What was the worst concert you ever went to?

[Boomerproud]

Mine was Alice Cooper at the Agora (now called Newport Music Hall) in Columbus probably 1982ish. He was over an hour late and totally wasted.

Elton John and Billy Joel at Ohio Stadium wasn't bad-just disappointing. Joel had just gotten out of the hospital but gave it his all, but Elton just phoned it in (no energy whatsoever).

[lapfog_1]

1. not quite a concert - although there was singing

Firesign Theater - only not the originals but some substitutes that were doing shows under that name...

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Much to my dismay...

I went with GREAT anticipation to see my most admired Pat Metheny in concert two years ago. I have loved his much since the mid-90s and own every piece of music he has ever made. Yes, a real fan boy at 60.
We drove 3 hrs one way, waited for an hour for his appearance, only to have him play 45 mins of music and say goodnight. To say I was disappointed is a grand understatement.

[KT2000]

38. sorry to hear that -

really loved his music, esp. Wichita Falls. Lyle Mays is so good.

[ZZenith]

64. In his defense -

One of the greatest musical performances I’ve ever witnessed was a Pat Metheny show.

Everyone has a bad day at work sometimes.

[mitch96]

79. Same with a Cher so called concert in Miami

It was more like a Las Vegas show and only 45 min long.. Everybody was shocked when the lights came up so soon... AND it cost a pile of $ for the tickets....... not cool..
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[FSogol]

3. Eric Clapton, sometime in the early 80s. So boring, I feel asleep.

He played a 45 minute version of have you ever loved a woman.

[Alpeduez21]

4. David Cassidy

At the Ohio State fair in '74. Just awful.

[Boomerproud]

8. I saw him at Vets Memorial sometime in '72.

Saw more of his butt than his face. Lol.

[Alpeduez21]

9. Exactly

[jberryhill]

56. What could you have possibly been expecting?

[Squinch]

5. Neil Finn at Jones Beach. Love him but the concert sucked.

[htuttle]

6. Joe Perry project opening for the Rush Moving Pictures tour in 1981 at Alpine

It was the worst, and also one of the best.

Joe Perry was late and too drunk to stand. He sat on a stool and made a lot of noise that wasn't even in the same key as the rest of his band. He got mad at the crowd when they didn't clap enough, too.

Rush, on the other hand, were consummate professionals, nailing every cue perfectly. At one point, it seemed like each member of the band was playing at least two instruments at once (they had footpedal synthesizers). Kind of like the complete opposite of their opening act.

So Perry was the worst. Rush was one of the best. I have no idea who put the billing together, but that was a mistake.

[earthshine]

49. Rush concerts got so much better after they got rid of the warm-up bands. nt

[ZZenith]

65. Yeah, though I suspect they picked their warm up acts

On the likelihood that they would never upstage them.

[earthshine]

67. I'm sure such arrangements were made by their management until Rush became their own managers.

Mixing your logic with my opinions, every band that had Rush warm up for them was upstaged.

[ZZenith]

69. Golden Earring almost held their own

Candlebox and Mr. Big,however, did not.

[ms liberty]

66. Yes, every Rush show I've ever been to is tied for the best show ever

They aimed for perfection every night and came damn close, every night.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

7. 38 special "in their glory days"

Outside venue, sound was horrible (and i was near the front) bare breasts EVERYWHERE, drunks EVERYWHERE.

Sammy Hagar opened and was worth going.

[Aristus]

10. Meatloaf back in 2012 or so.

His voice was gone years ago, and concert-goers keep coming back for the memory of that once-staggeringly powerful voice. It was sad and embarrassing to listen to him try to sing all those old Jim Steinman songs.

[Recursion]

11. Bright Eyes at 9:30 in DC

Not even his fault entirely, that was just The Night That Everything Went Wrong

[ghostsinthemachine]

12. The Guess Who. The Cars. REO Speedwagon. Fleetwood Mac

All but Fleetwood Mac were lame. At the Fleetwood Mac show, we got teargassed. Stockton, Billy Herbert Field. . Worst is relative.

