Now, which concert to you regret actually seeing

[LynneSin]

Come on, you had to have seen a few really bad concerts out there in your lifetime.

I would have to say The Greatful Dead. I'm not really a dead head but my friends said I should see them in concert. I mean, the first half of the set was pretty decent except the guy I decked because he kept feeling up my dress. But the second half - unless you were on acid, just bored me to tears. We ended up leaving early.

BTW, that Dead show was the last concert ever held at JFK stadium in Philadelphia

[JimmyJazz]

1. The Police.

:boring:

[progmom]

13. Seriously?

We're breaking up.

[JimmyJazz]

16. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I almost fell asleep.

seriously. :D

[progmom]

20. What tour was it?

?

[JimmyJazz]

25. The really boring one.

:boring:

[progmom]

28. .

dork.

[Richardo]

23. I saw the Police/GoGos tour in the 80s

That show rocked! About the time of 'Ghost in the Machine'.

Live 'Demolition Man' was my favorite.

[Goathead]

29. I saw Police/REM and THAT show really rocked.

n/t

[GOPisEvil]

30. I saw the police in 1983. It was a pretty good show.

A fall storm almost blew them off the stage. I enjoyed myself.

Now UB40 opened...THEY were :boring:

[JimmyJazz]

34. I think part of the problem was that our seats were

pretty far away. I was a little spoiled by Springsteen (1980) and the Clash and the Who in 1982. That's all I'm saying :evilgrin:

[GOPisEvil]

35. I saw them outdoors. The sound wasn't the best.

But, it was THE FREAKING POLICE, and I loved them! :-)

[Heidi]

2. "Rated X" . . .

and "Wet Willy," Muskogee, Oklahoma, sometime around 1980. Every other concert I've attended has been kicka$$.

[LiberalVoice]

3. Sublime.

Wish I could have seen them....Or The Beatles when they were all alive.

Oh wait I forgot...I would have given anything to see Queen rock out in concert :( All the good ones are gone. :cry:

[LynneSin]

Wait, you want to see them or regret seeing them

this is the regret you saw them in concert thread

I have another for concerts you wish you had seen

[meegbear]

4. Starship ...

Not Jefferson Starship, just Starship. Hey, the tix were free.

They opened AND closed with "We Built This City", "White Rabbit" was sung like Wayne Newton would do it in his Vegas show, Bleech. The group also did an on-stage PSA for the 9 line (toll free number for runaways to get help), nice buzzkill guys.

The Hooters opened for them and they were better.

[LynneSin]

7. Hooters ROCKED

I've seen them twice but then again I'm from the PHilly area - it was almost mandatory concert going

[meegbear]

14. We were impressed by them ...

figured they were a group that was studio only, but they were good.

[JimmyJazz]

18. The Hooters in concert? How about the Hooters everyother weekend

at the Stone Balloon??? And Robert Townsend?

[On the Road]

46. Oh, Me, Too

I am a big fan of the JA, JS, HT, etc -- even the early Jefferson Starship had some great material. But the Starship tour in the early was a shock. "Who is that guy in the white suit clapping his hands like an idiot? Where did all this horrible music come from? Why isn't Gracie ripping their faces off? "

On the other hand, they still did a few great old numbers, including one I had never heard before (ending with the line "Fuck you, we do what we like!")

[RandomKoolzip]

5. The Cranberries.

Worst band I've ever seen live.

I wanted to see the opening band, Grant Lee Buffalo, but my ride was late and we missed them. I actually met them at a restaurant the previous day and they gave me free tickets and a backstage pass...needless to say, we didn't see them or get backstage because the asshole I chose as I my ride to the show.

Then the Cranberries came on and proceeded to horrify us.

[GOPisEvil]

9. I remember that tour.

Seriously underwhelming.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. I hated their music on the radio, and live they sucked so wildly that

I couldn't imagine any band sucking so much.


The stadium (UNO Keifer LAkefront Arena in New Orleans) was less than 3/4 full, too.

[GOPisEvil]

22. I actually liked some of their stuff at the time.

But I was unimpressed with them live. I saw them at Sunken Gardens in San Antonio. Nothing like concrete to improve sound quality.

If I want female singers from the UK/Ireland, give me Harriet Wheeler anyday. Her voice actually sounds really good live.

[tsakshaug]

6. trans siberian orchestra

http://www.trans-siberian.com/intro.html
won the tickets.
left early
the light show gave me a headache
the music was awful

[Richardo]

8. Tubes/Todd Rungren and Utopia in Boulder Colorado (mid 80s)

It was the first show of the tour - and it showed. Little evidence of a rehearsal or even a sound check - it was like they just decided that afternoon to go on tour.

