100 Flowers right after the name change from the Urinals
45 Grave many times, even early shows with Pat Smear, once early on, opening for the Cramps
Adolescents scary overcrowded shows at the Starwood, one time with with Pat Smear on guitar at the Whisky
Alley Cats at The Whisky a Go-Go
America’s Hardcore goofy early 80s L.A. straight edge
Angry Somoans bunch of times, even one time with Jeff Dahl singing in ‘81 at the Vexx with 100 Flowers and VTKMS from S.F., I remember going to this because other shows that night were shut down by the cops
Anti they also ran New Underground records with their “Life is..” comps
B People at the Starwood with Suburban Lawns, maybe the Romans, I went to this gig as other shows that night were shut down by the cops
Bad Brains J.R. did standing flips!
Bad Religion circa 1st ep
Bangles sometimes incognito opening for Redd Kross, circa ‘84
Battalion of Saints San Diego punk
Beloved Invaders Boulder surf
Big Sandy & the Flyrite Trio with Wally of the Gravediggers
Bill Haley’s Original Comets Bill Haley had passed away, but they had a guy from the UK who could do his part dead on. The audience was stomping along so hard I thought the floor was going to break! Most of the guys were in their 70s, but they had 10 times the energy of the Sex Pistols reunion I saw a couple of weeks later
Black Flag Ron Reyes era, Dez Cadena-era, a 1982? singers-reunion show with Reyes, Dez, Rollins & Merrill Ward pretending to be Keith Morris, and then one time later on circa “Slip It In“, subbing for missing Meat Puppets
Black Lips in Denver, 2007
Blasters circa ‘80-’81
Blood on the Saddle I think this band had Dave Drive drumming? Maybe not.
Blue Cheer their revival tour of 1985, on a bill with Redd Kross. My buddy recognized Dickie Peterson at the hotel accross the street, so we said hi. After the show, they were unwinding in a tiny closet size room at the club, Dickie’s girlfriend stopped us and said “When we are done playing we need time to wind down, so we can’t be bothered”. Dickie told her to get out of the way and let us in!
Bo Diddley at a cool benefit gig in Beaver Creek, CO. Even bluffed Diddley into giving me the Dutchess’ phone number, which I put into a coat pocket, then I promptly lost that coat in the chaos of that weekend. Man, what a letdown. Long live the Dutchess! (click name for pic)
Cambridge Apostles with Alice Bag & others I cannot remember
Channel 3 once in ‘84 incognito so punks wouldn’t wreck their new glam image, I think this was opening for Redd Kross
Cheap Trick Dream Police tour
Chemical People in Boulder
Chiefs 2 times with regular singer, once with replacement singer near end of band, one time at the Starwood with Fear, first Fear played but Chiefs couldn’t play as a bouncer was stabbed to death, which made this the last show at the Starwood, my favorite club, snif snif
China White Huntington Beach punk
Choosey Mothers Denver punk
Christian Death couple of times in the Rikk Agnew-era, playing with 45 Grave and Social Distortion, I think
Circle Jerks I remember one scary overcrowded show at the Starwood with TSOL, the painted “white faces” gang running around (including “X-head” at this time), cops everywhere etc. etc., saw them one time in Denver opening for the Weirdos
Clash with Lee Dorsey who was great
Controllers 1983 reunion
Cramps on my birthday in 1981 with 45 Grave and the Skeletons
Creamers I drove from Denver to check them out so I was bummed they only played 20 minute sets
D.I. Casey Royer band I saw play at a coffee shop on Pearl St. Mall in Boulder
D.O.A. in the early ’80s
Damned in the early ’80s
Delmer Spudd & the Spuddnicks played the greatest shows, this group is the great Rock-A-Billy Record Co. owner Willie Lewis’s band from Denver
Descendents Milo would do jumping jacks during songs
Detonators with Zero Boys, M.D.C., Minor Threat
Dick Dale couple of times in Denver, one great show at an early ’80s LA surf fest doing mostly Elvis style vocals, running amuck in black leather playing trumpet, drums, etc.
Dickies many many times with lots of spit in the air! Once with Leonard dressed as a giant Tylenol during a poisoning scare “Don’t be Paranoid!”
