worst concert experiecne

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gonzo13

First time out of the vault
I was looking at the "what are you listening to" thread and I came up with this.....

What has been the worst concert experience you have had?
What band did you go see that sorely disappointed you?

I don't mean that you went to see the Back Street Boys because your girlfriend made you, or you saw a metal concert when you do not like metal because all your friends were going. I want to hear about how you purchased a ticket to see some band you knew and it completely blew.

My worst concert experience was when I went to see Fear Factory. I like FF. When they actually got on stage they put on a good show and I enjoyed myself, but it was what came before that made the whole thing awful. The band that oppened for them was System of a Down, and they were absolutely atrocious. This was before they were big. SoD really got big about a year later and I was surprised to hear them on the radio and sounding good.

Back when they opened up for FF they could not even keep a beat together. The singer was quite obviously fucked up on something and was just out there screaming on his own while the rest of the band was just incidental noise. I was there with my friend and we were both just stunned and pissed off that we were subjected to it. When I heard SoD a year later, and when I hear them now I have a hard time believing that they have any talent of their own and that their sound is not just a product of expensive computers and talented musicians that are not on stage but rather behind a console mixing that crap so it sounds coherent.

They ruined what was a good FF concert.
 
Bad concert experiences-

I went to a John Cougar concernt and no one was toking, I mean that air was clean.

Van Morrison- the guy got on the stage smashed and couldn't finish a set. That was a long damn time ago.

Eric Clapton- the concert was great but the crown control was fucked up. We missed the beginning.

James Taylor (girlfriend) - concert sucked hard until it started raining, and after half the people left- it got pretty good.

Surprising good-
Squeeze- they're a pretty decent bar band, at least when I saw them.

Joe Walsh- opened for the Doobie Brothers- Walsh, despite years of serious drug problems was better than the Doobies and quite funny.

Dire Straights- Excellent. Better live than recorded.

Jimmy Buffett- one of the best concert experiences- just a lot of fun.
 
Now I have to post this here since Im sure people wonder why I never post in music threads. I have never been to a concert and only bought a music CD once. I am not musically inclined in the least and consequentally dont enjoy it much since I cant take part in it but I will say that since I drive a lot I hear plenty on the radio and I think you have great taste in music Welsh. Dire Straits in concert, better than recorded, must have been incredible. I did hear "Sultans of Swing" live recorded on the radio and I thought it was better than the normal recording.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
Hmm, let's see.

I was at a DAD concert once, and while headbanging I hit my nose against the back of the head of the guy in front of me, which gave me a pretty violent nosebleed. The concert itself was pretty good, though, as far as I remember.

Another time I was so drunk at a Manowar concert that I threw up on the floor while they were playing. A friend of mine afterwards threw up in my sink and then slept in my bed, while I woke up in the bathroom the next day. Unfortunately we had apparantly tried to upgrade my computer when we got back from the concert, and I had to turn in a pretty important assignment the next day, which I hadn't printed yet. It was pretty shitty, all in all. I don't remember much of the actual concert, but I think it was cool (I remember harleys on stage, so it had to be somewhat cool).

I was at a Red Hot Chili Pepper Concert a couple of years ago, and it just sucked. I've never been a big fan of them, so I wasn't expecting much, but still I was dissappointed. At least my friend paid for the tickets...

At a Roskilde festival a couple of years ago, I saw a band called And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, or something like that. I'd never heard about them before, but with a name like that I figured they'd be cool. They Weren't. Shitty bands shouldn't be allowed to have cool sounding names, it's just misleading.
 
The last Soilwork concert I went to kind of blew. The one I'd went to before was awesome, mostly stuff from their older albums, but they decided to stick to their new stuff (the crap stuff, in other words) on the last. It was terrible, even the good stuff they did play sounded messy and poorly done.

They were opening for Anthrax though, and they were good. But I was pretty knackered, and drunk, by that point.
 
The only really bad concert experience I've had was when I was 12 and went to see the Swedish band Just D. Kajsa Stina Akerstrom played before them and she sucked bigtime.

Dunno if you count it as concerts, but I also hang around in jazz clubs a lot, and I've seen my share of seemingly pretty good bands with douche sound technicians.

Most awesome concert experience: Maceo Parker at Lucerna, Prague 2004. That concert rocked my socks. In addition, at the end of the concert I snuck into the VIP area since I noticed it wasn't guarded at the time, and I later got to shake Maceo's hand. w00t!
 
John Hiatt (Roskilde Festival) - great musician
Fisher Z (Germany) and Leningrad Cowboys featured by the Red Army Choir (Roskilde Festival) - the greatest atmosphere I have ever experienced on a concert
Bush - funny :)

Actually, I never had a really bad concert experience :oops:
 
I've only been to one real concert, wich was Rammstein, and they were extreme! all the flames... all the explosions...
But the warm-band, "Exilia" was awfull, man was I pissed when they opened up, the lead singer reminded me of some eastern-european drug addicted whory bitch, and the guitarists wore nothing but stupid over-sized jeans fugly stuff....but all in all, it wasn't a bad concert experience, Rammstein totally weighed up for it!
 
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