[Corvo Bianco]

52. Teargassed, wow!

Not a common occurrence for me at concerts

[kimbutgar]

13. Hall and oates

I think it was when Hall was in the throes of his cocaine addiction. He has his back to the audience the entire time and his voice was terrible. I was a big Halla nd Oates fan and was so disappointed..

[edhopper]

20. saw them two years ago

at MSG, they are great again.

[True Dough]

115. At least you didn't get this...

[Duppers]

14. Dylan

Yep, wasted.

[Glamrock]

23. I was at that gig too.

[Lochloosa]

15. Dwight Yoakam about 18 years ago.

The opening act was the highlight of that show. Left after the third song.

[padfun]

16. Grateful Dead while sober.

Loved them when tripping.

[tparrett62]

85. Agreed

Saw them without any "enhancement"- yikes!

[jpak]

17. Hank Williams Jr. at UGA Athens

Too drunk to go on.

But he told us that he loved us!

No refund.

[OilemFirchen]

18. Stephen Stills, mid-80s.

Opening act was America, who were horrid at their best and, yet, better than Stills. Free tickets weren't worth the cost.

2) Dylan, about ten years ago.
3) Dylan, about thirty years ago.
4) B.B. King, with Buddy Guy opening, again mid-80s. The crowd was screaming "BRING BACK BUDDY!" during the entirety of King's miserable set.

[dameatball]

55. Yeah, saw B. B. at some place in Orlando. Spent most of the time sitting in a chair and talking.

Well beyond his prime by that time. I forget the name of the place....out near International Drive I think.

[The Figment]

19. Bachman Turner Overdrive

Foghat was the opening act, blew BTO away.

[ProfessorGAC]

99. Funny Story About Them

They were the opening act when i saw Van Halen on the first tour with Sammy.

Last song, of course, was Takin' Care of Business and Randy goes off on this 4 minute guitar solo. Now, he's competent, but he is not a special guitarist.

All i could think was "Randy, it's a Van Halen concert. Nobody came here to listen to YOU play guitar."

BTW; They were ok, but Van Halen killed.

[edhopper]

21. Last week saw Gordno Lightfoot

he sounds like Daniel Day Lewis from the Lincoln movie.
Or maybe Pete Seeger, but Pete Seeger now. I know he's dead.
Pity because his songs are so good.

[SharonClark]

106. Saw Lightfoot several times over 30 years ago and he was very good

He's playing here in a few months and when the tickets went on sale I looked him up because I thought he was dead. Well, he's alive but he looks like he died, several times. He's 79 but looks 109.

[edhopper]

111. Look for a recent YouTube video first

if you plan on seeing him.

[bif]

22. Led Zeppelin. At Olympia Stadium in Detroit.

Jimmy Page totally sucked! Also Dylan in Toledo. And the Dead were downright boring. And they didn't do any of their hits. Just sayin'.

[kwassa]

50. Led Zeppelin in Cleveland, 1969.

Grand Funk Railroad opened for them, and were much better.

[bif]

61. My hometown band!

Actually I think they hailed out of Pontiac. But pretty close. Saw Mark Farner in concert about a month ago. Apparently he doesn't own the rights to the name GFR but he wrote all the songs, played guitar and sang. So I wonder what the so-called GFR play? His voice and playing were still great!

[kwassa]

62. Good for him.

They are unfairly forgotten as a band.

[ProfessorGAC]

100. Saw Them Twice

First time at Chicago's Amphitheater. Terrible. Audio was rotten, set list was uninspired, and Plant's voice was breaking down 2/3rds through.

The second time was at Tampa Stadium. They were OK for the first and last third, but the cool part was they took a break and the middle third of the show was acoustic only.

JPJ and Page had acoustic guitars. Bonzo use bongo drums and Plant had a tambourine.

They did all that cool stuff off the third album. That was very good. The other show and two thirds of Tampa were from middling to rotten.