Dictators in Denver not too long ago
Didjits 1989 or 1990 in LA with Tex and the Horseheads
Discharge fast music, but these guys barely moved onstage
Dream Syndicate circa first EP, probably on a bill with Salvation Army or were they Three O’Clock by then?
Dwarves a couple of times in Denver. Their first Denver show in 1989 was the shortest ever: 0:00. They set up to play at the Underground and were just about to start playing for the five people there to see them, but Blag refused to play. Said “There is no one here, we were promised coke and hookers, we were lied to”. This was when Tooling For a Warm Tea Bag came out, the other time I saw them they were dressed like a nude version of Public Enemy baseball caps and clocks around their neck, circa Thank Heaven For Little Girls
Eddie and the Subtitles I think their guitarist ended up in Denver
Endless Banana great Stooges style band led by Johnny Nation, how come no one is reissuing this? Usually on bills with the Joneses, Mau-Maus & Rik L Rik
Fear early shows with lots of spit in the air, once at the Starwood on a bill with the Chiefs, right after Fear played, a bouncer was stabbed to death, last show for the Starwood!
Flesheaters A Minute to Prey A Second To Die lineup with guys from the Blasters and X at the Roxy. A giant Richard Kiel-Jaws type of guy got into a huge fight with punks, picking them up and throwing them through the back door!
Flower Leopards opening for Redd Kross out in the boonies somewhere
Frantix Denver punk band, reunion show in Denver 2008!
G.B.H. maybe the same show as the Black Flag singer-reunion
Gears many early shows at places like the Whisky, sometimes at the Palamino with rockabilly bands whose names I can’t remember, oh wait, one was Jimmy & The Mustangs
Germs My favorite band, but I only saw them once, and it was Darby’s last show, which was at the Starwood. 3 or 4 weeks later he committed suicide! On the way there, my brother crashed his car on Mullholland Drive in the first rain of the year 1980! We had to walk a long distance down Santa Monica Blvd, (yikes), so we missed the Screws, but caught part of Middle Class
GG Allin at a strip mall in Littleton, CO! Kids yelled “Kill yourself!” so he chased them outside, hitting them with folding chairs yelling “Maybe you won’t think it’s so funny anymore”. I hid from projectile parts of the set unashamedly behind two fat girls
Go-Gos many many times when they were still a punk band with Margot. Hey, Belinda was from my high school Newbury Park High . . . but I sure didn’t know her, I was much younger, my brother knew her brother Butch. Lorna Doom and Donna Rhea of the Germs were also from Newbury Park High. I did get to meet various Go-Gos a few times during those early shows
Government Issue I didn’t really care for DC bands with the exception of G.I.
Gravedigger 5 later the Morlocks, Leighton was a crazy singer
Gravediggers 80s LA rockabilly, saw them a couple of times, even one time with the Raunch Hands
Gun Club with Patricia Morrison
Gwar First Denver show. They were really low budget, their costumes were mostly silver duct tape. Warlock Pinchers opened.
Happy World Denver hardcore, at a New Years Party
Hard-Ons Aussie punk band, saw them in Denver at The Underground
Headcoats Billy Childish, the one time he played Denver
Helios Creed in Denver, late ’80s
Hose early east coast Flipper style punk band with future Def Jam prez Rick Rubin on bass, decked out in leather pants, shirt & hat! I think they also had a tiny 14 year old blond girl on drums. The played the Music Machine. Things I have read say that other records are the first on Def Jam, but I am fairly certain that the Hose 45 was Def Jam 001!
Human Head Transplant with Bob Furbrusch
Jackie and the Cedrics Japanese surf band with girlfriend in tow who sometimes sang (she was later the singer of the 5,6,7,8s), she said to me “Preeze stop fighting”. They were on a bill in Vegas with the Phantom Surfers and a bunch of lounge acts.
Jan and Dean I love Jan and Dean but poor Jan, this was really sad
Jeff Dahl Group kept asking for Amy’s song Alcoholiday
Jennifer Gentle great new Italian 60s psych band, saw them twice in Denver recently!
