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“They Clearly Hated Each Other”: Fans Reveal 47 Concerts They Wish They’d Skipped
Music has the power to move us. It can speak to our minds and hearts and give us the boost we need to finally clean up our homes or confess our feelings to that special someone. It can also join us in our sorrow and help us process all the overwhelming emotions that catch us off guard on a random rainy Wednesday.
The effects tend to be even stronger during live shows, when the artists fuel the crowd with their energy. Or negligible if they botch it.
A few days ago, Reddit user Pinheadbrigade asked everyone to share the worst concert they’ve been to and what made them so terrible, and people did not hold back. Their stories of drunk bands and failing sound systems highlight how memorable these disappointments truly are.
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#1
Coldplay concert. I just went with a girl from work, and the f*****g camera guy just zoomed into us. I just wanted a chill moment and now my wife left me ...
StrangeOne 2 months ago
If only they just didn't react. No one would have been the wiser and it would not have gone viral.
WindySwede 2 months ago
Even this would have been better? maxresdefault-1.jpg 
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#2
My Elementary Band School Concert. I was in the band, we sucked.
It's easy to imagine these people's disappointment. Many of us are willing to go a long way to listen to live performances, literally and figuratively.
Through Google Trends and a survey of 850 individuals, Innerbody Research analyzed music fans' preferences and found that some artists do find a way to appeal to broad audiences, but Eminem (Gen Z and Millennials) and Elvis (Gen X and Baby Boomers) were the only artists that spanned the top five picks for two generations.
The data also revealed that, on average, concertgoers are willing to spend a maximum of $843 for floor seats to see their favorite artist, and men are more likely to pay higher prices ($168 more) than women.
#3
I once saw a triple feature: Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, and Heart.
By God Cheap Trick were bad and their audio mix was even worse. Combine that with 70 year old guys singing about banging young ladies, it just wasn't the vibe for the evening.
Joan Jett was quite good and Heart was phenomenal. Heart ended up bringing out John Bonham's son Jason to play drums for the last half hour of their set so they could do Led Zeppelin covers. I don't think Robert Plant's vocal intensity has held up over the years, but Ann Wilson's voice is so good it was like or better than listening to Plant in his prime.
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
When I read the start of this post I was hoping that Heart weren’t the ones that were rubbish, so thank goodness.
Nimitz 2 months ago
So that quint-neck guitar, as it's apparently called, weights up to 38 lbs. That's gotta suck sometimes
unfilteredCigarette73 2 months ago
So like half the weight of an old LP custom🙃
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Philly Bob 2 months ago
Saw Heart several times and had the pleasure of meeting the Wilson sisters. They were as pleasent and gracious as you would expect them to be. The original band of Steve Fossen, Mike Derosier and Roger Fisher were full of hell! Heart fan from day 1!
Antoinette the Red 2 months ago
There are bands that just sound horrible when they preform live. Cheap Trick was notorious for that as well as The Clash.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 months ago
So Cheap Trick was the act with the Bad Reputation here rather than Joan Jett...
#4
Aging myself but sometime in the early 90s I was a huge Guns N' Roses fan and they were touring with Metallica. I ditched a prom to go in full "glam" with my date there instead and GNR was very late to set. When they came out, Axel threw a fit and it ended very quickly. Metallica on the other hand K****D it, probably to make it up to fans. I had been indifferent to Metallica before but became a huge fan afterwards. I still can't believe the adult temper tantrum that thousands of fans witnessed that night by a musician they paid a lot of money for.
Der Kommissar 2 months ago (edited)
Lars came off as a greedy doochebag over the Napster controversy and his drumming sounds like he is hitting cardboard.
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Nova Rook 2 months ago
The same tour came to montreal and we had a riot. Metallica played well but one of them was badly burned by the fireworks and so their set was cut short. We had a very long wait before Guns'n'Roses appeared and Axle seemed super weird and then stormed off the stage after a few songs. A riot ensued with some light looting of the stadium. I took a jab from a cop who used his nightstick to prod me along to move faster. Ouch.
Nova Rook 2 months ago
www.themetalvoice.com/post/guns-n-roses-metallica-riot-in-montreal-28-years-ago-aug-8-1992-as-remembered-by-perrin-wolfson
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Sven Horlemann 2 months ago
Metallica is one constant in my and my wifes life. For over 40 years now. I never forget seeing them at the Lorelei 1985.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
Saw them twice in the '80s, both times with my fellow metalhead and brother. Tiny venues, SRO. They were epic.
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Michael Melfa 2 months ago
That's definitely on par for Axel. You can easily find video of his concert tantrums from that time. I've heard he's far more mature and professional now, but he used to be an uncircumcised p***k.
#5
James Brown was the headliner one night at a festival in the early 2000s.
He was wasted.
Kept singing the same lines over and over.
He introduced the band at least 5 times.
He just laid down on the stage and didn’t sing for a while.
Terrible concert, funny memories.
Der Kommissar 2 months ago
James Brown drove on rims at 90 mph during a police chase while high on PCP. So this is not surprising
Maggz Bennett 2 months ago
I had to read his biography for work, every page was another reason to dislike him.
John O'Donnell 2 months ago
My favourite ever music review, “James Brown has a criminal record, now he’s made one.”
Three in four, or 75% of survey respondents, said that they've previously exceeded their budget or spent more than initially planned to attend a concert or event featuring their favorite artist. For the majority, this looks like spending an extra $101-$200 over budget.
More than half (59% of respondents) even said they would be willing to take on more debt to attend their favorite artist's concert.
Interestingly, Gen X was the most likely to splurge on tickets but the least willing to go into debt to see their favorite artist perform.
#6
Aerosmith in 2014ish.
Steven Tyler kept forgetting the words and called our city like 5 different (and all wrong) names during the event.
R Dennis 2 months ago
Mine is Aerosmith too. I've seen them five times. The last time, they came out and played for 40 minutes and left. We thought they were doing a stage change, then the lights came on. Apparently Steven Tyler was sick, which was why he sat in a chair the whole time... but couldn't cancel the show and refund people their money. Last time I ever paid to see them.
Jock McQue 2 weeks ago
He k****d it at the last Sabbath tribute show so I'll cut him some slack.
#7
Bob Dylan in 2014 :( I love him but unfortunately he sounded like Cookie Monster. Can’t imagine it’s improved.
Auntriarch 2 months ago
Bob Dylan songs are invariably better when sung by someone who isn't Bob Dylan.
Grundel County 2 months ago
I saw Bob Dylan in 2024. It was my first time seeing him live, and when I got home I had to look it up online to confirm whether what I had seen in concert was normal because it was so strange. One article I read described his live set as "bizarre background noise" even back in the 80s. Bob was sat at the piano for nearly the whole set with his band huddled close around him so they could watch him and determine wtf he was doing so they could play along with him. Even his drummer was like 2 feet away watching his hands on piano. The whole stage was empty with Bob and his band in a huddle in the middle.
