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

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,000
    Rossum20 wrote:
    Lolla 07...mainly because the majority of those in attendance were truly acting like animals...and I'm rather forgiving.

    Forget the audience. What about the sound problems? Mike's guitar sounded like shit for the entire show. I left Lolla thinking that everyone in the crowd who never saw PJ before got gipped big time. Easily the worst sounding concert I've ever been to.

    That all being said, I had a great time.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,955
    BALLBOY wrote:
    Sydney 1 03 was the worst show for me. My first ever 10c seats & the crowd was very lame indeed & the band seemed to follow. Ed flubbed alot of lyrics & a very short set, 23 songs. You can really hear it in the boot. The 2nd show was better but still not much energy as you would expect. I have noticed that 03 has the most shows in this post. What was it 2003 & PJ?

    simple, 2003 was their longest tour with the most dates.
  • AmyMoore
    AmyMoore Posts: 141
    edited February 2010
    Paris 96
    Missoula 98
    San Sebastian 00
    Nassau 03
    Sydney 3 06
    Berlin 09
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  • Indifference
    Indifference Posts: 2,768
    Hartford 06

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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Indifference wrote:
    Hartford 06

    Bah. This show gets a lot of flack for being short and for supposedly having a "greatest hits" setlist, but I rocked my ass off at that show....cold temperature and all.
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  • breath123
    breath123 Posts: 397
    my very first "plugged in" show...

    san francisco 1995

    seven songs and out, neil young came to finish the show.

    needless to say, they've made it up in spades over the years.

    I agree with whoever said Vegas 06 and Seattle 1 09, I'd even add Chicago 1 09. Seattle and Chicago's second shows in 09 make my top 10 ever btw.

    I also agree that a "bad" PJ show is better than almost any band on their best night.
  • heyjose
    heyjose Melbourne, Australia Posts: 503
    AmyMoore wrote:
    Paris 96
    Missoula 98
    San Sebastian 00
    Nassau 03
    Sydney 3 06
    Berlin 09


    Sydney 3 in 2006 may still be my favourite show that I've attended.. great crowd, Ed and band in great spirits, awesome highlight with a young kid being brought up on stage.. I wonder if you mean Sydney 2, which was probably the worst I've been to - crowd's fault entirely.

    Poor crowd participation also hindered most of the shows I saw in Oz in 2003 (Melb1 and Syd1 probably the worst). It picked up for 2006 though.
    1995: Melbourne 1
    1998: Melbourne 1, 2, 3
    2003: Sydney 1, 2, 3, Melbourne 1, 2, 3
    2006: Sydney 1, 2, Melbourne 1, 2, 3, Sydney 3, Newcastle, Adelaide 1, 2, Perth
    2009: LA 1, 2, Melbourne, Sydney
    2014: Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney

  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    AmyMoore wrote:

    Berlin 09
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Tampa 03' There's a few highlights, but not one of there better nights. :oops:
  • why now u dont bitching
    why now u dont bitching Posts: 248
    I was at Hershey in '03, and many people that were there would say that show, but besides the short second encore I thought the set list was just fine. Crowd might have sucked but no ten club seating got me close and had me sitting with almost a whole row of friends....and I was hammered. Fun for me.

    I'll go with one of those camden '06 shows...probably the first one.
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  • Mcam55
    Mcam55 Posts: 1,407
    Camden 1 2006
    or
    Hartford 2006
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Royal Albert Hall London - May 2009

    Ooh sorry, That was Eric Clapton
  • Thierry Henry
    Thierry Henry Posts: 2,657
    Of the shows I was at..... I would say Poland 2007.

    Set was cut short and crowd was pretty rough.
    Got nowhere near the front.

    Wasn't too bad but just the worst of the shows I attended.
    Dublin '96, '00, '06, '10
    Lisbon '06 (x2)
    Katowice '07
    London '07 '09 (x2), '10
    MSG NY '08 (x2)
    Manchester '09 '12
    Belfast '10
    PJ20 Alpine '11 (x2)
    Leeds '14
  • armsraisedinavee
    armsraisedinavee Posts: 133
    Worst = october 31, 2009 - spectrum
    bugs?? out of my mind?? sweet lew?? - give me a break - awful






    (yes this is a joke)
    9/1/2000 - E-Centre, Camden, 'Sometimes' started and I was hooked...
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    The Vote for Change show in Asheville, NC
    4 songs were cut and there was no soundcheck special with Ed
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

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  • canadajammer
    canadajammer Posts: 263
    Toronto 1 06...they were just warming up
  • Evensteven
    Evensteven Posts: 869
    Birmingham AL 2003. Cold weather, Ed was sick, short setlist/greatest hits, and they teased Sweet Home Alabama only to end on "one note" and walk off the stage.
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  • coco butter
    coco butter Posts: 1,495
    I would say my top worst three are...

    Philly 10-31-09

    Gorge 9-1-05

    and Grand Rapids 5-19-06....

    mehhh... could have been better.

    the best show... Black Awareness Week 6-28-88 with "Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate"! Now that was a show!
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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    Thierry Henry wrote:
    Of the shows I was at..... I would say Poland 2007.

    Set was cut short and crowd was pretty rough.
    Got nowhere near the front.

    Wasn't too bad but just the worst of the shows I attended.

    yeah, i was gonna say the same thing
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    coco butter wrote:
    the best show... Black Awareness Week 6-28-88 with "Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate"! Now that was a show!

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