(Almost) 50 Bands I Have Seen Live

I love live music. Mainstream, local, indy, street musician, whatever. I just love listening to music, and love seeing it performed in front of me even more.

I’ve been going to concerts since I was 15, and about 10 years ago I started keeping a spreadsheet of all the bands I’ve seen, where, and who with. While it’s also an incredibly nerdy thing to do, it’s also helped with my poor memory.

Per my spreadsheet I’ve seen 47 different bands perform live, but in some cases I’ve seen one act multiple times like Dave Matthews Band and Incubus. I’ve also not included the opening acts for some of the older concerts, but it’s very well possible they became famous and I’ve just forgotten.

Without further ado, here’s my list of (almost) 50 Bands i’ve seen play live:

1. The Beach Boys – Saw them perform after a Houston Astros game when I was a little boy
2. The Offspring – My first official concert.
3. Dave Matthews Band (x3)
4. Blues Traveler
5. Rusted Root
6. Lenny Kravitz
7. Green Day
8. Reverend Horton Heat – In South Padre Island during Spring Break
9. Cowboy Mouth – Also Spring Break
10. Sir Mix-A-Lot – And another
11. The Hunger
12. Train
13. Lit
14. Depeche Mode
15. Stabbing Westward
16. Monster Magnet
17. Blue October (x2) – Saw them twice when they were still performing in Fitzgeralds in Houston.. WAY before they got all poppy and annoying.
18. Jude
19. Better Than Ezra
20. Collective Soul
21. Black Crowes
22. Soul Coughing
23. Everlast
24. Barenaked Ladies
25. Rage Against The Machine
26. Stone Temple Pilots
27. Nine Inch Nails
28. A Perfect Circle
29. Weezer
30. Ben Folds – Met Ben and got his autograph after!
31. Jane’s Addiction
32. Audioslave
33. Incubus
34. Queens of the Stone Age
35. The Donna’s
36. The Distillers
37. Jurassic 5
38. Maroon 5
39. They Might Be Giants
40. Jay-Z
41. R. Kelly
42. Counting Crows
43. Goo Go Dolls
44. Jamie Cullum
45. Feist
46. Ida Maria
47. Glasvegas