!

So jealous.

I don't think I've seen 20 different acts. I don't think I've been to 20 concerts.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Better than that, I once saw both the Ramones & the B52s at the same show! Philadelphia Zoo Concert Stage, 1984.

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Way cool. I've only seen on your list REM and the Chieftains. One of my roommates in college saw Michelle Shocked and now I can't remember why I didn't go. Oh well.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

My favorite Michelle Shocked show was a concert @ Smith College's Green Hall in '92, in support of "The Arkansas Traveler." She had an impressive group of folk musicians touring with her (including a fiddler who I think was also at about that time working with Poi Dog Pondering). And Taj Mahal came onstage to perform "Jump Jim Crow" w/ her, which was pretty damned cool. She dedicated "The Secret to a Long Life (Is Knowing When It's Time To Go)" to then-President George Bush, Sr. (If someone did that today, it would be like: "Hello, Mr. FBI agent; are you familiar with the term 'hyperbole'?")

The next time I saw 'Chelle was 10 years later, here in Seattle: she actually strolled by the ticketholders line before the show to say "Hey, Y'all!" I'd never realized she was so little!--She looked, like, 5'2"! Then, during the show, she slipped the words "I'm pregnant, y'all ..." into the middle of the song "Anchorage"--right before "I think I'm a housewife ...", so that by the end it wasn't just her friend up in Alaska who was anchored down. Sigh ...

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

I think I vaguely remember the Smith concert as being yet another cool event I was too broke to attend. *Pout*

The Seattle show must have completely rocked. I remember seeing an older photo of her in the late 80s and being mesmerized by the fact she had super hairy legs and didn't mind showing 'em off.

[aztecson23.livejournal.com]

What's funny is that people still like most of those artists. Or, honestly, have rediscovered them:-)