CONCERTS

If for no other reason than to desperately try and impress you and ease my boredom at the office, I whipped up a list of shows I have seen in the last 28 years.

Archers of Loaf, The Afghan Whigs, The Aggitators, American Analog Set, Album Leaf, And You Will know Us by the Trail of the Dead, The Anniversary, At the Drive In As Friends Rust, Arrested Devlopment, Alice in Chains, Arlo, The Arthurs, AMFM, Actionslacks

Bis, Boo Radleys, Beck, Billy Bragg, Blonde Red Head, Brainiac, Beastie Boys, Burning Airlines, Frank Black, Boy Sets Fire, Bed Head, Bonfire Madigan, Belly, Bratmobile, Breeders, Butthole Surfers, Babes in Toyland, The Benjamins, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Bangs

Chemlab, The Cure, Cibo Matto, Curve, Cub, Cranes, Camden, Crash Kills Four, Cinderleaf, Catherine Wheel, Catherine, Cows, Candy 500, Cross My Heart, Calla, Centromatic, Cursive, Concrete Blonde, George Clinton and the P-funk All Stars, Consolidated, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Cypress Hill, The Cranberries, Cracker, The Casket Lottery, Chomsky, Chicks on Speed

Drive Like Jehu, Dinosaur Jr., Delta 72, Damnbuilders, Deathray Davies, Death Cab for Cutie, DJ Spooky, DJ Shadow, Dirty Three, Dub Narcotic, Sarah Dougher, Dramarama, The Dismemberment Plan, The Dishes, The Donnas, Gene Defcon, Daryl, Didgets, dewey defeats truman

Everything but the Girl, Egon, Alec Empire, Elastica, Ethyl Meatplow, Enon, Explosions in the Sky, The Entertainment System Echobelly, Everclear

Flake Music, Front 242, Fugazi, 5.6.7.8’s, Free Kitten, Fitz of Depression, Fugees, Franklin, The Firebird Band, Fire Show, Faith No More, Fishbone, The Faint, Forever Goldrush

Garden Variety, Greenday, Godheadsilo, Grifters, Gumball, Great White, Get Up Kids, Guitar Wolf, Garrison, Diamanda Galas, The Gossip, Guv’ner, Guns and Roses, Glorium, Rebecca Gates, Holly Golightly, Grand Champeen, Gravy Train

Helium, Hole, Thee Headcoats, Him, Hey Mercedes, Hot Rod Circuit, His Name is Alive, Hammerhead, The Hope 12, Hay Market Riot, Har Mar Superstar, Her Space Holiday, Sammy Haggar

ICU, Ice Cube, Ice T, I am Spoonbender, Ida

Jale, Joan of Arc, Jonathan Fire Eater, Janes Addiction, Jackie and the Cedrics, Juno, Jets to Brazil, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus Lizard, Jackal

KMFDM, Karate, Knife in the Water, Kapsize, Kicking Gaint, Kaia, Koyla

The Lapse, Lush, Lydia Lunch, Lois, L7, Live, Ben Lee, Mary Lou Lord, Love Battery, Laika and the Cosmonaughts, Lolita #18, Lemonheads, Luna, Lunachicks, Luscious Jackson, Ted Leo, Le Tigre, Love 666, Living Color, Long Fin Killie, Leatherface, Laughing Stock

Modest Mouse, J. Masics and the Fog, The Muffs, Ministry, The Make Up, The Murder City Devils, Man or Astroman, Monster Magnet, Morrissey, Medicine, Madder Rose, Magnapop, Macha, Peter Murphy, Meat Beat Manifesto, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Melt Banana, Mazzy Star, Metallica, The Most Secret Method, Meat Puppets, The Mighty Mighty Bostones, The Mercury Program, Mates of State, Mazarin, Myrtles, The Mendoza Line

Nine Inch Nails, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Paul Newman, The Nerves, Nashville Pussy, Nitzer Ebb, New End Original, Vince Neil

1.4.5’s, Orbital, The Olive Group, The Owls, The Onlys, Okkervil River

Pavement, Pulsars, Poster Children, Peg Boy, Promise Ring, Paris TX, Porno for Pyros, Phranc, Picasso Trigger, Paper Chase, Pansy Division, Poison, Pink Floyd, Primus, Pearl Jam, Polvo, Pork, Pee Chees, Pop Unknown, Pantera, Pezz, Pedro the Lion

Queers, Q and Not U, Quixotic, Quick Step Maneuver

Ratt, Red Aunts, Rage Against the Machine, Rex, Rollins Band, Royal Trux, Rainer Maria, Ruby, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rhythm of Black Lines, Radio 4, The Ramones, Rival Schools, The Reverend Horton Heat, River City High, Rye Coalition, David Lee Roth

Sugar Cubes, Sleater Kinney, Sepultura, Social Distortion, Stereolab, Superchunk, Space Streakings, Small Factory, Sweep the Leg Johnny, Elliot Smith, Spinanes, Shudder to Think, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, 7 Year Bitch, The Search for Saturnalia, Souxie and the Banshees, Swervedriver, Suede, Suddenly Tammy, Soundgarden, Shonen Knife, Subsonics, Softies, Samiam, The Shins, Spoon, The Sea and Cake, Solex, Sixteen Deluxe, The San Francisco Seals, The Sundays, Subset Small Brown Bike, Sister Machine Gun, Stone Temple Pilots, Schatzi, Strike Anywhere, Summer Hymns, Sing Sing, Swearing at Motorists, Skid Row

Tanner, Tricky, Tripping Daisy, James Taylor Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Teen Angels, These Animal Men, Tribe Called Quest, Tristeza, The Toadies, Tesla, That Dog, Treepeople, Therapy?, Traindodge, Two Ton Boa, Tahiti 80, Tsunami, Those Peabodys Tareo Balero, Tool, The The, Jenny Toomey

Uncle Jo’s Big Ole Driver, Unsane, US Bombs

Versus, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Violent Femmes, Voodoo Queens, Velocity Girl, Virginia Dare, Veruca Salt, The Vue, John Vanderslice

White Zombie, Weezer, Wisdom Teeth, Wayward Girl, We Talked About Murder, The White Stripes, Jen Wood, Shannon Wright, Western Keys

Zeni Geeva