Jerry Lee Lewis at the Denver’s Grizzly Rose with a backing band that included famed guitarist Jame Burton and Lewis’ daughter Phoebe
Jimmy and The Mustangs opening for the Gears at the Palamino, sorry I don’t really care for Stray Cats-style rockabilly
Jon and the Niteriders LA surf
Joneses many many times, at the time they were voted best band in LA in an LA Weekly poll, then they went on tour and dropped off the face of the earth, until a few years later in ‘87 when they finally put out an LP. Some people with certain conditions should not attempt to tour, right Charlie Parker?
Kansas my first rock concert, man I thought the arena rock experience really sucked. I sat there pissed and bored. I did like opener Thin Lizzy
Kidd Pharoah Denver rockabilly
King Diamond in Denver
Kommunity FK early LA death rock act on the bill with Nig-Hiest at the Cathey de Grande. Mugger from Nig-Hiest said that he wanted to show that they could be as sophisticated as Kommunity FK, Nig Hiest then went into Velvet Underground’s If She Ever Comes. . .
Lazy Cowgirls a few times early on when they moved to LA. One time in Boulder where they were mistakenly booked at a redneck country bar that used to be on the north side of town, sawdust on the floor! It was just like the scene in Blues Brothers, people hissing and booing and yelling “Yooouu suuuuck” in a thick idiot drawl.
Lee Dorsey opening for the Clash
Legal Weapon quite a few times, I remember Kat not being allowed into her own Vexx gig cause she was trying to smuggle beers under her dress. She used to sing with a large snake drapped over the mic.
Link Wray in Denver
Little Fyodor & Bubushka Denver weirdos
Lucky Stars L.A. country with a couple of ex-Colorado transplants
M.D.C. early shows in LA with Minor Threat and another with DOA, at first I thought they meant to be funny with lyrics like “corporate deathburger, ronald mcdonald” . . . AND with a singer who looked like Don Rickles!
Makers in Denver
Man or Monomann Jeff Connoly of the Lyres, he played under this title in Denver
Manowar once in Golden, once in Denver
Marshall Mellow he was on one of those “Life Is . . .” comps
Mau Maus many times, usually on bills with Joneses, Electric Banana or Rik L Rik, if you follow my drift. I remember one time at the Music Machine before they played, an older punk girl at the front yelling over and over “I saw Rick Wilder die! Rick Wilder died onstage when I saw them in San Francisco! They rescusitated him!”
Meat Puppets at UCLA, I think. I remember Henry Rollins was there and that he smelled really bad
Mentors many times at the Cathy De Grande, one time for the opening of the “Get Up and Die” short film, spent a weekend hanging out with El Duce once
Mercyful Fate in Denver
Mikey Dread with the Clash
Middle Class opening for the Germs and on bills with the Crowd
Milkmen LA eighties-era all-Milkshakes cover band at the Cavern Club, members of Thee Fourgiven and Untold Fables
Minor Threat 1st LA show, with Zero Boys, M.D.C., Detonators
Minutemen a few times, once as opening band on bill: Minutemen, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Adolescents, Fear, maybe TSOL? right before Paranoid Time EP was released. Scary violent show, crazy bearded military vets in camos showed up to start fights. They got the crap kicked out of them for doing sieg hiels! But these weren’t the only fights going on, lots of ambulances, cops, etc. Went to a Minutemen KPFK radio show too
Miracle Workers before and after they moved to LA
Misfits 3 times, hey, I was in the Misfits Fiend Club
Moon Martin & The Ravens opener for Cheap Trick
Morlocks my favorite band from the eighties “60s revival”. Saw them many times in LA including last show which was at the Cavern Club. That show was right after the abortion clinic attached to the Cavern had been bombed and kids were skulking around the scary bombed out multi-story interior. One time I drove up to San Francisco to see Morlocks play huge SF show at the Swedish Music Hall accompanied by the original Fillmore lightshow. Must have been 2,000 people there
Mr. Pacman at Red Rocks!
