Archiving all the shows I've been to.

[Guest adam526]

I've been wanting to do this for a while now, just basically archive the hundreds of shows I've been to. I was wondering if anyone has done this and how they've gone about doing it. I was thinking a Google Doc, but if there's a better way, speak up!

I'm thinking "Who I went to see..." "Who else played..." "Venue" and "City"

When I REALLY have a ton of time on my hands I'll research the dates.

Thanks, Bro Satriani.

[motorbike]

this sounds like a good idea. i might try it just to rack my brain.

[Guest adam526]

this sounds like a good idea. i might try it just to rack my brain.

That's how it started, usually waiting in line at a venue I'd be like "hmm, whooooooo else have I seen here."

Now looking into getting it all out of my head.

[jhog3411]

I have a Word document with every show I've gone to with the date, who I saw play, and where it was. Also have an Excel spreadsheet with every band I've seen and the number of times I've seen them. With over 10 years of shows it's fun to go back and remember shows and lineups etc.

[Guest adam526]

Yea, for a while I would keep all my stubs/bracelets, but I just stopped at some point in the last few years. I started going to shows pretty young so I have a lot to think of.

My game plan is to go through my Itunes from A-Z.

[goraiders]

i did this until like senior year of high school (im a senior in college now) and even then there were kind of a lot. i want to keep track but i know i wont be able to remember a lot of the bands.

[kirbypuckett]

I wish I did this when I was a kid.

There's no way I could remember all of the shows that I've been to now though.

I always though that my first show was the Suicide Machines / Avail, but I was going through my ticket stubs the other day and I found a Rancid one that was before that. I don't remember that show at all. I must have been 14/15 years old.

I am making a little scrapbook (how lame) with all my stubs though. I didn't want to throw them away and this is a cheap way to display them as a coffee table book or something.

[xxmartinxx]

I can't even remember all the bands I've seen over the past 20 years much less every show and the bands that opened.

[mediocore]

I wish I would've kept track more. I have a pretty good idea of all the bands I've seen, but can't remember exact shows/venues on a lot of them. Plus I've lost a ton of ticket stubs over the years, so that doesn't help.

Maybe I'll do something with the ones I do have.

[hickey]

I wish I would've kept track more. I have a pretty good idea of all the bands I've seen, but can't remember exact shows/venues on a lot of them. Plus I've lost a ton of ticket stubs over the years, so that doesn't help.

This is me exactly. I recently started saving stubs. A lot of my ticket stubs from the early 1990s to about 2000 are long gone (so most of my good stuff like Jawbreaker, etc.) I used to use stubs as decoration and stick them all over the place. Last week I was throwing away an old pair of speakers and found two stubs stuck to the side of one. One was from an old Deftones show, probably mid-1990s the other was from the Epitaph Summer Nationals in NYC in 1997. NOFX headlined and that ticket was like $6 and change. Ha!

[mrc]

I had an excel spreadsheet of all the shows i went to but when my computer got infected with some virus i lost pretty much everything. I kept it updated from about 98-03 with bands, venues, dates and costs. I really wished i still had it. I barely go shows anymore so there is no point of starting a new one.

[scottheisel]

I have a detailed list of shows I've attended since 2004 (somewhere in the 600 range right now), but between 1997 (my first "punk" gig) and 2003, who knows -- I've been meaning to comb through all my old fliers/ticket stubs/photos/etc to get somewhat of a list together, but can't find the time to do it.

[kirbypuckett]

Make an intern do it.

[adammuzzy]

good luck.

i could never remember anything like this.

especially if i've seen multiple shows at the same place, i can never remember which bands opened up for which others, etc.

[goraiders]

i think im going to try to do this instead of going to class today

luckily theres a list of all bay area punk shows since like 1995, that should help with the opening bands

edit: here's what i have so far, this is going to take forever

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ar37KaV4Cn7_dGpsV0JrSFR5d2tpNW4wdVdKN1VveHc&hl=en

[xjustinxschwierx]

i tried to do this once like 10 years ago, failed. now it'd be almost a lost cause to even attempt it.

[adamlikesmusic]

I have a document like this hosted online. It's quite shameful, though, so I won't share it. (Though it's probably easily found through a Google search, if one is so inclined to do so :-/ )

I did see the Spice Girls when I was 7, and did not include that on the list, however. I stuck to shows I actually had a say in going to.

I'll add that I included Date, Venue, City/State, and then listed the bands (including crappy local openers). Also, if it was a specific tour (Warped Tour, Revival Tour, etc), I made note of that.

[monk0nuggets]

I did this for a few years and gave up. Just too damn many. Good luck though!

[birdwell]

noway I could go back and figure this all out...I have negatives in my binder that all my Negatives are in...and I went through last summer and couldn't figure out a handfull of which bands the pics were from...and which would only be the past 4 years worth of shows...all the ones before that, no clue how many of those I've crapped out of my brain. I really wish I'd kept a detailed list like this though, would be radical

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[rtw88]

I can't even remember all of the bands I've seen in the last 6 months.

[danthemjfan23]

if anybody is attempting to do something similar for themselves and needs help remembering any alkaline trio shows, get in touch with me. i can more than likely help you out.

[adammuzzy]

I can't even remember all of the bands I've seen in the last 6 months.

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[mikeian]

on last.fm they have events and you could list events by band or venue. it's user-entered but it could be helpful for the more recent shows.

currently i have a spreadsheet on google docs i've been keeping for the past couple years of shows / upcoming shows i've been to / want to go to. it has some shows i didn't end up going to, though