WORST concerts (top five) you've seen

Wobbie

I know it might be painful to dredge up the memories, but go ahead

and don't be embarrassed to admit if it was MC Hammer!

My bottom five:

Johnny Winter - about 25 years past his prime.

Husker Du - love the band, but the concert was painful.

Joe Satriani - OK, Joe, we get it. You're fast. Sidenote: audience was 99% male.

Black Crowes - a HUGE dissappointment but I still like them.

REM - although the 2nd time I saw them it was WAY better

Jammin909

I saw Ozzy two weeks ago (FOR FREE) and he was awful.

Rob Zombie put on a great show but you could tell Ozzy does not have much of a brain left.

Wobbie

Jammin909 wrote:

I saw Ozzy two weeks ago (FOR FREE) and he was awful.

Rob Zombie put on a great show but you could tell Ozzy does not have much of a brain left.

OK - give me four more

MattCameronKicksButt

Well, I've only been to six gigs.

I saw some real neo nazi bands play at a skin head show-That was awful.

Alanis Morisette. She was very good but not really my cup of tea.

Smashing Pumpkins-I love them but they weren't very good live. (Not that night anyway).

harmless_little_f***

The worst professional gig I've been to was Stereophonics at Wembley. Got a free ticket from friends. Absolutely terrible, drummer was all over the place.

LukinFan

Seether- 1st time, 2nd time rocked

Powerman 5000- walked out hal-way through

luckily, I only pay for about 10% of the concerts I go to

Bangers_n_mash

I once had to stand through a Marilyn Manson set while waiting for Iron Maiden. Fair enough if you're into his music but he didn't once say anything to try connect with the crowd, he wore a bunch of weird outfits, the musicians were all acting like fools and he was spitting on the people at the front of the pit, like wtf?!

Also Paddy Casey at the Point in 2006 (sheesh!) :rolleyes:

Wobbie

Bangers'n'mash wrote:

I once had to stand through a Marilyn Manson set while waiting for Iron Maiden. Fair enough if you're into his music but he didn't once say anything to try connect with the crowd, he wore a bunch of weird outfits, the musicians were all acting like fools and he was spitting on the people at the front of the pit, like wtf?!

Also Paddy Casey at the Point in 2006 (sheesh!) :rolleyes:

tell me more about this Paddy Casey dude. He seems to continually get the crap kicked out of him in the Pit. Local lad, I would assume? Poor fit as an opener?

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

i band called Benjy Davis Project. possibly the most watered down shit i ever heard. the next matchbox twenty band. A friend of a friend new them so i went.

i wanted to throw stuff, but i didnt. i was actually angry at them for sucking.

Anon

only bad show that comes to mind was the last Stabbing Westward show i attended. not sure of the year.... 2000? anyway, they came on and played almost all of their last album (current album) plus about 3 extra songs and left the stage. i said to my friend, "i hope that was the end of the FIRST set". the returned to the stage for one encore.. and it was a shitty song!

only reason that stands out for me is because the other 3 times i saw them they played forever, this show was about 14 songs. and they were the headliner!

i've seen a lot of really bad local bands over the years but that's another story.

i also saw the 3rd Lilith Fair. i went with girls. that got painfull after a while.

Joe2TheRevenge

5. Godsmack/Staind (2000)

Do i really need to explain? My brother and his friend took me because they had an extra ticket.

Aaron lewis has absolutely NO stage presense and just stands in the middle of the stage doubled over and holding his stomach the whole time he sings. i guess i shouldn't have expected too much from a fat smoker who sings like Kermit the Frog.

Godsmack headlined and holy jesus do they blow. Every song sounds exactly the same. And they had a bunch of pyro, which was louder than their actual instruments and made them sound quiet as a result. Awful.

