[LEMONS] 5.05.2003
Some Bands I've Seen
A woefully incomplete list...Hall & Oates, Billy Idol+, The Oak Ridge Boys+, The Beach Boys+ (minus Brian Wilson), Alabama+, Jane's Addiction (original lineup), Nirvana, Blind Melon*, Pavement*, Widespread Panic*, The Allman Brothers Band*, Government Mule*, REM*, James Brown, Sound Tribe Sector Nine*, Frank Black, Mike Watt*, Bob Mould, Dave Lowry/ Cracker*, J. Mascis* (w/ Ron Asheton & Mike Watt), Metallica*, Follow For Now*, Grateful Dead*, Jerry Garcia Band, Steve Kimock Band, US Maple, Come, The Breeders*, Suicidal Tendencies, Blues Traveller, Dave Matthews Band**, Stereolab, Mission of Burma, Ziggy Marley, Oysterhead, Primus, Butthole Surfers, Beastie Boys*, Incredible Skratch Piklz, George Clinton, Burning Spear, Screaming Trees*, Neil Young* (w/ Crazy Horse, Booker T & the MGs), Sonic Youth*, Cat Power*, The Dirty Three, Barry Manilow, Bob Dylan, Liz Phair, Poe, Sarah McLaughlin, The Chieftans*, Steve Earle, Lenny Kravitz, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Kross, They Might Be Giants, Dread Zeppelin, Billy Pilgram, The Indigo Girls, George Winston, Michael Hedges, Vic Chessnut*, Grandaddy, Of Montreal, Call & Response, The Andy Peters Show, Allgood*, Donkey*, Kevn Kinney/ Drivin & Cryin*, Erase Errata, The Donnas, Peaches, The Shins, Mercury Rev, Cowboy Mouth, Presidents of the USA, Spearhead/Michael Franti*, Flap, Belle & Sebastian, Jonathan Richman, Dar Williams, Col. Bruce Hampton*, Drip, David Lee Roth, Tesla, Built to Spill, Caustic Resin, Eyes Adrift, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Steve Malkmus & The Jicks, The Cult*, Peanut Butter Wolf, NWA (circa Straight Outa Compton), LL Cool J, De La Soul, Slick Rick, Ice T, James Taylor, Soundgarden, Cake, Natalie Merchant, David Byrne, Pink Floyd (minus Roger Waters & Syd Barrett), Follow For Now*, Fela Kuti, Nels Cline Trio, The Toasters, Bad Brains (with HR), Fishbone, Felix & The Cats, Derek Trucks*, Five-Eight*, Redneck Grease Deluxe*, Dreams So Real, Sonny Ledford, The Connells*, Athens Grass, The Archers of Loaf, Los Lobos, The Beta Band*, Bloodkin, Morphine, Burning Brides, My Morning Jacket, Barbra Mandrell
My apologies to scores of great Atlanta/Athens bands that I loved and yet still managed to leave off the list, somehow. Very nearly everyone I ever saw at The Masquerade. And too many even here in the Bay Area.
+Indicates half-time style disposable entertainment.
*Seen more than once.
**But the first was a really, really long time ago, I swear! Before his first album came out, even. I have no excuse for the others.
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