Most disappointing concert ever - music thread

[heyelander]

another vote for the cars being as exciting as watching paint dry.

Wilco at last year's exponential festival in philly. I was really looking forward to the show for weeks and then it rain like 13 inches in about 5 hours during the show. Then I got stuck in camden until well after midnight because the streets were too flooded for the light rail to run. I said to my friend "well, that was memorable, but I wouldn't say it was enjoyable.

[swampdragon]

another vote for the cars being as exciting as watching paint dry.

Wilco at last year's exponential festival in philly. I was really looking forward to the show for weeks and then it rain like 13 inches in about 5 hours during the show. Then I got stuck in camden until well after midnight because the streets were too flooded for the light rail to run. I said to my friend "well, that was memorable, but I wouldn't say it was enjoyable.

I saw The Cars in 1982 in a hockey arena in Dayton Ohio - they were pretty good but
Nick Lowe was great fun as the warm up band

I also saw teenagers smuggling beer in by strapping bottles to their ankles tucked under jeans. The security guy asked if they had any alcohol - he said no - the security guy then banged on the guys leg with his nightstick shattering the hidden bottle against the teenager's leg - the friends quickly threw anything they could unpack into the dumpster

[Judge Jude]

2nd row for Thompson Twins, Garden State Arts Center in NJ, circa late 1980s. yeah, I liked my date. a lot.

Rick Springfield, early 1990s, at some suburban Chicago club. yeah, I liked that date, too. a lot. and don't tell anyone, but it wasn't SO bad. plus the date was really, really, really passionate about Rick Springfield, so - yeah, I'm sure she closed her eyes later and thought of him, but I was the one who reaped the rewards. In retrospect, I should have sent him a thank you card or something.

[chancellor]

Too close to call between that and a Jackson Browne show my wife dragged me to at Wolf Trap a few years back-- the smug prick not only failed to play any of his popular songs, but chided the audience at the encore for asking for them instead of appreciating his "artistic arc". Dreck.

Some things never change. Saw him many years ago, and he was equally smug and mediocre at that concert, too.

[Papa Deuce]

Some things never change. Saw him many years ago, and he was equally smug and mediocre at that concert, too.

That would be the current Van Morrison...... He's been known to not play a single hit song at his concerts because he is bored when playing them.

[Erik]

Going to the Halloween shows in Vegas.

Which reminds me, the first show of the Vegas run in '04 was also a colossal clusterfuck. I nodded off in the middle of the second set.

Thankfully they've righted the ship since reuniting. I'm sure this year's Vegas run will be epic.

[heyelander]

Rick Springfield, early 1990s, at some suburban Chicago club. yeah, I liked that date, too. a lot. and don't tell anyone, but it wasn't SO bad. plus the date was really, really, really passionate about Rick Springfield, so - yeah, I'm sure she closed her eyes later and thought of him, but I was the one who reaped the rewards. In retrospect, I should have sent him a thank you card or something.

my sister-in-law's dad works for the local casino and had tickets to eddie money, loverboy and rick springfield earlier this year and gave them to me and rjel girl who was thrilled to go. Eddie money is shot... he basically just mumbled through the choruses, held out the microphone for the fans to sing and said "how about the troops!" a lot. Loverboy was okay... I was a fan as a kid so I knew most of the songs, but Rick Springfield was pretty decent from a nostolgia vantage. At some point he says "hey, I like a chick anthem as much as the next guy, and busts into a cover of Katy Perry's Roar. It was actually pretty entertaining.

[TranaGreg]

for me it's David Sylvian, who was the lead singer for Japan. I saw him when he had just put out his first solo record & was pretty pysched - granted it's a very mellow album, but still, I didn't expect him to come out with his band, stand in front of the mike for 90 minutes, then leave. In his defense he said in an interview later that he was fighting a cold & apologize for the show, but still - easily most disappointing for me.

[DJBeasties]

A Perfect Circle in Boston.


I am a huge TOOL fan and I do like APC, but their show was terrible. The sound was all wrong, the fans were restless, they played a lot of their worst album and I had high hopes seeing them for the first time. Really disappointing.

[Bob Kohm]

Rick Springfield, early 1990s, at some suburban Chicago club. yeah, I liked that date, too. a lot. and don't tell anyone, but it wasn't SO bad. plus the date was really, really, really passionate about Rick Springfield, so - yeah, I'm sure she closed her eyes later and thought of him, but I was the one who reaped the rewards. In retrospect, I should have sent him a thank you card or something.

Heh, same story, different bad band-- REO Speedwagon in a blizzard in Brockport, NY in 1989 The concert was disappointing, but the night sure as hell wasn't.

[dslaw]

Saw Bryan Adams as an opening act ('82?) for the Kinks and I went out and bought his album the next day. No one knew who he was but he was energetic and got the audience involved. Saw him again right after the Robin Hood movie came out with his slow song and he sang every song just like that slow one, standing at the mic and singing. No energy, no engaging the audience. He isn't one is my favorite performers but I was looking forward to that show. Unfortunately my date was disappointed also so I didn't even reap any benefits that night.

[TranaGreg]

In Canada we have (had?) a law stating that a minimum of x number of minutes of radio time must be of Canadian bands. It was called the CanCon law (Canadian Content). I remember Brian Adams at the time coming out at the time against it because it "breeds mediocrity". I loved that, Brian Adams being concerned with breeding mediocrity.