Nimitz 2 months ago
He came to my home town once when I was a teen. There were only a thousand or so people there because the tickets were WAY too expensive. He mumbled through two songs then walked off the stage and left.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
They're allowed to do that if less than a third of the audience is sold -that was the facilitator - legally they have to ask the audience if they'd prefer a refund as the two songs were all that was required.
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Touhou Youyoumu 2 months ago
My Uncle adores Bob Dylan and his son too. Went to a gig in early 2000's with his son both bouncing off the walls with excitement and joy. Bob Dylan came on stage played one song, started the 2nd, stopped walked off stage and never came back. My uncle and his son were devastated.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
It's his legally required appearance and he has a habit of this.
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Apparently, he writes good songs? I wouldn't know, as I can't stand listening to that horrible voice he has. Oh, and his harmonica playing is atrocious as well...
Sara Frazer 2 months ago (edited)
Omg I can't believe he was still performing then. My parents saw him waaay back in the early 2000s (before their split in '03, so maybe 2002?) and they left early because, as my mom said "he sounded like Aunt Donna"(referring to my then-83-ish year old great great aunt Donna) 😅
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
This makes me feel so much better about ditching the Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson concert I was invited to this summer.
#8
I love to tell this one:
Went to see Lightning Hopkins out in the field on a flatbed trailer outside of Fort Worth in 1971. He was so drunk he played three songs, and two of them were the same song.
Out of the 850 survey participants, 65% said that if their favorite artist announced a one-time special performance in a different country, they were likely to travel just for them.
Gen Z was the most willing to travel for a concert, although none of the generations were likely to travel by car for more than 500 miles. Gen X was more reluctant to travel to see their favorite artist perform than the younger generations. Still, all generations are likely to fly at least 3-6 hours for a concert.
Given all of this, you'd think artists would take their shows more seriously.
#9
Oasis early 2000s. They clearly hated each other, played 6 songs, left the stage after 40min.
Edited for typos and also, wow, so many of us out there lol.
Paul C. 2 months ago
ZZ Top at Milton Keynes Bowl. Spinning their guitars round while sound was still coming out of the speakers. Sorry just looked like recorded miming. 10cc big thing at the time was were they miming to a backing track, so after about twenty minutes they made a huge thing about "Oh, we've messed up the intro to a song, so that proves we don't mime" Very Suss. Joan Armatrading, she was brilliant. Unfortunately guy next to us passed the worlds strongest joint along and me and my girlfriend (now wife of forty years) started seeing two Joan Armatradings!
unfilteredCigarette73 2 months ago
Joan is awesome, my dad would listen to her old records when I was a kid, he's passed now but I do still have the records
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Pferdchen 2 months ago (edited)
Echo and the Bunnymen in their last year, Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall. We didn't know that the band was arguing over creative direction or whatever. Word had it that Ian wanted to make it all about him, whereas lead guitarist Wes Sergeant felt differently. Wes was staring at his feet while he kind of just went through the motions. Eventually, a roadie (?) came out and took his place. A couple of years later, during the Reverberations tour, I had the opportunity to sit down with Wes out in the dingy hallway of the old 930 Club. I told him it was great to see him back in form and referred to him seeming pissed off at the DAR show. I thought he was impressed with my observational skills when he said "Oh, you noticed that?" In hindsight, he may have been - how do the Brits say it - taking a p*ss 🤣 Either way, he's a great guitarist, I think Reverberations (without Ian McColloch) was Echo's greatest album and was honored to sit and chat with Wes.
David Farmer 2 months ago
Oasis suck - WHY would you bother patronising some band who think they're "Bigger than Jesus?!" Even THAT quote has been done before - by the same band they rip most of their material from - The Beatles...
seanpar0820 2 months ago
Your first mistake was clearly ever listening to them in the first place
#10
Joe Cocker. He was so drunk he could barely perform and threw up on stage in the middle of a song.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
"What would you do / If I puked on the stage? / Would you stand up / And walk out on me? / ..."
Marissa Voleta 2 months ago
Hell yeah. But let's be real, you know this is par for the course when you go see him.
Der Kommissar 2 months ago (edited)
According to sound expert Dicky Dawson, anyone can projectile vomit on stage. But Joe could hit people in the 3rd row. Unfortunately, that comment was NOT meant as a joke, as Dinky did sound for Joe.
Pferdchen 2 months ago
I recall Johnny "Rotten" Lydon of Public Image Ltd. having to leave the stage to make a "Sea Food Splatter." Was telling a rather elitist acquaintance about it later in the week. Turned out that it was him that waited on Johnny and served him his sea food dinner. I'll confess that I was discreetly amused to inadvertently take the acquaintance down a notch 🤣
John Leavitt 2 months ago
Saw him at least 3 times, he and his bands were excellent. That was back in the 1970s however.
#11
2009 American idol runner up tour at Wolf trap. I won tickets and thought "what the hell?"
I wonder if any of them remember me, I was the only one there.
#12
Marylin Manson. Was so dr*gged out he was staggering all over the stage, butchering his own lyrics, and sometimes just sat on stage and made weird guttural noises into the mic. Edited to add: Since many have asked I had myself a quick google of when they were in town. I was at the show in 2012. It was the twins of evil tour.
StrangeOne 2 months ago
I recall when MM was in my town. I didn't go to the concert but I heard the reviews and they weren't good. People described him as looking tired, low energy like he didn't care, and it was just all round terrible concert.
Jock McQue 2 weeks ago
Seems to be kicking a**e now, sober and sounds great. A lot of good reviews on both the new album and his current live shows.
#13
Rhianna, loved her up until the concert. Wish I never went! She lip synched the whole entire time. We were so upset we went to an entire pre-recorded concert.
Rex-a-Roni 2 months ago
Her voice is literal trash anyway, live or lip-sync it's the worst sound on the planet.
Sven Horlemann 2 months ago
Didn't Madonna once excuse her lipsynching on a tour with the dancing she had to do? Some sh*t you cannot make up.
#14
Got dragged to a high school basketball gymnasium to watch Dwight Yoakam. Dwight wasn’t bad, it was the sound. Cranked up Dwight Yoakam inside a gym is what I’m pretty sure the CIA used to get Al Quaeda terrorists to talk.
#15
Sir Mix A Lot. The opening act warned us it was going to be terrible, and they were right.
#16
Went to a festival concert put on by our rock station in the late 90s. Most of the concert was great with many of the acts being awesome (Collective Soul and Lenny Kravitz were awesome). One of the acts that day was Smash Mouth. Holy c**p they were terrible. I think the audience was generally in shock at how awful they sounded live vs their albums.
unfilteredCigarette73 2 months ago
Not a fan of them really but as someone who suffers from alcoholism its sad the singer steve went out like that..im happily four months sober finally after years of treatment and relapse and everything else in that life, happy in sobriety for the first time I can remember
#17
They weren’t the headliner but 30 Seconds to Mars was awful to the point where they were nearly booed off the stage. They were the act leading up to Linkin Park and all I remember was their singer kept yapping on and on instead of playing a song. At one point he wanted the crowd to cheer louder before they started their next song and he was either ignored or was booed. Not sure what happened if he was drunk or on d***s or something but this was the only bad performance I’ve been seen by a professional band.
