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. That’s another strong contender on our list. When I mentioned it to D1, who will be home for the summer, she said, “Who’s Robert Plant?” At least she knew of Alison Kraus.</p>
<p>Would love to see Yonder Mountain String Band
Toots and the Maytals
Tom Waits
Perpetual Groove
R.E.M.</p>
<p>I will be seeing Gov’t Mule in a few weeks. Planning on going to the Earth Day Concert on the National Mall the next day. Great lineup for a free show.</p>
<p>Gov’t Mule
Warren Haynes solo acoustic set
Toots
Umphrey’s McGee
The Roots</p>
<p>I’m praying for nice weather</p>
<p>Seeing Springsteen for the first time this summer! Woohoo! We asked DS if he wanted to go… he said, “Not really.” sigh.</p>
<p>DD (10th grade) and apparently every kid in our high school are going to see Tom Petty the weekend school ends. The man is older than me! But they think he’s cool. Yet they don’t want to go to Springsteen…</p>
<p>We keep teasing DD that her dad is a Petty fan and he’s going with her to the concert. Just love to see the horrified look on her face.</p>
<p>Both my kids like Springsteen. S is fanatical and he was my concert buddy the last time i went–so I know their upbringing didn’t go totally awry!</p>
<p>I’m going to see Springsteen in about a week – hopefully my 17-yr old son will agree to accompany me. He’s not exactly a Springsteen fan, but he does enjoy some of his songs, so at least I feel like I did something right!</p>
<p>Both of my kids have seen Springsteen, they weren’t as impressed as I thought they should have been (for me, it’s a near religious experience). Petty’s also great performer, who has definitely been influenced by Bruce. There’s a story about the No Nukes concert where Petty’s set was greeted by chants of “Bruuuuce”, who was the featured act. TP thought they were booing him, so someone told him they weren’t booing, just calling out for Bruce. Petty said “same thing”.</p>
<p>Redondo Dave–you are so lucky to be seeing Plant/Krauss!</p>
<p>Terwitt–I’ve played a few of the “Raising Sand” songs for my son (who likes Led Zep) but he says it’s ‘too slow.’ I feel like you have to be older & have regrets to appreciate it fully, but I could be totally wrong on that. Tried to get son’s musically eclectic friend into it, but don’t think that went anywhere either. lol</p>
<p>Many of my neighbors (younger boomers) pay mondo bucks for Springsteen (several times a year).</p>
<p>Go to Bonnaroo for bands from the posts above: Pearl Jam, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss featuring T Bone Burnett, Willie Nelson and Death Cab for Cutie (with many other great bands).
I saw CSN&Y in the early 70’s and have tickets for CS&N for this summer. I just hope they’re half as good as the last time.
I’ve seen McCartney twice but would have loved to have seen the Beatles.</p>
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<p>Reading that reminded me of when H and I went to see Springsteen & the E Street Band, around five years ago, as we pulled into the stadium parking lot, I had never seen so many limousines arriving with concertgoers. After what we paid for those tickets, we were lucky to be able buy a couple of beers and a program, never mind a hire a limo, lol.</p>
<p>Hopefully we’re going to get tickets to R.E.M.'s upcoming show, although I was disappointed to see that Counting Crows is coming, but we won’t be able to make that date.</p>
<p>The group that I most regret not seeing: The Grateful Dead :(</p>
<p>Band whose concerts are the closest to a religious experience for me: U2 (saw them in '85, '87, '01 and twice in '05)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, REM has no dates in our part of the country. Saw them a few years ago and they really rock. Will definitely see Counting Crows again when they come to the area. It will be my fourth time, the first was the “August…” tour a number of years ago. Always put on a great show and throw in a few surprise covers and jams.</p>
<p>blackeyedsusan - my first (and second) Springsteen concerts were in Houston as a 16-year old (at some hall downtown that I don’t think is there anymore), and he worked magic on me; yep, kind of like a near religious experience. Maybe your son will surprise you. </p>
<p>Lafalum84 - enjoy and savor every moment, although I hear his shows aren’t quite the endurance test as they used to be before he became a senior citizen 
And if my kids thought we’d pay for their tickets, they’d have no hesitation at all going to a concert with us. I’ve seen Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Elton John/Billy Joel tour with my kids - they were so happy I paid for it they didn’t complain about me being there.</p>
<p>And yes, Grateful Dead is a concert I wished I’d been able to experience before Jerry’s untimely death. </p>
<p>After reading some of the posts, I was reminded of more on my list: Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Judy Collins and Carly Simon.</p>
<p>I finally got to see CSN &Y a couple of summers ago.
And the Allmans always put on a good show.</p>
<p>I recommend seeing Phil lesh & friends.
