Worst concert you've ever attended?

[sdifox]

Clapton. he had a cold and the venue sucks ass. Do not go to a concert in Air Canada Centre! It is not acoustically designed, it's a hockey rink/basketball court.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: sdifox
Clapton. he had a cold and the venue sucks ass. Do not go to a concert in Air Canada Centre! It is not acoustically designed, it's a hockey rink/basketball court.

I heard he was equally terrible the last time he was in Oklahoma City. I didn't get to see him then, but several people from work did and they all said he was bad bad bad that night.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Never been to a concert before. :-(

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: sdifox
Clapton. he had a cold and the venue sucks ass. Do not go to a concert in Air Canada Centre! It is not acoustically designed, it's a hockey rink/basketball court.

I heard he was equally terrible the last time he was in Oklahoma City. I didn't get to see him then, but several people from work did and they all said he was bad bad bad that night.

His opening act, Robert Clay, however, was excellent.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: sdifox
Clapton. he had a cold and the venue sucks ass. Do not go to a concert in Air Canada Centre! It is not acoustically designed, it's a hockey rink/basketball court.

I heard he was equally terrible the last time he was in Oklahoma City. I didn't get to see him then, but several people from work did and they all said he was bad bad bad that night.

His opening act, Robert Clay, however, was excellent.

Saw clapton @Staples center, thought he was pretty good. I actually missed Robert Clay sadly =(.


Worst ones hm.....

1. Linkin Park - 13 year old girls and their DADS in the pit. I was about 1-2 foot away from the front bar, and I was COMFORTABLE. Not so much the bands fault, but goddamn that crowd sucked ass. This is before they pussified their sound.

2. Weezer - snooze fest x infinity. I've tried to watch them THREE times, and could not finish a single show. After 2 songs I'd rather listen to a CD.

3. The Mars Volta - I think their music ok. But live JESUS CHRIST. They opened for RHCP. Same criticsm as above.

 

[Robert Munch]

santana was suprisingly horrible when they played for summerfest back in 2002-2003 or so.. lots of religous banters after songs that nobody cared about.

seen mars volta live approx. three times and realized i should just stick to listening to the cds instead, dragged the shit out of their songs way too much making the experience very dull

 

[zig3695]

best- clapton. a few years ago, 3 hours of perfection- it was absolutely amazing.


worst- earshot. they couldnt even finish the show because it was hot outside. i had never been more pissed off, they sounded awful as well.

 

[lokiju]

Linkin Park years ago.

Wasn't that they were bad really but the equipment was.

The speakers kept cutting in and out throughout the whole set.

Pissed me off.

 

[nageov3t]

probably going to get flamed for this, but Radiohead.

only concert I've ever walked out on.

 

[Lamont Burns]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Third Eye Blind

Easily the worst I have ever seen. They were part of a larger show I wanted to attend... and man they were beyond bad.

 

[ScottFern]

Third Eye Blind way back when I was in junior high. I am no Simon Cowel, or Randy Jackson but I knew they sounded terrible.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

woodstock '94. we missed every band we wanted to see, the bands we saw were awful (blind melon was cool) the crowd was unbearable, and everything was 10x too expensive. the weather sucked, but that's nobody's fault. we got there friday afternoon, and gladly left sunday morning.

 

[KMFJD]

Creed, they opened for the Tea Party in Detroit...horrible... i wanted to chuck a beer bottle at their lead singer sooo bad

 

[davestar]

The worst:
P.O.D. opening for System Of A Down. I guess that's to be expected, though, because P.O.D. is one of the worst bands in the history of music.

Other bad ones:
Third Eye Blind (sloppy as hell)
Filter (zero energy)
Kid Rock (opened for Aerosmith)

 

[torpid]

I've heard some bad opening acts, but the rest of the concert was usually good.

The worst concert I've attended is without question the Billy Joel / Elton John concert in Milwaukee many years back. Both of them sounded like crap.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: LAMONTBURNS

Originally posted by: Modeps
Third Eye Blind

Easily the worst I have ever seen. They were part of a larger show I wanted to attend... and man they were beyond bad.

They played my college with Tonic. I got free tickets because I helped with the setup of the stage. Tonic was great so it wasn't the acoustics in the hall they were in... I walked out on 3EB after about 5 songs and just hung around with the medical crew. I think they're basically a studio produced act and nothing more. Those machines are amazing.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: torpid
The worst concert I've attended is without question the Billy Joel / Elton John concert in Milwaukee many years back. Both of them sounded like crap.