4. Black Sabbath (1999)

Another case of my brother and his friend taking me to a show. They owed me 50 bucks. They had an extra ticket. They asked if it would substitute as payment. i wanted to go just because they had billed it as Black Sabbath's farewell tour and i wanted to say i saw them

Drain STH and Godsmack opened. Godsmack of course sucked. And i actually enjoyed Drain STH. they were fucking awesome.

But Ozzy had the flu and sounded like ass, and Black Sabbath sounded as old and tired as their music actually is. It was boring. And as if it wasn't awful enough that it was boring, Ozzy did his "run around and throw water on people" shtick as if that was going to excite people, and they pulled out some stupid titty cam which captured nothing but 45 year old saggy mother tits no one wanted to see.


3. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000 - Californication tour)
2. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000 - Rolling Rock Town Fair)
1. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2007 - Lollapalooza)

Seriously, the RHCP are fucking awful. i don't know why people pay to see them. It's short (90 minutes after a 20 year career?), it's packed with nothing but ballads (from their last 3 shittiest album none-the-less), and Anthony Kiedis is quite possibly the worst frontman/singer i have ever seen/heard in my life. (Yes anthony, jumping around on one foot and doing a bunch of fratboy dance moves are going to make up for the fact that you can't sing)

All they did was ran through the motions every time i saw them. Like they knew "hey, this is show 124 out of 280 we have to do. i'll just pace myself. i'm getting my millions no matter what"

Fuck those guys.

pjl44

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Foo Fighters circa 1999
Smashing Pumpkins circa 1996
Staind
Incubus circa 2003

Bangers_n_mash

imalive wrote:

tell me more about this Paddy Casey dude. He seems to continually get the crap kicked out of him in the Pit. Local lad, I would assume? Poor fit as an opener?

Yes and yes. He's a sound chap but his music wouldn't be a lot of people's cup of tea... He took the heckling pretty well though and in good spirits, he knew he was out of place.

Anon

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

5. Godsmack/Staind (2000)

Do i really need to explain? My brother and his friend took me because they had an extra ticket.

Aaron lewis has absolutely NO stage presense and just stands in the middle of the stage doubled over and holding his stomach the whole time he sings. i guess i shouldn't have expected too much from a fat smoker who sings like Kermit the Frog.

Godsmack headlined and holy jesus do they blow. Every song sounds exactly the same. And they had a bunch of pyro, which was louder than their actual instruments and made them sound quiet as a result. Awful.

4. Black Sabbath (1999)

Another case of my brother and his friend taking me to a show. They owed me 50 bucks. They had an extra ticket. They asked if it would substitute as payment. i wanted to go just because they had billed it as Black Sabbath's farewell tour and i wanted to say i saw them

Drain STH and Godsmack opened. Godsmack of course sucked. And i actually enjoyed Drain STH. they were fucking awesome.

But Ozzy had the flu and sounded like ass, and Black Sabbath sounded as old and tired as their music actually is. It was boring. And as if it wasn't awful enough that it was boring, Ozzy did his "run around and throw water on people" shtick as if that was going to excite people, and they pulled out some stupid titty cam which captured nothing but 45 year old saggy mother tits no one wanted to see.


3. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000 - Californication tour)
2. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2000 - Rolling Rock Town Fair)
1. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (2007 - Lollapalooza)

Seriously, the RHCP are fucking awful. i don't know why people pay to see them. It's short (90 minutes after a 20 year career?), it's packed with nothing but ballads (from their last 3 shittiest album none-the-less), and Anthony Kiedis is quite possibly the worst frontman/singer i have ever seen/heard in my life. (Yes anthony, jumping around on one foot and doing a bunch of fratboy dance moves are going to make up for the fact that you can't sing)

All they did was ran through the motions every time i saw them. Like they knew "hey, this is show 124 out of 280 we have to do. i'll just pace myself. i'm getting my millions no matter what"

Fuck those guys.

ha! i saw Black Sabbath in 2000 with Pantera opening. Pantera rocked (only 2 songs from Far Beyond Driven and nothing from Trendkill), but Sabbath was BORING! they sounded okay but they gave me nothing in terms of stage presence.

jamie uk

Judas Priest. Newport 1989...Blue Oyster bar anyone..?

