Worst Concerts You Have Attended ??

Bob Dylan - 25 years ago (Denver Coliseum). The arena's acoustics were horrendous, but worse he seemed bored and uninspired.  

I've really wanted to like Phish, but their extended jams were just self masturbation and I walked out midway through the 2 shows I went to (both Red Rocks). 

A Dave Matthews gig in a Raleigh basketball arena a few years back.  The acoustics were so hideous you could barely understand the vocals.
Granted we didn't have Sect A Row 1 seats, but it was like being in a sewer pipe.  Spouse a big fan, halfway through said 'F this', and we went away.....
Best heard at open venues.....like most live acts imho, unless the place is small.  Heard some great acts in the local indoor spaces...better control of the audio at the boards..

Patti Smith. She spit at us.   

Elvis Costello, early 80's.
Such a talented songwriter, but boring uninspired stage performance  with horrible acoustics. 

The worst act was 38 Special at the Super Bowl of Rock 3 July 1977. Journey was weak also.

Three tn come to mind. Jerry Jeff Walker and Joe Cocker both too drunk to perform. George Jones too sick to perform. Left the stage to go to the  bathroom sinus issues. Left couple of more times.didnt even try. I forgave him for being Ill but not for even trying. Had a clock offstage second it hit nine thirty he was gone.

Leon russell - just horrible, sound, songs, 


met allica - as always, out of sync, poor sound, many live shows since 1985, all have been pretty bad.
on. Good note, the opening bands were better!

I still turn off Journey, maybe one song from the studio version.. Unless it is a GREAT, I mean super duper, I paid attention to the sound guy, I prefer studio recordings. 

I loved coral music back then to (still do), pans, xylophones, congas, keyboards.The song "Ice cream" Big smile on my face :-)

The greats give a good show NO MATER.. Carlos Santana, in 35 year of his concerts, never heard a bad one.. Prince the same way (RIP).
I loved James Brown, talk about TIGHT... The original James Brown..

The rockers of the 6-80s, ya never new.. Country Western, Same way..
crazy bunch.. Strange on the "Tugent" comment too. He use to keep it pretty much together too. 3 or 4 times I saw him. For a Rocker for sure..
U2 did too..

LOL "The Tubes"

Regards

Patti Smith.  She laid on the stage with a bottle of booze and slurred out what words she could remember.  Second place Focus.  One hit wonder - they opened and closed with Hocus Pocus - yay!  Sleepy ballads in between.

Aerosmith in Orlando about 1983. They were so wasted, they could barely stand, let alone play. You couldn't even tell what song they were playing. Awful.

"The crowd requested such Beatles hits as Street Fighting Man, Don’t Mess With Jim, Hand Jive, and Kung Fu Fighting."

"Our listeners have begun collecting signatures to reunite the Rolling Stones, and if that goes over I see no reason why we can't reunite Jim Croce!"

April Fool’s, indeed.

Dekay- hilarious article by JJ Trollop!  What a gem!  

Oh crap! Sorry! Almost forgot- Neil Diamond!

One of the hottest performers in his prime, he had unbeknownst to me degenerated by 1990 into some sort of Christian version of Bill Murray’s Nightclub singer. Walking into the concert we were beginning to wonder. Imagine 30k people all dressed in church attire.

Slow to pick up on what was going on, the degree to which he had sold out, song after song we kept getting excited at the intro only to be let down big time the minute he started singing. The fire was gone. Not a spark. Not even an ember. You know how you’re supposed to water your campfire, shovel the dirt over, water some more until the whole thing turns to mud? Like that.

We walked out. Now more than 30 years later I am able to enjoy his music again. But not for a good 5 years after that show. A show so bad even the memory was repressed. Until now. Worst show ever.

Never liked Brucey. I do like the Moody Blues but sitting behind them at the Stadium they sounded out of sync, time and tune.  Seen 'em since they were fine.  
Pink Floyd at the Amphitheater a close second.  They suckrd pickled eggs. Too bad.
The best show was them two years earlier.

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

Hall and Oates a couple of years ago.  Totally mailed it in.  One of my friends was there and she left in the middle of the concert. 

A free concert by one hit wonder Aldo Nova was a close second.  Mudhoney (what a weird pairing!) opened the show and most of the audience left when they finished.

Both the best AND the WORST concert ever: Springsteen. 

Born in the USA, Bruce was in such top form it was like he was radiating this force field of intense energy and at 20 minutes I turned to my fiancee and said, "He can't keep going like this." But he did. For like FOUR HOURS!! The Boss did something I have never seen before, had the lights turned up and not for us to leave he kept playing for another hour! 

Years later he comes back and this time with Tina Turner and without the E-Street Band. Right away I wondered, "What do we need with Tina Turner?" I mean sure she was hot just then, but come on, this is Bruce. 

When the show began I found out. Bruce was there for the money. Walked through all his songs, well a few of them he only played for maybe 90 minutes- MAYBE! if that. A good 5 minutes of which was him just standing there on stage all by himself big smug look on his face while we all cheered and applauded. Why? Who knows. Because at that point he hadn't quite exhausted all his many years of built-up audience capital, I guess. 

Thought it was an awful thing to do then, still do to this day. Easily the worst of them all.

Journey and Deep Purple was a close second.. They thought they could come out drunk, play as loud as they want and me not ask for my money back. 1/2 the place RAN out on the Journey concert.

Deep Purple, I came prepared.
They SUCKED, Fallin' down drunk too... 20 minutes with ear plugs, I left...

I'll never forget that there was a traffic jam because the police weren't ready for the premature, "Running of the BULLS" to get out of that place..

Winterland if I remember..

Regards

Some Russian bear of a violinist (can't remember who), who gave as the most painful encore I have ever witnessed, the entire text (in broken English) and music of Ferdinand the Bull.