[Glamrock]

24. Avett Brothers at the Morris.

They were fucking great. The crowd was horrible. It was a sea of hipsters. All drinking microbrew, wearing plaid western shirts or PBR tees. And they wouldn't shut up. I'm serious. They would not shut the fuck up! And believe me, the band was fucking killing it! They put on a sick show. But damn, that crowd made it a pretty awful concert.

[Ohiogal]

27. I HATE when you're at a great concert

And people are talking away non stop!

If you wanna yack, go somewhere else for crying out loud!

[Glamrock]

28. They are a very dynamic band.

If it was ac/dc you could kinda ignore it.

[Coventina]

71. Argh! I had that experience at a Morrissey concert.

The women right in front of me did nothing but jabber LOUDLY at each other all night, I could barely even hear Morrissey singing.
It was reserved seating, so I couldn't just move.

I hated them with the heat of a thousand suns.

[GReedDiamond]

25. I won't count any of the shows I played...

...so I'll go with: back in 1972, Styx had just released their first self-titled album, and them being a local Chicago area band, we decided to go see them live at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

"Festival seating" meant there were no seats, just floor space on the floor of the gymnasium - needless to say, quite uncomfortable, but we were still very young and agile.

The opening act was R.E.O. Speedwagon. I'd heard them a little on FM rock radio - was not especially familiar with them - but there they were, playing away...and on and on and on...and they were fuckin horrible, seriously un-listenable but really loud.

After maybe a couple of hours, the R.E.O. "singer" Kevin Cronin announced that Styx had gotten lost on the way to the concert venue, so they were cancelling their appearance.

With that, Kevin yelled "but don't worry, we're gonna keep on rockin all night long" or some such shit, so we left.

I heard later that they played for 4-5 hours.

As for Styx, my interest in them died that day, and they became a band that I basically despise, musically speaking.

[Freddie]

82. I saw Styx fairly recently

(Or what’s left of them if any) at one of those standing-only venues which I did not know about beforehand or I would have declined. Too old for that! I think I like Styx even less now although they did a good, long (too long for my back!) show.
Recently Sting (who I adore) appeared at the Fillmore in Philly which is another standing-only venue and I didn’t go. Don’t his people know the average age of his fans??

[Totally Tunsie]

26. Sadly, Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.

The music was great, but they had zero interaction with the audience. They came out on stage, talked for a moment with their band, sang, and talked with the band about the next song. Rinse, repeat. At the end, they walked off without fanfare. It was a huge disappointment as I had been a big fan before that.

[Harker]

29. Rolling Stones, Folsom Field, Boulder, CO, 1978

Openers were Peter Tosh, Eddie Money, and Kansas, all of whom I saw.

There was a rain delay. I left to go to clean toilets for my crummy part-time janitor job. As I reached my jobsite, I heard the crowd loudly welcoming the Stones from about two miles away.

Later, my boss called me an asshole and told me I should've blown off work.

[CanonRay]

30. Dionne Warwick in 1972

Sang 2 songs, left the stage

[Hoyt]

31. Roger McGuinn (Byrds) and Band 1975. First show was outstanding. They got so screwed up

during intermission that they all came out playing different songs at the same time for about 10 minutes, and it got worse. Big fan, but walked out (since it was obvious they weren’t going to share whatever they took).

Also don’t like concerts where everyone is standing and screaming. I like to listen and absorb music.

[Tikki]

32. Bob Seger...

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Wasn’t really the show as much as the huge ass venue. Just seems like a hubris thing for the performer at such a big venue.

We never went to a stadium or large arena show again.

Something about a club or auditorium or theatre show. So intimate and personal.

Tikki

[bif]

34. With all due respects, it's Bob Seger

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He played at my High School sock hop for $2 and he was amazing!

[stopwastingmymoney]

112. We saw Seger at the arena in San Jose a couple years ago

They were fantastic, what a band

[Dustlawyer]

33. Tie for me. Scott Weiland when with STP started 2 hours late and was so drunk

(according to him) he could ramble on until the band would start a song while he was talking. He would try to sing but it was unintelligible.

