Bands and Musicians I’ve Seen Performing Live

I’m at the age where I’m starting to forget things. So I do occasional brain dumps and write things here and there to remind myself. No overt dementia yet, but my mom officially had it and my dad was likely sliding into it near the end although he was never diagnosed with it.

So here’s a partial list of bands and musicians I’ve seen at one point or another. There’s probably more than a few that I’ve missed. I went to a lot of shows in my twenties and early thirties but scaled back significantly after I became a dad. A few of these were during high school in New Jersey. Most were in Minnesota at venues such as First Avenue, The Longhorn Bar, various U of M locations, house parties, etc. Some are famous worldwide, others from the Twin Cities music scene of the late seventies and early eighties. Oddly, I never went to see Prince.

Curtis A
Akiyoshi-Tabackin Big Band
The B-52’s
Babes in Toyland
Chuck Berry
Blondie
Boiled in Lead
Booker T
David Bowie
Burning Spear
Charlie Burton and Rock Therapy
The Clash, David Johansen, and The Undertones (this show!)
The Cure
DEVO
The Dead Kennedys
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Farm Accident
John Fahey
The Feelies
Byan Ferry
Fingerprints
The Flamin’ Oh’s
Fleshtones
Ben Folds Five
Gang of Four
Dizzy Gillespie
The Grateful Dead
The Jayhawks
Jethro Tull
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Hüsker Dü
The Hypstrz
The Jam
B.B. King
Lizzo
Los Lobos
Bob Marley (shook his hand)
Paul McCartney
Monochrome Set
Van Morrison
Minnie Ripperton
The Poor Nobodies
Iggy Pop
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Bonnie Raitt
The Ramones
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red House
The Replacements
Rifle Sport
Run Westy Run
Safety Last
Sonic Youth
Soul Asylum
Stiff Little Fingers
The Suburbs
The Suicide Commandos
Talking Heads
Television
Richard Thompson
Trampled by Turtles
Trip Shakespeare
Tuxedo Moon
U2
The Urban Guerillas (the Minnesota band, not the Australian one of the same name)
The Violent Femmes
The Wallets
The Who
Steve Winwood
Yellowman
Yes
Frank Zappa
Zuzu’s Petals

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