I find this extremely difficult to believe, I've seen Joel at Nassau and it was a phenomenal show.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: EtOH
#2 and #3 Bob Dylan

I was suprised, but it was absolutely horrid. First time was Columbia MD around 1991, the second was Tuscaloosa AL around 1993. Awful

I saw Dylan a while back... probably around 97. I don't think people goto his concerts for his lyrical mastery It wasn't horrible per se, but eh... there's a lot of acts that blow him away.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: torpid
The worst concert I've attended is without question the Billy Joel / Elton John concert in Milwaukee many years back. Both of them sounded like crap.

I find this extremely difficult to believe, I've seen Joel at Nassau and it was a phenomenal show.

Billy Joel was sick or something - his voice was weak and quivering a lot. Elton John was seemingly healthy but he sounded like he was phoning it in. I don't go to a lot of concerts... maybe one a year. This is the only one I remember making me feel ripped off.

 

[sobriquet]

Animal Collective. I dig their albums, but they're total crap live. I had to leave halfway through the set.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: torpid
The worst concert I've attended is without question the Billy Joel / Elton John concert in Milwaukee many years back. Both of them sounded like crap.

I find this extremely difficult to believe, I've seen Joel at Nassau and it was a phenomenal show.

Billy Joel was sick or something - his voice was weak and quivering a lot. Elton John was seemingly healthy but he sounded like he was phoning it in. I don't go to a lot of concerts... maybe one a year. This is the only one I remember making me feel ripped off.

Sick would account for it. I bet it wasn't cheap either, so I understand your frustration

 

[hanoverphist]

ive seen some really terrible bands back in my days of working concerts. worst part was that i was on the clock and couldnt walk out halfway thru. spice girls, britney spears, neil diamond, U2 and dmx all are on my top list of worst show ever. i have a hard time deciding which one was worst.

 

[jjones]

Well, the concert was great but one of the acts was the worst - that was Prince. So bad he got boo-ed off the stage. He was the first act in a line up that included Pat Travers and headlining was the Rolling Stones.

lol, I was just checking if I could find some info about that and there is even something in Wiki about it:

During this period, Prince began to attract attention for the clothes he wore on-stage. He wore high-heeled shoes and boots, and when questioned by the press, he remarked that he liked the way he looked in them[citation needed]. He tended to flaunt and express an intense sexuality on-stage in addition to in his music, and as a result, people began questioning his sexual orientation early on. His stylistic choices brought him trouble as an opening act for The Rolling Stones' two Los Angeles Coliseum shows in 1981, where he was infamously pelted with garbage while wearing bikini briefs, leg warmers, high-heeled boots, and a trench coat, in addition to being booed off the stage for his wardrobe.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
The worst concert I have willingly gone to was Aerosmith during their Pump tour. Opening act was Dokken and they put on a fairly good show, mostly because I've always liked George Lynch as a guitarist, but Aerosmith sucked. Sounded terrible, didn't seem to give a damn and just generally slept walked through the show.

I had seen them previously on the Permanent Vacation tour and they kicked ass.....but the nigt of the Pump tour I saw them on was terrible.

that was a key tour in tylers life. when he played in phoenix, he collapsed at the end of the show. i think it was his first tour without the substance abuse. i was working that show, the show was decent but you could smell the suckage as the songs wore on for aerosmith. even after collapsing tho, i did think it was a good effort for him to go back onstage and do an encore. the crowd didnt boo once, so it wasnt a bad show.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: edro
The Mars Volta, opened for System of a Down

My god... it was like fingernails on a chalkboard for 30min. straight.
You couldn't hear any lyrics and you couldn't tell when one song ended and the next started.
Just weird whirling screeching sounds for 30min.

Then System of a Down opened up with Sugar, and we rocked out!

Mars Volta, for the regular person, is probably best experienced through studio albums. There are so many instruments in their band, and when mixed with horrible acoustics, I could easily imagine it just meshing together and sounding like audio garbage. Very few places have great acoustics in all actuality, due to them being multi purpose venues. I want to see them perform at a small concert hall, Detroit has a very good one.. it's small, but rock shows sound pretty good as long as the band doesn't suck.
But yea, there music is really good when mixed together right, but it's just so hectic. I want to see them live, just so I can confirm if they are indeed terrible live. I've had people tell me there are an amazing band to see live, and others have told me they sound like trash live.

also, not all of their albums I can take a liking too. De-Loused in the Comatorium is my favorite studio album of theirs, with Frances the Mute close behind. Amputechture was horrid imho, but it sounds like their new album dropping at the end of this month will be pretty damned good. We'll see if it can even hold a candle to De-Loused'.