Top 5 artists you’ve seen live the most

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 10+
(Mostly Ljubljana, Slovenia, also Austria, Reading fest)
Swans cca 10
(Mostly Ljubljana, also London, Reading fest)
Laibach 10+
(Various places in Slovenia, also 2x Austria)
Sonic Youth 6
(Ljubljana 3x, London, Reading, Italy)
Dirty Three 6
(Ljubljana 4, Austria 2x, Reading)

 

I'm right there with ya'! I like your wrappedinsky moniker. I'll add:

NRBQ
Bruce Springsteen
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
John Mellencamp
REM
Neil Young
Alejandro Escovedo
Wilco
Son Volt
Joe Henry

 

Wilco
Black Crowes
Iron Maiden
Radiohead
Spiritualized

(over 10 times each and all over the world)

 

Top 5 only:
Jethro Tull - 23
Yes - 17
Genesis - 15
King Crimson - 9
Zappa - 6
Steve Hackett - 6

 

Status Quo 3 time 31/1/73, 13/11/74, 17/10/75
Thin Lizzy 3 times also I think last time in 1980
Little Charlie & The Nightcats @ 4 times
Charlie Musselwhite @ 4 times
Fabulous Thunderbirds 3 times (once with Stevie Ray Vaughan)

 

Mostly in the NYC/NJ or Philadelphia/South Jersey areas.

The Who - 14 times
R.E.M. - 14 times (twice in Atlanta, GA)
Mercyland - 14 times (Athens, GA). David Barbe's group before he joined Sugar.
The Rolling Stones - 9 times (once in Jacksonville, FL)

Five or six times each:
Paul McCartney
Ringo Starr
The Moody Blues
The Monkees
The Zombies

 

Three Days Grace
Opeth
Queens of the Stone Age
Coldplay
The Cult

 

The Who (London 1996 / Rotterdam 1997 / Amsterdam 2007 / Antwerp 2007 / Amsterdam 2013 / Amsterdam 2015)
KISS (Utrecht 1999 / Arnhem 2010 / Amsterdam 2015 / Dortmund 2017 / Rotterdam 2017 / Essen 2019 / Amsterdam 2019)
Spinvis (Heerlen 2013 / Heerlen 2015 / Maastricht 2017 / Heerlen 2018)
Joe Satriani (Amsterdam 2012 - with G3) / Tilburg 2013 / Heerlen 2015)
Rolling Stones (Amsterdam 1998 / Pinkpop Landgraaf 2014 / Amsterdam 2017)

 

Wishbone Ash 15+
Paul McCartney 10
Jethro Tull 10?
Yes 6
King Crimson 5

I think.

 

Shows were at a casino in Missouri. Two shows on a Friday night, two the next night. Had tickets to all four.

 

Grateful Dead (33)
Bob Dylan (30)
Split Lip Rayfield (25)
Willie Nelson (10)
George Clinton & P-Funk (10)

 

When I lived in Vegas I saw Elvis hundreds of times, usually somewhere on the strip getting his picture taken with the tourists. Often he'd have a donation jar sitting on the sidewalk next to him. On occasion I'd even see him more than once within minutes, just a block or two down the strip from the last sighting.

 

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Neil Young
Bob Dylan
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
(Unsure of who is No. 5)

 

Not in any particular order:
Neil Young solo and with CH and other band configurations
Bob Dylan solo and with different band configurations
Bob Weir and Ratdog from the Scaring the Children acoustic duo with Rob Wasserman to full tilt electric Ratdog
Jerry Garcia Band, The Dead, Further, etc.
Jackson Browne solo and different band configurations

I shamefully neglected to put Pete Seeger into my list > Pete would be way up there!

 

Not counting lesser known bands from the local scene around here:

The Fall
Queens of the Stone Age
Shellac
Autechre
Stereolab

Probably a good few unmentioned ties in there since I actually can't remember seeing too many 'bigger' bands more than twice despite having gone to hundreds of shows.. Guess I must go more for variety or something.

 

Neil x 14 first in 74 with CSNY
Dylan x9 first in 74 with Band
Stones x9 first in 75
GD x8first in 77
Bruce x8first in 78

 

In the aggregate it would be David Crosby (9 times):

CSNY: 4 times
CSN: 3 times
Solo: 2 times

Had tickets to see solo Nash this week, but it got cancelled.

 

Paul McCartney
Don Henley/Eagles/Joe Walsh
Bob Dylan
Mark Knopfler
Bruce Springsteen

 

They are so freaking awesome live. I got to meet Todd at one of the Chicago shows in 2010. Really nice guy.

 

Jimmy Buffett 19
Pepsi Center, Denver, CO April 24, 2003
Coors Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO October 1, 1996
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO June 8, 1993
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO August 18, 1992
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO June 18, 1991
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO June 27, 1990
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 26, 1990
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO June 18, 1989
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO June 17, 1989
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO July 31, 1988
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO July 30, 1988
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 2, 1987
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 9, 1986
Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA July 30, 1986
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 6, 1985
Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO June 16, 1985
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 29, 1984
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO July 23, 1983
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO July 2, 1980

Rush 8
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 16, 2010
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 25, 2008
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO August 8, 2007
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO February 14, 1986
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO September 17, 1982
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO June 1, 1981
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO March 1, 1980
Denver Auditorium Arena, Denver, CO March 28, 1979

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 6
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO August 29, 1991
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO July 17, 1989
CU Events Center, Boulder, CO March 2, 1983
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 21, 1981
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 9, 1980
University of Denver Arena, Denver, CO January 24, 1980

Blue Öyster Cult 4
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO December 4, 1983
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO July 30, 1981
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO August 21, 1980
McNichols Sports Arena, Denver, CO August 1, 1979

The Doobie Brothers 4
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 20, 1981
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 18, 1981
Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO June 24, 1980
Folsom Field, Boulder, CO May 13, 1979

 

That’s awesome! He’s always seemed cool from times I saw them. I caught them once in 1995, when they were opening for Bush. It was the first time I’d heard them and they won me over. Bought Rubberneck the next day. The only other time I saw them was in 2008, I guess on the tour for No Deliverance? That was a blast.

 

Great list! I caught 3 of those PJ shows too. Jealous of the ‘92 U2 show.

 

Tom Rush
Maynard Ferguson
Gordon Lightfoot
Drive by Truckers
Chicago ( w/ Terry Kath)

 

12 Springsteen (3X early 80's., 9X since 08) (Montreal, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Rochester)
6 David Johansen 6X early 80s
5 The Who 4X early 80's, +1 2017 (plus Daltrey doing Tommy 2018)
4 Willie Nile (15, 17, 17, 18)
3 Cheap Trick (79, 80, 19)
3 Elvis Costello (79, 80, 11)
3 Dropkick Murphys (09, 11, 16)
3 Tom Petty (81, 85?, 14)


I've seen Thorogood and Southside 3X + but some have been free city sponsored concerts so I don't count them.

edit - math correction (4 yrs of calculus down the drain)

 

Neil Young
CSN(Y)
Grateful Dead
Phish
Allman Brothers