Nashville Ramblers ex-Crawdaddies & ex-Gravedigger 5, saw ‘em at The Cavern Club, LA
Naughty Women many times with Slash from Guns and Roses, if I remember correctly, I may be wrong, he looked like him
Nightshark Denver free jazz
Nip Drivers once saw them do an acoustic set when no punk club in town could get a license for amplified music. Hard to believe this could happen in LA
Nig Hiest many times, but not the historic Denver show! I still lived in LA at the time
Nirvana at a coffee shop on the Pearl St. Mall in Boulder, just prior to the release of their big Nevermind lp. I thought they were ok
Omlits couple of times, once shortly before Rob Omlit committed suicide
Oziehares had a great song, Mr Potatohead!
Pandoras many times, all before their metal phase, once with Paula Pierce playing topless at the Cavern Club
Pat Boone, Debby Boone and the rest of the Boone family at Magic Mountain in the mid-70s, right around the time of the Hoffy hot dog commercial. Wow, a 70s music TV commercial just reminded me of this!
Patriots early LA skinhead band, if I remember correctly
Paul Burlison famous as the guitarist of Johnny Burnette’s Rock and Roll Trio, playing lead on The Train Kept-A-Rollin’. When I saw him, the late Johnny and Dorsey Burnette were replaced by sons Rocky and Billy Burnette, and Ralph Gean even sang a few songs
Paul ‘Wine’ Jones Fat Possum blues
Phantom Surfers Drove to the sleazy El Morroco in Las Vegas to see the Phantom Surfers circa 1990. They played on bill with Jackie & The Cedrics and the standard El Morroco acts; a Cher imitator, a Neil Diamond imitator and Terry Presley, Cousin to the King!
Phast Phreddie and Thee Precisions I liked his version of Over-Under-Sideways-Down
Phil Urso Denver jazz great
Pink Floyd I saw the opening night of the show “The Wall“. Another grand arena rock experience. I remember a minor incident with part of the set catching on fire, otherwise just a blur of giant props floating around the room
Plugz great Latino LA punk
Powertrip with Jeff Dahl, I saw them many times. I used to be in the Powertrip fan club
Pretty Things late-90s in Denver
Question Mark & The Mysterians late-90s in Denver, amazing high energy show
Radio Birdman in Denver pretty recently
Ralph Gean Denver rockabilly, good friend
Ramones many times in LA, once here in Denver at Fiddler’s Green, a horrible place to see anyone
Raunch Hands with the Gravediggers
Redd Kross many many times. First time was during the Born Innocent-era, I thought they were all girls when they walked out on stage, their hair was much longer than anyone else. Then steadily through the Dez-era and up to the period of Teen Babes from Monsanto. At the time, they were my favorite band. After they got another guitarist they moved more toward pop and I lost interest
Replacements who were very drunk and some barely clothed. This was at the Cathey de Grande about 1983 where they taunted the mohawk punks with slow country songs. Then when they heckling reached a peak, they would play a fast punk song, get everybody revved up, only to return to slow country the very next song.
Rik L Rik great Iggy-like ex-singer of F-Word. But he clearly had troubles
Rok Tots Denver punk, saw them many times, different line-ups
Ron Miles Denver jazz
Ronnie Dawson famed 50s rockabilly singer
Saccharine Trust punks would throw their drinks on Jack Brewer while he sang
Sacred Cows with crazy Craig Weatherwax
Safaris at some early-80s surf fest
Salvation Army later became Three O’Clock
Samhain post-Misfits, pre-Danzig
Scoundrelz with Tony Alva
Screamin’ Sirens many times, with Pleasant Gehman, Rosie Flores
Sex Pistols at Red Rocks, first night of US reunion tour in ‘96. They were boring, kids streamed out in droves while Rotten whined about the thin air and constantly huffed an oxygen tank. Next night was in LA where they were praised unanimously by reviewers
Shockabilly at the Music Machine during the Earth vs. Shockabilly-era. Eugene Chadbourne played a guitar, an electric rake and an electric birdcage which he wore over his head
Sin 34 early LA hardcore. They were also behind We Got Power magazine
Skeletons rockabilly band opening for the Cramps and 45 Grave
Social Distortion many many times through many different line ups. Early LA shows where they had lots of energy, mid-period shows where they seemed to have some serious problems, then even a couple of later shows in Denver where they had it all together again. Once went to the opening of “Another State of Mind” where they projected the video film with an early-make expensive video projector. Tony of the Adolescents got up toward the end of the film and accidently knocked over the projector, ending the movie early. Mike Ness was sitting behind me so I asked him how it ended. He said he didn’t know.