Marissa Voleta 2 months ago
I saw them last year and had higher expectations than I should have, but it was cringe. He's so into himself as a "showman". The whole "concept" of the show just didn't make sense. I wanted to like it, because I do like him and all his weirdness.
JayWantsACat 2 months ago
The show Peacemaker making fun of this band makes this so much funnier.
#18
Modest mouse. They were wasted. Isaac Brock would flub the lyrics every other song and was basically screaming into the mic.
httvgwvyxd 2 months ago
Saw them in Seattle a few years ago. Exactly what you said. Worst concert I’ve ever been to.
httvgwvyxd 2 months ago
Probably the worst concert I’ve ever seen. Saw them in Seattle a few years ago, he couldn’t sing, he was drunk and the bands timing was pathetic. Worthless.
unfilteredCigarette73 2 months ago
Never been myself but a buddy of mine was a huge fan and saw them live numerous times and from all his stories this sounds like par for the course
#19
DJ KHALED. If I wanted to watch a guy sweat 5litres in 30 minutes I’d just watch p**nhub.
#20
The Brian Jonestown M******e… holy s**t what a f*****g epic disaster that was. It was like the worst train wreck you’ve never been able to look away from. At one point his whole band left the stage and he started playing all their instruments and saying he could play better than any of them. Rolling a joint on stage, going up to the bar and getting liquor to make his own drink on stage too. It was 3 hours of WHAT THE F**K AM I DOING HERE… oh and it was a Monday night!
JayWantsACat 2 months ago
Saw them at The Independent here in San Francisco maybe like 10-12 years ago. Great band with great songs; massive ahole lead singer. He's known for being a gigantic d******d, which I thought maybe was an exaggeration. But, nope, that night saw him intermittently kick one of the guitarists all night for I guess playing incorrectly? He's a genius singer/songwriter which unfortunately means musicians will always want to play with him and his behavior will get excused but he's a real piece of work.
pterodactowl 2 months ago
Lol. He is a complete swillsucker. He kicked my friend in the head at a show once cos he didn't like the review they'd given his previous record.
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#21
Six Pence None The Richer in nineties in Austin- lead singer had a melt down and ran off stage during ‘kiss me’ … 😒.
Delicate Fcuking Flower 2 months ago
That's the only song I know from them
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I’ve worked in a concert venue for the past 20 ish years and have seen almost everyone at least once. Black eyed peas were atrocious, like the truck with their auto tune got lost on the way. Tone deaf.
Plentyofoomph 2 months ago (edited)
I remember having a guitar student about ten years ago, and she wanted to learn "I gotta feeling" So I showed her a 4 bar chord sequence, and we practice that for a couple of minutes. Then she asked, "cool, can we learn the rest of the song?" "...no, that's it. Thats the whole song" "Oh. Thats not very interesting is it?" XD
JayWantsACat 2 months ago
I got to see them when they didn't have Fergie yet and were more rap and whatever they became. Saw them in this bar that had shows on Fridays or whatever. So, a pretty small venue but it was crowded because they started to hit it big with one of their singles. They were really good, honestly. It was a fun show. Can-I-Bus opened for them. It was weird to see what they would beome.
Johnnynatfan 2 months ago
They did the super bowl halftime show years ago and it was terrible and a complete mess.
#23
Lauryn Hill the night of Trump’s first election win. Miseducation was/is one of my top 5 favourite albums of all time, and the way she sang every song was so different from the album. It was awful. And she kept gesturing angrily to someone off stage…audio tech? I don’t know but it was super uncomfortable. Top that with the audience constantly checking their phones for election results, it was a pretty s****y night.
Michael Largey 2 months ago
The night Trump was elected a lot of people were doing angry gestures.
Gen X Feral 2 months ago (edited)
Oh yeah. I tried to suffocate myself with a the grilled cheese sandwich
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She was my worst experience too! My cousin asked me to go with her since she would be on my side of the state. I kid you not she only faced and performed to the right side of the audience and had her back to us almost the whole time😂😂😂 everyone on the left was just looking at their phones or yelling at her to turn this way....I still have Snapchat stories from that night
dean tirmizi 2 months ago
I saw her in Ireland a few years ago and she also kept giving out to people off stage and and the band, then she was in a really bad mood for the rest of her act, she got boo'd in the end for her only being on stage for about 50 mins, but everyone seems to forget she only as 1 real album
#24
(ETA: as I was cleaning my garage I found the ticket to this concert! July 15, 1996. Freeman coliseum.)
Oddly, it was the best and worst. It was 97 or 98, White Zombie opened for Pantera, the freeman coliseum(? Oi, almost 30 years). This was just after Phil had ODed. Anyway, white zombie was terrible, the sound, the vocals all sucked but the stage show was cool. It was like a pirate ship if memory serves. A whole lot of props and lighting.
Then, Pantera came on. A wall of speakers and white lights. Thats it. The sound the vocals they were better live than any cd I had heard. They blew me away.
I was a huge white zombie fan so it was a big let down for me.
(ETA: as I was cleaning my garage I found the ticket to this concert!).
Plentyofoomph 2 months ago
I love white zombie, and play in a white zombie tribute band. But their live shows suck.
Rinso The Red 2 months ago
I saw them on tour with the Ramones back in the day. It was a smallish venue, but it was a good show.
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TheRightToArmBears (riff/tone) 2 months ago
Pantera + Sepultura at Red Rocks on the Chaos AD tour is still one of the best shows I have ever witnessed
Rali Meyer 2 months ago
Pantera! That's why the 90s were the best time. Tragic end of the guitarist... Shòt on stage
Starbug 2 months ago
I do like White Zombie and I've been to see them (got the stub ticket, photos and friends as witnesses) but I don't remember a single second of it, maybe it was so bad I wiped it of my memory! I remember the other bands that played that evening so wasn't drunk or on d***s.
Chris Merillo 2 months ago (edited)
I went to this tour at the Nassau Collisseum! Scariest f*****g show I was ever at. The entire hockey rink was full of skinhead shitbags in mosh pits. Unfortunately Pantera (Phil in particular) attracted that kind of crowd. Saw them in Rosalind (a much smaller venue) and it was a MUCH better show.
#25
I am currently at an Alex G concert with my daughter and this dude cannot sing for S**T. He sounds like f*****g Kermit the frog singing at the end of the Muppet Christmas Carol. .
#26
Whitney Houston near the end.
