Worst Trainwreck You Have Seen Live

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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,124
    The Damned in the late 1990s. Lots of violence was being threatened from the stage to an audience member. 

    Also, just saw Guided By Voices. Robert Pollard had a cooler of beer on stage, and was getting progressively drunker as the evening went on. They put on a very long show - it was at least 3 1/2 hours. By the end he was quite wasted. But still a fun night.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Another comes to mind. The Wallflowers. Nobody was wasted, but man, the energy was SO low. I left that one early, which is not something I do. 
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    BIGDaddyWil said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Counting Crows.  They have so many great songs but live in concert, they are just horrible.  Adam Duritz is up there yodeling and singing way off key for just about every song.  It's really bad.
    I had the same experience with the Counting Crows.  It didn't even sound close to what they recorded on their albums.
    Too much scatting and lyric improvisation. Their live record of August and Everything After is maddening to listen to. Now, the live from Paris show 1992 or 1993 that came with the deluxe edition of August is FUCKING AWESOME. 
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,124
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Another comes to mind. The Wallflowers. Nobody was wasted, but man, the energy was SO low. I left that one early, which is not something I do. 
    I felt that when I saw Interpol. My friend won tickets to MSG from a radio station and I felt like the place was 1/2 empty. That can really affect the experience. 
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    drakeheuer14 said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Counting Crows.  They have so many great songs but live in concert, they are just horrible.  Adam Duritz is up there yodeling and singing way off key for just about every song.  It's really bad.

    And they weren’t the headliners, but when I saw Soundgarden in 96 at the Roseland Ballroom, Rocket from the Crypt opened. Closest to a train wreck I’ve seen. 
    What happened with them? I discovered them a few years ago and love listening to their stuff 
    They seemed out of place as an opener and they knew it. Not a great attitude about it. Seemed pretty sarcastic and dickish towards the crowd. 

    Not sure if this counts too but I went to see Black Crowes and Lenny Kravitz. Lenny kravitz played a few songs and disappeared backstage. He never came back out and the announce once he was “sick”. Turns out he was just too fucked up to play. No refunds either because Black Crowes already played. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,537
    wow, does Lenny do that often? I've never heard of him playing messed up
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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,124
    pledgeagrievance said:
    drakeheuer14 said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Counting Crows.  They have so many great songs but live in concert, they are just horrible.  Adam Duritz is up there yodeling and singing way off key for just about every song.  It's really bad.

    And they weren’t the headliners, but when I saw Soundgarden in 96 at the Roseland Ballroom, Rocket from the Crypt opened. Closest to a train wreck I’ve seen. 
    What happened with them? I discovered them a few years ago and love listening to their stuff 
    They seemed out of place as an opener and they knew it. Not a great attitude about it. Seemed pretty sarcastic and dickish towards the crowd. 

    Not sure if this counts too but I went to see Black Crowes and Lenny Kravitz. Lenny kravitz played a few songs and disappeared backstage. He never came back out and the announce once he was “sick”. Turns out he was just too fucked up to play. No refunds either because Black Crowes already played. 
    https://youtu.be/QjgE4kNSU74


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited April 2022
    I said I'd never seen a show that was a trainwreck, but I was thinking about the musicians.  I did see one audience trainwreck and that was at the Jim Hendrix Experience show at Winterland in 1968.  The show opened with the mighty Buddy Miles Express, whose performance was terrific and well appreciated by the audience.  But sandwiched between the hurricane force freight train that was Miles' band and The Experience, was a solo acoustic performance by Dino Valenti (real name, Chet Powers) who had a solo career as well as spent time with the Quicksilver Messenger Service.  I thought that solo performance was a beautiful and lovely respite from the power of Miles and the stupendous high volume glory of the Experience set.  But many in the crowd did not agree.  Valenti was booed soundly throughout his performance.  So many selfish, impatient, and rude people.  I felt terrible for Valenti and disgusted with the crowd.
      
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  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    Haven’t really seen any. 

    The worst was PJ London 2018 but no where near a train wreck. I just remember feeling bad for Ed the whole night because he was really struggling with his voice.  It was an enjoyable show but I was glad for him when it was over.  The next night was cancelled and rescheduled 

    funny enough the boot of the show doesn’t sound anything like my memory so they either cleaned it up a lot or it just didn’t translate the same way in the recording the degree to which he was struggling.  
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    GlowGirl said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    drakeheuer14 said:
    pledgeagrievance said:
    Indifference71 said:
    Counting Crows.  They have so many great songs but live in concert, they are just horrible.  Adam Duritz is up there yodeling and singing way off key for just about every song.  It's really bad.

    And they weren’t the headliners, but when I saw Soundgarden in 96 at the Roseland Ballroom, Rocket from the Crypt opened. Closest to a train wreck I’ve seen. 
    What happened with them? I discovered them a few years ago and love listening to their stuff 
    They seemed out of place as an opener and they knew it. Not a great attitude about it. Seemed pretty sarcastic and dickish towards the crowd. 