Sound was horribly mixed, musically, the performances sucked. I fell asleep during Utopia. The Tubes were marginally better - at least I was able to stay awake.

x(

[GOPisEvil]

10. "Hi, we're The Cars."

:boring::boring::boring::boring:

[MrScorpio]

11. General Public - Loudest concert ever

Austin 1984

It hurt my hearing for a long time.

[sniffa]

12. smashing pumpkins

worst Live band ever!

[progmom]

17. Cowboy Junkies. Cheap Trick. Steely Dan.

I fell asleep at the CJ show.



The tix for CT were $5 at an outdoor pavilion. The crowd was rowdy and drunk and obnoxious. I hated every minute of it.


Steely Dan was boring and loud.

[LynneSin]

21. I saw Steely Dan about 5 years ago

they were amazing!!!!

[progmom]

24. This was their very first first reunion show - 1995 I think?

Walter Becker had a solo album that was new, and he played for about a half hour. It was dreadful.

Maybe they had the kinks worked out by the time you saw them. I don't have any grudge against them as a band - this was just a rotten show.

[LynneSin]

27. The show was awesome because it was all grown adults

no drunken college kids puking all over themselves (had that at a Page/Plant concert). Everyone was mellow and just enjoyed the show!!

[CanuckAmok]

40. "Eleven Tracks of Whack" was Becker's solo effort.

The recording that once and for all proved that Donald Fagen was the genius behind Steely Dan.

[Richardo]

44. I'm regret to say I own that CD

Yep, I'm the one.

[CanuckAmok]

49. You and my ex.

She's currently available, if you want to hook up.

[Richardo]

51. Not a real selling point, sorry

Besides, Mrs R. has forgiven my transgression, as long as I don't play it in her presence (which is easy - I don't play it at all.)

[CanuckAmok]

52. Get this:

A few years ago, we gathered up all the older CDs we didn't want, and took them to a local used CD place. We got between $2 and $5 for them which was pretty good. All in all, I took about fifty CDs down there. There were about ten the guy didn't want, but I didn't feel like carrying them home, so I just gave them to him. the Becker CD was in that pile, and the guy wouldn't even take it for free. I had to remove it from the store.

[Richardo]

53. Hilarious, CA

That about says it all... :D

[Theres-a]

19. rolling stones 2002

:puke: i did not pay,it was a date.it was awful.

[mistertrickster]

26. The Dead could be kind of lazy as live performers, IMHO. It's like

start a song, do three minutes of good vocal music, then Jerry riffs for forty-five frickin' minutes.

They play for four hours and they only do six songs, gimme a break.

Too much of a good thing.

But it's an experience.

[samplegirl]

31. The Rolling Stones

Always really wanted to see them & never did.

[Goathead]

32. INXS at Hampton Coliseum.

There was one point where one of the band members had a skate board and was skating around on stage. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen at a concert.

[shrike]

33. Queen. in Detroit.

See my other post in LynneSin's companion thread.

[Squeech]

36. Too many

I was a professional rock critic for some years-- made a living at it, even. And I saw some utter garbage back in the day. The one that stands out right now was Uriah Heep, with Suzy Quatro opening. It was just ghastly, so horrible that I couldn't even think of anything to say in my review-- so I "interviewed" a kid who walked out early (just as I did), and he gave me perfect quotes: Quatro was "wetbacks from Alice Cooper" and Heep was "the sound of your brain shrinking."

Lots of miserable opening acts. Black Oak Arkansas, opening for King Crimson, sloppy and mewling and completely out of their depths. Cactus opening for Jethro Tull, asking the audience "Everybody doing all right?" and getting a resounding "NO" in response. Lynyrd Skynyrd opening for the Who; not inherently awful, but washed out in echo in the cavernous hockey palace they were playing in. Steve Miller, touring to promote "Joker," who was so ingratiating to the audience he made my teeth hurt. One guy that stands out was this doofus named Richard T. Bear, who'd had a tolerable career as a session pianist, but had ambitions to be recognized in his own right as a singer/songwriter. But a big chunk of his act was reciting his resume, as in "Here's a song I wrote when I was with Dave Mason," and it quickly got old-- especially because the songs sucked. And one of his sidemen was a guy who mimicked the sounds of trumpets or saxophones with his voice, and Bear talked him up too: "Isn't he great? HE'S been with Frank Zappa, HE'S been with yadda-yadda..." Poor schlub was trying to warm up a Captain Beefheart audience :crazy:

Jeez, I could talk for hours on this topic.

