Naw... I tend to call folks who are in my inner circle, "my bros".

Although, he could be. I've known Jay over 25 years. We came up in the same punk rock circle in Chicago in the early 80's. I was a roadie for his first band for like, 10 years.

Jay is good people.

based on the tiny info you drop here and there, you really should write a book

I've been told that numerous times and I have also debated doing so, just as many times.

Maybe, someday....

I love a good excuse to take out my ticket album.
Ive seen most of these bands more than once.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Charlotte Gainbourg
A Place To Bury Strangers
Puscifer
The Raveonettes
The Marshmallow Ghosts
Yo La Tengo
Autolux
NIN (most seen)
Tool
Sonic Youth
The Black Angels
Queens of the Stone Age (my first show, and one of my most seen)
Interpol (also my first show)
Mindless Self Indulgence
Isis
The Liars
Bad Religion
The Big Sleep
DM Stith
Phantogram
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Joe Lally (wish I couldve seen Fugazi)
Radiohead
The Bang On A Can Marathon
Lee Ranaldo
Smashing Pumpkins
Skeletonbreath
The Kills
The Horrors
The Dead Weather
Helen Money

i've been to mostly HipHop shows.. but since this thread is asking bands...

The Roots
Gym Class Heroes
The Strokes
Blue Man Group
Dredge
White Stripes
Train
Jack Johnson (is he considered a band?)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
N.E.R.D./Neptunes
At the Drive In
As Tall as Lions
Rage Against the Machine (the best show i've ever seen.. damn near changed my concert life)

while i'm at it..
Outkast
Wu Tang (x2)
Jay-Z
Nas
New Edition (x3)
BBD
Bobby Brown
Wild Child
DJ Krush
Kanye West
Snoop Dogg
Beastie Boys
Black Eyed Peas (pre Fergie)
Hieroglyphics
Jurassic 5
Public Enemy
Lupe Fiasco
B.o.B.
Lauryn Hill
DMX
Rihanna
Method Man/Redman
LL Cool J
R.Kelly
Cee-Lo
Eminem

eh.. i can't think of anymore..

I love concerts but since I live 4 hours away from the best place to see concerts it's hard to see all the ones I want. Most recent first...

Butthole Surfers
Ween
Ministry
Tool
Rolling Stones
AC/DC
Kiss
Jello Biafra - Spoken Word Show
The Flaming Lips
Green Day
Pearl Jam
U2
Aerosmith
Love & Rockets
Porno For Pyros
The Refreshments
Lustre
Glueleg
Poe
Spirit of the West
The Nixons
7 Mary 3
Bush
The Cure
Stabbing Westward
Gravity Kills
Tracy Bonham
Spacehog
Everclear
Odds
Live
Ani DiFranco
Bon Jovi
Justin Timberlake ONLY because he was at SARS Stock that I had no choice


Canadian Bands:
Tragically Hip
The Tea Party
Our Lady Peace
RUSH
Moist
I Mother Earth
54/40
Sloan

Oh you know you liked JT

The headlining acts at the festival were The Rolling Stones and AC/DC so when JT came on before them he was booo'ed and they were throwing water bottles at him. When the Stones came on later they called JT out to perform a song with them and someone chucked a water bottle that almost hit Mick, Keith Richard was NOT happy.

That was a fun day, we were super close to the stage and there were about 450k-500k people there for a free concert.

Here is the youtube post, it's around 4:40 when it happens...if you care to see it that is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVRgbWOa9c

pulled out my ticket stub diary for this one. by no means complete but here goes, in approx. chronological order. i have no defense for the early classic rock shows. except maybe that i was young :
The Hooters
Bryan Adams
The Moody Blues
The Kinks x 2
The Grateful Dead x 2
The Who
The Smithereens
Danzig (Soundgarden opening)
Neil Young (sonic youth & social distortion opening)
Inspiral Carpets
Drivin' n Cryin'
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam opening)
The Pixies x 2 1991 & 2004
Metallica
Blues Traveler
B.A.D. II, PIL, Live, Blind Melon
GWAR
Sonic Youth x 10+
Soup Dragons (James opening)
Dinosaur Jr. x 2 1993, 2005
HFStival 1993 (Velocity Girl, Pavement, Iggy Pop, many others)
Nirvana (Breeders, 1/2 Japanese opening)
Velocity Girl x 4+
Urge Overkill
The Charlatans
Blur x2
Superchunk / Seaweed / Guv'ner
Lollapalooza 1995 (Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, many more!)
Elastica
Rancid
Fugazi x 4ish
Guided By Voices
Stereolab x 4ish
Pavement x 20+
Beck x 3
Mike Watt
Vans Warped '96
Lou Reed x 2
Tricky
Lo-fidelity All Stars
Yo La Tengo x 2
Luna x 5ish
Sleater Kinney
Billy Bragg x 5
Stephen Malkmus x 3
Area One Festival (Moby, Outkast)
The Strokes
Gorillaz
Rolling Stones
Les Claypool
White Stripes x 8ish
Franz Ferdinand
Alison Krauss
The Streets
Wilco
Bill Kirchen
Interpol
Built to Spill
Brian Wilson
Bob Dylan / Willie Nelson
Stellastarr
Son Volt
Beth Orton
Of Montreal
Morrissey
The Go! Team
The Feelies

phew, should be a good sampling of my schizophrenic taste in music.

what did you like best about the show. what I mean is, was there a certain person you enjoyed or the band altogether. No wait I got it!!!
It was the seating




I bet that was a good show....once I was at a after party and the Cure was hangin out. Everyone was crowding Robert Smith and I was thinking to myself, "that must suck". About that time Robert looked like he needed some breathing room so he said, " excuse me I gotta take a piss". haha that was the best

I'm pretty sure it was a good show. They were apart of a 3 day weekend festival and there was A LOT of drinking involved.

It's a shame one didn't hit JT square in the face! Went Download festival '07, was dragged to watch MCR who was one of the headlining acts (Iron Maiden & Linkin Park were the other two) and dear lord did they get bottled!! I was impressed they stayed but probs used to it...

I've been thinking about this thread a lot. Although I haven't gotten around to actually typing stuff out, I've started compiling a list in my head of all the bands I've seen and it's brought back so many memories! I've remembered all sorts of shows that I had sort of shuffled to the back of my mind. It's funny because every show has little stories that I can recall, so many happy times and strange times. I love going to shows, I have tickets for Dead Weather, Smashing Pumpkins and Devo this month alone. I wish that I
I wish that I had actually kept my ticket stubs! I stopped after high school but now that my memory is fading I regret not keeping better track of these events.

saw Faith No More last night @ Exit Festival...

probably the best show I've seen!!!!.. Mike was completely nuts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOqTdkzBXxQ
(he had to make up for the 40min late start (due to world cup I suppose))...

Really lived the Muse concert I saw for bday! Silversun pickups opened up for them and were actually prett good live! But I'm really looking forward to disturbed in sept!! =)