Elton John with Billy Joel. Billy saved the expensive day with an all out performance as a true entertainer! Elton John would not hold his notes at all in a huge Houston Toyota Center crowd. The last song he did hold the notes which pissed me off more because he proved he could hold them if he chose. Saw him a year later with a free ticket in a small venue and he was great. Go figure?

[greymattermom]

35. Someone who played at Red Rocks a few years ago.

The music was so loud is was physically painful, and I had to leave after the second song.

[JDC]

36. Ozzy Osbourne circa 1982/83. His voice was embarrassing

He was shirtless in spandex also. It was definately during his not in good shape in any way period.

[BlueTsunami2018]

80. Ozzy has been very hit and miss throughout his career.

I’ve caught him on nights when he killed and nights when he was god awful. But whether his voice is on or not, his band always crushes.

Did you get to see Randy or was this after his tragic passing?

[JDC]

92. I've heard the same. After Randy - Bark at the Moon tour

Jake E Lee, who was definately great.

Billy Squier and Ratt openers. They were both good actually.

[BlueTsunami2018]

97. I saw that tour.

Waysted and Mötley Crüe were the openers on the leg I saw.

[madaboutharry]

37. John Mellancamp a couple of years ago.

It was the worst. He was awful. Boring and no voice. I almost walked out.

[PaulX2]

39. Rolling Stones

BC Place

[zanana1]

45. The Stones are disappointing in concert.

I just stay home and listen to the albums.

[kwassa]

51. Stones were one of best concerts I've ever seen.

Detroit Masonic Hall, 1978, Some Girls tour. They were on fire.

[Mr.Bill]

116. Boston

Right after their first album was released. The show consisted of them performing the album in order, note for note perfect just exactly like the record. For an encore they played one of the songs a second time.

Could have stayed home and listened to the record loud and got the same show.


Close second, and polar opposite was John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. They were opening for Jeff Beck at Winterland. They just didn't go over well with the Jeff Beck crowd. They sounded like about 13 musicians playing 13 different songs in different keys at the same time. I knw McLaughlin is a spectacular guitarist, but it just wasn't working that night. The crowd booed during most of the performance.

[Bayard]

40. Sting

I love Sting, and it was so disappointing. Cincinnati in mid-90's. Outside venue. He phoned it in. Obviously had no interest in being there. And the tickets were exorbitant.

Also saw Springsteen in Cincy. He put on his usual dynamite show, but the guy in front of us turned around and threw up on my shoes.

[pnwest]

42. I had the exact same experience with Sting

in Indianapolis in the 90’s. And I am a RABID Sting fan. Probably the same summer, he phoned it in, and the tickets were exorbitant.

[jberryhill]

58. Including the puke on your shoes?

[Freddie]

86. Saw him in 2010

The “Symphonicity” tour where he appeared with a full orchestra. Loved every second of it (I am also a huge fan.)

[True Dough]

89. I hope you gave him

a donkey kick!

[Generic Brad]

41. Nazarath

My friend and I were seated between two groups who were toking. They asked us to pass the joint to their friends. We obliged by handing it to them. We did not partake because we didn’t know these people and we were not in their party. They looked big, mean, and scary.

The second it passed out of our hands, security tapped us on the shoulder and took us to a detention room. They searched and questioned us. We had nothing. So they just kicked us out of the center into the winter night with no coats.

Our ride was still in the concert in another section. We were freezing and had less than $1 between us. We sat in a McDonalds for 2 hours slowly sharing a small order of fries while waited for the concert to get out.

We heard one song by the warm up band. It was not a fun night.

[Kali]

84. omg

sorry, but that is hilarious!

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. Chuck Berry

Showed up late, played 5 songs or so and then left. He said he had a plane to catch. He did his usual thing of expecting the local band that opened to be his back up band. I heard that Bruce Springsteen had the same "honor" once.

[callous taoboy]

44. Chilli Peppers, mid-80's

This was in Austin, and they apparently had scored a bunch of coke at "The Co-op" across the street from the venue. They were so coked up and their playing sucked. We walked out after the first few songs.

