10 Worst Concerts You've Ever Seen
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Rolling Stones - Veterans Stadium w/Foriegner & Peter ToshJefferson Starship & Jeff BeckBoston & Sammy Hagar (Lord, why did you let me go to this??)Bruce Springsteen - Cotton BowlTalking Heads & B-52's PalladiumLimp Bizkit & DMX (Took my kids, I hope they appreciate it)Korn & Stain'd- Reunion Arena (Stood on stage w/daughter who had won Radio Contest)The Who - Reunion Arena '82 (I never even liked this band)Van Morrison - Dude did 3 songs and leftMark Farner/Charlie Daniels/Marshall Tucker - Commack Arena (I went to see Farner do Grand Funk shit and the rednecks booed him off the stage after 1 1/2 songs.)
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A decade later, I still want that night back
That's weird. I saw him at NOLA Jazz Fest in '95...and I thought it was great.
suicide - alan vega seriously asked the crowd about the Giants
buzzcocks - had to wait over an hour until they came on and then the mics weren't working
It's not wierd, if you like jazz.
when was this? i always liked his performance in the Last Waltz where he's wearing the purple body suit and obviously smashed and he's doing those drunken kicks and walks off stage before caravan is even finished. i think i was astounded that his voice was still there even though he barely was
Like watching a high school rap act who didn't have their shit together AT ALL.
Lame.
Close second was waiting all night ouside in the freezing cold for a free De La Show at Nation in DC, circa Mosaic Thump. Pharoah Monche killed it, Biz Markie spinning, and De La comes out after making everyone wait forever and delivered a completely limp set.
de la at skidmore college. bad, but mercifully, short show.
The Cult at the Alamodome, San Antonio 1989
I didn't want to draw this conclusion so bad that I made the msitake of checking them out again when they rolled through Austin a few months later. It was just as horrible.
The show of theirs I wished I didn't miss was at the Houston Summit in like '87. Guns and Roses opened for them and the crowd wasn't very into it. At a certain point of silence during G-n-R's set, a dude in the front row yelled loud enough for the entire auditorium to hear..."WE WANT THE CULT!!!" Axl Rose immediately answered him by kicking dude right in the head with his boot. Like I said, I missed this show but thankfully someone drew a very detailed 4-panel cartoon strip of the Axl kick on a bathroom wall at my high school. And that's how I first heard of Guns and Roses.
MF Doom at 9:30 Club
sound was mixed so horribly that my ears actually hurt.
BAN
For me, it was definitely Ryan Adams, circa 2002. My
girlfriend and I liked to listen to his first album in
the car, so I got us tickets to go see him live. I have
been unable to even listen to that 1st CD ever since.
Pure egotistical time-wasting garbage.
London 1995, i go to see a Kiwi band (supergroove) playing at some fucking dive,and the support act is this awful bunch of dickheads called Sugar Ray (this must have been promo tour or something because they were all over the radio not long after).
Anyway, im standing there watching the poseoff on stage and some big tall fucker stands right in front of me, right in my personal space. I tap his shoulder, he turns around and its Billy Duffy.
Im at a complete loss for words. I stand there gawping like a fish (yeah i said gawping), he looks at me and says "they are fucking shite right?" I nod and he walks off.
The Cult rules.
1. killa kella in vancouver about 3 years ago: dude came onstage super baked and perfromed some rinky dink routine for about 15 mins.
2. fred wesley/idris muhhmad/lonnie smith also in vancouver about 6 years ago. the music was real good but it was poorly promoted and there were about 6 people there. fred was not happy about the situation and just seeing him so exasperated was kind of a letdown. when it came time for his spotlight or whatever he was like and now i have to do the part of the show were they feature my music and shuffled to the center stage to do some call and response tune i was not really familiar with. well the only person to do the call and response with was this old, drunk, white lady who was probably there by accident only. it was sad. at the end of the show i apologized to him. idris was supreme; tuned his drums differently for each song.