[Welcome</a> to PhilLesh.net - The Official Site of Phil Lesh and Friends](<a href=“http://www.phillesh.net/philzonepages/friends_stuff/calendar.html]Welcome”>http://www.phillesh.net/philzonepages/friends_stuff/calendar.html)</p>
<p>I love the ‘new’ friend, Jackie Green. He’s really young, but he is very very good.</p>
<p>God bless the Grateful Dead. Not the best at what they do, but the only one’s who do it. And Phil Lesh has the best head of hair on a 68 (!) year old man I have ever seen.</p>
<p>I have seen a couple of my dream concerts ( from when I was a kid and couldn’t see them )
A few years ago, I saw the Eagles. I took my oldest daughter and her friend, and it was their first concert. They were awesome to see…put on a great show.
Same year, saw Fleetwood Mac in the very early start of their reunion tour. They were great too, but when we went to see them again ( taking daughter again ) they were terrible. Someone here said they walked off stage and didn’t get along. mick Fleetwood did a painfully long solo that had people leaving…
I saw Coldplay with my kids too…good show. Bonnie Raitt put on a good show.
My kids got me tickets to see the Allman Brothers and I was so disappointed I decided to leave after waiting for it to get better. </p>
<p>Most of the concerts that come to my area are here in the summer, and since my work schedule is do demanding, I have decided to pass on the concerts and get some sleep instead…a few hours short of my nightly sleep tends to ruin the next day for me</p>
<p>I saw the Allman’s two summers ago and was blown away by them. Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks were amazing. Certainly they are not the band they were with Dicky, Duane, and Berry Oakley but Warren and Derek can hold their own with anybody. Warren is obviously the reason I’m so excited about Gov’t Mule. </p>
<p>About 15 minutes into the show a thunderstorm came through. The roadies held a piece of clear plastic up in front of Gregg’s organ but the band just kept playing through the storm. Just as the storm passed the guys go into a killer Stormy Monday.</p>
<p>Another great show though I’ve seen them so they aren’t on my dream list is Widespread Panic.</p>
<p>I sat thru Bob Weir’s Ratdog just to get to the Allman’s
I’ve seen/heard Derek Trucks with his own band, with Phil Lesh and the Allman’s that apple didn’t fall far from the tree… </p>
<p>I did just hear that they had to cancel some upcoming show’s due to a Duane health problem.</p>
<p>Wharfrat, go see PHIL if he’s coming anywhere near you.
I guarantee a rocking, dancing good time.</p>
<p>Oh what I want to know, where does the time go?</p>
<p>I kind of like Ratdog. One of my students commented that she went to see them with her dad and was “bored senseless”. Of course, she’s about 15 and not likely to be as excited about an aging member of The Grateful Dead.</p>
<p>I would also love to see Drive By Truckers again. I caught them last summer in Knoxville, what a great show!</p>
<p>Here’s a site where people keep a list of all the bands they’ve seen in concert. The link is to my list of shows I’ve been to.</p>
<p><a href=“http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=124235&show=25&start=0[/url]”>http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view?list_id=124235&show=25&start=0</a></p>
<p>teriwtt, that’s fine if Bruce can’t play for 4 hours the way he used to… I doubt DH and I could listen for 4 hours the way we used to!</p>
<p>I saw a stadium concert in Philly way back in high school with Steve Miller Band and Fleetwood Mac. Steve Miller was so drunk he forgot the words to the Joker and sang the same verse 3 times. Fleetwood Mac was great. We were staying with my friend’s family in a nearby hotel, turns out Fleetwood Mac was staying there as well. Their roadies had an entire floor, when the elevator door opened it reeked of pot. My friend and I were in the lobby and this really scuzzy-looking roadie tried to pick us up (we were 15!!!). We made up some excuse and ran.</p>
<p>when I saw them ( house of blues ) their opening act played WAYYY too long
and the crowd was not happy.
it wasn’t one of their better performances. I saw them 3 times before that.
We left early and so did several other people…
and they were in our age group, not 20 somethings that got free tickets.</p>
<p>Paul Simon. I did see Simon & Garfunkel at Northwestern long ago.</p>
<p>I’d like to see Springsteen and REM. </p>
<p>Back in 1973 in college, the Grateful Dead played 2 nights in a row - they sat on the brick walls around the dorms during the day entertaining everyone. They did festival seating and everyone brought blankets and sat on the floor of the concert hall. I actually just listened to some of this concert online - weird hearing a crowd that you were in over 30 years ago. I dare say that the short term memories in the hall those nights were significantly impaired. </p>
<p>My other favorites from those days were Traffic, James Taylor, Fogelberg and Tom Petty.</p>