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1000 bands? You should change your name to Mattlovesrock.
You've probably seen more than you think
Yeah, I bet several people here have me beat. I’ve been seeing shows for 20 years (wow, that’s crazy), so that’s about 50 bands a year. At my peak I did 3-4 festivals a year,and you can easily get 20 bands at one festival.
Yeah, I bet several people here have me beat. I’ve been seeing shows for 20 years (wow, that’s crazy), so that’s about 50 bands a year. At my peak I did 3-4 festivals a year,and you can easily get 20 bands at one festival.
I’m 22 and according to my concert archive I’m at 550...
Both proud and realizing that maybe I go to too many shows?
Yeah, I bet several people here have me beat. I’ve been seeing shows for 20 years (wow, that’s crazy), so that’s about 50 bands a year. At my peak I did 3-4 festivals a year,and you can easily get 20 bands at one festival.
I wasn't questioning your number. Think about how many times you can listen to an alt/indie rock channel for hours and not hear a song by an artist you haven't seen live. I just thought Mattlovesrock sounded better than Matthashearingloss or Mattknowsportos.
Yeah, I bet several people here have me beat. I’ve been seeing shows for 20 years (wow, that’s crazy), so that’s about 50 bands a year. At my peak I did 3-4 festivals a year,and you can easily get 20 bands at one festival.
I’m 22 and according to my concert archive I’m at 550...
Both proud and realizing that maybe I go to too many shows?
Nah you're good, I'm at 723 bands, most of which in the last 5 years.
I'm sure you'll double that number by the time you reach my age.
Just did my concert archive...17 years of shows, 119 concerts, 339 artists. really ramped up around 2011, the past two years being the bulk. I can't imagine getting to 1000 right now.
I'm assuming concert archive counts festivals as 1 concert since your artist count greatly outnumbers your concerts total and that's the only way I imagine that is possible. I like setlist.fm's tracking where each set counts individually plus you can get songs analysis to see which songs you've seen live and how often they appear for artists you've seen multiple times. Also it doesn't include opening acts at concerts as "artists" unless you say you indicate "I was there" for their setlist as well.
Click the "Song Statistics" tab at this address to see what I am talking about: www.setlist.fm/concerts/obladerek If you click on a specific artist name from there it will give you are chart for that act as well.
Another favorite feature is to look at concert maps from individual "Artist Statistics" pages to see where and how often artists have played. I've used that to look at bucket list acts' past tours to get a sense of how likely or how far I'd probably have to go to have a chance to see them play.
Sly and the Family Stone & James Brown are apparently the artists most often appearing, 4 seperate years apiece. Stevie Wonder also has 4 though 2 of those (different songs) appear in seperate Jams in 2014. Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, The Meters, The Beatles & Curtis Mayfield are the artists that have been covered in 3 different years.
There are 5 songs that have been played in multiple years (each only twice). Dr. John - I Walk on Gilded Splinters (2003 & 2004) Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy (2014 & 2015) Sly & the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher (2007 & 2013) Bill Withers - Use Me (2013 & 2014) Led Zeppelin - What Is and What Should Never Be (2012 & 2014)
Yeah it was fun to play around with, idk why I didn't use fm I used it to find a bunch of them. There were a lot I found that we're wrong on dates or missing, ended up having to find old articles of some shows.
Post by notdarkyet on Oct 29, 2017 17:22:33 GMT -5
I did some of that earlier this year to try to remember shows I saw in high school which I don't count on my official list but was curious about none the less since this year was 20th anniversary from my first concert. Made all the more challenging by the fact that it was in late 90s and internet was not as big and very different back then. The Internet Wayback Machine at archive.org was super handy for looking at old versions of bands websites.
Which one? setlist.fm does but it's on profile landing page. The total number appears throughout but I think the artist count only appears on the front page of a user profile. www.setlist.fm/user/obladerek
Muse Green Day Rodrigo y Gabriela David Gilmour Paul McCartney Alabama Shakes Gary Clark, Jr. The Libertines Tame Impala Nothington Beck The War on Drugs
Venues - Red Rocks, The Gorge, MSG
Crossed off David Gilmour in 2016. May be seeing Rodrigo y Gabriela if my wife gets me tickets for my birthday next month (fingers crossed). Should add Beck to the list.
Saw Rod y Gab last night and was sufficiently impressed. Adding Beck and The War on Drugs to the list.
On the bucketlist: Daft Punk Frank Ocean Pink Floyd (Roger Waters / David Gilmour) (-> seeing Roger Waters next year) Skrillex Sufjan Stevens Swedish House Mafia (Axwell / Sebastian Ingrosso / Steve Angello) Kanye West The Cure Pearl Jam (or Eddie Vedder solo) Eric Prydz Bon Iver Childish Gambino Fleetwood Mac The Smiths (or Morrissey) Kendrick Lamar The War On Drugs Arctic Monkeys (The Last Shadow Puppets or Alex Turner solo) The Rolling Stones U2 ZHU Moderat Blur / Gorillaz / Damon Albarn solo / The Good, The Bad & The Queen (-> Seeing Gorillaz in a few weeks) Death Cab For A Cutie Damien Rice Bob Dylan Tool Amenra Wilco Oasis (Liam Gallagher / Noel Gallagher) The Strokes FKA twigs Mac DeMarco
Crossed off this year: Kraftwerk - Justice - Sigur Ros - Arcade Fire - The xx - Foo Fighters - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Depeche Mode - Alt-J - The Avalanches
Other bands that've been on the bucketlist: Radiohead - Deadmau5 - Porter Robinson - Flume - Tame Impala - Above & Beyond - Disclosure - Paul McCartney - Beck - New Order - PJ Harvey
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Woohoo! Actually get to cross a name off the list. Saw Kraftwerk play in Nashville last night and it was excellent. Had big regrets for not going to Moogfest to see them a few years ago so glad it still worked out in the end. They gave a 2 1/2 hour show which I wasn't expecting so that also went a long way to make up for the missed Ashville opportunity because they did 3 separate shows over that weekend. My new revamped top 10 is:
1. Led Zeppelin 2. Pink Floyd 3. The Byrds 4. Talking Heads 5. Daft Punk 6. The Smiths 7. Sly and the Family Stone 8. Portishead
Others include Joni Mitchell, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Waits, Massive Attack, Roxy Music, The Kinks, The Sex Pistols, New Order, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Love, Derek & the Dominos, Blur, N.W.A., Dr. Dre, Kate Bush, Jefferson Airplane, Cream, and The Jam.
2 years since my last name marked off but I got another one!
New Order
Becoming like clockwork that September in odd numbered years will deliver for me. Saw Massive Attack last night and was incredible!
Post by notdarkyet on Oct 27, 2019 23:42:38 GMT -5
I saw Bob Dylan tonight in Bloomington, Indiana. It was actually my 19th time seeing him, having managed to catch a show every year since 2002 (except 2014) plus twice in 2006 & 2008. Setlist.fm indicates I've seen him play 101 different songs at those shows but until tonight I've never caught a live performance of my inforoo handle "Not Dark Yet". So happy that one didn't go unfulfilled!