Concert sightings

(Updated: 03.02.2014)

Here's a list of the bands I've seen since, or at least the ones worth remembering ...

... Ben Folds, 10 times (including five with the 'Five')
... Blues Traveler
... Toad the Wet Sprocket
... Rusted Root
... Counting Crows (three times)
... Jars of Clay
... Take Six
... Jennifer Knapp (... a sweet acoustic performance to celebrate her debut release ...)
... Five for Fighting
... The Proclaimers
... Barenaked Ladies (twice)
... Dave Matthews (in an acoustic show with Tim Reynolds)
... Sister Hazel (twice)
... Nelly Furtado (... it was early in her career and it wasn't great.)
... Edwin McCain
... Guster (five times)
... John Mayer (twice)
... Avril Lavigne (... I watched from backstage while she performed acoustically in a mall.)
... Rufus Wainwright (... thought he was awful)
... Shawn Colvin
... Steve Winwood
... Gin Blossoms (July 2005 and July 2008)
... Toby Lightman (Nov. 2005)
... The Fray (twice)
... Alanis Morissette
... O.A.R. (four times)
... Imogen Heap
... John Kay of Steppenwolf
... The Go-Gos
... Pink
... Toto
... Mat Kearney
... James Taylor (twice)
... James Blunt
... Mute Math
... The Grass Roots
... The Buckinghams
... Herman's Hermits starring Peter Noone (twice)
... Lindsey Buckingham
... Augustana
... Dashboard Confessional (twice)
... Regina Spektor
... Stevie Wonder
... The Polyphonic Spree
... The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
... Ingrid Michaelson (twice)
... The Hush Sound... OneRepublic
... Jason Mraz
... Death Cab For Cutie
... Sheryl Crow
... Goo Goo Dolls (three times)
... Parachute
... Michelle Branch
... America
... Mates of State
... Fun.

My first-ever concert was an oldies concert sponsored by one of the local stations in Kansas City that my dad got tickets to. It featured The Buckinghams, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, The Turtles and Three Dog Night ... By the time I saw them, they were has-beens. But it was the night was a thrill nonetheless.

My first modern concert would have been R.E.M. during their Monster tour in spring '95 ... But my mother put the kebosh on that one because there was a tornado watch in our area. It never rained a drop, it turned out to be a beautiful night and I was stuck at home (I love you, Mom!) ...

Truly, my first modern concert was a Hootie & the Blowfish show in summer '96.