Still glad to have seen her live, see her as an icon, but holy s**t "Here's my brother to sing for a while" while she went off stage for a bump was not what I paid for.
How to insult even your rusted on fans who are wanting to see you succeed.
NoRestfortheQWERTY 2 months ago
I heard that her voice wasn't was it was, but then I saw an interview clip in which her speaking voice sounded like Tom Waits battling strep throat. The crack c*****e rumors that once circulated about her have have got to be true.
Chewie Baron 2 months ago
Oh they were. And it was her family who got her on d***s first.
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Scott Tepper 2 months ago
That's too bad. I saw her concert when I Want To Dance With Somebody was on the charts. She gave a great concert. Her voice was amazing. Clear and beautiful. The only thing...she couldn't dance. When she did IWTDWS, all she did was walk around the stage holding a bunch of balloons behind her back. Literally just walked around. So...not so much showmanship, but still, she had an incredible voice then.
Mike F 2 months ago
I saw Aretha in the late 90's (she was pretty heavy by then) but she did a similar thing, sing for 12 minutes then introduced her son rapping "son of a queen" for a while, then a few more minutes of Aretha, then flamenco dancers... It was a d@mned good thing those tickets were free!
#27
I’m gonna get downvoted but Miley Cyrus sucked. You could just tell she didn’t want to be there.
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 months ago
I could imagine OP had the feeling like a Wrecking Ball was coming in...
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
I can see that. The girl is talented as hell, but any concert would suck if the performer doesn't want to be there. To do that to fans who paid tons of money to be there is so s****y in my opinion
#28
My old band Set on Edge. I'm not kidding. We replaced Sixpence None the Richer at the very last minute because their whole band caught pneumonia, and the show was outside (well, in an enormous barn - basically outside) in late October near Chicago so it was COLDCOLDCOLD and there were 3000+ kids there and we COULD NOT KEEP OUR INSTRUMENTS IN TUNE (or feel our fingers) for the whole set. I have video proof. We stepped off stage - four adults - and cried. Wow, that was bad!
Debbie 2 months ago
-hugs- did you mention that to the audience? Ofcourse some won't care,but often, if there is an explanation, it is understandable. It's a shame of what could be a good show but it wouldn't be "that band sucks" - it would be: "that performance sucked because of circumstances". There's a difference.
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
Definitely. I'm from the Midwest and we all get it! Props to them for even sticking out out.
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Jerry Lee Lewis. 3 hours late, so drunk he could barely stay on the piano bench. Played 3 songs, slurred his way through ‘em, then got up and walked off stage.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago (edited)
Did he bring his underage cousin-c*m-wife with him?
#30
The worst act I've seen live is Buckcherry. Their radio length songs were what I enjoyed, but their live version of songs just ran on to the point of "this song should have ended 5 minutes ago.".
Every other artist that I've seen live has been good to great.
#31
Metallica/Guns N' Roses (plus Faith No More) in Montreal's Olympic Stadium in August 1992, the concert where James Hetfield got burned by pyrotechnics and then Axl Rose had laryngitis and quit after just six songs, leading to a small riot.
I was only 17 and had a long commute home so I left before things got too rowdy.
Rali Meyer 2 months ago
GNR wanted center stage. After Hetfield burned, Rose had the chance. Also to control the crowd. Missed opportunity. Fans "burning down" town. (Montreal, 1992)
Nova Rook 2 months ago
Here we are - I was at this one. Totally missed Faith No More but was fully there for the riot. No one is sure why Axle had a tantrum. I was hooking up with a girl who worked the show and she claimed Axle wanted some other girl working there to come to his room and she balked so he had a tantrum, but take that story with a grain of salt.
#32
Bob Dylan. he played all his hits in big band style. awful.
dan s 2 months ago (edited)
Except for a couple of his early songs, I've never understood his appeal. Try saying that to an older boomer and enjoy their outrage.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
Will 73 do? I love his songs but the man cannot and should not sing.
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The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago
I've heard he will do this - play the same songs but in a different way or on a different instrument. Saw him once and he was only playing a piano all night. He's good on the piano, but come on, the guitar is what we all wanted to hear! Walked away after the first 2 songs
Tom Brincefield 2 months ago
He's been doing that kind of thing his entire career. He started as a folk singer, and created a huge uproar at at folk festival in 1965 when he performed with an electric guitar.
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Looong time ago, in 1984, went to see Elton John. The man was obviously not happy to be there or to perform. Absolutely no interaction with the crowd, came on stage, performed his songs and went off. No greetings, no eying the crowd, no smiles even. Miserable as hell. No charisma or even acknowledgement at all. May as well have listened to him at home.
#34
Okay it was only half bad. Saw Counting Crows and MatchBox Twenty. Counting Crows were first up and my god not good at all. Also they refused to do Mr. Jones. Matchbox Twenty made up for it though. Rob Thomas is the real deal live.
Ben 2 months ago
Some people cannot sing live. Not sure how some of these bands even got famous to begin with.
SheamusFanFrom1987 2 months ago
Counting Crows would likely be the reason Rob Thomas might be singing about This Is How OP's Heart Breaks...
#35
Meatloaf in Vegas in 2014. I s**t you not that the interlude portion of “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” was about 15 minutes of nonsense—complete aural jibberish. My mom, who had been a pretty big Meatloaf fan to that point, at one point leaned over to ask if I thought we were being pranked. .
Jock McQue 2 weeks ago
Meatloaf played at one of the Australian Grand Football Final intermission shows. Holy s**t what a train wreck.
Huddo's sister 2 months ago
Meatloaf after the AFL grand final a few years ago was apparently atrocious! I wondered if he would be on this list.
LtKernelPanic 2 months ago
I saw him in either 2002 or 2003 and it was fantastic. Pretty much everything after Bat 3 was terrible.
#36
I went to a Roger Waters concert with my dad a few years ago. Music was alright, but god he's insufferable .
Michael Melfa 2 months ago
"The Wall" is one of my all time favorite albums, but I hope to never meet Roger Waters because I've heard plenty of times how much a d****e he is.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
David Gilmour is what made Pink Floyd awesome. And he's still awesome.
NoRestfortheQWERTY 2 months ago
I disagree. Syd Barrett was what made Pink Floyd awesome. It's been downhill for them since the first album, and nothing they recorded past 1969 is really essential, in my opinion. I like "Dark Side" because it fits together so well and because so many techno artists took so much from it.
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Kid Rock opening for Metallica. Snoresville.
Sven Horlemann 2 months ago
Today I think he is an a$$, but after his first album I saw him on a club tour in Germany. Good gracious God. Unbelievable. 60 min. of pure rock / rap energy. Marvelous.
#38
I saw Deep Purple once and the singer didnt realize his mic was off for half the set.
