Worst concert you've ever seen?

Must be Paradise Lost and Katatonia I saw 4-5 years back. Terrible sound and both bands appeared amateur and simplistic on their playing on stage (maybe the sound quality had its effects on this though). Bad night overall and went away disillusioned...

Type O Negative.  Great band on disc, mind-numbingly boring on stage.  (You know a band's in trouble when the only member who shows any signs of life at all is the keyboard player.)

I saw Type O back in 97 during the October Rust tour. One of the best gigs I've ever attended. They even broke out the covers and did Cinnamon Girl, Black Sabbath and Light my Fire. They must've played 2 hours and 45 minutes before finishing off with a very intoxicated Pete Steele ripping all 4 strings out of his bass guitar with one big violent pull. The man was a bear. Enormous.

Talking of falling asleep.........I know my kid will hate me for this. Opening act for DT on the ADToE Tour was Trivium (something like that). Hard thrashy metal, actually my wife thought they were pretty good!! There were about 100 people or so that only came to see them and then left....LOL!!

I've generally had good luck with concerts but 3 stand out.

The Stranglers on the Feline tour at Newcastle, they got into a standoff with security and refused to play until security left. It lasted about 15 minutes until security gave up at left fearing ariot. The crowd proceeded to trash the place, awful.

The Toy Dolls played the Newcastle Student Union, they were a small time punk band who had a hit with a cover of Nellie the Elephant. They played a total of 6 songs of which 3 were Nellie the Elephant. Must of been a total of 30 minutes if that.

Magnum in Redcar, band were great but halfway through the set someone stole a guitar pedal off the stage. The band refused to play until it was returned, there was a good natured standoff with stuff being thrown for about 10 minutes. When we saw a turd in a plastic glass fly through the air we decided it was time to leave.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - April 22 2015 at 20:27

I had to look this up to see who the third band was.  The Big F?  Don't remember anything about them at all.  or DTM, really.  But Voivod was just really loud.  I don't remember any other details, just that I left very disappointed with the performance.

Not really bad, but the time I was most disappointed was when I saw Coheed & Cambria opening for Alice In Chains and Jane's Addiction (so I wasn't too bummed with those two following).  Their drummer was sick and didn't perform, so they turned their show into an acoustic set.  Not much they really could've done, but I wanted to hear a hard-hitting, full on performance.  I love acoustic versions of other bands, but C&C isn't really one I want to hear that kind of thing. 

A friend of mine and I went to see Lisa Loeb back in 1998 or so, hoping to see a swarm of cute girls wearing glasses. It turned out to be a total sausage fest. I only knew one song of hers (a minor hit that I can't recollect anymore) and her tunes were quite boring. We didn't stay long.

Metalmarsh89 wrote: Catcher10 wrote: Talking of falling asleep.........I know my kid will hate me for this. Opening act for DT on the ADToE Tour was Trivium (something like that). Hard thrashy metal, actually my wife thought they were pretty good!! There were about 100 people or so that only came to see them and then left....LOL!! My son was OUT during their performance, grant it had been a long day for him, sitting in line and all, he was 12yr old time of this picture. Dude and we were like in the 4th row, no clue how he did this and he remembers nothing!!  Aw man, you missed out. I saw them on that tour in Cincinnati, and one of the KC Projekcts opened for DT there.

Was that the tour in 2012? If so I was there for the Projekct set, hung around for 3 DT tracks and left, pretty awful but not my thing and I wasn't there for them. It was the day after Nearfest and I was tired from the drive to Cincinnati.



Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - April 26 2015 at 09:23

Sadly, Metallica's "Justice" show in '88 was a mess.  I think they were pretty drunk and the sound was dreadful. 

Honorable mention to the Dead in '86.  Jerry's health was poor and the stadium sound was bad enough to just walk out on, which we did.