Rolling Stones (twice) Beatles Little Richard (best of them all) Kinks Who ( Twice. The proper who with Keith Moon) Small Faces Animals Spencer Davis Group Ben E King Drifters Jimmy James and the Vagabonds ( A few times and always brilliant) Creation Chris Farlow Manfred Mann Hollies Cliff Richard and the Shadows(was about 11and it was a big deal then). Slade Free (twice) Procol Harum Shotgun Express Steampacket Move Rory Gallagher Amen Corner (numerous times) Billy Fury Adam Faith Eddie Floyd Pretty Things Loads more lesser known ones of which some were surprisingly good live, Unit Four Plus Two and Nasville Teens for example. Quite a few before they were well known Rod Stewart, Elkie Brooks, Elton John,Julie Driscoll...
I've got a few that I've kept out deliberately that the wife's dragged me to ( and I ended up enjoying)
The Beatles The Greatful Dead Traffic The Clash The Byrds The Birds (Ron Wood) Chicken Shack The Animals The Pink Floyd Captain Beefheart Frank Zappa Ian Dury REM The Yardbirds The Who Bruce Springsteen Bob Dylan and The Band Richie Havens MC5 The Rats Elvis Costello Free Family Small Faces The Pogues ABC The Alarm Jimmy Cliff Bob Marley and the Wailers
I think us oldies had the better of it, Stanley. Easier and more affordable to see bands in those days.
Led Zeppelin Black Sabbath Deep Purple Johnny Winter Strawbs Lindisfarne Wishbone Ash Free x3 Dr Feelgood x2 Curved Air Vinegar Joe Foo Fighters Leonard Cohen x2 Family The Ramones Brownie McGhee Sonny Terry Robert Cray Legends of Rock n Roll @ NEC - Chuck Berry, Little Richard & Jerry Lee Lewis Quo x3/4 The Hamsters xplenty The Pixies Rory Gallagher x2 Roxy Music (with Eno) Rod Stewart x2 Joe Cocker Joe Brown last but not least, David Whitfield - Apollo Club, mid 70's with my old mum Edited to add, would love to have seen the Beatles, blanked the Stones (robbing twats) and missed out on The Who (bummer).
U2 Echo & The Bunnymen Soft Cell Siouxsie & The Banshees The Psychedelic Furs Gary Glitter Hazel O'Connor Classix Nouveaux Simple Minds Flock of Seagulls Bauhaus Gang of Four Theatre of Hate My Silent War The Clash The Skids The Dickies Stiff Little Fingers Discharge The Exploited The Cure Killing Joke Sade Frank Sinatra Sammy Davis Jnr Ocean Colour Scene Paul Weller Oasis Kasabian The Enemy UK Subs Rod Stewart 999 The Wombats The Who Buzzcocks The Damned Eddie & The Hot Rods John Otway Monochrome Set
Envious of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Didn't miss anything with the Beatles, SSS. 20 minutes of mayhem where you couldn't hear or see anything. McCartney was off stage for about a third of the numbers with a problem with his guitar but I didn't notice. But you just had to see them to tick the box. Stones only cost the equivalent of 32p and 50p when I saw them in 1964, the cost of about 3 pints and 5 pints of beer. Glad I saw Little Richard the same year when he was still at his peak. Saw Vinegar Joe, and Dada before them. Got an "evening"and a name check off Palmer when he saw me. Saw him with the Alan Brown Set, another excellent band as well. And of course with the Mandrakes on numerous occasions.
Wasn't a massive Sinatra fan but can appreciate why others are. Would have liked to have seen him live just to say I had.