[highmindedhavi]

46. Guns and Roses

Saw them twice with Metallica at the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum, Axel stopped both shows during songs to complain, wife and I walked out on both shows.

[JuJuYoshida]

47. had to be The Church, what a snoozer

[retread]

48. Blue Cheer -- Haight Straight Theater( sometime late '67 or early '68)

A friend and I had been UP for a couple of days and decided to crash in the seats at the Haight Straight. I don't recall the thought process that led to that decision but think it was cheap seats and music.

I swear when they hit that first note the noise lifted me out of my seat and interrupted a blissful dream. 50 years later I blame those guys for the ringing in my ears. What a nasty mess of LOUD, LOUD noise. We couldn't leave fast enough.

[kwassa]

53. Jefferson Airplane, but not because of them.

The police dropped tear gas from the top of the stadium, and drove thousands of peaceful concertgoers out of their seats. They later arrested JA for inciting a riot, which was absurd, but this was Dayton, Ohio in the 70s.

[malchickiwick]

54. Metallica at the old Salt Palace in SL, UT -- back in the late 80s

The sound was atrocious and the band were all a bunch of cranky and whiny prima donnas that night.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

57. Gosh...had to be Gene Krupa in St Paul MN. 1948, just after the war...

He had a broken arm and was fighting a bad cold.....
Just kidding, I'm not THAT old. Great stories above though.

[mainstreetonce]

59. Frankie Valli

Can't sing anymore

[Corgigal]

60. Boston

when they had their album on top, everywhere. I was at Madison square garden, they showed up over an hour and a half late. At he garden, and just phoned it in.

Awful, and I expected so much more.

[ZZenith]

63. Great White, West Warwick, Rhode Island

Sorry.

[JenniferJuniper]

77. Were you there?

Friend of mine died in that fire.

[ZZenith]

81. No.

Please forgive my dark humor. I was trying to imagine the worst possible concert. Should have refrained.

[Doreen]

68. Lollapalooza at the Gorge.

The music was great. Went to mainly see Violent Femmes and Butthole Surfers but the rest were great. However, not knowing what the Gorge was like all I had on were shorts, a tank top, and sandals. By the second day I was burned very badly. When I got home I got a lot of water and made sure there was no light in my apartment and stayed like that for two days. I hurt for an entire week after that and still have a slight farmers tan. This was in 1991.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

75. THATS

a hell of a burn.

[Doreen]

95. Tell me about it.

I was sensitive to sun for 3 years after. Got better each year. Good thing I live in Washington state.

[Wolf Frankula]

70. KISS

Boring, Boring, Boring.

Wolf

[johnsolaris]

72. The Who

Hi,

My worst was the Who in the early 70's at the Dallas Memorial Auditorium. Daltrey blew out at least 3 microphones by twirling them in the air, one he dropped. This slowed down the show since the roadies had to fix or get a new one. Keith Moon could not keep the beat since he was so out of it.

About that opening band, someone I had not heard of at the time called Lynyrd Synyrd. They somehow managed several long Guitar solos but were just as stoned as the Who. We stayed till the end, but I felt at the time that it was a waste of money.

[Coventina]

73. Nine Inch Nails opening for Jesus and Mary Chain

Nine Inch Nails were soooooo boring. And the music was horrible.

Then, months later, they came by on the first Lolapolooza tour.

They played for about five minutes, then Trent Reznor had a hissy fit and stormed off the stage.

That cemented my opinion of them as being a worthless band.

[petronius]

74. Morrisey - dude let us wait an hour, then cancelled the show

because the stage heater wasn't working. Although to be fair, lots of people familiar with his performances told us the show was likely to be "postponed"...

[Freethinker65]

76. Cocteau Twins

Elizabeth Fraser spraying Chloraseptic down her throat every few minutes.

They should have cancelled the show.

[JuJuYoshida]

119. that sucks, I like them. Sad to hear.

