The Rolling Stones x 11 (all No Filter shows minus Berlin, Marseille & Stuttgart). Saw all the Support Acts too except in Prague where I waited until they were finished!

Paul McCartney x 2 (Krakow and London O2)

Jeff Lynne's ELO (London O2)

U2 (London O2)

Idles (Glasgow, a wild and noisy Punk Band from Bristol)

Pavor Stelar
Bob Dylan
Godspeed you!Black Emperor
Rolling Stones x 3
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Israel Vibrations
P.I.L
Brian Jones Town Massacre
Uprising Festival#11 to many to list
Color Festival..ditto
Sophie Hunger x 5
Toots and the Maytals
Many local band also.......Season's Greeting's Everyone!!!!!!

Paul McCartney
Kylie Minogue
Leon Bridges
Blackberry Smoke
Jorja Smith
Kacey Musgraves (2x)
Per Gessle
Shania Twain
U2
Dionne Warwick
Rick Astley
Chic & Nile Rodgers
Soulwax
The Prodigy
Judas Priest
Gojira
Steel Panther
Justin Timberlake
Paul Simon
Steve Winwood
The Rolling Stones (7x)
Bryan Ferry
Chris Jagger
Roger Waters
Whitney Rose
Little Big Town
Emmylou Harris
Margo Price
Midland
Lindsay Ell (2x)
Ashley Campbell (3x)
Ryan Hurd
Russel Dickerson
Jillian Jacqueline
Sugarland
Kip Moore
Luke Combs
Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real
Danielle Bradberry
Lanco
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
Kelsea Ballerini
Old Dominion
The Wandering Hearts
Morgan Evans
High Valley
Delta Rae
Clara Bond
Brett Young
Danielle Bradberry
Lady Gaga

Not a great many but:

Rolling Stones London Stadium 1 and 2 plus Twickenham
Deacon Blue
Kokomo

Eric Clapton
Jeff Lynne’s ELO x2
Jason Isbell &400 Unit
Gary Clark Jr
Mickey Dolenz & Michael Nesmith
Snow Patrol
Neil Young (solo tour)
Stephen Stills and Judy Collins
Dawes

Lookin forward to Stones in June!!!

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

That'll be a rather short list:

King Crimson

It was a down concert year for me...

- Judas Priest, Saxon, Black Star Riders
- Slayer, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth, Testament
- Willie Nelson, Neil, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Kacey Musgraves, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Next year is looking busier: Experience Hendrix, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Slayer, Ozzy, the Stones

Bettye Lavette
Goat Girl
Parquet Courts
Alison Krauss
Modest Mouse
Richard Thompson
Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Steely Dan, Dylan, Love Rocks NYC (many great artists)

Leslie Odom, Jr.
First Aid Kit
Jason Isbell (2x)
David Byrne
Jeff Tweedy
Iron & Wine
Milk Carton Kids (w/ Barr Brothers) <---went to the show for the incredible Barr Bros., left about 5 songs into the incredibly bland Milk Carton Kids)

The Rolling Stones, twice
MC50
The Amazing IORR Band (such fun)
Sylvain Sylvain
The Pretenders (club date)
Bryan Ferry
Upbeat
Vaseline
The 49ers

All London gigs and reviewed at www.onlyrockandroll.london

Pro-Pain.

