What was your worst concert ever?

[Otis Driftwood]

Hm, I'l have to mull over this for a while...

[trailerprincess]

Weird - I was just emailing a friend about this very subject. He went to see Flaming Lips last night and wasn't overly impressed

For me, I think my most disappointing has to be Eels, this year in June at the Astoria. I had been SO looking forward to it for ages and my mate has sworn it would be the best show ever but I was bored feckless and by about half-way through, I wanted to leave. It's not that I don't love Eels, because I do but it was sooo depressing, there was no atmosphere and I didn't like the versions on the songs he played. I was gutted.

Otherwise, Coldplay last year. Simply because I think they are dull dull dull. I went as a favour to a friend. Thankfully, it was outdoors and there was glorious sunshine so I just got drunk.

[Funky Pepp]

Scorpions in 1991 (I guess) :o

The opening act was Tesla (which my friends and me wanted to see and I
admit that's embarrassing, too). The whole concert really sucked and was
so unbelievably loud, that I my tinnitus stayed at least for two long weeks.
And the audience sucked, too.

...but I still like to sing "Wind of change" in singstar (I told this before) :D

[Otis Driftwood]

I was on a Patrice (lala-reggae-singalong-hiphopper a la Gentleman) concert a couple a years ago somewhere in the backwoods of Swizerland. Not only boooooring but a damn long drive thru the night, too. But maybe I'll even think of a worse event...

[camo]

KT Tunstall with my ex. She was in a right crappy mood, the music as most of you may know was shit. All I could think of was 'why has she brought me along to this? We are so not right for one another!'

We split up shortly after :D :mad: :D :) :mad:

[abcdefz]

Worst concert I stayed all the way through ('til the pointless encores) was Elvis Costello on his Mighty Like a Rose tour, aptly called the "Come Back in A Million Years Tour." (n) (n) (n)


Worst concert I just got fed up with and left was Sonic Youth in Sacramento. Kim and Thurston were fighting and the music just sucked out loud.

[MC Moot]

hmmmm...Hard to say in terms of worst….I would have to say Grand Master Flash in the year 2000 at the Commodore in Vancouver was really, really bad…. started to gig at 1/4 to 2am, he didn’t have his own gear or records due to border troubles and threw some of mine all over the fuckn ground…….when I was teen, I saw the bass player from Motley Crew pass out cold… I also saw Ian Astbury of the Cult pass out and Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon piss on the audience…all show stoppers!

[na§tee]

it was dj format, actually. less to do with the music, although he was like 4 hours late, then the horrific personal happenings which surrounded it.

[MC Moot]

Worst concert I just got fed up with and left was Sonic Youth in Sacramento. Kim and Thurston were fighting and the music just sucked out loud.

wow....I hope you've since or previously had a chance to see them on a night when they were "on",it's a beautiful thing,but I could imagine it going bad....I saw them with Pavement once and it was one of the most memorable shows I've been to,with REM as well....(y)

[abcdefz]

wow....I hope you've since or previously had a chance to see them on a night when they were "on",it's a beautiful thing,but I could imagine it going bad....I saw them with Pavement once and it was one of the most memorable shows I've been to,with REM as well....(y)


I saw them at a Lollapalooza show, I think. That one soured because of a girl who was with us who was being a real. Uh. Country. No fault of Sonic Youth's.

[abcdefz]

Nope -- it wasn't at Lollapalooza, so maybe that show at the Crest was the only time I've seen them.

Man, it sucked.

[MC Moot]

I saw them at a Lollapalooza show, I think. That one soured because of a girl who was with us who was being a real. Uh. Country. No fault of Sonic Youth's.

I think they make a wicked wall of sound,Lollapalooza 95' may not have been a great locale,they played a day set if I recall....I find they use walls and venue acoustics to bounce the music...."Sonic Nurse" and "Rather Ripped" have been the 2 strongest releases since "daydream Nation"...ever read any of Thurstons stuff? "Fuck a Hippie and "Mix Tape" are interesting reads....when you say "country" do you mean like Otis Redding "tramp" kind of country???;)

www.EcstaticPeace.com

[abcdefz]

I think they make a wicked wall of sound,Lollapalooza 95' may not have been a great locale,they played a day set if I recall....I find they use walls and venue acoustics to bounce the music...."Sonic Nurse" and "Rather Ripped" have been the 2 strongest releases since "daydream Nation"...ever read any of Thurstons stuff? "Fuck a Hippie and "Mix Tape" are interesting reads....when you say "country" do you mean like Otis Redding "tramp" kind of country???;)

www.EcstaticPeace.com


They were at '95? Okay, then, I'm almost certain I did see them. Was that the same year as Ice T?

I haven't read any of Thurston's stuff except the occasional liner note he's written.

"Country" as in "tramp." Well, that would be a loose definition.

Anyway, this girl, she had insisted on driving half of us in her car (we needed two), and then she just got worse and worse all day, then insisted on leaving -- that she WOULD NOT stay for Jane's Addiction, who most of us wanted to see. Surprise to us! No warning. So we had to decide who was going to get screwed, because she was honestly going to just leave without a few of us, which would've really screwed us up, driving back and forth from the Shoreline to a bus station and so on, trying to get everybody home.

What a country, man.

[MC Moot]

I think "T" was in 91' and "Cube" was in 92' cause I remember him doing "One Nation Under a Groove" with the Red Hots minus Fruiscante...actually,come to think of it, that was a terrible set/show!....the first they played without him!....concert rides!....nothing worse than being abandoned under the flourescent lights of an empty arena parking lot...damn you dad!

