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JD 
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Joined: February 07 2009 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18446 |
 Posted: April 22 2015 at 13:45 |
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Oddly enough, Pink Floyd at the CNE in Toronto. The sound was horrible and I left half deaf. Not what I expected for my first and only Floyd concert.
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Catcher10
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 13:06 |
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Only headliner I ever walked away from was Van Halen at the US Festival '83....DLR was drunk, sounded horrible, not that he ever sounded good live, and was not finishing songs...We left after the 2nd song.
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presdoug
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Joined: January 24 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 8820 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 11:59 |
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Judas Priest doing "Screaming For Vengeance" tour in Montreal, October, 1982. Deafeningly loud, just a load of nonsense, really.
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bloodnarfer
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Joined: April 15 2010 Location: Austin, TX Status: Offline Points: 2162 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:56 |
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3). Antemasque. Couldn't hear Omar through a mush of sound, my gf got moshed, and I was sprayed with a fire extinguisher 2). The menagerie of forgettable pop country concerts I've been dragged to. 1). Do openers count? Elliphant and Torche were sickening. On both occasions I had the leave the venue and come back later.
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chopper
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20048 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:41 |
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I can honestly say I've never been to a really bad gig but I have had a couple of painful experiences that I could have done without -
1) Ted Nugent trying to shatter a glass ball with feedback.  2) Sammy Hagar having a guitar "battle" with his other guitarist (which he won, believe it or not
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NutterAlert
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Joined: June 07 2005 Location: In transition Status: Offline Points: 2808 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:25 |
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Motorhead, Nottingham. I'm sure Lemmy was trying to sonically kill the audience. I like loud but this was unreal. Idoiots around me shouting "LOUDER" which the band seemed happy to oblige...
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sublime220
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Joined: January 21 2015 Location: Willow Farm Status: Offline Points: 1563 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:13 |
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Doobie Brothers, 2005. They didn't play Black Water. What gives??
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:11 |
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I can't really think of any, usually if the set is bad I generally manage find something to amuse me. I saw Brit Death/Metalcore band Labrat stagger on stage pissed as farts, announce themselves as LA Brat in a really terrible drawling 'Merican accent and then proceeded to play their set as some kind of Sludge Metal - Country and Western hybrid - it was truly awful but at the same time hilariously funny.
I once walked out on Metallica, not because it was bad but because it was arse-numbingly boring, half-way through I thought to myself - if that twonk plays drum solo I'm going home. Sure enough Ulrich lurched into a plodding drum solo that I could still hear from the car-park. |
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:05 |
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Boss Hog (the Jon Spencer offshoot fronted by his wife)
My worst gig is easily one of my absolute concert going highlights! Frontwoman Cristina Martinez stumbled on stage, looked mighty pissed off and more than a little wasted. She was singing into a microphone that clearly wasn't working, and when a poor roadie raced on stage to try and fix it, she booted him square in the balls from behind. She then took an instant dislike to a poor girl that had clearly been dragged along by her boyfriend, she got down on all fours like she was stalking the girl, singing directly into her eyes for about three minutes straight with this mocking scorn! She then got up and hurled herself into the crowd, starting wildly swinging punches and kicks at everyone (my mate copped a nasty bloody gash from her heels down his leg!), she then got back on stage and called a girlfriend out, and they finished the set in what can only be described as bad drunk karaoke! Despite being the lead act, all up I think they played a little over 45 minutes before heading off?! 
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ExittheLemming
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Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420 |
Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:57 |
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Tangerine Dream at Glasgow Apollo circa 1978.
Forever hence I renamed them 'Margarine Dream' Three stoned, hirsute and badly dressed German hippies stationed behind synthesizer workstations is not a spectator sport. One of the venue roadies told me that Peter Baumann described Glasgow as 'reason enough to build your own Berlin Wall' Highlight of the evening was when Edgar Froese stood up to play a guitar solo. The audience were so chipped off their tits that Sooty berating Sweep for a slight on the former's squeeze Soo would have been deemed cosmiche maaan. |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:49 |
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Well I already mentioned the Aqua incident.
I once saw Bob Dylan on the huge Orange stage at the Roskilde Festival. He must've thought it was a small and smokey bar he'd be playing, because they were exactly 4 guys in a tiny circle up on this gargantuan scene doing old school skiffles and toned down blues tracks. What a disaster! He amended the mistake by playing there a couple of years after, where he went all out and brought everybody but the freakin seacaptain - suddenly you got a brass section, organs, backing singers, piano man and a Dylan who actually moved. It's the only time I've ever seen a "mushpit" outside of a metal gig, but then again I was the one instigating it together with a couple friends, who'd all been drinking warm white wine and strange drinks with fire together with your's truly. We started out as 5 and ended up a couple of hundred people all furiously pacing about in this huge circle. Fun times. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:36 |
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I took this from a discussion on another thread and decided it badly needed its own conversation (well, not that badly, but it could be fun).
Have you ever walked out on a concert? The one I related previously was this: I saw John Fogerty in the mid-80s expecting I would hear some Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. Little did I know at the time that Fogerty was embroiled in a court battle with his old label and he wouldn't play any of his Creedence songs because he refused to play royalties for his own songs (I guess I missed the whole imbroglio in the papers, and of course there was no interwebs). Although I now understand the reasons he refused to play the songs, I must admit listening to him sing f*cking "Centerfield" and other such tripe was rather dismaying and I walked out halfway through. I wouldn't have bought tickets in the first place had I known. I also once went to a Kid Rock/Uncle Cracker show because of my then-girlfriend. What people will do for sex.
 Edited by The Dark Elf - April 22 2015 at 09:39 |
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