Son House
Freddie King
The James Gang w/Tommy Bolin
Willie Dixon
Albert King
Muddy Waters
Son Seals
Luther Allison
Pete Seeger
Roy Clark

McCoy Tyner
John Renbourn
Pierre Bensusan
Stefan Grossman
Loreena McKennitt
King Crimson with Adrian Belew
Frank Zappa with Mothers of Invention

Here is a side challenge: THE ARTIST NOBODY HERE HAS SEEN (and Im jealous if anyone has!)

Scott Joplin
John Coltrane
Reverend Gary Davis
Plasmatics or Wendy O. Williams (i love W.OW.)

Lol Canadian Mule you ever see Voivod? I really liked their records.

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Roy harper at the knitting factory
tuck and patti at yoshis
dizzy gillespie at Rider U
Michael hedges at various venues in nj
pierre bensusan at freight and salvage in cali

Marcel Marceau UC Berkeley 1972

Marcel Marceau wow . How cool is that. I bet every SF Mime Trouper past and present was in that audience.

This is getting really out there. excellent. Digging deeper I got

Charles Bukowski, San Francisco 1977

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Brooklyn Bridge played around my junior prom. Years later, I played a gig with their bass player at a bar on Long Island
Saw the Good Rats at My Fathers place when they recorded the live album
Others mentioned:
Miles
Koko Taylor (twice)
Dizzy
McCoy Tyner
Buddy Rich
Sonny R
Tuck and Patty

Some not mentioned yet
Vassar Clements
Elvin Jones
Art Blakey
Chicken Legs (Barrere, Haywood, Clayton, Gradney with Catfish Hodge on vocals)

Some cool stories and great shows! Eating lunch with the Beatles is an amazing one

Here is a side challenge: THE ARTIST NOBODY HERE HAS SEEN (and Im jealous if anyone has!)

Scott Joplin
John Coltrane
Reverend Gary Davis
Plasmatics or Wendy O. Williams (i love W.OW.)

Lol Canadian Mule you ever see Voivod? I really liked their records.

I haven't seen any of those...but my dad told me about the time he took a guitar lesson from Rev. Gary Davis! My dad grew up in NY and saw a ton of music (he took a class in music at NYU and the instructor just brought in music friends to play music. He saw Paul Yarrow premier a new song called Puff the Magic Dragon!)
Anyhow, he spent about a week's salary on the guitar lesson and he said Davis kept yelling at him, telling him he was doing it wrong, do it this way, etc. But he said he learned stuff he still uses and wishes their was tape equipment, as he forgot a ton, but it was an hour and a half lesson and was unbelievable!!

Saw the Doors summer 1972 at Boston Common on their Other Voices tour & despite no Jim Morrison the crowd went home Very Happy - a memorable night - a crowd atmosphere (read: baked 😉 ) unlike hardly any other show I went to

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My mom worked at the Indiana State Fair and got the Directors box seats for us to see The Jackson 5 with The Commodores. I forget what year it was, 72 i think. Maybe 71.

Lol Canadian Mule you ever see Voivod? I really liked their records.

Too many times. LOL

Bands I was in played all the same places as them. To be honest, they put less bodies in the bars than most of the other bands in Montreal.

Possibly a bit a head of their genre and maybe some just didn't get it.

Have many friends that are buddies with them. Met them long ago when we were all young.

Plasmatics or Wendy O. Williams (i love W.OW.)

It is hard to describe how bad they were. Comical but bad.

Possibly a bit a head of their genre and maybe some just didn't get it.

Listening certainly required a high degree of tolerance - that "Killing Technology" record was brutal.

It is hard to describe how bad they were. Comical but bad.

Lol absolutely horrifically bad. Yet for me it was love at first sledgehammer. The school bus thru wall of TVs in the desert made a disciple of me.

Good god did you see any of the solo stuff she did with the guy from Kiss? Even worse than Plasmatics. Perfect parody of metal - better than Spinal Tap.

Wu Tang Clan

Jay-Z

Gwar (randomly walked into one of their shows)

Gwar (randomly walked into one of their shows)

Gwar - lol !

Ok, all this talk of freakazoid bands reminded me I recently saw Metalachi - a heavy metal mexican mariachi group. Totally bizarre. Thing is they were actually pretty good, had this beautiful gypsy girl violin player who tore up the lead solos. Not all metal, but classic hard rock done up blazin mariachi. Funny as hell, check em out if they come around, it's a lot of fun.

I sure hope this is not your beautiful gypsy woman.

Metalachi - Crazy Train

lol busted hahahaaa!! Damn, maybe she is a shape shifter. I wasn't THAT ripped, quite sober in fact. Great butchery if Crazy Train though. Gonna try to find youtube of her.

ok here she is , names Queen Kyla:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dt_fdXkj6g

I've seen Fairport Convention - they're still touring. Perhaps the poster had a particular version in mind.

Ditto Loreena McKennit.

Might have seen McCoy Tyner - will have to check tickets.

Focus - played at my high school
Weezer - Saw the three times my son would drag me in return for me dragging him to ABB at The Beacon. It was all good. Let me tell you Weezer effin rocked and I would see them again in a heartbeat.
Green Day
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Dream Theater

I got picked many times to chaperone my daughters and some friends to those Jingle Ball concerts. I bet I could come up with over a dozen acts nobody saw but just too embarrassed to fess up LOL

Rumplestilskin, Blackjack(a metal band with Michael Bolton singing) Bonzo Dog Band.

doubt anyone here's seen these bands live

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. I bet I could come up with over a dozen acts nobody saw but just too embarrassed to fess up LOL

Damn! Just when it was gettin good. Hey you can't do that. Just tell us the names of the acts, you don't have to say how much you loved em.