[QueenAdrock]

Worst time I had watching a band has got to be Corporate Avenger.

But worst concert? Hmmm...probably Aerosmith this past September. We were COMPLETELY hyped up for it - I got a ticket for free for my birthday. The other two girls paid $100. And then they played 4 songs we knew and loved, and the other 15 songs were all from the mid-70's that our parents listened to. Good music, but definitely not what we were looking forward to hearing at one of their concerts. And definitely not what they wanted, seeing as how they dropped so much money on it.

Plus, I don't like Motley Crue and they were on JUST AS LONG as Aerosmith.

[beastiegirrl101]

I went to the Prodigy show in March and it was not what I was expecting at all, but it was cool. Left dissapointed.

Cheap Trick.
Jesus and Marychain

[Drederick Tatum]

the worst concert that I've actually paid for was probably Interpol. the sound was very average and I just wasn't feeling it.

[Guy Incognito]

The worst performance i have seen was Nirvana at Reading 92, they were there the year before and stole the weekend but came back as headliners right at their most successful and were fuckin awful. It was the end of a long weekend (The Beasties played the same day) and i was feelin ropey but they just didnt rock it for me. Cobain was obviously twatted and had to start "Teen spirit" about five times. Apparently I am in the minority on this one cos it regularly gets voted as a top twenty gig of all time but I'm sorry thats just bollocks.

[bigblu89]

I've sat through some shitty opening acts, but the worst concert of an actually I paid money to see was probably The Wallflowers.

My wife/GF at the time was into them, and I got them as a BDay gift for her. I'm not a fan.

The most disappointing one was when I saw LL Cool J a few months ago. Shit was $45 and he only played for an hour, and most of the old good stuff, he did 1 or two verses of, and then moved on to a different song.

[Echewta]

I saw some opening act where people in the crowd were turning their backs to them and the lead singer apologizes saying "Come on people, we only have 2 more songs to play."

Uggg.

[ggirlballa]

i just went to my first "real" concert 4 weeks ago, it was the Beastie Boys, it was dope(y) :cool:

but i do remember a a few years ago my parents took me to this Mexican Independence Festival & there was this famous band singing there, my parents liked it but i was soooo bored!

[Documad]

The worst concert I ever saw is going to be this Sunday night when I take my daughter to see Panic! at the Disco for her Birthday. She's 13 and this is her first concert and I'm consumed by the feeling that I'm exhibiting poor parenting by letting this be her first "rock" concert.
You're doing the right thing. 13 year old girls are meant to listen to music that will later embarrass them. Don't bash the band in front of her. Just swallow hard and say that it was better than you expected or there was something that you enjoyed -- "good energy" is often appropriate. My dad was the coolest dad and I will always remember how kind he was about my music. That man had good taste too so it had to be painful for him.

Dad didn't take me to Olivia Newton John -- he dropped my friend and I off and picked us up afterwards, but that was my worst concert ever. I had enjoyed her in Grease and I liked her sappy shit, and she was trying hard but it didn't work at all. It might have been the best thing that ever happened to me musically because I realized during the middle of that show that what I was seeing was complete crap and that I might be the only one in the audience who realized it. So I knew that I would have to go my own way.

[icy manipulator]

i never been to a bad concert, but i have been to a lot of festivals where i've had to wait thru some bad shit to see a good act. The Strokes was prolly the worst. And the headline that disappointed me the most would have to be Fat Boy Slim(n)

[Tone Capone]

i never been to a bad concert, but i have been to a lot of festivals where i've had to wait thru some bad shit to see a good act...

Rock-am-Ring 2002 was like that.

[Otis Driftwood]

Rock-am-Ring 2002 was like that.
Any festival is. I remember having to wait through that "I can't get no sleep" guy, what's his face, Faceless, to see Dog Eat Dog....:mad: No more festivals for me...

[saz]

fiery furnaces
secret machines

[cosmo105]

festivals always have their huge negative points, but at one a few years back...ugh. the Strokes were headlining. i really went more for the other bands, but i've always enjoyed them so wanted to stay for their act. julian was drunk as hell, and stumbling all over the stage (and later the seats and crowd) and slurring every word. the band sounded pretty awful. add in some drunk/stoned douchebags around us hitting on me and my friends (and some guy making out with a girl that later mentioned being his cousin :eek:), and we walked out early.

the beastie boys show a few weeks back, the free one - that sucked too. not because of them, though. because of the crowd.

[DroppinScience]

I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, but I gotta say he made a less than stellar appearance at the Edmonton Folk Festival in 2005.

He was obviously drunk and/or high throughout the set and tried to be as offensive as possible. Some performances were great, but he was trying too hard to go abrasive and loud out of irony that he's headlining a "folk" (they liberally stretch the definitions of folk music here) festival.

I know he's just doing the anti-stardom thing, but if I was someone who never heard of him, I'd never be interested in listening to his albums.

Since I was already a huge fan and knew that you can't expect Ryan Adams to be predictable when he takes the stage, I let it slide.

But there was amusing entertainment value to see the walking trainwreck that was Ryan.

[b-grrrlie]

Propably Toyah Willcox.
I walked out halfway through. It was pretty difficult cause I was sitting on the second row, but in the end I just had to leave...
And I 've seen one terrible gig by JAMC as well, in Finland at a festival. They were so drunk they couldn't stand up and played like 20 mins... Next time I saw them was at Hultsfred festival. Met them backstage and offered them a drink... Their manager took a sip first and noticed my liquid was pretty strong and didn't let them taste it...