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Title: Name the five WORST concerts you ever saw
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Published: Oct 11, 2006
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Post Date: 2006-10-11 21:26:00 by Mekons4
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I'll count down. 5. Television -- CBGB's, 1976. My first visit there, and while I loved the band, the sound was so pathetic it was an awful concert. I finally went up and sat on the edge of the stage so I could hear their monitors. 4. David Bowie -- The Glass Spider tour, Giants Stadium. A total waste of time. 3. David Bowie -- The Let's Dance tour, Madison Square Garden. For a wedding present, I got my best friend tickets to this, a super Japanese dinner at a place called East, and a limo. Oh, man, what a bad show. I even had friends (the Simms Bros.) doing backup vocals. It was awful, cheap, lousy. And I loved Bowie. 2. The Manic Street Preachers -- Metro, Chicago, 2001 or so. Good god, who buys records by these simps? They had one decent album; live they're just awful. They make U2 look self-deprecating. And they sell out stadiums in England. Horrid. 1. Chuck Berry -- Boston Gardens, about 1970. What an insult. Blood Sweat & Tears opened and were at least decent, but not very good. Chuck, one of my idols, was so bad I can't even describe it. I could have gotten up there and done better. He's so cheap he won't travel with a band. The promoter has to hire one and he won't even rehearse. Half his show was a 12-minute My Dingaling, which is an awful song. The did Oh Carol, Roll Over Beethoven, a couple of others, and split. The worst show I have ever seen, and I include bands that had just learned to play.
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#1. To: Mekons4 (#0)
I had 'friends' drag to me to see the 'Marshall Tucker Band' one night. Bored me to frickin' tears. Don't have four more...thoroughly enjoyed every other concert I attended.
You are a fortunate person.
I seen that same tour in New Orleans. It sucked bad. I went just to hear Major Tom and other early hits but instead the oldest song he sang was Fame, and he did a piss pour job of singing that. I was bored almost to tears. Iron Maiden with Aldo Nova warming up was another bad concert. Who thought of that lineup anyway? Techno/candy pop and heavy metal? Iron Maiden had sound problems the whole night and Aldo Nova....well...Aldo Nova. 'Nuff said.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Benjamin Franklin
I saw them in concert too, and they had the same effect on me. The lead singer was way too loud, every song sounded the same and I couldn't wait until it was over. I also saw Queen in the 80s, that was another terrible concert, I couldn't stand the sound of the lead guitarist.
I heard back then that someone in MT in an interview was piling it on about how great the Allmans were, and one of the Allmans sent him a message to knock it off or everyone would start blaming the Allmans.
1. The Carpenters 2. Hank Williams Jr. 3. the Doobie Brothers 4. Loggins & Messina 4. Billy Idol
I don't think I've ever seen a bad concert. Of course, I could tell that old joke about what one Deadhead said to the other when they ran out of pot: "Man, this music sucks." Maybe that's why I've never been to a bad concert. I haven't been to one since 1989, when I saw Oingo Boingo.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Gladys Knight and the Pips Jose Feliciano Kenny Rogers (he was preceded by Dave and Sugar and they were great) Tom Jones (i thought he was very disappointing in person)
how great the Allmans were I worked Queen in Chicago, and also Prince. We said back then that they should have swapped names. The Allman Brothers at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park had so many fights that by the time the encore came up, the guys on the crew said if there were any more fights start that we would just knock them out and pick them up when the show was finished. The old saying was, "When in doubt, knock out!" ;0)
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
If I'm shelling out good money for tickets; I expect to have a good time. If I even suspected a concert might suck, I didn't buy tix.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Hmmmmm, one of the worst had a good ending. It was Charlie Daniels at the Commack Arena. Got bad seats and the sound was awful. Half way through, I got fed up and went out to the car, with Suzie Welzel... that's when it got good. ;) The other bad one was The Band at Riverside Park in Agawam, MA. It was not long before Rick Danko died. It was a VERY uninspired performance. I was seriously disappointed. That was the only time The Band disappointed me btw. I can't think of any others at the moment.
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
2. Hank Williams Jr. 3. the Doobie Brothers 4. Loggins & Messina 4. Billy Idol ugly, ugly, ugly. And two more uglies. I took my daughter to Lollapalooza last summer, and for some reason Billy Idol was playing. We were trying to watch Brian Jonestown Massacre, a really terrific band if you liked the psychedelic stage the Stones went through, and between songs we had to listen to that bimbo howling. He actually did White Wedding, I think. Gag.
That reminds me. I saw Ted Nugent once (I was there to see Brownsville Station, who were pretty terrific). I had repressed the memory. Man, was he BAD. He had one guitar solo that he played relentlessly, song after song. It basically goes "deedle, deedle, deedle." I can play guitar better than he can, I swear it.
Only one band ever pissed me off - the romantics. All their songs sounded exactly alike. And Kinks ripoffs at that.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William S. Burroughs
Proof positive that heroin withdrawal and performance art are best left to those under 32.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William S. Burroughs
I saw Richard Lloyd, one of the guitar players, after Television broke up. He came on stage, played the first chords of the first song, then threw up all over the stage. Richard had an issue with heroin.
I always wondered why the heroin junkies played such loud, agressive music while the coke head bands on the west coast were so layed back. Totally opposite of what I would have predicted.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. - William S. Burroughs
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#3. To: Mekons4 (#0)
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David Bowie -- The Glass Spider tour, Giants Stadium. A total waste of time.
#4. To: who knows what evil, Mekons4 (#1)
I had 'friends' drag to me to see the 'Marshall Tucker Band' one night. Bored me to frickin' tears.
#5. To: Diana (#4)
I saw them in concert too, and they had the same effect on me. The lead singer was way too loud, every song sounded the same and I couldn't wait until it was over.
#6. To: Mekons4 (#0)
#7. To: Mekons4 (#0)
#8. To: Mekons4 (#0)
#9. To: Mekons4, Diana (#5)
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I also saw Queen in the 80s, that was another terrible concert,
#10. To: Mekons4 (#2)
You are a fortunate person.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#11. To: christine (#8)
Gladys Knight and the Pips
#12. To: Mekons4 (#0)
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
1. The Carpenters
#14. To: Critter (#12)
It was Charlie Daniels at the Commack Arena
#15. To: All (#14)
Just posting on a music thread.../
#16. To: Mekons4 (#0)
#17. To: Mekons4 (#0)
5. Television -- CBGB's, 1976. My first visit there, and while I loved the band, the sound was so pathetic it was an awful concert. I finally went up and sat on the edge of the stage so I could hear their monitors.
#18. To: Dakmar (#17)
heroin withdrawal
#19. To: Mekons4 (#18)
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