Let's see:

Red Hot Chili Peppers (x 4)
Foo Fighters (x 8)
The Who
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
James Brown
Biffy Clyro (x 2)
Kaiser Chiefs (x 2)
Franz Ferdinand
Placebo
The Pixies
Bryan Adams
Motorhead
Queens of the Stone Age
Iggy Pop (x 2)
Royal Blood
The Thrills
Hot House Flowers
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (sort of, we were in a hotel just round the corner and heard every song)

Those are the ones I remember / actually wanted to see, there were a few other support acts etc. at some of those gigs who aren't quite worth mentioning.

Seen / heard loads of local bands at the festivals we cater at, and recently fed a couple of the members of the band Everything Everything at a local festival..

Mostly Finnish bands/artists, with the ones I actually wanted to see in bold:

Absoluuttinen Nollapiste
Alexander in Paris
Boga
Branded Women
Cleaning Women
Elisabeth Underground
HIM - I never really cared for them, but I think they were opening for The Prodigy.
I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper (x5)
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Kevin
Kille Kuuleri
Kuolleet Intiaanit - Was lucky to see them before they quit. Excellent show.
Machinae Supremacy - The venue had no stage, so I could barely even see the band.
Medeia
Murmansk
Mushmouthed Talk (x1.5)
Ninni Forever Band (x2)
Pintandwefall
PMMP
Polartones
The Prodigy - My first, biggest and worst gig. Before it had even started, one guy pissed his pants, and another one almost got beat up by a massive skinhead. For the rest of the night I had to dodge the nearly-beaten guy's ass as he swung it around wildly while holding onto a guard rail. I guess I should've opted for a seat in the stadium's stands.
Regina
Satan's Fingers
Tigerbombs
TV-Resistori (x2)

I don't really go to gigs anymore, but some bands I'd still like to see:
Kometa - A slightly more traditional rock band featuring 2/3 of Cleaning Women.
Kuha. - Seems like they may have quit for good, though.
Rammstein - Preferably at a stadium, in the stands (see: The Prodigy).

none
pretty much all the band i like have disbanded or stopped touring
the only exception are the misfits but i am not interested in the misfits without danzig


and neither the misfits nor danzig are actually all that great live from the footage i have seen

Thats a lot of metal in this thread ;)

No clue really, more than 300 shows. Lots of local bands though and many seen several times.

Most memorable ones:
Emperor (one of two reasons i went to Wacken 2006, most impressive concert i've ever seen.)
Celtic Frost (second reason i went to Wacken 2006 ;) )
Camel (drove 600km to see them in Netherlands. Completely worth it, even if Andrew Latimer did vocals on less songs than id have liked. The other guy was good too though)
Opeth (4 times overall.. first was the best though, in a club with maybe 100 people, was pretty good. Blackwater Park tour i think)
Wolves in the throne room (same club, all lit by candles, it was quite atmospheric)
Candlemass (that short episode when Messiah was back. Great show)

Not so much luck with many of the "classics" though, Slayer were shitty as hell when i saw them, Judas Priest were a very sad joke (after Halford came back), Ozzie didn't impress me (Dio and Heaven and Hell did though) and Kiss were mixed at best. Maiden were always good though.

Best missed opportunity:
Cathedral, inexpensive and very close... and everyone was too lazy that day to get up. shortly later they disbanded. Still annoys me.

I presume you mean some universally renowned bands, not any national bands that are unknown in other countries, nor any cheap cover band that plays "Summer of 69" in the local pub every Friday and Saturday, sometimes even on Wednesdays?

If so, frankly the only one I can remember is Lady Gaga several years ago when she visited Finland. I bought two tickets to the concert for a very high price (from a scalper), as a birthday gift to my wife. She liked the gift very much, I used earplugs in the concert.

That's one thing I don't understand, why does everything have to be so damn loud in the concerts? Everyone who attends them will DEFINITELY get some damage to their hearing, if they don't wear any protection. We were not even near to the stage, yet the loudness was deafening.