Plentyofoomph 2 months ago
He would have known its off. Thats impossible to not notice. More likely that it wasnt being pushed through FOH
Janissary35680 2 months ago
Would that be the singer's bad or the tech's? (Assuming they had someone on tech.)
Sven Horlemann 2 months ago
I am sur ehis mic was on, and he heard himself throught the monitors / in-ear. If not, he would stop singing. Especially Ian Gillan. As @Plentyofoomph suggested, most likely the mixer did not push it through FOH.
Kevin Hickey 2 months ago
...then some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground.
#39
Alien Ant Farm. They played Smooth Criminal about 4 times and the entire show was just awful.
#40
Someone got me lil xan tickets for my birthday and it was the worst thing ever.
#41
Oasis. Very early 2000s.
Stood there and joylessly banged out their songs, barely spoke except to heckle the audience for being too excited (jumping, iirc...but maybe someone also tried to crowd surf?)..."It's a f*****g rock show, not a circus!"
Travis opened for them and came with 10x more energy. It was all downhill from there. Lots left during the encore, us included. We all left as Travis fans.
Bob Brezniak 2 months ago
I fail to understand the appeal of oasis. They just seem like narcissistic jerks
#42
Milli Vanilli….i was like 8 but was wondering they could barely speak English but their singing was perfect English.
Fellfromthemoon 2 months ago
I'm not defending Milli Vanilli, I know the face and the voice belonged to two men. However, have you ever heard opera singers, who clearly had no idea about the language they're singing? They pronounce everything perfectly, but the emphasis is on the wrong syllable. Just slightly off (as the music helps), it becomes really eerie.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 months ago
Was going to post this. Celine Dion used to sing in English before she could speak it, and on Oprah while talking about it said she had no idea what she was singing!
Load More Replies... Sven Horlemann 2 months ago
Well, they solved this riddle, didn't they? It was a huge scandal in Germany.
#43
I saw the Goo Goo Dolls a few years back. They were kinda old and didn't have great energy but the show was fine.
Then, I guess one of the other band members wanted HIS turn to sing. I called him Pink Hair Guy. Pink Hair Guy sang like he smoked two packs a day. The crowd hated him. Nothing ever sucked the buzz of concert excitement out of me faster than Pink Hair Guy. They let HIM sing their most popular song, Iris. I left mid song.
JayWantsACat 2 months ago
I think that's their bassist. IIRC, he's known to dye his hair different colors.
#44
At a festival. Die antword. Sounded like babies on fire.
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
Blank Frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction.
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#45
Meatloaf followed by counting crows.
Robert T 2 months ago (edited)
I saw Meatloaf at Manchester G-Mex in about 1995. He was really good, but the giant inflatable bat stole the show. I guess it depends upon when in their career you see them.
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
I saw Blue Oyster Cult in the 1980s and the giant inflatable Godzilla slowly collapsed and covered the drum stand.
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Aileen Grist 2 months ago
I saw Meatloaf in Manchester when he had an inflatable of a woman - it was only half pumped up. He was an hour and a half late and berated a member of the audience for not singing. He was rude to the audience, nasty to everyone else. We left after half an hour - had to we had a train to catch - but he was so bad that I didn't mind.
#46
I went to see Soulja Boy a couple years back because it was 2 tickets for $15 each (so $30 total) and I expected it to be funny.
Soulja himself was fine as were the second and third openers (some local no name rappers). The first opener however... I'm just gonna copy-paste what I wrote at the time, actually
> I've seen over 1200 artists live, and few stuck out as much as this for high levels of SUCK.
> I saw a BOGO deal for a Soulja Boy concert which made it 2 tickets for ~$30 and hopped on it. The Soulja Boy part was what you'd expect, the openers were not publicly listed before the show, so imagine my shock when the first performers I see on stage aren't even human, but instead two holograms of NFT apes. When they came on, they moved in the same looping GIF for the next 45ish minutes and bass-heavy club mixes of top 40 songs from this millennium blared. It was soulless, poorly mixed, poorly sequenced and just plain BAD. Once the t*****e was over and the GIFs were no longer looping, I actually started screaming "THANK GOD! That was horrible!" and variations repeatedly.
> Even a bad band on stage whom I think is truly awful has a certain charm to it almost always, like just seeing your fellow man get up on stage and blare out their soul through their songs is an admirable feat to me. There's a clear human element I can usually feel to a sincere performance even if the music isn't for me. So I've seen bands play that were probably less technically proficient than those stupid NFT monkeys but none filled me with such a sense of disdain and woe.
#47
Cake. The first 2/3 of the show was weather delayed and they only had an hour left once the thunder stopped. not their fault obviously. But instead of playing that entire remaining hour, McCrea spent half the time doing some dumb bit about a bonzai tree with the audience. Like if this is part of your act normally, fine. But have just a tiny bit of situational awareness.
#48
Mudvayve (opened for Rob Zombie & Ozzy). I swear all four members were playing four different songs. Nothing sounded together. Brutally bad.
Plentyofoomph 2 months ago
Weird. Mudvayne are a notoriously talented band. Rob zombie however, ive been watching some live clips lately and... woof
Jesha 2 months ago
I honestly had him from last year's concert as one of my top of all time. Did I just get lucky?
Load More Replies... Touhou Youyoumu 2 months ago
Seen Mudvayve in early 2000's. Absolutely on point, sounded amazing.
The Majestic Opossum 2 months ago (edited)
My husband just saw them last night! Said they were great. At one point Corey Taylor's son came out and sang and sounds just like his dad 😍 and yes, I do know Corey Taylor sings for Slipknot, but as an early 00s emo kid, I love both bands. So to see his kid play with them is awesome.
#49
I was at that Jane’s A*******n show in Boston where dude got so drunk he attempted to fight the band and they broke up.
Perry Ferrell sounded like a*s the whole night and it was more unpleasant than literal noise shows I’ve gone too.
#50
I think her singing has improved since then, but the summer I Kissed A Girl was super popular, Katy Perry performed at Warped Tour. I was working at the venue at the time and heard it, but couldn’t see it. Her voice was AWFUL. I saw her perform on TRL later and it was just as bad.
#51
This thing at the Royal Albert Hall that was meant to be an anniversary show for a big countercultural "happening"-type thing that had packed the place out decades ago. The organizer was one of those artsy eccentrics who didn't really live in everyone else's world, and it had been spottily promoted... so we got there, and there were maybe 200 people there, if that. In the Royal Albert Hall.
It was a mix of spoken word and music, and one of the spoken word guys was someone who clearly used to be an engaging performer but had been ravaged by life's pleasures over time and was sloshed... everyone else performed for ten or twenty minutes, apart from Pete Townshend who got a longer set at the end, but this chap mumbled on for a good half an hour, and by the end of it I wanted to pull my own head off.
A very strange day.
#52
Honestly the worst show I ever saw was Sublime. It was their last show. The singer was an absolute high mess. He overdosed the following day or something. .
