There are a whole bunch in this category and more that will pop up over time that is for sure.
If you are keeping score we are CLOSE TO 700 total from A-J with 16 letters to go!
The number will increase until I can no longer get to live gigs….so enjoy the ride, I sure am.
These lists could be so much bigger if I named each artist in each band I saw, but hell, I don’t have that much time in my life.
And as per normal, artists in BOLD I have seen at least 2x.
J Geils Band -Did you know that Peter Wolf and David Lynch were roommates at one point in Boston? That is until David told Peter he did not dig Dylan.
Jack Bruce
Jack Casady-SO many times with the Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna!q
Jack DeJohnette
Jack Johnson
Jack White
Jackie Greene
Jackie Marshall
Jackson Browne- From the Calderone Concert Hall to The Ritz to The Beacon to The State Theatre in Sydney, Jackson and I have spent many hours in the same room.
Jake Shimabukuro-One of my favourite musical moments was with Jake and Devon Allmann and Bluesfest jamming on some reggae.
Jakob Dylan
James Blood Ulmer
James Booker
James Brown
James Burton-Seen a few times but he was on fire when he was in The Confederates as Elvis Costello’s backing band.
James Chance and The Contortions
James Cotton
James Ellis
James Freud
James Gang-This was one of the earliest gigs I attended as a teen. I was such a keen fan.
James Hunter
James Taylor
James Thomson
Jamey Foxton
Jamiroquai
Jan Hammer-This was at Central Park and he was with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Janis Ian-Carnegie Hall. I won tickets and it was 1975.
Jarvis Cocker
Jason and The Scorchers
Jason Isbell-I really love his writing but he has never totally WOW’ed me in concert.
Jason Newsted
Jason Walker
Jay Farrar
Jay Ungar
Jayhawks-One of my favourite concerts supporting Lucinda Williams in Rhode Island and I took my sister, Ginger, for her 50th birthday. We stayed in some dirtbag motel and we had a great evening.
JB Hutto-Hudson River Revival Festival in the late 70’s, he blew the top off.
JD and The Hungermen
JD Mcpherson
JD Souther
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley-The Phonecian Club. BRILLIANT.
Jeff Healey
Jeff Lang-Now that I am in Melbourne, I run into Jeff at gigs. I try to see him as often as I can. One of my favourite slide players.
Jeff Tweedy-Jeffrey!
Jefferson Airplane-I recall going into Central Park to see them play and as I was running down some steps to the Great Lawn they launched into “Somebody To Love’ on a beautiful summer sunshine day. My friends and I bought a nickel bag of reefer and we did not know how to roll joints yet so we emptied out Marlboro’s and funneled the weed in.
Jefferson Starship-1975 Great Lawn Central Park with 100,000 folks was quite an afternoon. Everyone was in very high spirits.
Jen Mize
Jenny Don’t And The Spurs
Jenny Lewis
Jenny Morris
Jenny Marie Lang
Jerry Douglas-Last time I saw Jerry he came out at Red Rocks in 2022 and jammed with the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Too much slide is never enough.
Jerry Garcia-I love and miss Jerry. I listen to him weekly.
Jerry Jeff Walker-One of the acts I saw at The Lone Star Saloon in NYC.
Jerry Lee Lewis-Another Lone Star gig and my memory was that it was not all that good and Jerry had had a few pops!
Jess Hitchcock
Jesse Colin Young-Jesse was in the Youngbloods and their song “Get Together” was a hippie anthem. I recall watching him with 300,000 people in the shadow of the World Trade Centre for the free No Nukes Concert. Springsteen was playing at the ticketed shows but they made it VERY CLEAR he would not be at the free show….otherwise there would have been 600,000 people there.
Jesse Harris
Jess Parker
Jess Robiero
Jesse Redwing
Jesse Welles
Jesse Winchester
Jet-Saw them support the Rolling Stones at The Enmore in Sydney with 1300 other people.
Jethro Tull
Jim Conway
Jim James
Jim Jones Revue
Jim Kweskin
Jim Lauderdale
Jim Post
Jim White
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Vaughan-Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan at The Sydney Opera House. It was not sold out, but it was bloody good. If you ever saw Stevie live, you know what I mean.
Jimmy Barnes-JIMMY!
Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Cliff
Jimmy Herring
Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Page-Only caught Jimmy when he came out and played an encore of “Rock Me Baby” with Bad Company in 1974. Whoa!