Of course I presume in Canada (and most other countries) you get much much MUCH more chances to see known bands live, compared to Finland. Damn Pink Floyd! I think they have visited Finland twice or so, and as big fans, me and my friend bought tickets to one of the concerts.

It got cancelled (I don't recall why, maybe David Gilmour saw this video and decided there's no reason to go to Finland anymore), so as a consolation we were offered tickets to see ZZ Top instead. But they cancelled too, so we saw nothing, nix, zilch, nada, ничего!!!

:D Nothing against ZZ Top, but thats a really lame compensation for Floyd.

"Does DAVID BOWIE count as a band?"

evilnancyreagan sardonically inquires while dropping the microphone unto the filthy, plebeian floor.

I agree, but in Finland, you get what you can.

Who knows, maybe ZZ Top would have agreed to play some PF covers like "Sheep" and "One of these days"?

Hundreds, maybe thousands of them. Have seen the levellers 6 times! I suppose my most memorable one was seeing Joe Strummer at Glastonbury the year he died, such a legend.

The one band I didn't see and regret it was nightwish when tarja was part of it.

Rammstein
Iron Maiden
Madness
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Within Temptation
After Forever
Nightwish (unfortunately with Anette)
Epica
Delain
Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell
Rage Against the Machine
Metallica
Motörhead
Slayer
Triggerfinger
Faith No More
The Offspring
Lily Allen
Ska-P
Die Toten Hosen
Gogol Bordello
Skunk Anansie
Velvet Revolver
Roger Waters
Ray Davies
Greenday
Editors
Kasabian
Slash
The Prodigy
Evanescence
Queens of the Stone Age

And a whole bunch more who's name I have forgotten, partly due to preferring festivals over concerts.

I knew I was forgetting something.

Edguy
Paradise Lost
Therion

Concrete Blonde- several times when they visited Australia, plus a Johnette Napolitano solo show as well. Amazing band live and pretty sure Napolitano has been stoned, intoxicated or both at once in every performance I've seen. She seems to play best that way.

Transvision Vamp - me and a mate got there REAL early to make absolutely certain we were at the front center of the stage so we could look up Wendy James' skirt. Hey, we were only 19, what you expect? Anyway, it was dark and couldn't see anything anyway.

Hoodoo Gurus - one of Australia most awesome performers live.

The Mark of Cain- from my time in Adelaide. Brilliant hardcore rock band.

Helmet- similar to The Mark of Cain, but American.

Choir Boys- Australian band that had their day in the early 90's.

Chunky Custard- Adelaide based Led Zeppelin cover band, saw them quite a few times when I lived there.

Frente- they were support act for Concrete Blonde I think it was.

Frenzal Rhomb- Australian softish Punk Rock style.

Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.

My top list of bands I want to come to Australia to see: Appocalyptica from Finland, Therion from Sweden. Unfortunately Euro bands tend to see my country as a back water that's barely worth the cost of coming here.

Mostly that i remember:

Jean Michel Jarre
Depeche Mode
Mark Knopfler
Roger Waters
Pain of Salvation x3
Von Hertzen Brothers
Metallica x2
Iron Maiden
Whitesnake x2
Gamma Ray
Helloween

etc.

I was in a few bands and played with lots of bands. Hope those count.

Ones I can remember...
Fugazi
Captain Eyeball
The Pist
O'phil
Against All Authority
Public Image Limited (got mooned by Johnny Rotten. That was a treat)
Subsanity
Ministry
(Just missed seeing a few as well, namely The Misfits and The Ramones on their farewell tour)
(and a bunch of local punk and skate bands in my home state)

And for some reason I saw The Beach Boys twice. If you count what's his face who played drums for them and bumping into the Olsen twins at Disneyland, I've met or seen nearly the entire cast of Full House, through absolutely no choice of my own.