"Coldplay concert. I just went with a girl from work, and the f*****g camera guy just zoomed into us. I just wanted a chill moment and now my wife left me ..."
"I once saw a triple feature: Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, and Heart.
By God Cheap Trick were bad and their audio mix was even worse. Combine that with 70 year old guys singing about banging young ladies, it just wasn't the vibe for the evening.
Joan Jett was quite good and Heart was phenomenal. Heart ended up bringing out John Bonham's son Jason to play drums for the last half hour of their set so they could do Led Zeppelin covers. I don't think Robert Plant's vocal intensity has held up over the years, but Ann Wilson's voice is so good it was like or better than listening to Plant in his prime."
"My Elementary Band School Concert. I was in the band, we sucked."
"Aging myself but sometime in the early 90s I was a huge Guns N' Roses fan and they were touring with Metallica. I ditched a prom to go in full "glam" with my date there instead and GNR was very late to set. When they came out, Axel threw a fit and it ended very quickly. Metallica on the other hand K****D it, probably to make it up to fans. I had been indifferent to Metallica before but became a huge fan afterwards. I still can't believe the adult temper tantrum that thousands of fans witnessed that night by a musician they paid a lot of money for."
"James Brown was the headliner one night at a festival in the early 2000s.
He was wasted.
Kept singing the same lines over and over.
He introduced the band at least 5 times.
He just laid down on the stage and didn’t sing for a while.
Terrible concert, funny memories."
"Aerosmith in 2014ish.
Steven Tyler kept forgetting the words and called our city like 5 different (and all wrong) names during the event."
"I love to tell this one:
Went to see Lightning Hopkins out in the field on a flatbed trailer outside of Fort Worth in 1971. He was so drunk he played three songs, and two of them were the same song."
"Bob Dylan in 2014 :( I love him but unfortunately he sounded like Cookie Monster. Can’t imagine it’s improved."
"Oasis early 2000s. They clearly hated each other, played 6 songs, left the stage after 40min.
Edited for typos and also, wow, so many of us out there lol."
"Joe Cocker. He was so drunk he could barely perform and threw up on stage in the middle of a song."
"2009 American idol runner up tour at Wolf trap. I won tickets and thought "what the hell?"
I wonder if any of them remember me, I was the only one there."
"Rhianna, loved her up until the concert. Wish I never went! She lip synched the whole entire time. We were so upset we went to an entire pre-recorded concert."
"Got dragged to a high school basketball gymnasium to watch Dwight Yoakam. Dwight wasn’t bad, it was the sound. Cranked up Dwight Yoakam inside a gym is what I’m pretty sure the CIA used to get Al Quaeda terrorists to talk."
"Sir Mix A Lot. The opening act warned us it was going to be terrible, and they were right."
"Marylin Manson. Was so dr*gged out he was staggering all over the stage, butchering his own lyrics, and sometimes just sat on stage and made weird guttural noises into the mic. Edited to add: Since many have asked I had myself a quick google of when they were in town. I was at the show in 2012. It was the twins of evil tour."
"The Brian Jonestown Massacre… holy s**t what a f*****g epic disaster that was. It was like the worst train wreck you’ve never been able to look away from. At one point his whole band left the stage and he started playing all their instruments and saying he could play better than any of them. Rolling a joint on stage, going up to the bar and getting liquor to make his own drink on stage too. It was 3 hours of WHAT THE F**K AM I DOING HERE… oh and it was a Monday night!"
"Went to a festival concert put on by our rock station in the late 90s. Most of the concert was great with many of the acts being awesome (Collective Soul and Lenny Kravitz were awesome). One of the acts that day was Smash Mouth. Holy c**p they were terrible. I think the audience was generally in shock at how awful they sounded live vs their albums."
"They weren’t the headliner but 30 Seconds to Mars was awful to the point where they were nearly booed off the stage. They were the act leading up to Linkin Park and all I remember was their singer kept yapping on and on instead of playing a song. At one point he wanted the crowd to cheer louder before they started their next song and he was either ignored or was booed. Not sure what happened if he was drunk or on d***s or something but this was the only bad performance I’ve been seen by a professional band."
"Modest mouse. They were wasted. Isaac Brock would flub the lyrics every other song and was basically screaming into the mic."
"DJ KHALED. If I wanted to watch a guy sweat 5litres in 30 minutes I’d just watch p**nhub."
"Six Pence None The Richer in nineties in Austin- lead singer had a melt down and ran off stage during ‘kiss me’ …"
"Whitney Houston near the end.
Still glad to have seen her live, see her as an icon, but holy s**t "Here's my brother to sing for a while" while she went off stage for a bump was not what I paid for.
How to insult even your rusted on fans who are wanting to see you succeed."
"I am currently at an Alex G concert with my daughter and this dude cannot sing for S**T. He sounds like f*****g Kermit the frog singing at the end of the Muppet Christmas Carol. ."
"I’ve worked in a concert venue for the past 20 ish years and have seen almost everyone at least once. Black eyed peas were atrocious, like the truck with their auto tune got lost on the way. Tone deaf."
"The worst act I've seen live is Buckcherry. Their radio length songs were what I enjoyed, but their live version of songs just ran on to the point of "this song should have ended 5 minutes ago.".
Every other artist that I've seen live has been good to great."
"Metallica/Guns N' Roses (plus Faith No More) in Montreal's Olympic Stadium in August 1992, the concert where James Hetfield got burned by pyrotechnics and then Axl Rose had laryngitis and quit after just six songs, leading to a small riot.
I was only 17 and had a long commute home so I left before things got too rowdy."
"Meatloaf in Vegas in 2014. I s**t you not that the interlude portion of “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” was about 15 minutes of nonsense—complete aural jibberish. My mom, who had been a pretty big Meatloaf fan to that point, at one point leaned over to ask if I thought we were being pranked. ."
"My old band Set on Edge. I'm not kidding. We replaced Sixpence None the Richer at the very last minute because their whole band caught pneumonia, and the show was outside (well, in an enormous barn - basically outside) in late October near Chicago so it was COLDCOLDCOLD and there were 3000+ kids there and we COULD NOT KEEP OUR INSTRUMENTS IN TUNE (or feel our fingers) for the whole set. I have video proof. We stepped off stage - four adults - and cried. Wow, that was bad!"
"I saw Deep Purple once and the singer didnt realize his mic was off for half the set."
"Someone got me lil xan tickets for my birthday and it was the worst thing ever."
"Oasis. Very early 2000s.
Stood there and joylessly banged out their songs, barely spoke except to heckle the audience for being too excited (jumping, iirc...but maybe someone also tried to crowd surf?)..."It's a f*****g rock show, not a circus!"
Travis opened for them and came with 10x more energy. It was all downhill from there. Lots left during the encore, us included. We all left as Travis fans."
"Alien Ant Farm. They played Smooth Criminal about 4 times and the entire show was just awful."
"Milli Vanilli….i was like 8 but was wondering they could barely speak English but their singing was perfect English."
"At a festival. Die antword. Sounded like babies on fire."
"Meatloaf followed by counting crows."
"I saw the Goo Goo Dolls a few years back. They were kinda old and didn't have great energy but the show was fine.
Then, I guess one of the other band members wanted HIS turn to sing. I called him Pink Hair Guy. Pink Hair Guy sang like he smoked two packs a day. The crowd hated him. Nothing ever sucked the buzz of concert excitement out of me faster than Pink Hair Guy. They let HIM sing their most popular song, Iris. I left mid song."
"Honestly the worst show I ever saw was Sublime. It was their last show. The singer was an absolute high mess. He overdosed the following day or something. ."
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