Boomers. What Big-Name Bands ( or semi-big name) have you seen live?
The 70's was a great time for live rock shows. I grew up in that era and attended as many as I could. Who'd ya see? Me: Led Zep (2) Rollings Stones Jethro Tull Deep Purple The Who Neil Young & Crazy Horse (5) CSNY Johhny Winter Edgar Winter Group Bob Segar Heart (2) Uriah Heep (oh cut me some slack on this one) Foghat (6) Blue Oyster Cult (7) Aerosmith (8+) ZZ Top (3) Allman Brothers Band (2) Eagles (2) Lynrd Syknard (2) Bob Marley Marshall Tucker Band (3) David Bromberg (2) New Riders of the Purple Sage Montrose (3) J Geils Band (5+) Boston (2) Richie Havens (2) ELO (2) John Mc Glauthlin <sp> and The Mahavishnu Orchestra Grateful Dead (2)
Thats all I can remember. After all it was to 70's.
1. Oh golly...might have to dig out the ticket stubs...
Zeppelin (2) Jethro Tull (2) Neil Young (2) Fleetwood Mac (4) Santana (1) The Who (1) Grateful Dead (1) Jeff Beck (2) Lynyrd Skynyrd (the original) (1) Queen (1) Aerosmith (3) Kansas (1) Frampton (3) Johnny Winter (1) Edgar Winter (1) Heart (2) Foghat - more times than I can count; they were at EVERY little festival for about a decade Lots of others at those multi-act fests...
Cream Pink Floyd Hendrix The Doors The Who Rolling Stones (in '65 and '68) Blue Cheer Donovan Jopin/Big Brother Free Fleetwood Mac (the REAL ones, not the Buckingham/Nicks crap) Uriah Heep Mountain J.Geils Emerson Lake and Palmer Edgar Winter's White Trash Blue Oyster Cult Bad Company Steely Dan (W/The Beach Boys!) Jefferson Airplane (W/Chuck Berry!) Woodstock Yes Jethro Tull The Eagles Mott The Hoople
and I'm sure a thousand others on both the "A" and B" list that I forgot... :)
Grateful Dead - 25 Aerosmith AC/DC w/ Bon Scott (My first band - opened for Aerosmith) Boston Sammy Hagar - 3 Styx Van Halen Blue Oyster Cult - 2 Blackfoot - 2 Nazareth Foreigner Foghat Loverboy Molly Hatchet Eric Clapton Muddy Waters Judas Priest Great White Iron Maiden ZZ Top Deep Purple The Who Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Pink Floyd Guns & Roses Living Color Blues Traveler Sting X Rush The Kinks The Blasters Dead Milkmen Jeff Healey Band
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