ever given up on an artist after hearing them live?
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Somewhat related to meeting artists. There have been a few times where I have been so disappointed in a live performance that I stopped listening to the artist's records (at least for a while).
A few comes to mind:
Roy Ayers - there's something about electronic pads for vibes that just rubs me the wrong way (and the rest of the band was also crap, weak keyboard rhodes sounds for days)
James Blake (jan 2011): snoozefest
Gil Scott-Heron: another artist guilty of "modern" sounds.
There are probably quite few hip-hop acts too but I can't come up with any names right now...
A few comes to mind:
Roy Ayers - there's something about electronic pads for vibes that just rubs me the wrong way (and the rest of the band was also crap, weak keyboard rhodes sounds for days)
James Blake (jan 2011): snoozefest
Gil Scott-Heron: another artist guilty of "modern" sounds.
There are probably quite few hip-hop acts too but I can't come up with any names right now...
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my girl gave up on lauryn hill though
This. I saw War in the 90's, with very few original members, and it was horribly dull. They were knocked out the box by the opener, Average White Band (who killed it). I still like War recordings, but this event may have swayed my opinion towards Mandrill in that great debate.
The group was fronted by husband and wife David and Linda LaFlame.
I guess they were going through a divorce.
They had their back to each other and were trying to shoulder each other off the stage the whole show.
Awful.
Plus they only had the one good song, so no loss.
They opened for Elephants Memory who were even worse.
Also, James White and the Blacks who I had the misfortune of seeing at the height of his popularity.
i was at a show that i think the MAN noz organized at GW. the sound levels were so wack that it was physically painful to my ear drums.
Kool Keith
Acid Mothers Temple
where did you see him play? i've seen him 3 times live recently and each time he sounded like the record, except live. I can't fathom why you would not like the live show if you like the record.
he sounded astonishingly bad live over here - something really, really awful going on there with the sound.
yeah same thing here, i saw them last year at the Jazz Festival here, Posdnuos wasnt present due to some health related issues and they spent a lot of time spitting yo! yo! yo! over the mic, glad i didnt pay to get into the venue..
I saw them at Astroworld summer '89 and it was one of the funnest days of my life!
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this.
saw fugazi back in the early 00's back in Austin right after The Argument came out. Show was crazy sold out, crazy annoying people there and Ian was talking enough shit ( a little holier than thou, shitting on kids for getting hype at the show) to kinda dampen the overall mood. I left like midway through the set with little remorse.
i'd seen them a handful of time before with not much incident, and i still love the band and their work. but i doubt i'll be trying to catch any sold out reunion shows down the line.
if you have never seen him i would still check him out,i'm just saying that i've seen him many times and he just seems like he has ran out of gas. it hurts me as well.
that's his shtick. i have been to several shows of theirs where he stops mid-song to berate crowd surfers and eject folks who aren't behaving.
when they played my home town when i was a kid in support of maybe repeater or 13 songs, the whole band went to the after-party at someone's house and ian mackye held court there in a barka lounger all night discussing the evils of drugs and alcohol as everybody else proceeded to get wasted.
At some point they brought in Nate Phillips and Marlon McLain and other members of Pleasure.
Was that the group you saw?
Would explain why they were so good.
You are also likely to see Nate and Marlon if you see a Crusaders reunion.
yeah, i've seen it before, and have even heard of more stuff he does (or doesn't do). i guess after seeing them a half dozen times though, it finally wore off on me. having a good anti-drug/moshpit ethos is fine, but after a while it kinda just ruins the show itself.
That said, Nas came on and just stood there hella weeded out and did like 5 songs and bounced.
And about De La, I saw them numerous times in the mid-late 90s and early 00s and they rocked it every time. I thought they had the crowd rockin for days with their stage presence.
I saw Mos Def and Kweli in Oakland last year and that was a bit boring. Maybe cuz it was in a big venue- which doesn't do anything for me anyway.