    Not sure if this counts too but I went to see Black Crowes and Lenny Kravitz. Lenny kravitz played a few songs and disappeared backstage. He never came back out and the announce once he was “sick”. Turns out he was just too fucked up to play. No refunds either because Black Crowes already played. 
    https://youtu.be/QjgE4kNSU74


    Yes lol 
  • pjpitt89
    pjpitt89 Posts: 1,874
    It wasn't really a trainwreck but most interesting was a Gaslight Anthem show when they came on stage and told the crowd that Benny had a family emergency and had to leave right before the show. They played about 7-8 songs with the drummer from the opening band filling it. It was kind of cool to see, Alex (bass) basically stood next to the drum kit and coached him through the changes and all, cool camaraderie. After those songs they brought out some stools and played another batch of songs acoustic, which was really cool.

    So not really a train wreck, just different
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,537
    pjpitt89 said:
    It wasn't really a trainwreck but most interesting was a Gaslight Anthem show when they came on stage and told the crowd that Benny had a family emergency and had to leave right before the show. They played about 7-8 songs with the drummer from the opening band filling it. It was kind of cool to see, Alex (bass) basically stood next to the drum kit and coached him through the changes and all, cool camaraderie. After those songs they brought out some stools and played another batch of songs acoustic, which was really cool.

    So not really a train wreck, just different
    good on them for not cancelling and improvising instead. that COULD have been a train wreck. that's a very brave thing to do. 
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  • hrd2imgn
    hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    The opener to Soundgarden I think they were called Red Red Meat.  They were booed off the stage in Chicago.  Cornell lectures us all....shortly after the band broke up too.

    Worst opening act ever...worse than Manson jerking off a dildo almost shutting NIN down in Muncie....worse than than fucking wierd guy opening for Explosions in the Sky...Lichens.....worse than Metal Church inducing projectile vomiting over 3 rows at Metallica...
  • tempo_n_groove
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    2015 or 16 Headliner Bob Dylan.  Before them we had Ryan Bingham, Wilco and Beck as openers so it was a good show.

    When Dylan sang, or lack thereof, the crowd left in droves.

    His voice was hoarse and monotone.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,269
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    pjpitt89 said:
    It wasn't really a trainwreck but most interesting was a Gaslight Anthem show when they came on stage and told the crowd that Benny had a family emergency and had to leave right before the show. They played about 7-8 songs with the drummer from the opening band filling it. It was kind of cool to see, Alex (bass) basically stood next to the drum kit and coached him through the changes and all, cool camaraderie. After those songs they brought out some stools and played another batch of songs acoustic, which was really cool.

    So not really a train wreck, just different
    good on them for not cancelling and improvising instead. that COULD have been a train wreck. that's a very brave thing to do. 

    that was actually one of the coolest things i've ever seen happen. :smile:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_HYcetFUvg

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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Murder City Devils weren’t great. They set keyboards on fire. Flaming wreck?
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    2015 or 16 Headliner Bob Dylan.  Before them we had Ryan Bingham, Wilco and Beck as openers so it was a good show.

    When Dylan sang, or lack thereof, the crowd left in droves.

    His voice was hoarse and monotone.
    Apparently when he’s on, he’s like really on. But yeah, it’s super rough hearing anything he’s done after the Travelling Wilburys. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited April 2022
    Were it up to me (it's not, of course), musicians who are over 70 and who were once great, would  be exempted from this thread.  Anyone with high expectations when going to see an elderly musician are often going to be disappointed.  Not always, of course.  I saw Willie Nelson in 2005 when he was 72 years old and it was one of my all-time favorite shows.  But I would have been happy and thankful to see him in any shape.  One of the long time members of Willie's Family band, Jody Payne (who was 69 at the time) sang one number and he was horse as hell but I admired him for giving it his best shot. 
    In any case, the point I want to make is that I'm thankful and grateful for any great musician who is past 70 and is still around.  A full-time musicians life is a hard life.  We lose a hell of a lot of them younger or much younger than 70.
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,547
    brianlux said:
    Were it up to me (it's not, of course), musicians who are over 70 and who were once great, would  be exempted from this thread.  Anyone with high expectations when going to see an elderly musician are often going to be disappointed.  Not always, of course.  I saw Willie Nelson in 2005 when he was 72 years old and it was one of my all-time favorite shows.  But I would have been happy and thankful to see him in any shape.  One of the long time members of Willie's Family band, Jody Payne (who was 69 at the time) sang one number and he was horse as hell but I admired him for giving it his best shot. 
    In any case, the point I want to make is that I'm thankful and grateful for any great musician who is past 70 and is still around.  A full-time musicians life is a hard life.  We lose a hell of a lot of them younger or much younger than 70.
    While I'm still trying to think of a trainwreck I'd like to say that David Gilmour at 70 was absolutely phenomenal 
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited April 2022
    pjl44 said:
    brianlux said:
    Were it up to me (it's not, of course), musicians who are over 70 and who were once great, would  be exempted from this thread.  Anyone with high expectations when going to see an elderly musician are often going to be disappointed.  Not always, of course.  I saw Willie Nelson in 2005 when he was 72 years old and it was one of my all-time favorite shows.  But I would have been happy and thankful to see him in any shape.  One of the long time members of Willie's Family band, Jody Payne (who was 69 at the time) sang one number and he was horse as hell but I admired him for giving it his best shot. 
    In any case, the point I want to make is that I'm thankful and grateful for any great musician who is past 70 and is still around.  A full-time musicians life is a hard life.  We lose a hell of a lot of them younger or much younger than 70.
    While I'm still trying to think of a trainwreck I'd like to say that David Gilmour at 70 was absolutely phenomenal 
    Mason and Waters are on point as well. 
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