LynneSin
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:22 AM
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Worst concert you've ever seen |
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Me - it would have to be the Grateful Dead back in 1989. I was so excited about going to my first Dead show that we all took a half day of work so we could join in the festivities that usually accompany the show. And to be honest, it was fun.
But the show itself was long and to be honest, if you're someone like me who has never done a drug in her life, it was actually kind of boring too. It didn't help that some guy kept feeling up my dress during the show and I ended up decking him. And by the beginning of the second half of the show we were just all tired and ready to go home.
Trivia about that concert - it was also the last concert ever held at the famed JFK stadium in Philly (Home of the Philly Live Aid Concert). We were suppose to see the ROlling Stones there later that summer but they found a crack in the stadium and the place got condemned. It's now a parking lot and I believe one of the current stadiums may have been built on part of the grounds
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:23 AM
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The Spectrum - sometime in the 80s when they were still the Police
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:25 AM
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4. I saw The Police in '83 and they were pretty good. |
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UB40 opened, and they sucked eggs, but The Police wasn't bad. It was clear that they didn't much care for each other, but they still played ok.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:24 AM
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2. I never got the Dead... |
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then again I never got college Basketball.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:24 AM
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The extenxt of their interaction with the fans:
On entrance: "Hi, we're The Cars."
On exit: "Thank you, good night."
I could havestayed home and listened to the cds. :shrug:
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:26 AM
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5. Yes but who would announce who they were and wish you a good night |
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:28 AM
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7. I paid HOW MUCH for that? |
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Probably not much, it was the '80s, but I was a poor HS student!
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:28 AM
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6. said it before say it again: the kinks... |
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having 'foghat' on the bill was no saving grace for that matter x(
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:30 AM
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8. Rickie Lee Jones circa 1982 |
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In Denver Colorado.
Hot date with Trudy Sato, a snappy Japanese supervisor in the office I worked at.
Rickie came out with a bottle of Jack Daniels, drunk on her ass and stumbled through 4 songs before she left the stage for 20 minutes.
Came back out and fell off the stool she was sitting on.
So much for Ms. Jones and so much for my chances with Ms. Sato.
Thanks for nothing Rickie.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:31 AM
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nothing worse than watching washed up rockers rolling around on the stage as if the leads they are playing are exciting and not what they really are...cliched and boring. ZZZZZZZZ.........
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:33 AM
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:31 AM
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Opened and closed with "We Built This City", do an on-stage PSA for the "9-line" (teen runaways) and Grace Slick is a version of White Rabbit that was about as vegas lounge singer as you can get.
Fortunately, the tix were free.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:11 AM
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28. I saw Starship during the Dragonfly tour |
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It was awesome and Grace Slick still had it.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:34 AM
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37. This is mid-80s Starship |
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:51 AM
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40. Yeah, they lost me after "We Built This City" |
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:33 AM
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11. Dinosaur Jr. at Roseland in NYC in the mid-90's... |
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I had seen them a few times before and they were fine. But this time they played a majority of slow, sludgy stuff, and barely moved or said a word. I don't necessarily need audience/performer interaction if the performance itself is making a statement with movement, aggression, whatever. But it was like I was watching a really boring practice session with a few hundred other people. No thanks.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:33 AM
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Got dragged to it by the soon-to-be Ms Uly. Blech.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:36 AM
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15. Cure never seemed like a band I would enjoy watching live |
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Robert Smith never seemed like he had the charisma to carry off a major concert
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:40 AM
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19. he barely has the charisma |
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to get out of bed in the morning. IMHO, of course. ;-)
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:35 AM
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14. Megadeth- City Limits, Penn Hills, PA- 1987 |
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Also my first concert. Dave Mustaine was a drunken, drugged-up asshole through the whole thing. It took him about 30 minutes to change strings at one point.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:36 AM
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Edited on Thu Jul-14-05 07:37 AM by SarahBelle
Not horrible, but ... :boring: Not my thing I guess. :shrug:
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:40 AM
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:46 AM
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22. I loved Steely Dan when I saw them |
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but that was about 5 years ago and they were just amazingly groovy!
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:37 AM
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17. Kool Keith. Atlanta, 2000. |
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He was pissed off most of the time he was on stage (which wasn't long) because apparently the crowd weren't up to his expectations, or something. He walked off after about half an hour (and this after turning up late).
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:37 AM
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18. first rolling stones concert in chicago |
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they totally sucked. "little" stevie wonder and martha and the bluebells totally rocked...second and third concert in chicago was a whole lot better
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:40 AM
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21. Wiilie Nelson Houston Rodeo '03. HORRIBLE. Didn't sing-- |
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talked through the songs.
