Worst Trainwreck You Have Seen Live

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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,007
    OnWis97 said:
    iOnlyownMymind said:
    OnWis97 said:
    brianlux said:
    I must be the luckiest music fan on earth.  I've never seen a show that I thought was a train wreck, never a truly awful show, never one I walked away from feeling cheated.  Like my Pop once said, "I'm a lucky Lux!"
    Same. I've seen a couple of mediocre performers but nobody that was a true train wreck. The only thing I've ever left early was when the Mars Volta was the first of two openers for the RHCP. We went into the concourse for the duration because it was unbelievably loud...I hadn't heard of them so I didn't know any songs. But that's not quite the same thing.
    Was that the Excel Energy Center show on the Stadium Arcadium tour?  I was at that show. They were loud, the lead singer went out in the crowd and was grabbing random people's beers and throwing them in the air and then chucked a giant trash can at the back of the floor, haha. I liked the set though but most didn't appear into it at all.  RHCP was good as was the jam at the end with the Mars Volta guitarist. 
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    I had not even heard of Mars Volta. I later found out that some people on this forum liked them...I probably should listen to some studio songs, but I really did not get a good feeling from that experience.
    Was it 2006? That’s when I saw Mars Volta open for RHCP unless it happened earlier too. I actually loved Mars but I was very familiar with their stuff and in a college experimental phase. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,499
    steveddievedder said:
    tempo_n_groove said:

    I have never understood gong to a show and paying for a ticket to the band you wanted to see and then throwing something at one of them.

    That person should have been identified and tossed but in 97 things like that didn't happen.
    Exactly, and doing that would have made the band heroes for standing up to whoever it was and carrying on the gig for everyone else. 
    I'd like to add that the crowd should have singled him out too.  That is just bullshit.
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    edited April 2022
    steveddievedder said:
    What a great thread. Agree with some of the folks earlier about Kings Of Leon, one of the most boring / awful shows I have ever seen.

    Biggest train wreck for me was Oasis in Glasgow in 97 I think - half way through the show someone threw a bottle which hit someone in the band, who then all walked off and never returned. Crowd started off pretty bemused but when it became clear the band were not coming back out it became a bit of a riot and the place was wrecked, police had to be called in and it was not a nice place to be at all. 
    Yeah I’m not sure KOL was a train wreck but I saw them at Borgata 2010ish. Man, no energy from the band or in the room. 
    And not sure I need interaction(I love MMJ, saw them 2 nights in a row at Red Ricks and Jim James said maybe 8 words to the crowd), but there was zero acknowledgement to the crowd or talk or anything. I don’t think the singer said one word. Played about and hour and fifteen, and left the stage, no encore. 
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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    Never liked Mars Volta but Sparta blew me away when they opened for PJ.  I still love their first album
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    Wiretap Scars and Porcelain are very good albums. Lines in Sand from Porcelain is an all time song for me 

  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    Beck's headlining set at ACL in 2008. We were really excited for his set, but it was absolutely terrible. We left early and beat the rush to the shuttles.
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  • steveddievedder
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    pledgeagrievance said:
    steveddievedder said:
    What a great thread. Agree with some of the folks earlier about Kings Of Leon, one of the most boring / awful shows I have ever seen.

    Biggest train wreck for me was Oasis in Glasgow in 97 I think - half way through the show someone threw a bottle which hit someone in the band, who then all walked off and never returned. Crowd started off pretty bemused but when it became clear the band were not coming back out it became a bit of a riot and the place was wrecked, police had to be called in and it was not a nice place to be at all. 
    Yeah I’m not sure KOL was a train wreck but I saw them at Borgata 2010ish. Man, no energy from the band or in the room. 
    And not sure I need interaction(I love MMJ, saw them 2 nights in a row at Red Ricks and Jim James said maybe 8 words to the crowd), but there was zero acknowledgement to the crowd or talk or anything. I don’t think the singer said one word. Played about and hour and fifteen, and left the stage, no encore. 
    Right, I mean the difference between Kings of Leon giving off zero energy and someone like Mark Lanegan standing still in the same position without saying a word is absolutely night and day. 
  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,623
    Well, I didn’t see this in person, but there is a TikTok of Jon Bon Jovi from a concert of his earlier this week and he sounds absolutely terrible. I wouldnt see him to begin with, but if you are considering seeing him, maybe search up some recent videos :grimace:
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  • Loujoe
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    steveddievedder said:
    What a great thread. Agree with some of the folks earlier about Kings Of Leon, one of the most boring / awful shows I have ever seen.