Jimmy Smith-New Orleans Jazz Festival in the Jazz Tent. I can close my eyes and be at that set in a flash.
Jimmy Thackeray and The Drivers
Jimmy Webb
JJ Grey and Mofro
Jo Jo Zep And The Falcons
Joan Armatrading-Seen Joan a number of times, the last time she was as boring as watching paint dry was when she supported Boz Scaggs at a winery gig here in Australia. As a matter of fact, Boz was not much better, as he was on a tour doing jazz standards. Fuck that.
Joan As Policewoman
Joan Baez
Joanne Shaw Taylor-One night she arrived at her gig at The Basement in Sydney on the back of a motorcycle. She took off her helmet and her long hair fell over her shoulders. She headed into the gig and the motorcyclist who had brought her there took off his helmet and it was my good mate Tizza. What a laugh.
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Camilleri
Joe Cocker
Joe Ely
Joe Henry
Joe Jackson-Countless times seeing him in NYC. Never a bad show.
Joe King Carrasco
Jo-El Sonnier
Joe Louis Walker
Joe Pernice
Joe Pug
Joe Strummer
Joe Walsh
Joey Leigh Wagtail
John Butler
John Cragie
John Doe
John Farnham
John Fogerty
John Grant
John Hammond
John Hartford
John Hiatt
John Lee Hooker
John Lennon
John Martyn
John Mayall
John Medeski
John Mellencamp
John Mooney and Bluesiana
John Popper
John Prine-Avery Fisher Music Hall in New York City in 1973. I had won tickets from WBAU a Long Island College Radio Station. I could find no one to go with me so I went off on my own. The seats were a few rows back, dead centre.
Prine did 23 songs and he had me as a fan for life by the time he finished “Sam Stone” 5 songs in.
John Sebastian-IF you never heard his record Tarzana Kid, check it out.
Johnny Thunders
Johnny’s
Johnette Napolitano
Johnnie Johnson
Johnny Copeland-Onlu caught Johnny once at a bandshell in Prospect Park in Brooklyn He was supported by Koko Taylor and what a night of blues that was.
Johnny Diesel and The Injectors
Johnny Greens Blues Cowboys-Honky Tonk Aussie Style. Danced for hours with these guys and also drove to Newcastle once to see them on New Years Eve.
Johnny Guitar Watson
Johnny Paycheck-Johnny was on a bill with a number of other country artists at Roosevelt Raceway. Nothing like drinking in the sun all day, betting on horses and then singing “Take This Job And Shove It.”
Johnny Winter -Many times supporting many acts at The Academy of Music in NYC. He should have been the main act on some of those nights he was soooooo good.
Johnnos Blues Bands-Some crazy ass dude from Cairns who I saw at The Narooma Blues Festival. Not sure what he was on or if he had hit his head, but he was wearing a native American Indian head dress.
Johnston City
Jolie Holland
Jon Cleary
Jon Langford
Jon English and The Foster Brothers
Jon Rauhouse
Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion
Jonathan Edwards-Beer and psychedelics in the sun at SUNY Oswego with my gal at the time, Diane. And a cast of others…..
JONATHAN RICHMAN and THE MODERN LOVERS
Jonathan Wilson-In a wine bar in Redfern when he was touring with Roger Waters with my good mate Paulie T!
Jonny Fritz
Jonny Lang
Jools Holland
Jordie Lane
Jorma Kaukonen-Met Jorma when he came to The Adelaide Guitar Festival. Such a laid-back and mellow dude, life has treated him well. He does great things at his Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio, musically that is.
Jose Feliciano
Joseph Arthur
Joshua Hedley
Josh Ritter
Joyce Preacher
Joy Division-You know, love will tear us apart.
Julia Stone -I like her brother more.
Juliana Hatfield
Junior Brown-The man who invented the Guit-Steel. What a freak!
Junior Walker
Junior Wells
Justin Timberlake-Sometimes you marry someone and you get dragged along to gigs you would never choose to go. I know I am just as bad on the other side. All in all, it was an entertaining pop-show for about an hour or so. Then, I got bored.
Justin Townes Earle-I miss Justin. He was an excellent performer and writer.
The Jefferson Aeroplane story is a cracker. Lucky you it wasn’t Starship. I think you’ve seen every band that mattered that ever existed
Wow, what a list!