Worst Concerts You Have Attended ??


I just left a remark about a favorite band of mine back in the day - April Wine - that I saw in concert and was disappointed. Could have been that it was an off night for them, or maybe they were never good in concert. Maybe the lead guitarist had too much to drink? April Wine was not the worst, however. I remember Neil Young in the 1990's who was on his one-man acoustic show type of tour that many artists were taking advantage of (perhaps for financial reasons) during that time. While a friend of I had near front row seats at Desert Sky Pavilion (now Ak-Chin) in Pheonix, the crowd was just roused up into a frenzy by the warm-up band (James) and here comes Neil and his guitar/harmonica. Wow, what a sonic letdown. I remember getting up and leaving and feeling Neil's glaring eyes on us as we ushered out. I think, to this day, he probably still remembers me. We all can remember the great live concerts we attended, but what were the worst and why?
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The worst were always Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes opening up for other artists.

The best was The Beatles Reunion concert performed in Iowa City, Iowa on Sunday (March 31, 1975).

The following link to The Daily Iowan newspaper has a review/writeup of the concert (half way down on page 7).

http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1975/di1975-04-01.pdf

DeKay
The absolute worst was The Who performing @ the University of Leeds in February of 1970.

DeKay
reubent:

I was just kidding and not "trying to be funny" as our supposedly "new" member (daponte911) implies, because IT WAS FUNNY.

DeKay