I have seen literally hundreds of concerts over the last 30+ years in over 11 states.
Quite a few of them have included many of my musical heroes that I have admired while growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s and becoming aware of the power of music.
The first concert I ever saw was Heart at Astroworld when I lived in Houston back in 1987. It was exciting, really great sound and performance. They were just nailing the music.
My second concert was none other than Pink Floyd and The Delicate Sound of Thunder tour in April 1988 at Texas Stadium, second night…with the rain pouring down through the open center of the stadium and causing incredible rainbow refractions with the lasers and giant mirrored disco ball.
Here are some of the incredible musicians and bands that I have the opportunity to experience LIVE:
The Allman Brothers, BEAT, Adrian Belew, Black Sabbath, Blues Traveller, Burning Spear, The Butthole Surfers, California Guitar Trio, Les Claypool’s Flying Frog Brigade, Billy Cobham, COLDPLAY, Phil Collins, Critters Buggin, Dawes, The Dead, Dead and Company, Disco Biscuits, Bob Dylan, The Eagles, Ed Hall, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Keith Emerson/Greg Lake, Five Peace Band, Bela Fleck, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, David Gilmour, Goblin, Govt Mule, The Grandmothers of Invention, Gwar, Steve Hackett, Col Bruce Hampton & The Fiji Mariners, The Headhunters, Steve Hillage, Jane’s Addiction, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel, Elton John, King Crimson, KISS, Leo Kottke, Little Feat, Lynard Skynard, Marillion, Dave Mason, Nick Mason, Dave Matthews Band, Paul McCartney, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Pat Metheny, Steve Miller Band, MOE, The Moody Blues, NEGATIVLAND, Willie Nelson, Parliament Funkadelic, PEACHES, Pearl Jam, Phil and Friends, PHISH, Primus, Remember Shakti, The Residents, Return to Forever, RUSH, Shpongle, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Steely Dan, A String Cheese Incident, Tears for Fears, Ten Hands, The Toadies, Tortoise, TOTO, Robin Trower, Umphrey’s McGhee, Van Morrison, Steve Vai, Roger Waters, WEEN, Widespread Panic, JohnWilliams and the Boston Pops, Edgar Winter, Wishbone Ash, YES and Zappa Plays Zappa
….just to name a few
The ones that are highlighted have hyperlinks that go to a few of the actual concerts that I attended.
I did this specifically so anyone could watch it, enjoy it and hopefully get a feeling of what it was like to have been there if you couldn’t. I loved the shows so much that I found the best audio source and then got all of the footage I could from multiple angles and cameras and then edited it together to be a COMPLETE concert experience!
My Peter Gabriel multi-cam concert video from October 2023 at American Airlines Center in Dallas been seen by people all over the world and gotten over 400,000+ views!
I have received multiple comments worldwide unanimously thanking me for taking the time to put it all together because they were there, or it was their first concert and attended with their parents or they just couldn’t go because of location or age.
That is exactly why I created these.
Some of the concerts are pretty random, some eclectic obscure and others short-lived with just a one off tour.
As you can definitely see, I have a pretty broad range of musical styles that I seek out. I love many styles of music from many different eras. I love, jazz, funk, fusion, rock, electronica, metal, country, experimental, avant garde, jam bands, classical & world music.
There are still a handful of musical heroes that I still need to see, but little by little they are dying, not touring anymore or just retiring.
I think I have done pretty well to have had the concert experiences I have had over the last three decades or so. To have seen PHISH 30 times in multiple states including Halloween in Vegas to Big Cypress has been nothing short of INCREDIBLE.
It is a wonderful time to be alive with so much great art, music and film being created to experience throughout within this extremely short window of time on planet earth as a human being.