Stains LA Latino punk
Stretch Marks Canadian hardcore
Suicidal Tendencies on a bill with Powertrip, the band I was there to see!
Suburban Lawns at the Starwood with the B People, possibly the Romans? The cops had shut down other shows that night. Su Tissue was a very odd singer!
Superbuick Denver punk, Duane used to be the singer of the Derelicts
Symbol Six their first show, with early Youth Brigade
T-Model Ford Fat Possum blues
Tell-Tale Hearts many times, really great “60s revival” band from the eighties
Tennessee Boys Portuguese rockabilly band who relocated to Denver to record for Willie Lewis. Under his wing, they became the closest thing to seeing Elvis in ‘56!
Tex and the Horseheads early ’80s shows, plus a late 80s show after they got back together, the Didjits opened
The Beguiled at the Cavern Club in LA
The Brat with X at the Whisky. Great female led Mexican punk
The Crowd with the Weirdos at the Whisky doing two shows a night, other times with Middle Class
The Fluid great Denver punk, saw them uncountable times, including two recent summer 2008 reunion gigs!
The Lewd circa American Wino lp
The Unclaimed many many times, hey I ran the Unclaimed fan club. At their peak they were the best of the “60s revival” bands
The Who 1980 or so, three nights in a row
Thee Fourgiven ex-Unclaimed with Rich Coffee who once was a member of the Gizmos
Thee Undertakers once a bill with The Plugz, I always wondered who this band was, until I saw a picture on the Artifax Records website and instantly recognized them, Latino punk
Thin Lizzy opening for Kansas
Tom Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs great LA roots rock blues RnB band! Like a harder drinking version of the Blasters
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ho hum
Toxic Reasons Minneapolis band, somewhat like D.O.A.
Trontils Denver punk
TSOL many times, including scary overcrowded shows at the Starwood, with lots of cops, painted “white faces” gang members running around starting fights, cops making me clean up parking lots, etc.
Twisted Roots saw them a few times, always with Paul Roessler (ex-Screamer) and at least once with Pat Smear
Unit 3 with Venus odd kiddie new wave, on a bill with Redd Kross and Blue Cheer!
Untold Fables many times, they were an LA eighties era “60s revival” band and they were really young
Vagina Dentata with Michelle (Gerber) Bell, Pat Smear. Sounded similar to Twisted Roots
Vandals couple of times, once where their audience vandalized the KPFK radio station with firecrackers & fire extinguishers, last KPFK live show for a long time
Ventures at LA surf fest
Vipers Eighties-era “60s revival” band from New York
VKTMS on a bill at the Vexx with Angry Somoans and 100 Flowers. Singer whined alot as there was no one there.
Volts Denver punk band, The show I saw had them also backing Ralph Gean
Vox Pop couple of times
Wally Shoup amazing free jazz player
Warlock Pinchers opening once for Gwar
Weirdos couple of times before they broke up, the ‘86 reunion show, once in Denver touring for the Condor lp
White Flag many times, often with Redd Kross
Willie Lewis Denver rockabilly, in my opinion the best rockabilly ever. Good friend. President of world-famous Denver-based Rock-A-Billy Records
Willful Neglect Minnesota hardcore
Yard Trauma Eighties-era “60s revival” band, LA via Phoenix.
Yibbit Flipp obscure offshoot of crazed LA punk band the Sacred Cows. Crazy Craig Weatherwax sang. Their best song was Mom Forgot the Mashed Potatoes!
Youth Brigade early two singer line up, they weren’t very good
X some times in LA, sometimes in Denver
Zero Boys great first LA show on bill with Minor Threat, M.D.C., Detonators. In my opinion, they blew the other bands away

NOTE: This is a work in progress, as I attempt to remember other music acts I have seen. I especially need to recall many more Denver acts.