[mtnester]

37. Def Leppard

oh GOD it was awful

[animuscitizen]

55. I agree

I was into this kind of crap as a teenager in the late 80's. Def Leppard sucked in concert.

[mac56]

38. Chicago, Doobie Brothers, and Kansas

live at Midway Stadium in St. Paul.

Bad, bad, bad.

[mr blur]

39. Well, way back in the '70s...

I did work for a concert promoter in London. The worst things I ever had to sit through were a couple of nights of The Eagles at Wembley and some dates for Queen. Oh no, wait - the worst by far was seven nights of Black Sabbath supported by Van Halen. You had to be there to experience how truly awful it was. No wait, it was 2 nights of Supertramp doing their Breakfast In America nonsense. Ah, so much bad music...

[CanuckAmok]

42. Did you work for Nigel Thomas?

Just wondering?

[mr blur]

54. Nah...

various people in the Harvey Goldsmith operation.

[CanuckAmok]

56. Ah.

Thomas is my cousin. He must be doing something right; he lives at the Savoy!

[Jamastiene]

41. Aerosmith w/Joan Jett

I was used to seeing Joan Jett in small clubs where I could get up close and there was no arranged seating. That was great.

But then I got the chance to see her opening for Aerosmith at the Carlotte Coliseum, not the old one, but the new one that is now going to be abandoned from what I understand. Some people said they could get me some really "good seats". I pity them if they think those seats were good seats.

Joan Jett and Aerosmith were both apparently hanging out a little too close to the action on the set of Honey, Who Shrunk The Musicians right before they played. I've seen ants that were bigger. The monster sized person in front of me must been dating the 50 Foot Woman judging from the height and how much of the back of his head I saw. And he acted all irked when I tried to see around him. I mean here I am a petite 5'4" little tiny thing and he just wouldn't cooperate. I was polite and smiled at him, but he made this throaty growling sound at me when I tried to peek around him. I wasn't very aggressive that day for some reason. Normally, I don't back down, but this show wasn't worth fighting over.

The bands played fine from what I could tell, but the acoustics of the new Charlotte Coliseum were so horrendous. Everything was too echoey and there was this tinny sound that screamed into my ears the whole time the bands played. I barely heard the music as compared to the club dates I saw Joan Jett play many times before. I swore I'd never go back there and don't intend to ever go back there. As for seeing Joan Jett again. I hope to do that again asap.

[CanuckAmok]

43. Psychic TV in '89, Swans in '96, Bad Religion/Green Day/Doughboys....

The BR/Green Day show was prior to Green Day being huge, and they were the opening act. They waere actually really good... but Bad Religion were too preachy between songs and their sound sucked!!, and the Doughboys are the Doughboys. I actually fell asleep during their set.

[catmandu57]

45. Van Halen/Black Sabbath 1978

I drove a carload of needle freaks to the show, they were firing up all the way there and taking bathroom breaks during to keep their high going.
The concert though was awful, too loud and sloppy, i never did like vh, but the ticket was free if I drove, I should've just said no.
One I didn't go to, but knew it was going to be terrible, Gary Wright when he was pushing dreamweaver. I kept telling everyone who was going they would hate it wright was a studio musician and wouldn't be able to reproduce his music live.
They went and left before the show was finished.
At a stadium show henry groce was one of the opening acts, he was so damn drunk he couldn't stand up and was booed off the stage.

[HughBeaumont]

47. David Bowie/NIN/Prick 1994.

Played approximately two old songs and a world of shitty Outside crap. NIN was terrible-sounding and monotonous. Complete waste of $40.00 (cheap now, but damned expensive back then).

Marilyn Manson was SHIT-bad also. GOD he's so overrated. That was one of those "let's see what the big freaking deal is" things that I did every so often with overhyped artists such as MM.

[immoderate]

48. Iron Butterfly

Where was my acid? Also Chicago was pretty bad.

--IMM

[ImpeachBush]

50. Can't think of a single one.

I enjoyed every single one.

[CanuckAmok]

57. Celine Dion....

...I was working on it, shooting a scene for a TV series I was on, in which she did a cameo. We shot the whole concert. It was right after "Titanic" came out, so she performed that gadawful theme from the "bow" of a giant ship on the stage.

I have to say the logistics were incredible. We were there six hours before the show startet, and I'd never seen a crew rig a huge concert set before. It was pretty amazing to see, but once the "magic" started.... :puke: