Gary's Life List
Music is definitely a major hobby. Many years ago, someone asked me about the bands
I'd seen and I started keeping this list.
• The Afghan Whigs **
• AFI*
• All American Rejects
• American Hi-Fi
• Tori Amos
• Audioslave
• The B-52's
• Barenaked Ladies *** (Great live band)
• Beck **
• Belly
• Ben Folds Five
• Tony Bennett
• Chuck Berry (“Johnny B. Goode” gave me chills)
• Better than Ezra
• Big Audio Dynamite
• Frank Black
• Blind Melon
• Blink 182 **
• Bloc Party
• Blondie
• Bloodhound Gang
• James Blunt (Met him backstage at Fuse TV.)
• Box Car Racer
• Boy Sets Fire
• James Brown
• The Breeders
• Bush **
• Kate Bush
• Cake **
• Glen Campbell (I was 12 and it was free on the Steel Pier in
Atlantic City. My first concert.)
• The Cardigans
• Catherine Wheel
• Tom Chapin ** (Met and got to know the "Make a Wish"
man. Took me to see Elizabeth Cotton. Thanks.)
• Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
• Chevelle
• Citizen Cope
• Citizen King
• Coheed and Cambria
• Coldplay ***
• The Commodores
• Duffy
• Elvis Costello and the Attractions****+ (If you don't know Elvis,
you don't know music)
• Elvis Costello and the Imposters
• Elvis Costello and the Sugarcanes
• Elizabeth Cotton (Classic American folk singer. I'm proud to
have heard her and met her.)
• Counting Crows*
• Cracker ***
• The Cranberries
• The Crash Test Dummies
• The Crystal Method (electronica - yuck)
• The Cure
• Cypress Hill **
• Lisa DalBello (She was big in Canada.)
• Dashboard Confessional
• The Dave Mathews Band
• Deftones
• Dinosaur Jr.
• The Distillers
• The Donnas
• Duran Duran
• Evan Dando (solo)
• Tanya Donelly (solo)
• Pete Droge
• Echo and the Bunnymen ** (Sort of. The second time they
started two songs, had a rock and roll meltdown and left
the stage.)
• Eve 6 *
• Everclear ***
• Everlast (weak, weak set. Tell the guy to wake up.)
• The Everly Brothers
• The Fabulous Thunderbirds
• Fall Out Boy
• Fastball
• Fatboy Slim
• Filter
• Foo Fighters **** (The hottest touring band today.)
• From First to Last
• Fuel **
• Peter Gabriel (unbelievable stage show)
• Garbage ** (Shirley and the gang blow audiences away.)
• General Public
• The Gin Blossoms **
• The Glen Miller Orchestra *
• Godsmack
• Gogol Bordello
• The Go Go's
• Goldfinger
• The Goo Goo Dolls
• Good Charlotte **
• Green Day *** (6 million bouncing teens can't be wrong. I got
a concussion during one of their performances.)
• H.I.M.
• Harvey Danger
• Jack Johnson (Well, two songs.)
• Juliana Hatfield
• P.J. Harvey
• Hawthorne Heights
• Isaac Hayes
• Robyn Hitchcock
• Hole (cool punk pop)
• Billy Idol
• Indigo Girls
• Interpol
• INXS
• James
• Jamiroquai
• Jane's Addiction
• Jawbox
• Jay-Z
• Jewel
• Jimmie's Chicken Shack ***** (They live near me.)
• Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• Billy Joel (two and a half hours -- all hits)
• Freedy Johnston
• Sharon Jones and the DAP Kings
• Tom Jones
• Kill Hannah
• Lenny Kravitz
• Sondre Lerche
• Lifehouse
• Linkin Park
• Lit
• The Little River Band
• Live ***
• Local H
• Courtney Love (solo)
• Lupe Fiasco
• Luscious Jackson
• Lush
• John Luskey (Local, but great) ******+
• Madonna (Backstage. Thanks, Bob Hood.)
• Marcy Playground
• Mary Prankster
• Matthew Sweet
• Maynard Ferguson *
• Meat Puppets
• Midnight Oil
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones **
• Modest Mouse
• Bob Mould
• Ned's Atomic Dustbin **
• New Found Glory **
• New Order
• The New York Dolls
• Nine Days
• No Doubt **
• The Nth Degree ******+ (My friend Bob’s band.)
• October Fall
• The Offspring ***
• Beth Orton
• P.O.D.
• Papa Roach
• Pavement
• Pepper
• Plunge
• Poco
• Iggy Pop (Yep, he's still alive.)
• Porno for Pyros
• The Posies
• The Presidents of the United States of America
• Primus
• Queens of the Stone Age
• R.E.M. *
• Rage Against the Machine
• The Ramones (Unbelievable show. Miss them.)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers *
• Rodrigo Y Garcia
• Kenny Rogers * (Free tickets both times, and I was involved
with the shows, okay?)
• The Rollins Band
• The Roots
• Screaming Trees **
• Seal
• Semisonic
• The Silver Beats (A Japanese Beatles impression band.
Bizarrely perfect entertainment.)
• Shudder to Think
• Silverchair
• Paul Simon *** (The guy has more talent in his little finger
than ...)
• Simon and Garfunkel (The Old Friends Tour)
• Simple Minds
• Snakebite *****+ (Go, Eddie)
• Social Distortion
• Soul Asylum **
• Soul Coughing **
• Sonic Youth
• The Spin Doctors **
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• SR71
• Stabbing Westward
• Staind *
• Stereo MC's
• The Steve Miller Band
• Rod Stewart
• Stone Temple Pilots
• The Strokes*
• Sugar Ray
• Sum 41
• The Swell Season
• Taking Back Sunday
• Tanya Tucker (Well, I'm from West Virginia.)
• Tears for Fears
• They Might be Giants **
• Third Eye Blind
• George Thorogood and the Destroyers
• 3 Doors Down
• Toad the Wet Sprocket **
• Tom Jones
• Too Much Joy **
• Toto
• The Tragically Hip
• Tripping Daisy
• K.T. Tunstall
• UB 40
• Unwritten Law
• The Used
• Suzanne Vega
• Velocity Girl **
• Veruca Salt
• The Verve Pipe
• The Vines
• The Violent Femmes ****+
• Joe Walsh (I sang “Peaceful, Easy Feeling” while he
played guitar at a party in his hotel suite. Cool.)
• Mike Watt (solo)
• Scott Weiland (solo)
• Paul Westerberg
• Wilco
• Hank Williams Jr.
• Wyclef Jean
• Yellowcard
• X (great proto-punk band)
• Zwan
* indicates an additional concert, + indicates too many to keep counting.