#53
MF DOOM and Mos Def
Show was supposed to start at 8PM, the local opener played, Mos Def didn’t make it across the border, DOOM didn’t show up until 1AM, too bad we had already left half an hour earlier since we had been standing around listening to a DJ for 4 hours at that point.
Since DOOM did eventually show up and play we didn’t get a refund.
The worst.
#54
Afroman about 8 years ago.. s****y small town dive bar.. he played “because I got high” as the first song, and forgot half the lyrics.. I think 50% of the 30 person crowd left right after that song.
Cider’s Agenda 1 month ago
Wondering if this was in a very small town in Nebraska. Event was called Tube-a-Palooza…
#55
Weezer, about 2008 or 2009!? NYC. They sucked a*s so bad and one of their encores was a repeated song. So f****n lame.
#56
Avril Lavigne. She just was kind of unenthusiastic and it was boring to watch. Doesn't have great stage presence.
#57
Journey tribute band…named Arrival. They forgot the lyrics to Don’t Stop Believing.
#58
Morrisey, with F*****G Interpol as the opener. Portland, 2018.
I had earplugs pushed in so far that my fingers touched.
I’ve had tinnitus ever since.
If we have smoking ordinances, I don’t know why we don’t have decibel ordinances.
Auntriarch 2 months ago
The last (and it probably will be) concert I went to was so loud I could only bear it with my earlobes pushed into my ears tightly. It was a small theatre and I don't think they'd allowed for that.
#59
Drake in 2012. My girlfriend wanted to go. He never did a whole song and played on his phone the whole time. Almost got in a fight because I accidentally stepped on some guys shoe.
#60
Queens of the Stone Age, Wisconsin, somewhere around 2019
Outdoor at a soccer field, fine, but came out drunk, proceeded to get worse, talking about partying there decades ago, walked off the stage after a relatively short show, everyone thought encore?
Lights on, crew breaking down set, game over.
Just Meh and kinda crappy experience.
#61
Nelly. Almost two hours late. Came out for all of like 30 minutes once he DID show up. Barely really did his songs just did a lot of ad libbing over the backing track. There was also speculation after that it wasn’t actually him up there.
#62
Was at one of Elliot Smiths last shows. Started and stopped several songs, and kept saying he couldn’t feel his hands.
A*******n sucks.
Nikki Sevven 2 months ago
Elliott Smith was a genius. As a musician, I absolutely detest most cover songs. But his cover of The Beatles' "Because" is better than theirs. It's absolutely beautiful.
#63
Jack White, shockingly enough. Boring as hell, backing band was a*s, and he didn't say a single word to the crowd. The guy's an absolute rock legend, but when I saw him on stage, there was zero magic. Really sad.
Der Kommissar 2 months ago
The words legend/legendary, icon/iconic and diva are overused in describing musicians.
David Farmer 2 months ago
Especially in this case - the guy is horrible... NO idea why some like him...
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Lana Del Rey in 2014. Absolutely awful performer. And yet, such a feral crowd, just shoving and fighting to get to the front. For what, I have no idea.
#66
Hall and Oates for sure. They were horrible and I was so looking forward to them.
Lauryn Hill too. She sang like she just DGAF anymore. That was the only concert where I walked out mid show.
#67
Wiz Khalifa. It was free, and I found out why.
#68
Kanye in the early 2000s. He was booked for a local festival here in NC (given this is when he was blowing up after college dropout and booked the gig before it dropped). But he showed up almost 2 hours late and then once on stage he stopped the show several times to yell at the lighting guy. I left after the 2nd time he stopped the show. It was the worst concert experience by far I’ve ever endured.
Close 2nd - Lil Wayne was supposed to do a small show in our same town and he sold a bunch of tickets came in his bus, sat back stage, had a bunch of small time rappers perform as well as anti d**g speakers and he never came out - took everyone’s money and left. That also sucked. F both of them.
that_gay_snake 2 months ago
are we surprised kanye was like that? if anything, that shoudlve been a warning sign on how we shouldnt have given him a career
#69
Ryan Adams just a few months ago. The music was great but there was maybe an hour of that in a three hour show. Incredibly annoying guy, very obvious why he got cancelled.
#70
Meatloaf at Rocktales and Cocktails in Vegas in 2013.
His backup singer sang most of the songs. He just huffed and puffed his way across the stage and showed photos on a big screen.
When he did sing, he hit maybe 20% of the notes.
It was sad. I've never been a huge fan, but he embarrassed himself. Only die hard fans "liked" it, and their reviews even made excuse after excuse or qualified their positive reviews with "for a guy his age".
#71
Neutral Milk Hotel.
A band I really enjoy and never imagined I'd get to see live. Maybe my expectations were high, but there was a weird mood in the air and it seemed like they didn't want to be there and maybe just needed the money.
JayWantsACat 2 months ago
I love this band and will probably never see them live if I get the chance. That whole "never meet your heroes" type deal.
#72
Third eye blind, who knew they have 3 hours of songs i dont wanna hear.
#73
I have four that stand out:
Puddle of Mudd - Sounded fine, but had absolutely zero energy on stage. Literally no one moved from their initial spot.
Busta Rhymes - Showed up late, then expected the crowd to sing his songs for him
Marshall Tucker Band - Lead singer needed to retire like ten years before the concert. Just did not remotely sound even decent.
Counting Crows - I agree with him politically but dude, I paid (granted they were an opener) to hear you sing your songs, not to go on long rants over your music.
#74
Ghost face killah with del the funky homosapien and badbadnotgood. Ghostface never showed up. The worst part was they kept announcing things like "he's still coming" and "he'll be here in 30 minutes!" Might not have been del, but the other two were on the bill for sure. Bbng at least played their original stuff to fill the time.
#75
Steve Winwood. First, his opening act was his daughter - she just plain old sucks. He basically played two songs in an endless jam session for two hours. It was like he was practicing in his garage. Terrible.
Kiss Army 2 months ago
For KISS's final concert at Madison Square Garden, the opening act was Amber Wild (Paul Stanley's son's band). For such a big night (and such an expensive show) I would have expected a better opening act. I am a huge KISS fan and had never heard of Amber Wild and didn't know any of their songs and I still haven't after that night.
#76
Ray Lamontagne.
My ex dragged me to see him. Dude has a nice voice, but absolutely no stage presence. I was so bored, I started falling asleep in the grass (outdoor concert).
#77
I saw The Fratellis when they were in NYC a few years ago, and for some reason they made the bizarre decision to play almost all of their (uptempo, energetic rock) music as slowed-down acoustic covers. Jon Fratelli also kept speaking in a southern twang, which was wild because I kept thinking "Dude, I know you're Scottish".
Thankfully the one and only song I remember being played normally was their closer/most famous song, Chelsea Dagger.
