LIST #1 - live music

Inspired by a recent post on an NPR blog and my upcoming grand slam breakfast of labor day weekend music fest (also known to us in the PNW as Bumbershoot), I'm making a list of 50 bands I've seen. The rules are... off the top of your head, it doesn't count how many times you've seen them (even though I've seen some of them - cough, Brandi Carlile - several times), list em, it doesn't count if you were commissioned to go to the show (as in photographing them or music reviewing them) but it does count if it was at a festival or something similar. Having said that, I hope I can name at least 50.

BANDS I'VE SEEN:

1. Brandi Carlile

(who I've seen, 24 times and will see once again this weekend - but, who's counting?)

2. Tegan and Sara ( x 6)

3. Rilo Kiley (x 3)

4. Jenny Lewis

5. Neko Case (x 2)

6. New Pornographers

7. Gillian Welch

8. My Morning Jacket

9. Chris Pureka (x 7)

10. Old Crow Medicine Show

11. Modest Mouse

12. Death Cab for Cutie

13. REM

14. The Cure

15. Thao (x6)

16. Sera Cahoone (x3)

17. The National

18. Fleet Foxes (x3)

19. U2 (x2)

20. Bruce Springsteen

21. M. Ward (x2)

22. Bright Eyes / Conor Oberst

21. Cat Power

22. Fiest

23. Ray LaMontange

24. Horse Feathers

25. Laura Gibson

(x 7 and seeing her at my gym or while out hiking doesn't count)

26. The Decemberist / Colin Meloy (x4) (ditto for the gym thing)

27. The Wallflowers

28. Counting Crows

29. Natalie Merchant (x3)

30. Indigo Girls (x8 i think?)

31. Sarah Mc Lachlan (x2, Lilth Fair, go figure)

32. Dave Matthews Band

33. Ryan Adams

34. Smashing Pumpkins (my first concert ever!)

35. Weezer

36. Dixie Chicks

37. David Gray

38. KT Tunstall (x4)

39. Adrianne (x2)

40. Kathleen Edwards (x2)

41. Great Lake Swimmers

42. Blitzen Trapper (x2)

43. Alison Krauss

44. Nickel Creek (x2)

45. Ditty Bops (x2)

46. Wilco (x2)

47. Wycleff

48. James Brown

49. George Clinton and the P Funk All Stars

50. Gregory Alan Iskakov

oh shit, I'll just go ahead and name some more while I'm at it

51. Edie Cary

52. Beach Boys

53. Basia Bulat

54. Alela Diane

55. Gibb Droll

56. Fine Frenzy

57. Dawn Landes

58. Justin Townes Earle

59. Ellery

60. Grand Ole Party

61. An Horse

62. Sinead O Conor

63. Ingrid Michaelson

64. Iron and Wine

65. Over the Rhine

66. Jack Johnson

67. Jay Nash

68. Jewell

69. Laura Viers

(too many times, she sings happy hour at Laurelthirst, who counts that?)

70. Lavender Diamond

71. Minnie Driver (yes, THE Minnie Driver)

72. Loch Lomond

73. Lucinda Williams

74. MIA

75. Marc Broussard

76. Mates of State

77. Melissa Etheridge

78. Missy Higgins

79. Uh Huh Her (x3)

80. Natalia Zukerman

81. Northern State

82. Port O Brien

83. Portland Cello Project

84. Fighting Machinists

85. Rachel Yamagata

86. Blue Scholars

87. Sara Lov

88. the Shaky Hands (x2)

89. Shelly Short

90. The Watson Twins (x2)

91. Weinland

92. Leslie and the Ly's (x2)

93. Anne Heaton

(i'm sure i can get to 100... but that's really stretching it)

WHO I WANT TO SEE:

Pearl Jam

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Dolly Parton

Neil Diamond

Elton John

The Gossip

Madonna

Michael Jackson (guess I can give up on this one)

Loretta Lynn

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (she's actually playing in town this weekend and at Bumbershoot, but I've got shit to do - see #1.)

Bonnie Raitt (she's actually playing in town tonight, but I've got shit to do.)

Fleetwood Mac