Faster Pussycat, Pretty Boy Floydd. Cardiff the Point, a few years back...yukky.

Will Young. Cardiff. wifes birthday present...she insisted I went along....awful.

Bob Dylan. Cardiff 2005...ok, but just not up to the mark.

Bon Jovi. Donington MOR Festival 1987..sick bag please.

muppet

Pearl Jam. Just the stuff from Ten and leave out the fucking crappy stuff that came after, please.

jamie uk

muppet wrote:

Pearl Jam. Just the stuff from Ten and leave out the fucking crappy stuff that came after, please.

...Go, walk out the door...don't turn around now...;)

monster95

shane mcgowan and the popes..
mcgowan was so outta his face he couldnt even stand nevermind sing.

yep...paddy casey (again) definite heineken bar time during his set.

RHCP...that guy cant sing.

red mos

1. Jackyl
2. Styx
3. Blink 182
4. Night ranger (probably would have been good, but had some really bad sound and tech issues. Seems it happens every show from what my friend I saw them with told me. He said it happened the previous 4 times that he saw them.
5. Bad religion/ or verruca salt can't decide between the two- both equally just blah!

uninnocent

three days grace
black eyed peas
evanescence
clay aiken
metallica/godsmack

Wobbie

MrSmith wrote:

i band called Benjy Davis Project. possibly the most watered down shit i ever heard. the next matchbox twenty band. A friend of a friend new them so i went.

i wanted to throw stuff, but i didnt. i was actually angry at them for sucking.

I gotta share something with you (and might get lambasted).... anyway, I saw Matchbox 20 RIGHT AFTER they hit it big. It was a good venue (the Joint), cheap ($15) and it was actually a very good show. They pretty much just played their only album, straight through. Next time they came to Vegas it was like an $80 show.

I did hear something pretty intelligent from Rob Thomas... I think they gigged a lot with Seven Mary Three (?) back in Florida (?). Rob gave 7M3 their due and said it was pretty much just business as usual in the record industry that caused MB20 to be huge while 7M3 hardly sold at all (I guess another reason would be differing musical styles and no matinee idol frontman for 7M3 )

restlesssoul

velvet revolver, had shitty seats, felt like he sang the ENTIRE FUCKING show through a megaphone. sucked, bad.

incubus 07 didnt like it, didnt live up to the last 3 times

run DMC they werent anything special, thank god maestro fresh wes blew them off the stage as the opener. seriously, it was a party, he rocked.

afrkia bambaata he played good stuff, but it wasnt even on vinyl, he was just a robot up there, pressing buttons on a mac. moved the crowd, but wasnt the old school electro party i had anticipated.

puddle of mudd can i pick a show that hasnt happened yet???? I KNOW ITS GONNA SUCK. feb 3rd here i come!

JordyWordy

Frank Black 07 - really couldnt believe how bad he was, and i say that being a fan of solo & pixies....

Warlords of Pez 2003 - did a funny cover of JT's "Like I Love You" but overall pathetic.

The Darkness - they were a festival closer and were, as expected, cringefully bad.

Keane - watched some of their set at Werchter cos a friend tried to convince me they do a good live show... that friend knows nothing about good live shows

5th place is tied between Depeche Mode, Badly Drawn Boy, Primal Scream, Razorlight,

Wobbie

red mos wrote:

1. Jackyl
2. Styx
3. Blink 182
4. Night ranger (probably would have been good, but had some really bad sound and tech issues. Seems it happens every show from what my friend I saw them with told me. He said it happened the previous 4 times that he saw them.
5. Bad religion/ or verruca salt can't decide between the two- both equally just blah!

Jackyl - now there's a blast from the past!! You mean to tell me the dude didn't kill on the chainsaw song? Were they opening for Molly Hatchet? Ted Nugent ?