#78
Honestly, so hard to say this. But Peaches. I've seen her multiple times but this was in LA. I literally had to push people's phones out of my face and was met with casual "what the f**k, I'm filming for my ig" most people left before the encode. She was great. The crowd was classic LA dogwater people only there for one song for their tiktok or Instagram. Peaches was clearly disappointed in the crowd too which made the performance worse as well.
#79
Dave Matthews c. 2005. Sooo boring. Every song was like a 20 minute s****y jam session with a fiddle. It was awful. I fell asleep.
#80
Years ago I went to see an avenged sevenfold concert that honestly had on paper a very stacked lineup. Black veil brides were the openers which I honestly weren’t a fan of prior, but god they sounded exactly like their recording. Really impressive. Next up… asking Alexandria. I was very excited for them. Holy f**k they were BAD. The lead singer was plastered drunk. Asked a couple times if we wanted him to take his d**k out which got either a resounding no or an awkward silence. They ended up getting rid of the singer last I heard. Hollywood undead went up next and they were stunningly good. Avenged sevenfold was amazing and honestly put on a very good production.
Kaedin Ardley 2 months ago
Black Veil Brides are consistently outstanding live. The first time I only went to accompany my teenage daughter but I was so impressed I’ve now seen them a further 6 times on purpose!!
#81
Went to see Snoop Dogg in early 2000s in Dallas
He was an hour late then brought iut 3LW and said "listen to my bitches rap"
And it became a 3Lw concert
Everyone left and got their money back.
#82
Bob Dylan. Awful, awful performer. Elvis Costello was his opener and he was excellent, but Bob sucked so much that we left early.
#83
Probably Smashing Pumpkins in the late 90’s. They weren’t bad, but probably the worst of the ones I have seen. Pearl Jam in 95 was the best for me and I enjoyed Bon Jovi in 93 too even though I had to be dragged there.
#84
Journey. It was in the late 2000’s when they put out a few new albums. They only played the new stuff the entire show, and broke out their hits during the encore. It was boring, they weren’t engaging - and it was like 95* and a thunderstorm was brewing. All in all pretty miserable experience.
#85
Bad in a good way, maybe? Saw Weird Al with my step dad for a stool performance. He told the crowd that he’d found a list of all his songs ranked worst to best, and thought he’d go with the worst ones. Only did a bit of his big hits as a polka at the end. It was both nothing like the previous concert I’d been to of his (went completely all out, full costume changes to reenact the music videos, etc..) when I was little, and also weirdly on brand for him. .
dan s 2 months ago
I just never got it. I'm not a comedy snob, Dumb and Dumber is one of my favourite movies, I love a good fart joke, but I've never understood how anyone over the age of 9 liked this guy. "Eat it eat it, get yourself an egg and beat it". Oh I see, he's singing Beat It, but it's about eating food! Hilarious! HOW IS THAT ANYTHING BUT EXCRUCIATING?! It's literally children's music. I'm just baffled by how he's so universally loved by adults. I have heard he's really nice and down to earth, so I'll give him that.
Lost Panda 2 months ago
Most adults were kids once too. I admit I don't listen to him as much anymore, but he was one of the artists I listened to as a kid growing up. If one of my kids plays one of his songs, I'm going to be singing along.
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We went to a Shawn Colvin (she sings Sunny Came Home) show after a 2 year delay due to Covid and she didn't play Sunny Came Home, her only hit. She ended the show and people just stood there. .
#87
I'll preface this by saying it was a corporate party and not a concert just for fans, but I was unimpressed by Dua Lipa. The stage was only her and her dancers, not sure where the actual instrumentalists were or if it was totally pre-recorded.
#88
Haha I actually just went to see Creed on their reunion tour like 3 weeks ago. Let me just say that the tickets were free and it was a team building activity for work and I’m not a fan at all. I had super low expectations and was really just going for a laugh.
I made the poor decision to get blazed as f**k before the show and while in my past experiences d***s usually accentuate and enhance your enjoyment of music, in this case it made a laughable concert even worse. Scott Stapp has to be one of the most talentless f*****g frontmen in all of rock music. If one of their songs started out with a half way enjoyable groove or riff, as soon as Scott opened his mouth that song absolutely died right then and there. He dressed like a 50 year old reject from the Black Parade. At one point he told us he was going to ‘take us on a journey through the human experience’. Completely unironically. The drummer was so vanilla it was painful. Tremoni’s guitar tone was so f*****g obnoxious it was like sledgehammer of tedium. Their multimedia show that played on the screen behind them looked like the media player effects that came with windows 2000.
Good on them for selling out arenas on the back of their 30 year old terrible music and Scott looks like he’s in pretty good shape now despite his troubled past, but man did they suck.
#89
The group Boston. Their equipment wasn't working right and the microphones made everything unintelligible. You couldn't even understand "More Than a Feeling".
#90
JOJI. I think that guy just has too much anxiety to do live shows. That, combined with him half-way pandering to people who wanted Filthy Frank, made for a very weird and confusing show. He locked in for Slow Dancing in the Dark and it was honestly incredible. The rest of his show involved him leaving that stage and it playing a sound of somebody pissing for four minutes, him playing Smash Brothers with one of his openers (who did terrible adlibs for JOJI during the show), and other really cringe jokes and segments. Kenny Beats did a DJ set before him that was really great though, I was stoked for that.
#92
Lady Antebellum. Holy s**t that was a snore fest.
What do you think ?
R Dennis 2 months ago (edited)
Just to change it up: Poison, Green Day, and Ozzy all put on masterclass shows. Poison was opening for KISS and sounded incredible. Green Day knows how to keep the crowd engaged - took my teen stepsons (who had a pretty good band of their own) who hated Green Day (for no reason). They came out of that concert fans. And Ozzy... well was Ozzy. He couldn't move around the stage well, but it was perfect - he was like the eye of a hurricane. R.I.P.
Bec 2 months ago
Hubs prefers Metal and I prefer Rock but we went to festival with Green Day and he admitted they put on a good show. I got to see Motorhead s few months before Lemme passed - he was a little slower and had to take breaks but he died doing what he loved. Ozzy had to have his lyrics on a teleprompter but always a good show! Alice Cooper still tours all the time - always a good show and different each time I have seen him
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Noelle Greeley 2 months ago (edited)
Kenny Rogers. I grew up loving him and Dollys Christmas music and so was excited to see his Christmas concert. He walked out with a cane, forget the lyrics, horrible voice, and was cursing with frustration. Then, he had a local kids choir come out to perform. We left during that. Huge disappointment! Performers need to recognize when it's time to retire!
Mark McCawley 2 months ago
Tears for fears a few years ago. Walked out. All six of us walked out.
Tim Douglass 2 months ago
After I saw The Beach Boys in the late 70s or early 80s (can't remember anymore) I decided I'd never go to a concert by someone I liked when they were young. Lots of people bagging on Meatloaf in the twenty-teens, but he was definitely shot for a lot of reasons and was only back on stage because of money issues. I'm not surprised he disappointed. Never see your heroes when they are old.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
I remember Sha Na Na opening for Three Dog Night in Toronto. Talk about a mixed concert.
