Worst gig you ever attended?

[Wat_Tyler]

There isn't a spectacular one, but there are five sucky ones -
Credit to the Nation (long forgotten UK hiphop outfit)
Suede - Really sucky live, post-Bernard.
Placebo / Stabbing Westwards - rubbish sub-goth nonsense - god knows how I got roped into that.
The Proclaimers - again, don't know why.
Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, solo - yeah, really.

[bif]

1. Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin

Both sucked bigtime when I saw them.

[commander bunnypants]

2. journey and and some other band

:puke:

CB

[Phillycat]

3. Spin Doctors and Counting Crows.

Not together. The single two worst shows I've ever seen. Bands who can't play their own songs and singers who can't sing their own lyrics.

[GingerSnaps]

4. U2

:boring:

[Squeech]

5. Uriah Heep & Suzi Quatro

That's the worst one I remember. What was I thinking? (Probably checking out Suzi's leathers.)

[XNASA]

6. Probably on my 18th birthday.

Black Oak Arkansas at some outdoor venue in Memphis. I fell asleep halfway through. Come to thing of it, I was probably drunk.

[LSparkle]

7. Kansas

yawn ...

[Clinton Crusader]

8. Extreme

It was a gift for someone and I went with them. Holy Moses! Id sooner shoot myself than hear that crap again. I stuffed tissues in my ears.

[Redneck Socialist]

9. Michelle Shocked

More attitude than music. Very surprised and disappointed. I had seen her before and enjoyed the show. Don't know what happened the second time around. :shrug:

[Maccagirl]

10. Alice Cooper

He was over an hour late and stoned out of his mind. Lousy experience.

[Patiod]

11. Norm MacDonald and also Van Morrison

at Phila College of Textile (now Phila Univ). He was 1 1/2 late, claimed to have been in a car accident, he pretty much just started cursing a lot - you could smell the flop sweat from the far back of the auditorium. Fortunately, tickets were only like $10, and it was so bad it was almost worth it.

<edit> Also saw Van Morrison at Penn State, he was so stoned/drunk for the first couple of songs he was pretty much just mumbling. I turned to my date and asked "Whose the fat white guy? Where's Van Morrison?" Hey - I was only 18.

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. Megadeth

Also my first concert. This was Mustaine during the "Peace Sells" era, at the peak of his wastedness. Took him twenty minutes to change strings between songs. Slurred insults at the audience, and just acted like a genuine prick. Of course, in my thirteen-year-old mind, I thought it was awesome.

[bloodyjack]

13. Cat Power probably

She has a beautiful voice and a beautiful face, but damned if she doesn't need to learn the god damned basics of piano

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. Adam Ant. Don't ask.

[Susang]

15. GG Allen

I know, I know, you probably think you would have loved to see him. Trust me, it was a train wreck from start to finish.

Unless you're really into watching people eat broken glass and their own excrement. I can take a lot for the sake of art, but that was just a slow suicide.

[XNASA]

16. I was sure that you were gonna say.........

Vendooza, at the Boulevard Cafe. The night that Dave dropped trou.

On second thought, that was the worst gig I've ever been to....and I was on stage.

[Susang]

18. I wasn't there, remember?

Only show I missed, dammit! :mad:

[XNASA]

19. Oh that's right.

Then how about the gig at Cal's? That really sucked.

[Zero Division]

17. Juliana Hatfield

Like listening to over an hour's worth of music from some awful 90's teen tele-drama. :puke:

I was really there to see the brother of a friend open for her. Can't believe we actually sat through the whole damn thing.

[Philostopher]

20. Primus's opening set for Rush, back in the early '90s.

I mean, Les told me they sucked, but you haven't seen 'suck' until you've seen any decent rock band open for Rush. The sound was awful -- this is de rigueur for Rush's opening bands. The only one I ever saw who had decent sound was Eric Johnson. Everybody else was terrible.

I don't even like Rush much -- first hubby was a big fan, I often went to see the opening bands get slaughtered by the sound guys.

Mike Keneally (one of Zappa's last touring guitarists) had an awful set at Sudsy Malone's in Corryville (Cincinnati) about seven years ago. Wasn't his fault -- the bar's in-house sound equipment was crap, and he relied pretty heavily on it.