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Worst "Good" concerts
tailgater Offline
#1 Posted:
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Major acts.
Groups that are supposed to be good.
Or ones that ARE good. But not that night.

1. Jimmy Buffet.
Great Woods. Some time in the 90s.
Worst. Show. Ever.
He sounded bad. The crowd was bad.
I expected him to apologize. Instead he just kept "singing".

2. The Kinks.
I LOVE the Kinks.
But their concert in 1984 timeframe was aweful.
Go home. Put on an album. It would give you more energy.

3. The Police
They actually sounded OK. Just three boring musicians.
1983/84??

4. Rush
Mid '80s.
I think the guitar solo is still going.
And my hearing is gone. Thanks Geddy Lee. That's an octave that humans weren't meant to hit for a reason.
Thank goodness for the electronic beat track manned by Neil Peart...


frankj1 Offline
#2 Posted:
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hate to say it but LZ at da gahden either late 69 or early 70, I was in a full length cast that year, Junior year of HS
Same night the Kinks played elsewhere in Boston and people on the street car who were there were floating on invisible clouds of elation.

And I was a yuuuge Kinks fan too.
Palama Offline
#3 Posted:
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My Worst “Good” Concerts were also very forgettable so hadda really dig deep into the memory banks.

1974 - Fleetwood Mac - FMac with Bob Welch, pre-Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, “Oh Well” just wasn’t the same without Peter Green, bored spitless until they played “Got Me Hypnotized” and then went back to a snoozefest.

Sept. 19, 1972 Mark-Almond Band and Joe Cocker - M-AB was an early jazz-rock group and while great on FM radio, the music just didn’t translate too well in concert…at least not for us in those hazy daze. Joe put on a rather uninspired show and mighta had a few too many adult beverages before hitting the stage. He slurred his words badly so coupled with his thick English accent, couldn’t understand a single word whether he was talking or singing.

Feb. 6, 1975 - Tower of Power - my initial exposure to them was pretty much a dud. They didn’t seem as tight and polished as their albums. Our seats weren’t the greatest so that mighta been a factor too. But, saw them twice afterwards and they were GREAT shows (…probably should have listed them as Honorable Mentions in my Top 5 Concerts…).

Aug. 5, 1972 - Rare Earth - hadda take my younger cousin from Hilo to the show. I wasn’t much of a fan of the group so “endured” the concert. I know my cousin enjoyed it and who knows, it mighta been a good show, I just wasn’t into it.

I’mma sure there are others that should / could make this list but may have been successfully erased.

Edit: Another one came to mind:

Aug. 11, 1979 - Beach Boys - Aloha Stadium - horrible sound, rained at one point, miserable day
ZRX1200 Offline
#4 Posted:
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U2 Zooropa Tour at Autzen stadium (97?) they weren’t terrible but I expected so much more it was like listening to an album with an obnoxious stage show. Lasers and a 30 foot martini….

Rage Against the Machine opened believe it or not and of course they were great BUT you could tell U2 mandated they play at a lower volume. Again not scoring any points with me Bono.

Chuck Berry took at least 5 songs to warm up, but he was an OLD fogger

John Lee Hooker was drunk and terrible. He tried to climb over a keyboard to hump the keyboard player. At least we agreed on that…. Buddy Guy had his hands full with that old fool worst part was this was the 2nd time I’d seen Buddy Guy and he was so out of the zone because of the side show.
JadeRose Offline
#5 Posted:
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The Dead - Alpine Valley 1989. Considered to be classic shows

Bored to tears. Only fun things about that were the 'shrooms and watching the filthy Dead hippies wallow in the mud.
deadeyedick Offline
#6 Posted:
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Rod Stewart - 1980s got in a snit with some of the fans near the stage about 1/2 point and left the stage. Came back and started kicking soccer balls into the crowd. We left early.
bgz Offline
#7 Posted:
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Robert Plant... was hoping for some LZ, at least a little...

All we got was his sh*tty folk music.
dkeage Offline
#8 Posted:
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1995: Eric Clapton, “Nothing but the Blues” tour. Came out with another guitarist and sat on stage playing blues on acoustics. Enjoyable. Left and came back with an entire plugged in band. Some one forgot to alert the sound engineer! Frying pan Everything was distorted AF. Crowd was booing. After 20 minutes or so we bailed along with thousands


Don’t remember the year. Roger Daltrey toured with a British High school concert band and choir. Got free tickets so figured WTF. 2-3 songs in, Daltrey starts pointing at his headphones. Guess he couldn’t hear his monitor feed. He stops singing, Walked to the edge of the stage and starts cursing the sound guy. Even pulled out the “don’t you know who I am “. walked off the stage. After about 15 minutes, the kids started playing and singing Who songs. Daltrey never returned, and Me and the Mrs were 2 of only a couple hundred people that stayed til the end. Felt really bad for the kids. Wife still changes the station if one of his song comes on.

