Hate to say this but Bob Dylan in Iowa City. No chemistry between him and the band, his voice was terrible, the show had no energy. The saving grace was Elvis Costello's one-man opening act, amazing amount of energy.
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Hate to say this but Bob Dylan in Iowa City. No chemistry between him and the band, his voice was terrible, the show had no energy. The saving grace was Elvis Costello's one-man opening act, amazing amount of energy.
I dont know how i forgot about Dirty Little Rabbits. Oh. My God. They were part of the River Riot when Blink 182 was there (freaking awesome btw). I think they may have been boo'd off stage. Talk about a buzz kill.
Even with summary detail you provided, I can easily imagine what it was like. Now I hate a concert I never even experienced.
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I don't know if I can recall a truly awful show that wasn't in a "pub" setting.
The closest may have been a BoDeans appearance, early-'90s, at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Performance itself was fine, verging on excellent. But I swear there were 19,000 humans crammed into the place that night. It was like fire-code violation on steroids.
I think the entire population of Wisconsin ages 21 to 30 drove over for the show.
Maybe I was just in a foul mood that week.
The closest may have been a BoDeans appearance, early-'90s, at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Performance itself was fine, verging on excellent. But I swear there were 19,000 humans crammed into the place that night. It was like fire-code violation on steroids.
I think the entire population of Wisconsin ages 21 to 30 drove over for the show.
Maybe I was just in a foul mood that week.
I didn't go for them, but the Arctic Monkeys opened for the Black Keys (who brought the freaking house down!) and they were just the absolute worst thing I'd ever heard in my life. I have NO idea how they're as popular as they are.
I think it was the first year of "dry Veishea" when they really pushed concerts. The Flaming Lips was one of the bands.
I went expecting some "She Don't Use Jelly" etc and mostly for whatever band played after.
Turns out they had "reinvented" themselves into the Flaming Lips Experience. Instead of playing music they had people come up on the stage and hold radios with precorded sounds like babies crying, doors slamming etc. Which they then played at ear piercing volumes.
I've been to a few other bad ones, but that is hard to beat.
I went expecting some "She Don't Use Jelly" etc and mostly for whatever band played after.
Turns out they had "reinvented" themselves into the Flaming Lips Experience. Instead of playing music they had people come up on the stage and hold radios with precorded sounds like babies crying, doors slamming etc. Which they then played at ear piercing volumes.
I've been to a few other bad ones, but that is hard to beat.
I love Van Halen, but Dave is one of the worst vocalists I've ever heard live. He tries to make up with for it with his antics, but that hasn't really worked since the 80s.
As much as I love Oasis their live show sucked the two times I saw them. The second time was just to "make sure" the first wasn't a fluke.
Agree with this... Although the chili peppers weren't the worse I've seen they were pretty bad. I've seen plenty of worse local concerts that I've stumbled upon and walked out of after a couple songs.
I know exactly what concert your talking about and that band had absolutely ear melting music. I can't for the life of me remember the name of that opening band though. Tool puts on one heck of a show at least.
I'm gonna throw in Dragon Force for worst concert ever though. One of the guitarist was so wasted he could barely stand, let alone play guitar.
Where and when did you see them? I saw them in Tinley Park a little over a decade ago w/ The Black Crowes and they put on a really good show.
311 a few years back in Chicago. I went b/c a friend hadn't seen them before, and I hadn't seen them in over a decade. Horrible. Played nothing but new crap. Nothing from Music and only a song or two from Grassroots. Hexum still sports the wife beater and stupid ball necklace. Was over the top in his body movements while singing and looked pretty ridiculous. We were pretty bummed that we couldn't get that 1.5hrs of our life back.
I know this isn't exactly what the OP is asking but I have to throw this one in there. Sorry to speak ill of the dead but Whitney Houston at Hilton early 1990's. She had every family member imaginable working on her tour. Her driver, security director, everyone was a family member and let's just say they didn't get the jobs because of their competence. Every single one of them had huge egos with a "don't you know who I am?" attitude. It was easily one of my worst experiences working a show in my career. By the time the show started after 12 hours of attempting to work with all of the incompetence and arrogance we were all in no mood to appreciate whether or not she actually put on a decent show.
Same tour - the Brotherly Love tour in about 2001? I saw them in MLPS and Liam just stood there and sang off key.
Then I saw them at the Target Center a few years later and Liam just stood there and sang off key.
OMG this /end thread I was trying to remember the name but had blocked it from memory.
