WORST concerts (top five) you've seen

Them-Bones wrote:

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Wasn't that the show where Ed had real bad food poisoining and had to go the hospital so Neil Young did the show, I think that might be the show But i could be wrong.

If that was the show, Ed wrote 'Red Mosquito' after/during that incident. I think he said (I forget which recent show he mentioned it, probably one of the SF trio in '06) that it felt like he got bit by the devil.

So out of the bad came some good

TOOL - i saw them like a year or two ago and it was awful. it could have been better but maynard (or whatever his name is) was sick and couldn't sing to his full potential. i guess to compensate for his poor singing, the sound guy turned up the vocals really loud and lowered all the instruments so it sounded terrible.

another crappy concert i saw (i hate to admit) was CREED.

holtz wrote:

Foo Fighters and STP opened on the tour around then, two bands that blew away the Chilis, not hard to do though IMO.

agreed on both accounts.

for years i have heard nothing but people saying stuff like "STP/Foo Fighters/Mars Volta/whoever spent an hour blowing the roof off the place, and the RHCP came out and spent 90 minutes putting it back on"

i never understood why they picked openers who kick their asses on a nightly basis. But it doesn't help that they manage to both SUCK and BLOW live.

Bangers'n'mash wrote:

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.

Absolutely. I gained a lot of respect for him at the point gig. I still don't like his music, but he handled the crowd very well.

Saw Slightly Stoopid with my stoner friends. They were terrible and played bland Sublime ripoff shit the whole night. They thought they were cool by switching instruments throughout the show, but being able to play bad songs with different instruments is not a talent. I just snuck out and wondered down to Bourbon Street for awhile.

My friends loved it though.

AFI Main Street Armory, Rochester NY-

My buddy dragged me to it searing to God that "you'll be in love with AFI after seeing them live!!!!"......well we sat through 3 shitty punk/emo bands (the best being some band named Static H....yes Static H, not X) and then the lights went dim and all the girls and emo kids screamed and shitty gay AFI came on stage in tight white pants and proceeded to make my ears bleed for a whole 45 minutes. Yes they only played 45 minutes, after waiting through 3 bands. I mean, I hated the music but still, 45 minutes for a headliner, please. I remember during the show these two homosexual men kept screeching in my ear "I LOVVVVEEE YOU HUNTTTERR" and "LOOK AT THEM TEAR UP THE GUITARRR!!!". I'm not usually homophobic but I seriously wanted to rip their throats out. By the end of the show my buddy was happy because he loved it but I was just disappointed. The next week I saw Alice in Chains though so it was all good.

That was the on ly bad show I've seen. I guess you can throw Modest Mouse at the Main Street Armory this past April but that was bad because the sound was fucked up. Isaac was pissed and mostly just jammed and went wild. So it was cool, yet shitty.

hoobastank. 05? u-mass MA , they opened for VR, they did do better than i thought they would do, but come on. oh and the crowd weren't pleased with them

noel gallager. tibetan freedom show 98 or 99 randalls island ny, he came out with a horrible disorted electric guitar and sang oasis songs.. just wretched.

wu tang clan, lolla 96, they just came on stage and just said random things and talked

and the I went for the hell of it part.

goo goo dolls, played pretty good, can't complain really, but i wouldn't want to see them again

third eye blind. played with the goo goo dolls, they actually kinda sucked a lot

sugar ray

kottonmouth kings are probably the stupidest band in existence today. i saw them live and yeah they were pretty stupid.

1, KoRn
2, Deftones
3, Megadeth

can't think of anymore atm... let me have a think.....

Joe2TheRevenge wrote:

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.

so true!!! especially the shitty albums and the worst frontman out of the big stars

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Coma (Polish band in Katowice before Linkin Park and Pearl Jam) - absolutely the worst live experience in my entire life...something I really wanna forget!!!

Tool (2007) - fuckin boring show, long monotone same sounding songs, no personal connection with the crowd...horrible, terrible IMHO

Tarantula AD (Vienna 2006 Pearl Jam show)

The Good, The Bad and The Queen

Placebo (2006) - they used to be a great act but became a repetitive uncreative arrogant bastards!