3. dj shadow in montreal in about 96. i guess guy had been strictly in the studio before this time so his live show was really lacking and seemingly he had to charisma or stage presence. it was on the heels of entroducing, the room was packed, and everyone was expecting great things but all he did was play his record and drop some samples from his mpc. again, a real uncomfortable and akward vibe. after the show he just sat by the stage alone; i felt bad for him.
4. dread zeppelin in the early 90's in winnipeg: they showed up without the fat elvis impersonator lead singer. priscilla, get me some bacon..
one time was for love, the other was for work.
Neither was worth it.
And the first concert i ever went to was the Auckland stop of the Poison unskinny bop world tour.
I have an excuse, i was doing work experience at a radio station and i got to go and i even got to drink beer.
The next day at school my story impressed Joanne Bosman enough to let me kiss her...
she had fucking herpes.
Peaches(Paris June 2003)....will someone please cut this woman's mic and kill the DAT...awful awful hipster bullshit
Tora Tora(opening for Alice Cooper Memphis,1986)...was supposed to be motherfucking MOTORHEAD opening, I was so excited, but no, "visa" issues...so instead here's Tora Tora! Awwww maaaaaaaaan. Guitar fritzed out so it was 30 minutes of bass, drums and godawful hair spray perm vocals. Yuck.
W.A.S.P. (Memphis 95?) Lip synching to a DAT. I know they sucked to begin with, but they couldnt even pull off the suckiness live, had to phone that crap in.
Van Halen(monsters of rock Memphis 1987) fuck Hagar, his douchetardery even made Eddie's guitar playing boring...
Dickies(Dallas 93?) yawn, forgot words, fucked up songs, lame
Butthole Surfers (Dallas 95) Electric Larryland we-dont-gvie-a-shit-anymore-era Surfers. No light show, nothing...just half assed performances of quarter-assed lame shit from their last 2 albums. I got my weed and pipe confiscated at the gate for this?
2) Aerosmith at the Omni in Atlanta in '78. When I saw Steven Tyler getting helped UP the stairs to the stage BEFORE the show started I knew we were in trouble.
3) Teenzinheat at the Agora Ballroom circa 1979. Free tickets won on college radio. I didn't give punk rock another chance til 1981.
4) Replacements at the 688 Club in Atlanta around 1984. Horrible. The show the night before in Athens was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
5) Tricky in DC 4-5 years ago. First time I saw him he was great. Not this time.
6) Echo and the Bunnymen in Atlanta 1985. Show lasted two and a half songs before Ian McCulloch left the stage never to return (at least that night). Official reason given was "illness" but a friend of mine had seen him partying at Club Rio the night before around 4AM.
7) Grateful Dead in Charlotte, NC around 84-85. Garcia was a mess. Forgotten lyrics, missed cues, etc. And I loved these guys.
8) Some reggae band I saw in Jacksonville, FL last year when I was down visiting my parents. Trustafarians from hell. The crowd loved em though.
Haha... I actually read an article a few years ago about bands that subsist off of doing shows at corporate events. Like Hootie and the Blowfish.
These are the type of bands you are forced to read about in the in-flight magazine when you forget to bring a book with you.
What is the name for this genre, anyway?
Middle manager rock?
Maybe it needs its own thread.
Gza: Yo, yo When (hypemen: the mc's came)
To (live out the name)
And (to perform some had)
To (snort cocaine)
and so on.
yeah, i wouldn't really have any reason to see Taj Mahal out of my own volition. i guess some of his early stuff is okay but i don't really care. the show was at yoshii's which is totally corporate but i was surprised at how CEO-like a majority of the audience was. and when they all started moving it was like a horror movie.
it felt exactly like this
She sounded tone-deaf.
Faux Rock
DJ Spooky
Animal Collective
um like a million local bands/groups but those are the biggies I can think of that made me want to shoot myself.
Blackalicious @ UCSD (they rushed through their set cuz nobody cares about 'em in Socal.)
Aloe Blacc @ Little Temple (totally bland performance. overcrowded scenester venue.)
And a bunch of wannabe underground rap acts, back in my college years.
This was in '72-'73....the paper the next day said he was suffering from stagefright....I've also heard that the Band song "Stagefright" was about Van???