    Biggest train wreck for me was Oasis in Glasgow in 97 I think - half way through the show someone threw a bottle which hit someone in the band, who then all walked off and never returned. Crowd started off pretty bemused but when it became clear the band were not coming back out it became a bit of a riot and the place was wrecked, police had to be called in and it was not a nice place to be at all. 
    I have never understood gong to a show and paying for a ticket to the band you wanted to see and then throwing something at one of them.

    That person should have been identified and tossed but in 97 things like that didn't happen.
    i threw a trout hat on stage at a primus show and a giant penguin waddled over and took it off stage. No harm intended. I just now remember at the same show someone threw a small dried up fish and Les picked it up and said it looked like a sunny. We are a crazy bunch. F..k primus.
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    John Grant opened for the Pixies at the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium May 2015. I stepped out, stopped by the bathroom, spent a bit of time at the merch stand. His set started okay enough, but then it went downhill fast. 

    Oh, and King Diamond at Mayhem Fest 2015. It may have just been the typical set. My husband thought it was good. I wanted to tear my ears off. 
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  • brianlux
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    Loujoe said:
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    Just remembered another one. We saw Liam Finn open for the Helio Sequence in San Diego (we thought he was the headliner...and he should've been). Anyway, his set was awesome & he went to the courtyard to work his own merch. We got through one song and did not like it at all...it just wasn't good at all. So, we went outside and got to chat with Liam for a good half hour and he signed our LP. We then met him at the White Eagle in Portland (where we lived at the time) a few days later and had drinks with him & the band before the show. Super awesome guy.
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  • tempo_n_groove
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    deadendp said:
    John Grant opened for the Pixies at the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium May 2015. I stepped out, stopped by the bathroom, spent a bit of time at the merch stand. His set started okay enough, but then it went downhill fast. 

    Oh, and King Diamond at Mayhem Fest 2015. It may have just been the typical set. My husband thought it was good. I wanted to tear my ears off. 
    No, you were right.  King Diamond is THAT bad sounding even when he is good.

    That high pitched scream was never a liking to me...
  • pjhawks
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    Drake before PJ at Made in America.   I remember standing thinking 'this guy is supposed to be a star'.  It was really lame.
  • dankind
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    deadendp said:
    John Grant opened for the Pixies at the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium May 2015. I stepped out, stopped by the bathroom, spent a bit of time at the merch stand. His set started okay enough, but then it went downhill fast. 

    Oh, and King Diamond at Mayhem Fest 2015. It may have just been the typical set. My husband thought it was good. I wanted to tear my ears off. 
    No, you were right.  King Diamond is THAT bad sounding even when he is good.

    That high pitched scream was never a liking to me...
    Forget these whores. 
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,762
    Don't break the oath was pretty darn good. Gave it away a while ago. Too satanic!
  • dankind
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    Melissa is a scorcher. 
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  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,583
    pledgeagrievance said:
    steveddievedder said:
    What a great thread. Agree with some of the folks earlier about Kings Of Leon, one of the most boring / awful shows I have ever seen.

    Biggest train wreck for me was Oasis in Glasgow in 97 I think - half way through the show someone threw a bottle which hit someone in the band, who then all walked off and never returned. Crowd started off pretty bemused but when it became clear the band were not coming back out it became a bit of a riot and the place was wrecked, police had to be called in and it was not a nice place to be at all. 
    Yeah I’m not sure KOL was a train wreck but I saw them at Borgata 2010ish. Man, no energy from the band or in the room. 
    And not sure I need interaction(I love MMJ, saw them 2 nights in a row at Red Ricks and Jim James said maybe 8 words to the crowd), but there was zero acknowledgement to the crowd or talk or anything. I don’t think the singer said one word. Played about and hour and fifteen, and left the stage, no encore. 

    This reminded me of when I saw Built to Spill in 2010. They sounded great but Doug Martsch said absolutely nothing to the crowd the entire show. No banter, no thank yous, no "this is Steve on the drums", and totally deadpan. Than I saw them again in 2018 and he was looser and even shook my hand at the end of the show and said hi. (P.S. He's been touring with just a three piece since then, but the songs really need a second guitar)
  • northerndragon
    northerndragon Posts: 9,851
    Dillinger Escape Plan and Mars Volta. 
    The two worst bands I have ever seen. Both made me almost walk out altogether to make the assault on my auditory senses stop. Mars Volta is the absolute worst. There are no real words for how bad that experience was. 
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    northerndragon said:
    Dillinger Escape Plan and Mars Volta. 
    The two worst bands I have ever seen. Both made me almost walk out altogether to make the assault on my auditory senses stop. Mars Volta is the absolute worst. There are no real words for how bad that experience was. 
    #degeneratepalooza2016

    At the very least, it merits a dishonorable mention. 
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