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Thu Jul-14-05 07:51 AM
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23. I just saw him a few weeks ago |
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He was with Dylan. I was looking forward to seeing Willie because he is a "legend". I was bored by the third song. Great songwriter, terrible performer.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:22 AM
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35. I saw him many times in the 70's |
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He was great. Maybe he's just getting too old to cut it anymore.
That thought makes me sad.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:01 AM
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I used to write music reviews for Boston's free weekly paper, so I saw a lot of shows, and Sturgeon's Law definitely applied. (Simply stated, 90% of everything sucks.)
But I think for absolute suckishness, it would be hard to outdo the double bill of Uriah Heep and Suzi Quatro at the Music Hall (now the Wang Center). Quatro's real problem was that she was trying to rock out, but her producers were trying to pitch her as power pop glam, and she never worked out the contradictions: she rendered rather trite tunes with a big sludgy bottom end (she was the bass player) that satisfied neither requirement. And it didn't help that nobody in her band looked like they'd either read a book nor bathed in the previous year.
Uriah Heep, if you don't remember them (and there's no particular reason why you should), were basically England's answer to Styx-- histrionic vocals, pompous keyboard parts, leaden and unsurprising. They might be the real model for Spinal Tap. They too were trying to be glam, with the platform boots and satiny stuff. I walked out on them, unable to think of any adequate way to describe their exact suckitude, but unwilling to waste my eardrums on them any longer. Fortunately there was a high school kid who was walking out at the same time, and (like the good journalist I never really was) I asked him what he thought. He described Quatro as "wetbacks from Alice Cooper" and Heep as "the sound of your brain shrinking," and voila! I had my lede! Thank you, my good lad, wherever you are!
I also really hated Black Oak Arkansas, but they were opening for King Crimson, who were magnificent.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:07 AM
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Mid 1980's. He'd re-arranged all his songs to conform with the disco thing.
He'd had a bit to drink, as well.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:10 AM
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26. I went to see the Dead while trippin on LSD |
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I had never seen them before. We left in the middle because it was waaaay too laid back and boring for the state of mind I was in.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:15 AM
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32. wow, I'm the opposite of you |
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I figured because I wasn't doing LSD that I found their concert to be quite boring
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:21 AM
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33. I know. I laughed when I read your post. |
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Maybe I just should have smoked some reefer and it might have been okay.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:10 AM
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27. Rod Stewart and the Small Faces ~1972 |
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At the local youth center for $3.00. The opening band was Grin, Nils Lofgrin's first band. Everyone kept booing Rod Stewart and calling for Grin to came back.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:11 AM
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29. The guy who did "Year of the Cat" |
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at the Passaic Theater in NJ. Utterly ZZZZzzzzzz. Went because husband (now ex) was doing a review.
I saw the Dead many times and enjoyed them most when they were still playing in college gyms. Once they got big, it wasn't as much fun. Worst Dead/Allman Brothers concert I attended was at RFK Stadium in DC in the early 70s. The bands were great, but the audience was full of drugged-out assholes who smashed glass bottles and shot firecrackers, not caring who they might injure.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:14 AM
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30. Ted Nugent on a movie theater stage |
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Totally sucky noise. This was in the late 70's.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:14 AM
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31. Adam Ant, early, early '80s. INXS opened and kicked his ass; |
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this was pre-Michael Hutchence divahood.
Ant was wretched. Perhaps drugs might have helped, but like you, LynneSin, I never indulged.
Of course, I always had to drive, too.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:21 AM
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They had little talent while performing the in the safe confines of the studio....
And had even less on stage....
Dreadfull
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:27 AM
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and Outdoor show at some pig hollow white trash field in Ohio. Totally weak effort. They just phoned it in that day. The music just plain sucked too.
Also saw The Grateful Dead 1991 in Oakland Coliseum. Boooooring.
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:36 AM
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38. A tie - Little Feat (1972?) and John McLaughlin and the |
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Mahavishnu Orchestra (1975?). Walked out of both and sat outside and partied instead :-).
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Thu Jul-14-05 08:36 AM
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39. The only concert I ever walked out on |
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Edited on Thu Jul-14-05 08:38 AM by shugh514
Out of the hundreds of shows I have seen and enjoyed, Buster Poindexter was the only one I left early. Fortunately it was a free show, so no money lost. David Jo was in a strange mood, really down. I never had a chance to see the NY Dolls in their prime, but I saw The David Johanson Band many times and was never disappointed. I came expecting a upbeat show ending in a conga line for "Hot,Hot,Hot", but David was just depressing so I left.
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