Hey I put my head on the tracks with Wendy O. Williams - it doesn't get more embarassing than that!

The Ventures
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Little Feat with Lowell George
Kraftwerk
Ginger Baker - Baker Gurvitz Army
Kingfish
Keith and Donna Godchaux band
Nektar
Green River (proto Pearl Jam before Vedder joined, if you lived outside the Seattle-Tacoma area you didnt see em )
Screaming Trees (saw their first gig)
Wipers
Dead Kennedys with Jello Biafra
Meat Puppets
Black Flag
Hüsker Dü
Fairport Convention
Bert Jansch

Cool list! Great thread!!
Of those, I saw Little Feat w/Lowell, DK's, Meat Puppets, Black Flag and Husker du and Bert Jansch! Wish I had seen Screaming Trees!
As for others, listed here, I've seen Tom Waits (great performer!!), Culture Club (they opened for the Dead!!), Seldom Scene, RATM, and Moon Alice (they had GE Smith playing guitar with them!)

Hmm, has anyone seen:
King Missile
Pixies/Frank Black
Blackilicious
John Fahey
MC900Foot Jesus
Ice-T
NWA
Tribe Called Quest
The Good Rats
No Means No
Johnny and Edgar Winter
Koko Taylor
John Lee Hooker
X
Human Sexual Response
Jefferson Airplane
The Buzzcocks

I knew John Lee Hooker...got to sit in with him and spent time at his house. I opened for Johnny Winter app 1986 in SF at the Stone. I saw Koko Taylor at the SF Blues festival in the late 1970's early 80's time frame

McCoy Tyner
John Renbourn
Pierre Bensusan
Stefan Grossman
Loreena McKennitt
King Crimson with Adrian Belew
Frank Zappa with Mothers of Invention

Here is a side challenge: THE ARTIST NOBODY HERE HAS SEEN (and Im jealous if anyone has!)

Scott Joplin
John Coltrane
Reverend Gary Davis
Plasmatics or Wendy O. Williams (i love W.OW.)

Lol Canadian Mule you ever see Voivod? I really liked their records.

[Edited on 10/26/2019 by BrerRabbit]

I watched McCoy Tyner from outside the Keystone Corner Jazz club in SF. It was sold out so I just stood outside and I could see him through the door. I saw Stephen Grossman open for some blues act at the Keystone Palo Alto late 70's early 80's time frame

Great thread. Thanks! Lots of great bands/artists posted that I wished I'd seen especially what I know and like now.

I saw The Dickies 3 times. The Professionals with Steve Jones cranking his guitar. Also Iggy Pop. Not an Iggy guy but the show was fun.

Dizzy Gillespie
Johnny Griffin
Muddy Waters
Honeyboy Edwards
Albert King
Albert Collins
Son Seals
Marshall Tucker with ARS
James Brown
Thin Lizzy ( they opened for Queen in 1977 )
I’m sure others here have seen these greats but I’m sure glad I did .

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Muddy Water, Albert King, Albert Collins and the Original MTB

. I bet I could come up with over a dozen acts nobody saw but just too embarrassed to fess up LOL

Damn! Just when it was gettin good. Hey you can't do that. Just tell us the names of the acts, you don't have to say how much you loved em.

Hey I put my head on the tracks with Wendy O. Williams - it doesn't get more embarassing than that!

Ok. Some of these acts I'm going to throw out there will make you feel PROUD you admitted to Wendy O. Williams LOL. They weren't all bad as some of the shows had Aerosmith, Wallflowers, Sarah McLaughlin, Fiona Apple to name some. Now, on with the dreck...... *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Chumbawamba, Hanson (actually surprisingly good), 98 degrees, J-Lo, Jessica Simpson, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, O-Town, Kelly Clarkson, Ashanti, Destiny's Child, Hillary Duff, Nick Lachey, Sean Paul, Ashlee Simpson, Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, The Pussycat Dolls, Jonas Brothers, One Republic....Enough??? Or should I keep going LOL Yeah, I'd trade you all of them for Wendy LOL

Someone mentioned James Brown. Saw James, in fact a good friend of mine used to be his manager, and I happened to spend some time with him today.

NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Chumbawamba, Hanson (actually surprisingly good), 98 degrees, J-Lo, Jessica Simpson, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, O-Town, Kelly Clarkson, Ashanti, Destiny's Child, Hillary Duff, Nick Lachey, Sean Paul, Ashlee Simpson, Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, The Pussycat Dolls, Jonas Brothers, One Republic....

I dont know what to say

I saw the New Colony Six at the Minnesota State Fair in August, 1970, the first nationally-known rock band that I saw live. They had a soft-rock hit, "I Will Always Think About You", but as a live band they rocked hard -- no similarity between their performance and their hit. They did "Ob-Li-Di, Ob-Li-Da" and gave the Beatles a run for their money.

The next major rock band I saw was the Allman Brothers Band on March 25 at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. What a step up...

Billastro

I saw Wendy O. with the Plastmatics. Old rock club 'Beggars Banquet' in Queens, N.Y.
Wendy had band-aids over her nipples. Smashed on stage an auto wreck with a sledge hammer and later used a chain-saw.
What a smokey mess of a spectacle. 😮

Sam and Dave opening for Dionne Warwick at Cameron Indoor Stadium Duke Univ. Went w/ high school sweetheart sometime 1969.
Also think Captain Beyond was on the bill at an all day show @ Charlotte Memorial Stadium in 1971. It was largely a Capricorn show w/ them, Marshall Tucker Band, maybe Grinderswitch, Brownsville Station & of course ABB. It was a long day a long time ago so may have added/deleted unintentionally.
I suspect this one will be overiidden but how about Pacific Gas and Electric @ Love Valley.