Everyone likes to hype the shows they've been too... but what's the WORST show?

pearljamdude420

ottawa 2011 the crowd was really lame

renzorock

Atlanta 2012.

Mike's Side

I'm don't think I could answer this question

YieldToNothing

hartford 06 was definitely a little bit of a letdown considering how awesome albany was the night before

i had a blast at the hersheypark 03 show

YieldToNothing

hartford 06 was definitely a little bit of a letdown considering how awesome albany was the night before

i had a blast at the hersheypark 03 show

kid canada

Easily Hershey 2003 - it was the night after the crazy Tweeter Center show and they had nothin' in the tank.

starmap3333

Lolla 07 didn't do anything for me (I was there). It was the first of several festival shows I have been to where I think they can do better. I think once they get the radio songs out of the way for everyone to hear once... it'll be insanity setlists every night. The most recent setlist at Lolla 2013 was THE show if your wife is like, "No, I don;t wanna go, they played 4 songs I knew last time". EVERY. SINGLE. HIT.

Atlanta '12 show was saved by Nothingman and a pretty tight Know Your Rights.

Then you have Deluna which, I thought, was a pretty varied setlist for a festival. I guess festivals can be ok... but they're the shows that I think are the worst.

Bonnaroo was the exception. Fucking amazing show (was there! :0).

Then I have to say that every show I listen to that I wasn't at... there's always at least one thing to pick from the show that was... "a moment".

In summary, I don;t think there is a worst show. Some shows have more moments than others, but every show has a moment.

TamaDrummer91

renzorock wrote:

Atlanta 2012.

:nono:

I don't know how someone could post this show in this thread unless all one cares about at a PJ show is making sure they hear 4 or 5 fairly rare songs.

Yup, ATL got a fairly standard festival setlist but my god it was a festival with 55,000 people (most of which I'm sure were casual fans). It was a very tight, energetic show (which really comes through on the boot). I had a ball.

Digital Twilight

slimjamie86 wrote:

Wembley 2007.

But I think that's mostly because I can't remember a thing about it, because I was horribly hungover and they never released an official boot.

Yup mine too. The sound was very shitty. Matt's basedrum just tore through the place (you can hear it on the audience bootleg). Some people said it was fine but I was stood at the middle/back and it was terrible. Took a good hour to get used to it. I remember Rockin' in the free world kicking ass though.

Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC

After seeing them in Las Vegas 2000 for the 10th anniversary, my next show was 8 days later in Sacramento, CA at the Sacramento Valley Amp. I took my brother to his first PJ show and it was so freaking cold that it was hard to enjoy the music. It hurt to even clap to the music. He thought they would play 10-15 songs and be out, but was in for a rude awaking when they played 23 songs (one of the shorter sets of 2000). I was disappointed they did not play longer that night, but I agree that it was too cold for my liking. The following night's Halloween show at the Shoreline Amp made up for it.

LloydXmas

Any show that involved Sleater Kenny. Worst vocalist I've
Ever heard.

Empty Glass

Worste I've been to.

Hershey, PA

I don't mind listening to the show, but the whole vibe kinda sucked at the show

dankind

It was actually my first show: April 22, 1992 at Jannus Landing -- St. Pete. Epic energy and Eddie pulled some monkey stunts, but the band could not keep it together and Eddie's voice was shot. Awesome to see them for the first time in that type of venue and to be there with all the early fans, but the musicianship was just muddled that night.

Totally made up for it a few months later at Lollapalooza -- Orange County Fairgrounds.

ragejoe

October Motel wrote:

You can pick any show, not just ones you've been to.

It's a tough call because I don't hang onto bootlegs which have poor sound quality and/or setlists. Just checking out of the shows I have on my iPod, I'd have to say it's Boise - 2000/11/03.

There's nothing really wrong with it, it just doesn't have anything real significance about it. Well, other than my favorite alternate lyric for Spin the Black Circle - instead of "Oh my joy, only you deserve conceit", it's "I fucking hate CDs".

I hope this has been done to death. To help boost the thread, also list how many bootlegs you have.

I have 25 bootlegs, I think about 11 or 12 offical ones. I also have a bunch more waiting on my external hard drive, but I have to burn those to CD first (no, I am not pirating the offical bootlegs).

I didnt go to Boise Show, but i have the bootleg, I thought it was a great show within that tour... Ive seen 34 and have about 600 others on dvd/cd/mp3 the worst show ive ever been too out of my 34 was my 1st show, HARTFORD 98 impossible to folllow MSG 2 nights prior... had a great time and loved it at the time... 15 yrs later I think its worst I saw... Jones Beach 1 2000 is probably worst show ive heard between set list band mood and crowd...

ragejoe

LloydXmas wrote:

Any show that involved Sleater Kenny. Worst vocalist I've
Ever heard.

hahahaha agreed god i hated when he would let them come up for RITFW at the end of the PJ show

RobbyD462

LloydXmas wrote:

Any show that involved Sleater Kenny. Worst vocalist I've
Ever heard.

But they played "Harvest Moon" together in Portland '06

Zidane

I've seen them a bunch of times and yes, some of them were not as great for sure...

Montreal 2000: Stone had so many issues with his guitar, I think he skipped Whipping if my memory is good
Toronto 2005: After Ottawa, it was hard to match that performance!!
Toronto 2009: Don't know... didn't do it for me.
Ottawa 2011: Horrible crowd. And I think people were expecting the same magic as 2005!

BUT... I mean, it must be hard to keep on playing a great show every time, night after night! So, even if I'm complaining a bit, it's always a pleasure to see them. Can't wait for London ON this summer and please... PLAY TREMOR CHRIST!!!!!!!

dr. Mowinckel

First of all. All shows I've been to (only 7) were great!

In retrospect Pinkpop Festival 2000 was the "worst". It was the shortest show of them all (of all the 2000 shows), they were (weirdly) scheduled to play before Live (who were the crowd favorite) and Moby and the expectations of festival audience were way to high because of the legendary 1992 Pinkpop gig.

The best was probably Antwerp 2006. It was their first show ever in Belgium. The crowd and the band both were really into it and "Black" was magical. Hunger strike was great to hear at that time but sounds awfull on the bootleg (because of the wolfmother dude).

Philly 4 was a great experience but our seats were pretty bad (tenclub) since they were all the way in the back on the highest row of the upper level.

RC153010

Montana has to be right up in the running for worst show ever. The Virginia beach show was awful. The one that followed Columbia sc

meveret

I guess Manfield, MA 2008 Night 1 just because it was a really short set and I did not enjoy the state of Massachusetts at all. Sorry to all who live there. But that venue while impressive looking was not a welcoming or enjoyable venue (particularly the staff). And the stupid curfew made them play for less time than any other show I have been to. They did open with Hard to Imagine which was freaking incredible though.