[In approximately chronological order]
Roger Chapman
The xx
Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather
Frightened Rabbit
Gary Numan
Arcade Fire + Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Florence & The Machine
Jungle
Sparks
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Wedding Present
LCD Soundsystem + Young Fathers
All Points East, Friday (Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Hunna, Blossums, Superfood, The Neighbourhood)
All Points East, Saturday (The National, The War On Drugs, Future Islands, Warpaint, Cat Power, Broken Social Scene, Spoon, Amber Run, This Is The Kit, The Districts)
All Points East, Sunday (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Patty Smith, Cortney Barnett, Baxter Dury, Nadine Shah, Shame, Bo Ningen)
The Rolling Stones + Richard Ashcroft (x2)
Jeff Beck
David Byrne + Laura Mvula
The Church (x2)
British Summer Time, Friday (Roger Waters, Squeeze, Richard Ashcroft)
British Summer Time, Saturday (The Cure, Interpol, Goldfrapp, The Twlight Sad, Editors, This Will Destroy You, Slowdive, Pale Waves)
British Summer Time, Sunday (Eric Clapton, Santana, Steve Winwood, Gary Clark Jr, The Wandering Hearts, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, Ferris & Sylvester)
Paul Simon
Blues Afternoon (Mike Vernon & The Magic Combo + John Primer Band)
Steve Earle & The Dukes
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Wooden Elephant
Amanda Palmer
Grandslam (Simple Minds + The Pretenders + KT Tunstall)
St. Vincent
Electric Fields, Saturday (Leftfield, Ghostpoet, Public Service Broadcasting, Idlewild, The Horrors, Hollie Cook etc.)
Arctic Monkeys
Festival No.6, Friday (Friendly Fires, Ride, Everything Everything, Gogo Penguin, Paul Draper, A Certain Ratio, Amber Arcades)
Festival No.6, Saturday (The The, Django Django, The Welsh Male Choir, Hurts, Everything Everything with Joe Duddell, Tim Burgess, White Room)
Festival No.6, Sunday (Franz Ferdinand, Anna Calvi, The Charlatans, Gas Coombes, The Charlatans with Joe Duddell, Manchester Camerata, Gwenno, Goat Girl, Jane Weaver)
Kathryn Joseph
U2
Blues Fest, Thursday (Steve Miller + John Fogerty)
Blues Fest, Friday (Van Morrison + Robert Plant)
Sixties Gold (The Searchers, Merseybeats, P.J. Proby, Steve Ellis, Vanity Fair, The Fortunes)
The Manfreds with Georgie Fame
King Crimson (x2)
Marion
Paul McCartney



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Off the top of my head.....

Jason Ringenberg
Chantel McGregor
Sam Baker
Dan Baird & Homemade Sin
Sylvain Sylvain
MC50
Rolling Stones
John Prine
Van Morrison
Ry Cooder

I've no doubt forgotten some. All were in Glasgow except The Stones (Edinburgh).

Grand Corps Malade

Bootleg Beatles
Rolling Stones x3
Foo Fighters
Roger Waters
Roger Daltrey (book launch)
Gari Glaysher
Paul McCartney

2018 was a much quieter year for me concert wise, than in any recent years, however, my 11 day trip to the UK and Ireland to see the Stones 3 times made up for the lack of shows in '18.

But I did see:

Rolling Stones X 3
Greta Van Fleet
Robert Plant
Waddy Wachtel
....and I probably forgot someone

St. Vincent ----(Tuck & Patti opened)
Valley Queen
Celebrating David Bowie ----(David Bowie band alumni)
Joanne Shaw Taylor, Emmett Skyy
Michael Schenker ----(Novareign opened)
Pete Best & The Falling Doves ----(playing Beatles tunes)
David Byrne ----(Perfume Genius opened)
Dixie Dregs
Jean Michel Jarre ----(Marco Grenier opened)
Diamanda Galas
Randy Bachman
The Beatles Alone/Together by the Back To The Garden Band and guests
Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Yes 50th Anniversary ----(the version of Yes led by Steve Howe)
Dead & Company
Paul Rodgers, Jeff Beck, and Ann Wilson ----(Deborah Bonham opened)
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 50th Anniversary: Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and
-------------------------------------Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
LSD Tour: Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle & The Dukes, and Dwight Yoakam ----(King Leg opened)
Jeff Lynne's ELO
The Seeds
Jack White ----(William Tyler opened)
Scorpions ----(Queensryche opened)
Deep Purple and Judas Priest ----(The Temperance Movement opened)
A Bowie Celebration ----(David Bowie band alumni)
MC50th ----(Starcrawler opened)
Desert Daze Festival, Day 2: Stonefield, Kevin Morby, Mercury Rev,
------------------------Chelsea Wolfe, Kikagaku Moyo,
------------------------Malcolm Mooney of Can, King Gizzard & The Lizard
------------------------Wizard, Shannon And The Clams, Deap Vally
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros.
Jesse Colin Young
Mazzy Star
Generation Axe: Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt,
--------------and Tosin Abasi
Richie Furay: 50th Anniversary of Poco

I had tickets for Uli Jon Roth and Ozzy Osbourne but both are postponed to next year.



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Boy george, pleasantly surprised.