[unblock]

78. Iggy pop opening for the pretenders

The pretenders were awesome but iggy pop was wretched.

[sakabatou]

83. Some gospel concert

I don't remember it, but it gave me a huge headache.

[Kali]

87. in terms of music probably Rick Derringer, just boring.

in terms of me missing the whole show due to being in the first aid tent, Fleetwood Mac (August heat + skinny chick + chugging a pint of 151 + whatever we consumed before getting in)
https://tucson.com/entertainment/music/back-in-the-day-with-fleetwood-mac/article_1f69506d-af06-52e3-801e-876e301fb5c7.html


saw Johnny Winter towards the end of his life, the show was actually not too bad, but he was in such bad shape it was pretty sad. pretty much had to be propped up with a stick.

[RobinA]

88. The Rising Tour

Springsteen, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia. Not his fault. My friend had found out about an hour before we left for the show that her coworker died. Then it’s half raining when we got there and through most of the evening. Then they’re serving drinks in cups with no lids. We had great seats, but where our seats were it wasn’t very steep and the tall guy in front of us blocked our view the whole time. Then he comes back with his umpteenth beer and he and his friends start getting rowdy. While holding a beer in a cup with no lid. So we keep getting doused with beer. Then security takes it upon themselves to make a scene chasing down every whiff, real or imagined, of every possible kind of smoke. I actually had to leave my seat and go stand in the concourse at one point or I was going to get arrested for mouthing off to security. I realized on some level that a good show was going on that we had good seats for, but we just couldn’t enjoy it. We did see the show again in another city from the nosebleed section and that was one of my great concert experiences of my life.

[Freddie]

90. Tall people have wrecked many a concert

I’m not that especially short (5’4”) but I seem to be a magnet for tall people to sit in front of me.

[tinymontgomery]

91. Ted Nugent

I have no idea how somebody talked me in to it
back in the mid 70's I didn't even listen to the guy.
Guess I just wanted to go to a concert.

[jalan48]

93. Creedence Clearwater in Seattle in the late 60's. It felt like they were in a hurry to finish

as quickly as they could. No improvising. Just one three -four minute song after another.

[red dog 1]

114. I saw The Kinks at Winterland in the late '70s, and it was just like your CCR concert in Seatle

They raced through their songs as if they were on speed.
I was a huge Kinks fan, still am, but I wanted my money back after that concert.
t seemed like they were playing every song in 4/4 time.
What a rip off!

[HeiressofBickworth]

94. I have never been a big concert-goer

but I remember two distinctly.

First, The Beatles, 1964, Seattle. Invited by a guy I went to school with and his parents made him take his little brother, too. I SAW the Beatles, but I couldn't say that I actually HEARD them -- the crowd screamed so much. Didn't enjoy that one even a little bit. Never went out with the guy again.

Then there was a date I had with a guy (different one) that I had gone to school with. By that time I was divorced and had a small child. I didn't know the guy very well so I insisted on taking my own car and meeting him at the event. It was horrid. Jazz (which just sets my teeth on edge anyway) guitar solo. Did I mention boring? Both the date and the guitar. Never went out with that guy again either.

[lunamagica]

110. Just being there, with The Beatles would have been more than wonderful to me. Don't you

realize millions of people, including me, would have given almost anything to be at one of their shows?

[Number9Dream]

96. Clapton - Roosevelt Stadium, NJ - 461 Ocean Blvd. Tour

One of those concerts where nothing went right. It was general admission, so seven of us got there hours before show was to start, and sat on the ground ~30 ft. from the stage (wanted to see Clapton's fingers). Clapton was about an hour late. Tempers in the crowd were beginning to flare. Finally they send out some clown with a toy guitar to introduce Clapton, and the crowd threw crap at him. Clapton comes out and berates the crowd for throwing stuff at his friend... bad start. People wanted to hear Clapton shred, but were disappointed in the slow material. Later, Yvonne Elliman got hit in the wrist with a bottle-rocket from some idiot in the crowd. Clapton was not happy and cut show short. In all fairness, saw him a week later in Madison Square Garden and the show was much better.

