Greatest live disappointment

It's like the musician is sitting on a stool playing the most beautiful prog music or even the most rockin' stuff of originality and in walks this flippin' guy with money and he says....Wait a minute ....dress like this! I'll bring in someone for fashion, write your song in a more simplified way, change the lyrics, take out that solo etc. Now the musician is suddenly dressed in F-IN circus clothes and singing about some stupied violence, sex indulgment, or whatever and it's just complete garbage. That's art? Get the hell out of here! That's garbage in America! Commercialized American rubbish. It destroyed Rock Music and not just the snooty Prog but, Rock music has lost it's spark for decades because the nerds I mentioned above had pathetic things on their agenda. Rory Gallagher, and loads of others who were once diverse simply just in ROCK music! There is no more ROCK music! Just look at what the idiots mentioned above did to it?  Alice In Chains!....You call that ROCK music? Alternative Rock? Alternative to what? The garbage from the mainstream 80's? The fact is...real earthy ROCK music died long ago when the business JO'S decided to hold artistic Rock musicians bound in chains and left with the only option of human survival was to stamp out art! These are facts not opinions. You need to research more history if you disagree with that. Preference has little to do with it. The fact is America has been commercialized mainstream music for decades now. All of the media's stupied and false representation of the WOODSTOCK festival and just the 60's in general is a LIE!  I wonder how Americans would feel if I changed the historical representation of sports? They certainly don't seem to give a crap about how they are being lied to when it comes to the presentation of the 60's. I know for a fact, because I research the ratings on this crap and you know? It's all about how THEY (as in staff media)..want to tell the old stories. They put emphasis on rubbish and the facts are not realized. Whenever an artist goes off and changes their approach in music, it is non-excepted by the norm because the industry has everyone in the world conditioned to a large degree.   

I have Live Without A Net and that's pretty good. And you are right, they were performing from the 1984 album and AC/DC headlined!

I've actually seen Indigo Girls many times, most of them awesome but they had one gig where the sound was terrible and Amy went into a free form poem ending in her screaming "I'm a killer" over and over.

 

I think Dylan back in his prime did some amazing work, but don't waste your money.

 

I've seen alot of bland gigs but few truly bad ones. (Van Hagar anyone?) I love music so I give quite a bit of leeway. The hardest is inconsistent bands where you've seen them be just magical and you tell your friends and the next gig they're boring.

 

I saw him again at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia in the 80's. Same deal only worse because the volume in this smaller building had no place to bounce around. It was like a trapped sound that was extremely in your face.Times when he would simply stroke the string with his guitar pick and your internal organs felt disconnected. You know that sound when a jet's wheels are first touching the landing strip? My friends wanted to stay so I sat in the lobby.

Weather Report, Tower Theatre.......I don't remember the date. It was the first tour they did after the departure of Jaco and Peter E. I stood at the side of the stage watching Wayne Shorter. What an amazing player. They had hired new players and Wayne Shorter paced back and forth gawking at them and for the whole night. Once he walked over to Zawnul and complained waving his hands and eventually having some choice words for the new members. The music had no soul. The new members raced through the beautiful compositions of W.R. like a day at the race track. Wayne Shorter is technically brilliant but melodic so really, they were missing the point causing the band to lose it's impact of performance.

I saw Yes at the JFK stadium. During their performance of "Ritual", members of the audience decided to set the seats on fire. Eventually the fire extended across an entrie side of the stadium and the fire department was brought in. Yes continued their extensive and errie jam deriving from the center of the "Ritual" piece throughout the end. I'm off thread again because Yes were very great that night however the fire was quite dangerous and it's a reminder to many how any act of extreme violent measures can reveal itself to you at a Rock concert.

Procol Harum at the Spectrum May 13th 1977. They were God awful as they fumbled through the old classics and performed also,...their new material from "Something Magic". That night it was known to me as "Something Tragic". It just sounded like a bunch of guys who were no longer Procol Harum. Brooker and BJ were the only members left from the salad days and the new members really didn't compliment the band's compositions. They were at the end of the line.

5/13/77 Return To Forever. They had 2 of the original members Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. Clarke sat on a stool during the middle of the band's performance and played various Classical compositions using a bow and it was just incredible. All the musicians were impeccable but the essence of what I felt with the Romantic Warrior version was lost. Changing of members can ultimately dissapoint the fan.

BTO opened for Ten Years After at the Spectrum May of 74'. It was horrible. Cheap chord progressions stolen from "The Who". "The Who" had originality. This was commercial and on the ashes of "The Guess Who" and they were just writing the same style but with a harder edge to it. Staduim Rock.

Reo Speed Wagon opened for Mott the Hoople and they were bland middle of the road Rock music. They had zero hits at this time. The "Hi- Infidelity" album had yet to surface. The style was Staduim Rock and difficult to sit through.

Johnny Winter at the Spectrum 5/21/76 was a huge disappointment. While being a great guitarist that night, the material itself was cheap boogie and fashioned to a "Stadium Rock" trend. I was thinking only of how inspiring he was with his first 2 Blues releases and now he had to be like everybody else. Rotten show!

Black Oak Arkansas headlined over 2 great bands....Back Street Crawler and Rory Gallagher. Black Oak Arkansas played their stupied "Jim Dandy to the rescue" and their style fit into the arena rock era. A real painful show. Jim Dandy had the David Lee Roth look years before Van Halen hit the scene. He had his scrub board and assistant bimbo Ruby Starr on stage with him. For all the fantastic musicians that derive from the Southern United States, this was if anything, a disgrace to them.  

I have a recording of Greg Lake, and at the end he thanks the audience for allowing him to work for them.