Rolling Stones 4x
Chris Jagger
Buddy Guy

Nels Cline 4 (incl. Julian Lage)
The Autumn Defense
Pat Metheney
David Byrne
Bonny ‘Prince’ Billy
Lindsey Buckingham

Paul Thorn in Baton Rouge at a very small venue. My girlfriend brought me. It was interesting.

That's it. It's been a very hard year until October. Thought about catching The Cult in New Orleans with STP and Bush but was not in a good place to go.

Hopefully 2019 will be better... in a lot of way.

2018 Rock Shows

Jason Isbell & 400 Unit (Worst crowd)

Katy Perry (Most latex covered back up dancers/singers)

Margo Price & Colter Wall (Best show of the year)

Iron Maidens, Metallica cover band with clever name and Dio cover band without clever name (The Iron Maidens were a close second to Margo Price's set)

Slobberbone & Hickoids (Old Texas bands)

Judas Priest & Saxon (A healthy dose of Hallford and Byford)

Slobberbone

Joe Ely Band

Slayer, Lamb of God & Anthrax (Biggest mosh pit I have witnessed since the early 90's)

Poster Children (Best ratio of small crowd/intensity of performance)

Yo La Tengo

PiL (I finally got to hear The Body live)

Drive By Truckers

Elvis Costello and the Imposters (Front row center....f*%k yeah!)

Joe Ely and Joel Guzman (Joe Ely told me a story about opening for the Stones in Tempe Arizona in 1981. His bass player was using Keith guitar tech and the tech mistakenly mistuned one of the strings to a standard Keith setting and the first few notes of the first song were a thunderous cacophony of sound until the bassist fixed the issue.)

All shows in Dallas or Denton, Texas except Elvis in Thackerville, Oklahoma.

Next year...

Stones in Houston and Iron Maiden in Dallas

Gary Numan
Liz Phair
Govt. Mule
Death Cab
Jerry Lee Lewis
Beck
Jeff Beck
Ann Wilson
Paul Rodgers
Anerson East
Mitski
Papadosio
Cigarettes After Sex
Samantha Fish
Wolfmother
Bombpops
No Small Children
Gwar
Elvis Costello
Detroit Cobras
Drive By Truckers
Hold Steady
Frank Turner
Edgar Winter
Roger Clyne
Neko Case
Charly Bliss
Decemberists
Alkaline Trio
Bully
The Sadies
Justin Townes Earle
Jon Langford
Alice Cooper
Red Fang
The National
Magic Sword
All Them Witches
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Young the Giant
Flogging Molly
Interpol
Health
Street Dogs
Conflict
Dropkick Murphys
The Aquabats
Pussy Riot
Mannequin Pussy
Calpurnia
Kevin Devine
Digable Planets
Rosie Flores
The Baseball Project
Jon Dee Graham
Bottle Rockets
Webb Wilder
and...

Quote
slewan
Bob Dylan: Rome I, Rome II, Rome III, Florence, Bielefeld, Nürnberg, Baden-Baden

Eric Clapton: Hamburg

and

some rather unknown band from London: Dublin, London I, London II, Berlin, Stuttgart, Prague

forgot to mention that I've also seen Jeff Beck and Kris Kristofferson

Mud Morganfield
John Primer
Greta van Fleet
Dan Baird and Homemade Sin
Albert Cummings
Rolling Stones
Pretty Things

Rod Stewart

Paul Simon

David Byrne

Ry Cooder

Phish x3

JRAD (Joe Russo's Almost Dead) x2

Electric Hot Tuna w/ Steve Kimock x2

Gov't Mule

Paul McCartney

Stephen Stills & Judy Collins

Chris Robinson Band

Dweezil Zappa (Zappa Plays Zappa)

Holy geez, some of you go to a lot of concerts! 2018 was a paltry concert year for me. Chris Isaak, Buddy Guy.

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood
Eric Gales, Quinn Sullivan, Gary Hoey
King King
The Temperance Movement
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Devon Allman Project
Popa Chubby
The Magpie Salute

in chronological order:

Depeche Mode
Joan Baez
Bob Dylan
Roger Waters 2x
Hollywood Vampires + Ozzy
Ringo Starr 2x
Rolling Stones
Robert Plant
U2 3x
Shania Twain
Per Gessle
Paul McCartney 2x



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