Bangers_n_mash

restlesssoul wrote:

incubus 07 didnt like it, didnt live up to the last 3 times

Wow, really? Dublin was one of the finest shows by anybody I've ever been to. It was my first time to see em but I also thought, from listening to loads of bootlegs, that the setlists last year were some of the best ever...

stupidcorporatewhore

1. pearl jam golden gate park san francisco 1995

2. Jimmy Page outrider tour 1989

3. The Police dodger stadium 2007 (foo fighters rocked) not bad really just fucking BORING!!

4. Jethro Tull Rock Island tour 1990

5. Vinnie Vincents Invasion 1984 (got free tix, there was nothing good about it at all)

stupidcorporatewhore

uninnocent wrote:

clay aiken

umm, just say you were trying to get laid and you're off the hook.

Jammin909

imalive wrote:

OK - give me four more

1. Ozzy He has lost his mind and its almost depressing to see him live knowing he's insane.
2. Ben Folds First show of tour in 2004 and missed half the lyrics and would stop in the middle of songs laughing, "man i should have prepared better."
3. Goo Goo Dolls - EX-girlfriend thought she was being nice.
4. Everclear - It was a Friday night, nothing going on and decided to check them out- awful, just awful.
5. RHCP BORING BORING BORING

restlesssoul

Bangers'n'mash wrote:

Wow, really? Dublin was one of the finest shows by anybody I've ever been to. It was my first time to see em but I also thought, from listening to loads of bootlegs, that the setlists last year were some of the best ever...

yknow, you are right, i have one worse than poor incubus, cuz hey a concert with sick, sad little world cant be that bad right?


Doors of the 21st century will be my replacement. that sucked. noboyd went, ticketmaste was giving away tickets for one cent. i saw them. one cent on them. i left the show, it was awful.

DriftingByTheStorm

1. Counting Crows \ Goo Goo Dolls

Nissan Pavillion, 2005
Oh fucking christ. My girl friend from work text messages me asking me, "will you go see counting crows with me?"

I immediately reply yes, and THEN 30 minutes later epiphany, going, "OH FUCK! I think she said COUNTING crows, not BLACK crows!"

THEN, i read that Goo Goo Dolls is the other act on the bill.

FUCK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




2. Edward KaSpell \ The Legendary Pink Dots

Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte NC, 1997(?)
Not at ALL what i had hoped for. Way way past their prime, and a total bore. Sigh.





3. Ozzfest, Meriweather Post, uh ... 2004? 5?

Man, i had to sit through slipknot or some crap, and then some more nu-metal crap that i couldn't even name, but it was big at the time ... i had a "music for rhinos" pearl jam shirt on and had a good few people point, laugh, or heckle me ... AND i had to sit through Judas Priest just to see Sabbath. Fortuantely Sabbath was worth the wait. Iommy was amazing, and Ozzy still had it at that point (sort of) ... but overall the show was a pile of crap.




4. Fugazi

Some park in DC, 2002(ish)
Man, i REALLY wanted to love love love this show, but the PA system sucked balls, and the energy just wasn't there. The crowd was huge cause it was a FREE SHOW ... but it was just a lame concert experience. The upside was my buddies and i got to spend sometime in a circle chatting with ian mackaye ... that was pretty cool.




5. Nine Inch Nails

Merriweather Post, 1998-2000 ish ... sometime after Perfect Drug ... i dunno ... last time i ever saw NIN after the 96 Nails\Bowie tour ... THAT tour was pretty phenomenal ... but THIS show sucked fat ass. It was no energy, felt scripted, lacked any emotional context for me, and pretty much just made me feel like Trent had lost it.



I could probably think of some other real shitty shows i attended. But these were either shows i had hopes for that didn't pan out or just ones that scarred me (goo goo dolls!).

Wobbie

stupidcorporatewhore wrote:

4. Jethro Tull Rock Island tour 1990

about 20 years too late! But back in the day......