Mike F 2 months ago
I would have loved to see Three Dog Night. They were one of my favorite bands in the 70s.
Load More Replies... Toothless Feline 2 months ago
For me, it was Counting Crows back in ‘96. Adam doesn’t “sing” live—he talk-sings and interrupts everything to babble in a stream of unconsciousness. So disappointing. I was and still am a big Crows fan, but I will never see them live again. OTOH, the opener was Fiona Apple on her very first major tour. She made the Crows look and sound like high-school-battle-of-the-bands losers.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Parliament at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle a couple of years ago: it was apparently George Clinton's last tour and it was AWFUL. Their sound system sucked (I think that it's called reverb?) , it was so loud and distorted...you couldn't tell one song from the next. We weren't the only people who left after only a few songs.
Mike F 2 months ago
They played Jazz Fest in Detroit years back (like 15?) and they were great.
Load More Replies... Debbie 2 months ago
I only once left a (small) concert early because the guy gave me the creeps. I had a subscription to a venue and went to this concert for free, it was Dougie White. I had never heard of the guy but thought let's give it a shot. The support acts sounded ok on spotify but one of them sounded much less so live. But Dougie White just gave off creep vibes, like a "player". Not my type at all. Some enjoyed that though. But I couldn't enjoy the music so I lef
James016 2 months ago
I saw Pearl Jam in the late 90s and it was boring. Shame as the first 2 albums are incredible. I think they were touring the 3rd or 4th album.
Mike F 2 months ago
Personally I liked PJ, it was some of the fans that made it a drag. We got really great seats the last time and the people around us were HAMMERED. It's not easy to enjoy a (costly) concert when the people around you are are falling into you all night. I had a guy pass out and fell on me. The concert was cool.
Load More Replies... Lene 2 months ago
Ac/dc with axl rose as the stand-in singer. I suppose it was mainly the venue that was awful. It was a football stadium and they had closed off most entrances/exits. So about 25,000 people getting in and out via 2 doors. People fought over seats that wasn't even theirs. We saw fighting near the bar right next to a bouncer-guy who was more interested in the show than doing his job. The show itself was.... well, boring. Oh, and there was 12 toilets. Outside the venue. So if you had to pee you had to leave the venue and enter again. Oh and I saw fans getting severe panic attacks as we left because everybody wanted to leave at the same time. Via 2 doors. It was so bad that it even made the news here in Denmark. I think it was in 2016? In Arhus, Denmark.
R Dennis 2 months ago (edited)
Just to change it up: Poison, Green Day, and Ozzy all put on masterclass shows. Poison was opening for KISS and sounded incredible. Green Day knows how to keep the crowd engaged - took my teen stepsons (who had a pretty good band of their own) who hated Green Day (for no reason). They came out of that concert fans. And Ozzy... well was Ozzy. He couldn't move around the stage well, but it was perfect - he was like the eye of a hurricane. R.I.P.
Bec 2 months ago
Hubs prefers Metal and I prefer Rock but we went to festival with Green Day and he admitted they put on a good show. I got to see Motorhead s few months before Lemme passed - he was a little slower and had to take breaks but he died doing what he loved. Ozzy had to have his lyrics on a teleprompter but always a good show! Alice Cooper still tours all the time - always a good show and different each time I have seen him
Load More Replies... Noelle Greeley 2 months ago (edited)
Kenny Rogers. I grew up loving him and Dollys Christmas music and so was excited to see his Christmas concert. He walked out with a cane, forget the lyrics, horrible voice, and was cursing with frustration. Then, he had a local kids choir come out to perform. We left during that. Huge disappointment! Performers need to recognize when it's time to retire!
Mark McCawley 2 months ago
Tears for fears a few years ago. Walked out. All six of us walked out.
Tim Douglass 2 months ago
After I saw The Beach Boys in the late 70s or early 80s (can't remember anymore) I decided I'd never go to a concert by someone I liked when they were young. Lots of people bagging on Meatloaf in the twenty-teens, but he was definitely shot for a lot of reasons and was only back on stage because of money issues. I'm not surprised he disappointed. Never see your heroes when they are old.
Lee Gilliland 2 months ago
I remember Sha Na Na opening for Three Dog Night in Toronto. Talk about a mixed concert.
Mike F 2 months ago
I would have loved to see Three Dog Night. They were one of my favorite bands in the 70s.
Load More Replies... Toothless Feline 2 months ago
For me, it was Counting Crows back in ‘96. Adam doesn’t “sing” live—he talk-sings and interrupts everything to babble in a stream of unconsciousness. So disappointing. I was and still am a big Crows fan, but I will never see them live again. OTOH, the opener was Fiona Apple on her very first major tour. She made the Crows look and sound like high-school-battle-of-the-bands losers.
Tonja Jackson 2 months ago
Parliament at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle a couple of years ago: it was apparently George Clinton's last tour and it was AWFUL. Their sound system sucked (I think that it's called reverb?) , it was so loud and distorted...you couldn't tell one song from the next. We weren't the only people who left after only a few songs.
Mike F 2 months ago
They played Jazz Fest in Detroit years back (like 15?) and they were great.
Load More Replies... Debbie 2 months ago
I only once left a (small) concert early because the guy gave me the creeps. I had a subscription to a venue and went to this concert for free, it was Dougie White. I had never heard of the guy but thought let's give it a shot. The support acts sounded ok on spotify but one of them sounded much less so live. But Dougie White just gave off creep vibes, like a "player". Not my type at all. Some enjoyed that though. But I couldn't enjoy the music so I lef
James016 2 months ago
I saw Pearl Jam in the late 90s and it was boring. Shame as the first 2 albums are incredible. I think they were touring the 3rd or 4th album.
Mike F 2 months ago
Personally I liked PJ, it was some of the fans that made it a drag. We got really great seats the last time and the people around us were HAMMERED. It's not easy to enjoy a (costly) concert when the people around you are are falling into you all night. I had a guy pass out and fell on me. The concert was cool.
Load More Replies... Lene 2 months ago
Ac/dc with axl rose as the stand-in singer. I suppose it was mainly the venue that was awful. It was a football stadium and they had closed off most entrances/exits. So about 25,000 people getting in and out via 2 doors. People fought over seats that wasn't even theirs. We saw fighting near the bar right next to a bouncer-guy who was more interested in the show than doing his job. The show itself was.... well, boring. Oh, and there was 12 toilets. Outside the venue. So if you had to pee you had to leave the venue and enter again. Oh and I saw fans getting severe panic attacks as we left because everybody wanted to leave at the same time. Via 2 doors. It was so bad that it even made the news here in Denmark. I think it was in 2016? In Arhus, Denmark.
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