Act you've seen the most times live (in concert)

Stones 11 times.

Then McCartney 3 times.

Evidently i'm a bit of an amateur!

 

Drive-By Truckers: 19 times & counting

 

I can't compete with most of the people here because I don't usually go to more than one show of the same tour but I can mention that I have been to at least one show of each David Sylvian tour, which adds up to seeing him live 7 times I think.

 

Robert Plant - 29 times this November.

First time was Now And Zen tour in March 1988, and this Nov 21 at his homecoming at Wolverhampton, it'll be 29.

That's made up of
4 Solo gigs (Now and Zen, Manic Nirvana, Fate Of Nations)
2 Page/Plant
4 Priory of Brion
5 Strange Sensation
1 Honeydrippers
1 with Alison Krauss
4 Band of Joy
8 Sensational Space Shifters

which is not a patch on my good mate Dave Lewis who is up at around 120 Plant gigs now...!

 

They were pretty much the house band at CBGB for a good while, so racking up that many shows was easy. Best musical experience of my life.

 

The Fall - dozens of times from 1980 to 2009.

 

The Black Crowes. I've seen them 6 times.

 

The Sword - 9 times

1. 9/25/2011 (support for Kyuss Lives! - Asheville)
2. 11/21/2012 (Atlanta)
3. 12/11/2012 (San Francisco)
4. 4/29/2013 (Raleigh)
5. 1/3/2014 (support for Clutch - Raleigh)
6. 1/4/2014 (support for Clutch - Raleigh)
7. 1/21/2014 (Atlanta)
8. 2/18/2014 (Charlotte)
9. 2/19/2014 (Wilmington)

 

What, no Zep? Maybe you weren't around for them. The eight times I saw them are the only times I've seen Plant.

You being from Wales reminds me that Man is one of the bands I've seen the most-- dozens and dozens of times. Them and the Dead probably 1 and 2, can't say for sure which is which

 

Grateful Dead (16), then Weather Report (10).

 

Which versions of Weather Report did you see? I'm curious because I saw them 4/5 times and each time was a different lineup.

 

Cheap Trick - 5 or 6 times in U.S. and Canada.

 

Todd Rundgren - stopped counting after 35 times; Springsteen a runner up @ 28

 

The Frames : 11x (I think) plus The Swell Season 2x and Glen solo 1x.
Wilco : 7x

and a whole bunch of others at 3x and 4x.

I've started using setlist.fm to start tracking shows before I forget them completely.

 

I'm gonna post a multi view I haven't seen yet,

MC5, 2x in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the Speakeasy, 2 weeks apart. Apparently they were touring the area in support of Kick Out The Jams and they came, went, and came again. By far the most energy at a concert I've ever experienced.

 

Devo - seen them 4 times so far.

 

I can't remember.

I wonder why?

 

Grateful Dead 50+
Bruce Hornsby 30+
Neil Young 10+
Van Morrison 15 +
U2 20+

 

Lamb of God 7 times
megadeth 5 Times
black Sabbath 3 times
iron maiden 3 times
pantera 3 times
high on fire 2 Times
down 2 times
Kvelertak 3 times
gojira 2 times
Mastodon 2 times
Judas priest 2 times
ozzy 3 times
heart 2 times
slayer 3 times

just off the top of my head. Not very impressive but you asked

 

King Crimson - 5

 

Richard Thompson, though I prefer seeing him with a full band rather than just an acoustic show
After that Springsteen..

 

The Flaming Lips 3x
Sigur Ros 2x

Yep.

 

Man, I'm blown away by some of these answers. I guess y'all had to do a lot of travelling to see some of these bands multiple times.
Some of the major bands like the Grateful Dead, Springsteen, Dylan, The Stones, etc., I can count on one hand the number of times they came through Louisiana!

 

Joe Bonamassa, over twenty times between 2002 and 2o11.

2/3 of those concerts was back when Joe had a power trio (Kenny Kramme on drums and Eric Czar on bass). Partied down in lots of Texas & OK clubs with bone crunching 'lectric blues!


Cat

 

Devo crazy here too. I've seen them 6 times.

My dad worked for Pat Boone in the early/mid 70's. So I have seen him about 20 times. Most of those times on one tour. All 4 daughters were singing on stage with dad on that tour too.