Musical Review

My buddy Freeland prompted me to try a surprisingly difficult mental exercise. List all the bands I've seen in my life in chronological order. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list but it's the best I could come up with. Absent are all the prep-school hippy jambands, random Blues Fest zydeco bands and hip-hop opening acts that I thoroughly enjoyed but could not for the life of me remember the name of.


Black Train Jack
Phish
The Disco Buiscuits
Moe
Vertical Horizons
Guster
Maceo Parker
Soulive
Deep Bannana Blackout
Toots & the Maytals
The Allman Brothers
The Slip
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Cake
Rass Kass
The Roots
Blackalicious
Latyrx
Supernatural
Dilated Peoples
Jurassic 5
The Get Up Kids
Parliament Funkadelic
Common
Abstract Tribe Unique
Bus Driver
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Man or Astroman!
Prince
RJD2
Mr. Lif
El-P
Cool Nutz
Aceyalone
Zion-I
Antipop Consortium
Prince
Flaming Lips
Beck
Bernie Worrell & the Woo Warriors
The Xecutioners
Ike Turner
Chuck Berry
The Coup
Souls of Mischief
Ratdog
The Pharcyde
Lyrics Born
Grouch & Eligh
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Quasi
Steve Malkmus & the Jicks
Sleater Kinney
Little Richard
Brian Wilson
Andre Nikatina & Equipto
Deerhoof
The Thermals
The New Amsterdams


For bonus nerdy fun, a little quiz:

1.) Can you name all the examples of overlap; i.e. where I've seen both the band and the solo artist. Or the band and the side project. I count three. And I don't count Maceo Parker/Parliament Funkadelic or Bernie Worrell/P-Funk because they haven't played with P-funk for years and I didn't see them together.

2.) None of the artists here has a name that starts with DJ. However Two of the acts use nothing but records and turntables. Can you name them?

3.) As far as I can tell, only one of these acts is fronted by a non-American citizen. Can you tell which one?