Worst live show you ever saw?

funkymonk

lanners wrote:

Helix (yeah, i know...everyone is asking who???) in 1987. It was an arena show and there were probably less than 25 people there.

I just saw Helix recently when they opened for Alice Cooper. Can't say that I was the least bit impressed. Very cheesy 80's metal. Gimme an R....

eloesch1

my girlfriend dragged me to springfling (a free concert on our campus) this year. At this concert I was forced to listen to a terrible band called motion city soundtrack. This was truly the worst crap i have ever heard. Worse than the music however may have been all the gay ass emo/screamo kids. Not only do these people look like utter tools but they actually think this is good music. One cool thing was that since there was just a few hundred people the singer could actually hear me yelling various comments from the back about how much his band sucked dick. Luckily the next weekend i saw pj in albany and then tool in nyc the weekend after. Even these two great shows, however, were not enough to erase the pain and agony embedded by that terrible afternoon. Perhaps 2 more PJ's and radiohead will finally rid this filth from my mind. In closing, emo sucks. They should stop whining and put themselves out of their misery because the garbage they spew just causes misery for people like us who enjoy listening to talented musicians.

eloesch1

I might catch some shit for this but i thought mars volta kinda sucked live. I love their music but it just didnt sound right live. Maybe cuz i had shitty seats but the acoustics were awful.

funkymonk

I saw Mars Volta when they opened for the Peppers on their last tour. You couldn't really differentiate one song from the other and the sound was terrible at this show too.

Thumbing My Way

I would say Iron Maiden....pretty much because of the setlist and the sound was shit.

And,

Green Day, because they played their whole new fucking album......that was the day I stopped listening to them.....that concert killed them for me.

vaggar99

Maroon5/Counting Crows/John Mayer
The only good thing about this show was I got to meet Immy (guitar player from CC) and some hot blonde mistook me for the drummer of Maroon 5. I should have played along, but I couldnt be associated with that shitty band. John Mayer is a puss too.

harmless_little_f***

Stereophonics live at Wembley Arena. The drummer was totally all over the place, fast, slow, fast, faster, slower. Awful. Nobody believed me that they could have been that bad and 'famous', but...

Collin

Limp biskit (at a festival)
the polyphonic spree
and wu tang (drunk and stoned and couldn't stop bitching about ODB)

CServant

Best AND Worst - Guns & Roses.
Gotta Love that Axl Rose and his mood swings.

Atomic Punk

worst 3 shows I have ever seen (I have seen about 200) would have to be

Alice in Chains (1991)
Def Leppard (1988)
Smashing Pumpkins (around 1996 - 97)

I saw Def Leppard years later in a club and they were much much better
I never got a chance to see AIC again, I wish I had.
Smashing Pumpkins I never had a desire to see again. They DEFINATELY were a studio band as far as I am concerned.

whatsthefreezer

tegan and sarah opening for neil young.

made my best friend vomit.

exolstice

I'll have to go with Smashing Pumpkins as well.

goto_l

Soundgarden-Live they were horrible, so bad they have the distinction of being the only band I've ever walked out on twice.

BinGnarly

Camper Von Beathoven I enjoy some of their stuff and they opened for Modest Mouse last summer. I didnt think it was possible to be bored at a concert till I heard them play live. They were horrible but Modest Mouse made up for it And the band Zwan or whatever Billy Corigans band after The Smashing Pumpkins. They know how to suck.

eclectic

My Chemical Romance - Reading Festival 2005

Lost Prophets - Reading Festival 2004(White Stripes were utter bumwaste as well!!)

Scratchin a Letter

Red Hot Chili Peppers,V Festival 2002, Docklands 1&2 2003, Hyde Park 1&2 2004. (Yes, I've seen them a lot)

I won't be going to any more of their concerts. As a huge fan they have consistently disappointed me in terms of the setlist, the prescence, the sound quality and the interaction. They need to get over their hype and play songs from their WHOLE backcatalogue, not just the Fruciante albums.

No diversity. Hate to say it, but they are just a poor live band.

moemoe6434

MetalGod75 wrote:

i saw REM years ago on the Monster tour at Milton Keynes bowl,Blur supported and blew them away.REM came on and it was the WORST concert ive ever witnessed!I walked out after the 3rd or 4th song.I remember they even said on the radio that they sucked that night!I was a fan b4 i saw them live,never listened to them since TOTAL SHIT.I have never walked out of a concert b4 or since!

so.... you walked out in the 3rd or 4th song and you say they sucked huh? Hmmm. Nothing like sticking around to give them a try.

stone720

MeddleDeal wrote:

Here are 2 of mine that I remembered:

The first would be Dashboard Confessional opening up for Weezer back in 2002. The band that opened up first, was Sparta, which totally kicked ASS and I was very energetic during their set. Then Dashboard came on, and my friends all liked them, so I was like, okay, i'll give them a try. Well, then within the first 5 mins. of their set, I started falling asleep standing up, on the floor. I started to sway back and forth and almost fell back in front of another fan. Everyone around me was singing along to their lyrics, and all I could think of was "PLEASE be OVER! You are killing me w/this crap!' I had to literally suffer through their set, and that is why whenever i hear dashboard, I fall asleep. hahaha The MOST boring band I would EVER see!

I was just thinking about that tour. I saw that in San Antonio and Sparta came out and got the crowd going. And then Dashboard Confessional came out and it just brought it all down for me. It was so damn boring. I've never had to suffer through a band before like that. Horrible.

stone720

I just remembered I also took my younger cousins to Warped Tour. Everyone was having a good time. Even the bands I thought would suck turned out to be half way decent. Then my cousins wanted to see New Found Glory. Absolute Shit. Horrible singing, horrible playing. The singer kept yelling at the crowd for not getting into it. Well, we'll get into it when you stop sucking. Even my little cousins were bored. Thank God, I think they stopped being fans after that show.

Pearls&Stones

moemoe6434 wrote:

so.... you walked out in the 3rd or 4th song and you say they sucked huh? Hmmm. Nothing like sticking around to give them a try.

EXACTLY. even if you leave at the encore you beat the traffic and get to make a fair assessment.

My worst headliners....

They Might Be Giants--the prissy asshole singer was upset about something with the venue and took it out on the college students who paid $15 to see them by giving them a 60 minute show. Professionalism!

I've seen Aerosmith 6 times, and 5 were good. But, once on the Nine Lives tour, they were just waaay off. I didn't hold it against them because lawn was $17 and they have been real good every time since.

Sheryl Crow--I had high hopes for her, but she just can't do it live.



openers....

Sleater-Kinney---ugh. I don't know what Ed sees in them.

(No joke) Some stand up comedian opened for Weird Al and managed to make fun of handicapped children. Al was great, though.

Ozomatli---just awful

Fun Lovin' Criminals---U2 isn't great at picking openers

Macy Gray---Dave Matthews isn't good at it either

Iggy Pop--actually, a lot of Pearl Jam openers have sucked, too

Blind Mellon---sorry to the late Shannon, but they were awful live