Top 5 artists you’ve seen live the most

The Killers / Brandon Flowers - 5
U2 - 3
Depeche Mode - 3
I Don’t Know How But They Found Me - 2
OMD - 2
Franz Ferdinand - 2
Keane - 2
The Ocean Blue - 2

Those are all the artists I’ve ever seen play more than once.

 

The Rolling Stones
Blue Rodeo
The Tragically Hip
The Black Crowes
Kiss

 

Sparks (at least 30 times, including all shows in the live 21 x 21 spectacular, plus once as FFS with Franz Ferdinand)
The Human League (around 20 times)
Kraftwerk (8 times)
Heaven 17 (8 times)
The B-52's (7 times)

 

I'm not going to list each concert individually!

1) Springsteen - 130 times from 1985-2018
2) U2 - 90 times from 1986-2018
3) Bowie - 73 times from 1983-2004
4) Madonna - 73 times from 1985-2019
5) Rolling Stones - 57 times from 1989-2019

That's about 42% of all the concerts I've attended!

 

I have no idea how old you are. Is that the reason you saw no pre-83 shows?

 

Because I was 11 when Bowie toured pre-1983 and not a concert-goer!

Or a Bowie fan. I was in the "Let's Dance" era of converts. Had zero interest in Bowie before then.

It's not a coincidence that for all 5 of those "most seen" artists, my 1st shows were in the 80s!

I only attended 1 rock show pre-1982: Kiss in 1977...

 

Oh, and if anyone's interested, here are my most-seen artists who I didn't see until after the 80s:

Pearl Jam - 49 times from 1996-2018
Lady Gaga - 39 times from 2010-2019

Both of those #s were supposed to increase soon, but alas, COVID changed those plans!

There's no one who I first saw between 2000-2009 that I've been to see more than a dozen times...

 

Sorry to hear that

 

Floyd/Waters/Gilmour
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Jefferson Starship
Rush

 

Rolling Stones, 35 times.
Grateful Dead and later off shoots sans Jerry at least 35 times.
Springsteen about 20 times.
The Who about 12 times.
Metallica about 14 times.

 

Oh, don't be a snob!

I admit I was embarrassed that Kiss was my 1st concert back in my teen/college "rock snob" days - though because the Bon Scott AC/DC opened, I had some "cred" in 8th grade when AC/DC was huge.

I got over myself and recognized that Kiss was a good little meat and potatoes hard rock band.

Don't love 'em and I have little use for their work after 1977 or so, but in their prime, they were pretty good!

 

Rush - 11 times
Slayer - 5 times
Epica, Testament, Megadeth and KMFDM - 4 times each

 

Squeeze (lost count)
It Bites (maybe 20)
Francis Dunnery (100+)
Big Country (not since Stuart departed) (6 or 8 times I guess)
Five and under too many to list (even if I could remember!).

Edit: Floyd and solo I saw Pink Floyd without Roger in Cologne in 88 (or 87?), and with him at Live 8. Roger solo at Wembley 1987, Nevers 2006, Manchester 2011, Birmingham 2011, Wembley Stadium 2013. David with Brian Ferry at Live Aid '85, Albert Hall 31st May 2006, and with Ron Geesin at Cadogan Hall, London in 2008 (front row centre). Nick's Saucerful of Secrets in Manchester 2018.

 

Not necessarily in order:

The Guess Who (and Burton solo)
Indigo Girls
Joe Jackson
The Roches
Ben Folds

 

Just kidding.

I like a bit of AC/DC from that era.

 

Oh, I know you were joking - a little, at least! I should've included an emoji when I called you a snob.

When we saw AC/DC open for Kiss in 1977, the former were unknown - at least to me and my friend as 10-year-olds. I didn't get a sense from the crowd that the older people knew them well either.

My friend and I hated them - just thought they were awful!

Don't really remember why, though I know Angus annoyed us. Some weirdo in a schoolboy costume, one that he progressively shed as the show continued - no thanks!

 

Alice Cooper

Rush

Bob Dylan

Cheap Trick

The Kinks

 

I've only seen two artists several times. All in Toronto:

David Bowie: 1974, 1976, 1978, 1983
Lou Reed: 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1992

 

If we ignore Dutch artists I've seen often just because they play here a lot more often:

Krista Detor: 14 times
Joe Jackson: 10 times
Elvis Costello: 9 times
Toto: 6 times
King Crimson: 5 times
Suzanne Vega: 4 times
Bob Dylan: 4 times

 

Bob Dylan , 1981 -
Ralph Mctell, 1975-
Mary Black , 1990-
Paul Simon , 1975-
Art Garfunkel, 1998- (Plus S&G twice)

Hope to see them all again.....

 

Rush 8 shows starting in Charlotte NC 1980.

 

Blue Oyster Cult and Jethro Tull, each over 10 times, altho I cant name dates or tours - various places in three southern USA states.

ZZ Top - probably close to ten, maybe more. Once back in day, 76 or so, the worldwide Fandango tour, then the Afterburner tour in Atlanta - and then about ten years ago I became friends with a guy who works with Billy, and so I've seen almost every ZZ show in Atlanta from stage right since then

Jason and the Scorchers, several times, all in Atlanta

X, several times, in Tampa and Atlanta

 

Dylan 25+
CSN (Y) and various configurations 25+
Grateful Dead and related 40+
Allman's 20+
Wilco 20+

 

The Replacements
Ramones
The Clash
Cheap Trick
Oasis
Noel Gallagher
The Who
Guided by Voices
Iggy Pop

 

I had a different reaction. I saw AC/DC as an opening act in '78. I loved them right away and knew right away they were a step above (IMO) the head liners (BOC and Thin Lizzy who were both great). I was 16/17.