Ask Lemmy

Dead Kennedys.

I've seen them live zero times because they broke up in 1986 and never ever got back together.

probably Tool, and zero times regrettably. I really hope I get a chance to see them at least once.

Radiohead. Three times: the Hail to the Thief tour, the In Rainbows tour, and lastly during the A Moon Shaped Pool tour.

Cory Wong! Band is as tight as can be. Vibe is playful, dynamic, and celebratory of all on stage.

Have seen him live only once, but he posts incredibly well-mixed and edited full-length concerts on his YouTube.

He fully deserves his blowup. Incredible musicianship abounds around him

Minami. She's a Japanese artist that I've seen live, well... 0 times. Turns out if you mainly only listen to Japanese music and you live in Europe, concerts don't work out too well for you.

My favorite band that I've actually seen live:

Duran Duran. Was a closet fan of theirs back in the late 80's and got to see them when my girlfriend at the time got tickets.

Actual favorite band and unfortunately have never seen live:

RUSH

And it's not because I think that Neil Peart is the greatest drummer of all time (that would be Buddy Rich). It's because their music actually talks to my neurodivergent brain. It is also due to that the 3 of them were a confluence of exceptional talent that just happened to come together to make something special.

Boards of Canada. Never live. But I dislike that kind of thing, crowds, driving etc, so no biggie.

Food House

epic queer hyperpop duo featuring the offspring of tony hawk

saw em live in seattle on the 8th and it was genuinely the bestest time i've ever had at a live music event EVER

I think my all time favorite as of now is still Taiwanese singer Jam Hsiao and I have seen him live 0 times because he hasn't come tour America. And there's no way he'd be coming over now because it doesn't matter if he's famous or not, I guarantee he'd probably be deported to jail in South America just for being Asian.

Nine Inch Nails.

23 times.

Daft Punk. Sadly never have and never will. :(

Nekrogoblikon - seen them 5 times but I skipped them last time they were in town, the new singer just isn't the same. Former/founding singer did the clean and growl vocals, now they split it with a new singer doing the growls and the goblin mascot doing the clean vocals.

Flogging Molly. Was dating my wife when we first got to see them play, along with Gogol Bordello. Our first show together, she loved it. Decided I should keep her at that point. :) We've seen them 7 more times over the years.

Ado, first time seeing her live next week.

Weird Al.
Only like 4-5 times so far, but I have tickets for this summer's tour stop near me

Big time tool fan in the 90's, 125 shows total throughout the years. Havent really been interested in their music and only seen them 2 or 3 times in the past decade.

But, the past 12 or so years I've been super in to Cattle Decapitation. Seen them 15 times so far including a trip last year from the west coast of America to Ireland to catch them with some friends over there right around st pats.

Phenomenal live band and genuinely good humans.

Most seen is probably Bloc Party at about 10 times (though most of those were over a decade ago) or more recently Everything Everything who I've seen about the same number of times now.

Chemical Brothers is probably my favourite live show, seen them live 6 times now. NIN also put on a great show, going to my 3rd and 4th times next week

Oh I've seen Sigur Ros 4 times and that's always a great show too

While I haven't seen him the most times, I am unequivocally a massive Dev-head. I've seen Devin Townsend 3 times (4 if you count the virtual concert during lockdown in 2020), but one of them was to travel from the USA to the Netherlands this March to see the one-time live performance of The Moth (I was right in the second row, I get a lot of peripheral screen-time in the live-stream). It was such an amazing experience, I'm going to count that as 10 or 20 normal concerts. I probably also haven't cried that many happy tears in at least a decade or two. It was also my first time ever leaving the USA, and I really REALLY didn't want to go home. I'd have happily lived the rest of my life on the Dutch train network.

Between the Buried and Me - 3 times

Maybe not my absolute favorite but one of the top 5 at least. Other groups I have seen more than once:

Dream Theater 2x

Less Than Jake 2x

Furthur 2x

Phish 3x

Primus 2x

Death Cab For Cutie 2x

moe 2 or maybe 3x

Umphrey's McGee 2x

I have seen Tony Levin live twice, but in different acts. Dude is super cool.

I didn't discover Nirvana until after Cobain had died so... None. 😔

Same with Chris Cornell and every band he was in.

Hard to pick just one so I'll list a few:

• Thank You Scientist - 2x
• Haken - 3x
• Porcupine Tree - 1x
• King Crimson - BEAT lineup 2x, 3 drummer lineup 1x
• Tesseract - 1x
• Meshuggah - 1x

Space Cadets and 0 times

Billy Idol! I'm not sure how many times I've seen him, at least 8 but probably more like 10-11. Two of those times I got meet-and-greet tickets so I've got two pics of me and my husband with Billy and Steve Stevens :)

Neko Case, who is also a member of the New Pornographers. I have seen both her solo act and TNP probably about 10-15 times.

Napalm Death, about ten times.

Porter Robinson!! I've seen him uhhh at least 5 times live now? I love how every album of his is totally different, and his performances are always such a good vibe.

Super Furry Animals. Probably seen them about 15 times if not a little more. This includes solo tours since they started doing there own thing near the end of SFA sadly. Still hoping they get back together but it doesn't look very good. I wanna say the last time I saw them was a really random tour they did a few years after thinking they were split up. I think that was around 2016?

Frank Zappa, Broadway the Hard Way Tour in the Ahoy Rotterdam 1988.

Seen him once.

Streetlight Manifesto- 3 times

Where are the phish fans?

"...723 times"

Tossup between Streetlight Manifesto and Propagandhi.

Streetlight I've probably seen 9 or 10 times. Every single one is one of the best shows I've ever been to. Their live shows are the perfect mix of energy and technicality. They are just as precise as their studio albums, but adding the intensity of live music and a venue completely packed with people who are super into it.

Propagandhi I've only seen once, but it was fucking intense. Every song was balls-to-the-wall power. I got kicked in the teeth so fucking hard I thought I lost one, but didn't care. I was supposed to see them again last year, but the frontman got Covid the night before the show. I was supposed to see them in a couple weeks, but they canceled their American tour on account of all the Nazi shit happening here. Now I'm seriously thinking about paying an exorbitant amount of money to go see them in Canada.