Live Music – The Bands and Artists I’ve seen live! (And the ones that got away!)

Live Music – The Bands I’ve enjoyed!

Rock music is about live performance. There’s no better place to be than right at the front – rockin’!!

Over the course of time I’ve seen most of the big bands and major artists. I like my music raw and rockin’ or intelligent and thought-provoking. I like it soft and melodic or loud and full of great riffs and power-chords. There aren’t any rules. If it’s good it’s good!

These are the bands I have had the pleasure of enjoying live in alphabetical order (There were probably loads more but they’ve been consumed by the winds of time!) :

A

Action

Alexis Korner

Al Stewart

Animals (Eric Burdon)

Arlo Guthrie

Arthur Brown

Artwoods

Aynsley Dunbar Retalliation

 

B

Band

Battered Ornaments (Pete Brown)

Ben E King

Bert Jansch

Big Joe Williams

Billy Bragg

Birds

Blackbeard’s Teaparty

Black Sabbath

Blockheads

Blodwyn pig

Blossom Toes

Bob Dylan

Bo Diddley

Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band

Bright Eyes

Bukka White

Buzzcocks

Byrds

 

C

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Chicken Shack

Chuck Berry

Country Joe & the Fish

Cream

Creation

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Crosby Stills Nash & Young

D

Dave ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards

Davey Graham

David Gray

Dead Kennedy’s

Deep Purple

Doctors of Madness

Donovan

Doors

Downliners Sect

Dr Feelgood

Dr John

Dr Strangely Strange

Duster Bennett

E

Edgar Broughton Band

Edwina Hayes

Elvis Costello

Eric Bogle

F

Fairport Convention

Family

Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green’s)

Flock

Free

G

Geno Washington

George Melly

Gerry & the Pacemakers

Ginger Baker

Godz

Gordon Giltrap

Grateful dead

Groundhogs

H

Hawkwind

Hot Tuna

Hubert Sumlin

I

Ian Dury

Ian Siegal

Idle Race

Incredible String Band

It’s a beautiful day

J 

Jackson C Frank

Jake Bugg

James Cotton

James Varda

Jayne County

Jeff Beck Band (John Stewart)

Jefferson Airplane

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jethro Tull

Jimi Hendrix Experience

Jimmy Reed

Joan Baez

John Fahey

John Mayall (with Clapton, Green and Taylor)

John Otway & Wild Willie Barrett

John Renbourne

Johnny Winter

Joni Mitchell

K

Keef Hartley

King Crimson

L

Lazy Lester

Led Zeppelin

Lee Scratch Perry

Leonard Cohen

Leon Rosselson

Levellers

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Little Richard

Loudhailer Electric Company

Loudon Wainwright

Love (with Arthur Lee)

M

Magic Band

Man

Mandrake Paddle Steamer

Mic Conway & the National Jugband

Moody Blues

Mothers of Invention (with Frank Zappa)

Muddy Waters

Mud Morganfield

N

Nashville Teens

Nazca Nine

Neil Young

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Nice

Nick Harper

North Mississippi Allstars

O

Otis Spann

P

Pentangle

Pink Floyd (with Syd)

Popes

PP Arnold

Pretty Things

Procol Harum

Q

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quintessence

R

Ralph McTell

Rambling Jack Elliott

Red Guitars

Rick Wakeman

Rolling Stones

Ron Geesin

Ron Sexsmith

Rory Gallagher

Roy Harper

S

Sharks

Simon Dupree

Skip James

Son House

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Squeeze

Steve Gibbons Band

Stiff Little Fingers

Strawbs

Sugar Blue

T

T2

Taste

T-Bone Walker

Them (with Van Morrison)

Third Ear Band

Tim Rose

T-Model Ford

Tom Attah & the Bad Men

Tomorrow

Traffic

Tyrannosaurus Rex

U

V

Videod Cowfish

W

Waterboys

White Stripes

Who

Wilko Johnson

William Nowik

Wreckless Eric

X

XTC

Y

Yardbirds

Yes

Z

Zoot Money

There were a lot more minor bands but I can’t remember all their names! 

The ones that got away:

Some of these inconsiderate bastards went and died before I got to see them – some even before I was born or while I was still a kid!!

A couple I actually had tickets for (Bob Marley & Ritchie Havens) and fates conspired.

But most were there, playing and I just never got round to going. There was something on every night in the sixties. I thought it was never going to end. I’d catch them next week. Life is short. You have to grab your opportunities when you can!

Some of these I still have hopes of getting to see.

 

AC/DC

Aretha Franklin

Beatles

Big Three

Bob Marley

Booker T & the MGs

Bruce Springsteen

Buffalo Springfield

Buddy Holly

Canned Heat

Clash

Coasters

Eddie Cochran

Eels

Everly Brothers

Elmore James

Elvis Presley

Fats Domino

Fugs

Gene Vincent

George Thorogood

Gil Scott Heron

Howlin Wolf

James Brown

Janis Joplin

JJ Cale

John Lee Hooker

John Lennon

Junior Kimbrough

Lightnin’ Hopkins

Lou Reed

Nick Drake

Nirvana

Otis Redding

Patti Smith

Pete Seeger

Phil Ochs

PJ Harvey

RL Burnside

Ritchie Havens

Robert Johnson

Ry Cooder

Sam & Dave

Screaming Jay Hawkins

Sex Pistols

Slim Harpo

Sonny Boy Williamson

Steve Earle

Stranglers

Taj Mahal

Tom Waits

Velvet Underground

Wilson Pickett

Woody Guthrie