JGKAMIN Offline
#9 Posted:
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dkeage wrote:

Don’t remember the year. Roger Daltrey toured with a British High school concert band and choir. Got free tickets so figured WTF. 2-3 songs in, Daltrey starts pointing at his headphones. Guess he couldn’t hear his monitor feed. He stops singing, Walked to the edge of the stage and starts cursing the sound guy. Even pulled out the “don’t you know who I am “. walked off the stage. After about 15 minutes, the kids started playing and singing Who songs. Daltrey never returned, and Me and the Mrs were 2 of only a couple hundred people that stayed til the end. Felt really bad for the kids. Wife still changes the station if one of his song comes on.


Funny, I worked security for a WHO concert back in the day. Pete had a plexiglass booth built around him which I believe due to his loss of hearing. I was at the center of the front of the stage and was scolded for blocking the stage monitors.
DrafterX Offline
#10 Posted:
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The stages has minataurs..!! Mad
plinytheelder Offline
#11 Posted:
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David Lee Roth as an opener for Bad Co. He was reading VH songs from cuecards. I thought WTF is this? Elvis?

38 Special opening for Rush. If you have tandem drummers, and they are "ON", it's magical. If they are out of sync, they suck. They're on this list because they weren't even close to being sync'd up...

John Mellencamp was touring as John Cougar and the Zone, opening for Randy Hanson and the Machine Gun, and Rainbow. The crowd was booing John mercilessly so after three songs, he gives the crowd the finger and walks off stage.
Should've played his set, thanked them and left. It was obvious the audience wasn't there to see him, so get the exposure and leave. He lost a lot of peoples respect that night.

DrafterX Offline
#12 Posted:
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Watched the Romantics get booed off da stage back in '80 or '81.. they were opening for Nugent... Mellow
RMAN4443 Offline
#13 Posted:
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Aerosmith circa 1977...Styx(not much of a Styx fan) opened and was the best part of the

show...Aerosmith came on and Steven Tyler was fupped duck...fell down three times and

needed to be helped back up, slurring and just plain fupped...he forgot the words to Dream On

and restarted a few times...worst show everd'oh!
dkeage Offline
#14 Posted:
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RMAN4443 wrote:
Aerosmith circa 1977...Styx(not much of a Styx fan) opened and was the best part of the

show...Aerosmith came on and Steven Tyler was fupped duck...fell down three times and

needed to be helped back up, slurring and just plain fupped...he forgot the words to Dream On

and restarted a few times...worst show everd'oh!



This reminded me of a Willie Nelson concert. Jerry Jeff Walker was the opening act. He was so messed up he kept falling down. Also couldn’t remember lyrics. Finally someone came on stage and took him away.

He lasted maybe 10 minutes. Willie didn’t come on for almost an hours. Rednecks were some triggered Frying pan
Mr. Jones Offline
#15 Posted:
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Pat Metheny

With

Ornet Coleman
8trackdisco Offline
#16 Posted:
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Vaguely recall seeing/listening to Head East on their decent. Remember not thinking I wanted to see live concerts anymore.
It was just noisy. They played Shave My Wife I'm Going Down For the Last Time song twice in their one hour set.
BuckyB93 Offline
#17 Posted:
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Does a Chippendales show count as a concert?

Back in high school I worked weekends at the Chippewa Valley Expo Center where they held flea markets, gun shows, car shows, boat shows etc... and sometimes small venue concerts. I was "lucky" enough to work a Chippendale show as they passed through. Those images are still seared into my memory banks and may play a role in some of my mental disorders.

I think the Thonginator in his prime was the opening act.
RMAN4443 Offline
#18 Posted:
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I worked as a Chippendales dancer for a bit...Chris Farley and I bookended the line, and

Patrick Swazey was there too...ooops, sorry, wrong Forum...I thought this was PenthouseBlushing
dkeage Offline
#19 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
Vaguely recall seeing/listening to Head East on their decent. Remember not thinking I wanted to see live concerts anymore.
It was just noisy. They played Shave My Wife I'm Going Down For the Last Time song twice in their one hour set.

The drummer for Head East was one of my instructors at the Art Institute. Had beers after class many times and heard some great stories. Let’s just say cocaine is bad, mmmkay?
RMAN4443 Offline
#20 Posted:
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dkeage wrote:
The drummer for Head East was one of my instructors at the Art Institute. Had beers after class many times and heard some great stories. Let’s just say cocaine is bad, mmmkay?

I've never done cocaine, but I know what it smells like...Anxious


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