[Dave Starsky]

98. Don Henley

Played about four songs, then spent a full 45 minutes talking about Walden fucking Pond. The crowd was about to storm the stage, so he played one more song and left.

On the other hand, the breakfast band (Innocence Mission) was great. They should have headlined the thing, and that dick should have just stayed home.

[Botany]

101. Neil Young late 1980s he was so loud that it was painful ..... I had to leave

And Ella Fitzgerald not long before she passed .... it was just said. I had seen her 3 times
before and she was great.

[OneBlueDotBama]

102. Cream, Massey Hall Toronto

The agents for the band found out that hose PA, meant a small Bogen 100 watt amp, one mic and a few cheap 6 inch speakers.
Thus no vocals, Eric, Jack & Ginger, like the troopers they are, played for 90 mins.

[Zoonart]

103. Best and worst were the same concert.

In 1985 saw King Crimson at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia
The opening act was Jon Anderson of YES fame... with a back up band of unknowns. He was a total embarrassment, fat... in a silver blue jumpsuit.
Crimson, on the other hand... killed.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

104. The Marshall Tucker Band....2009

They came to Rochester for the Classic Rock night to close out our summer Concert series at Mayo Park. They were awful, off key, and I could not wait to leave. Their "Fire On The Mountain" was as flat as warm beer.

[nykym]

105. As an act of love for my friends daughter

New Kids on The Block.
enough said!

[rsdsharp]

107. I posted about this just a couple of days ago.

Grateful Dead, Mothers Day 1973, the first Iowa Jam. They mixed on stage and about all you could clearly hear were the drums and bass. Everything else was muddy. We walked out.

I saw Jerry Jeff Walker twice. The first time he was the headliner. It was amazing. Hill Country Rain made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The second time he opened for Willie Nelson and was so drunk HE could barely stand up. He was half way through Hill Country Rain before I even knew what he was signing.

I saw Alice Cooper in February 1979. He was just out of rehab, and the show was great. Not really the music, but the stage show utilized a movie screen with slits in it. The would project a movie and Alice would jump through the screen and be perfectly synced with the action, such as men in white coats chasing him around.
Then he and the men would jump through the screen in perfect sync with the film and run around on stage. It was my first date with my future wife. (I was in radio and the perks were free tee shirts and concert tickets.)

[SharonClark]

108. Beach Boys around 1972-3

They were 3 hours late and the audience booed them during much of the concert.

[ProfessorGAC]

118. Played in 1973 (or 4) In Our City

Outdoor show. Head East, BTO and Beach Boys. I worked as a janitor in the summer at the place right next door, so we worked parking cars in the banquet hall lot and then went up on the roof. (Close enough for BTO and the Beach Boys.)

Head East blew the roof off the joint (obiviously not true, because it was outdoors), BTO was pretty good, Beach Boys were ROTTEN.

Bad notes, missed harmonies, started and stopped two songs then started over. They were probably 20 minutes from being done when we climbed down from the roof and went home.

[zipplewrath]

109. Unfair

Girl I met wanted to go to Barry Manilow. Girl wants to go, you go.
Truth is, for people who like his stuff, he gave a very energetic show that was the better part of 2 hours. Costume changes, did all of his hits, interacted with the audience. It was "in the round" and he was very good about working the "whole crowd". And this was in the late 80's so he was still able to sing.

But, ya know, step one is liking the music in the first place right? And his music isn't THAT bad. But two hours was a bit much.

[stopwastingmymoney]

113. Huey Lewis and the News

They only played hits for about an hour and a quarter and Huey says “don’t you hate old bands that play on for hours”. Umm, no!

I’ve heard Huey is a real jerk from someone who met him, and from the same guy that Sammy Hagar is a sweetheart.

[Hotler]

117. 1971 Jethro Tull at Red Rocks

between the rock throwing, tear gas and the cops busting heads, it was a good show. I was sixteen yrs. old.