Can you remember all of the live concerts/shows you have been too?

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Taken at Deer Lake Park, BC (one of the last White Stripe shows)

I can, kinda. I have been wanting to keep better tabs on the live concerts I have seen for many years.  In addition to being daunting, it was equally frustrating because I know I am leaving out shows. That said, I think I have done a pretty good job with remembering most of them. If you add up the estimated ticket cost and merchandise I bought, you would have a pretty nice retirement plan.  Then again, the memories of these shows are priceless!

10,000 Maniacs
30 Seconds to Mars
ABC
Aqueduct
Arctic Monkeys (Bad ass show)
Bad Religion
Bauhaus (very depressing)
Beck
Built to Spill
Chris Cornell (a freak)
Chris Isaak
Cold War Kids
Dead or Alive
Death Cab for Cutie
Depeche Mode, Music for the Masses Tour, Rose Bowl (epic)
Dixie Chicks
Duran Duran
Echo and the Bunnymen
Electric Six (At the Croc, great show)
Ellie Goulding
English Beat, Redondo Beach Pier (KROQ show, 21+, worse fake ID ever but it worked)
Everclear (bandmate sister hitting on me the whole show)
Fine Young Cannibals
Foster the People
Franz Ferdinand (saw 2x, both great shows)
Garbage
General Public (great energy)
Harvey Danger
Howard Jones
Ice Cube (such a bad ass show)
Idiot Pilot (wild, great energy, reckless, my kinda show!)
Jack White (so much talent)
Jason Mraz
Jet
Jonas Brothers (kids insisted)
Kaiser Chiefs (solid)
Kanye West (great artist/entertainer)
Kendrick Lamar (legit)
Kings of Leon
M83
Marina and the Diamonds (Good energy, fun show)
Metric
Miley Cyrus (Children insisted, kinda fun)
Modest Mouse (killer show at Lake Union)
Mudhoney
Muse
Neon Trees
New Order
New York Dolls
Of Monsters and Men
Of Montreal (fun band to see live)
OMD
Passion Pit
Pearl Jam (many times)
Pet Shop Boys
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three
Ramones (Hollywood Palladium. I was 15 years old and went by myself. So fast, so raw. This was a great show. First taste Hollywood, as a teen).
Reba McEntire and Ronnie Milsap (first concert)
REM
Sheryl Crow
Shiny Toy Guns
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Sleater-Kinney
Squeeze
Stryper (La Mirada High School)
Sweet Water
The Alarm (Irvine Meadows)
The B-52’s
The Beastie Boys (at the Crocodile!)
The Black Crows
The Cult
The Eurythmics
The Fixx
The Gap Band (great show, under the Space Needle)
The Killers
The Kills (so great to see them live)
The Lumineers
The Pixies
The Presidents of the United States of America (drummer got bounced from stage by security)
The Raconteurs (1st show in Hollywood plus several others)
The Shins
The Smashing Pumpkins (sat in sound booth with son)
The Strokes (killer show)
The Subways
The Thompson Twins
The White Stripes (at least 15x)
The Who
Tom Petty
U2
UB40
Vampire Weekend (the end show, they canceled the Marymoor show)
Van Halen
Violent Femmes
Visqueen
Wilco
Wolfmother (raw, great show)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (met Karen-O backstage, Fever to Tell just came out. One of the best shows I have ever seen)
Ziggy Marley

Alright, I already remember one that I missed!  The Fastbacks, JayZ, and Beyonce.  My biggest regret is not going to SFO on New Years Eve and seeing The Red Hot Chili Peppers/Pearl Jam/Nirvana show that my friends Mark Jimenez and Jimmy Gherke had invited me to.  Talk about an epic show!

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