Concerts you've walked out of....
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Topic: Concerts you've walked out of....
Posted By: Disconnect
Subject: Concerts you've walked out of....
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:07
I admit I've done it a few times...for both prog and non-prog acts.
PROG:
Steven Wilson - 11/27/18, Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY Dream Theater - 3/17/25, Kodak Center, Rochester, NY
NON-PROG:
Elvis Costello - 7/8/2023, Landmark Theater, Syracuse, NY Ben Folds - 11/8/2024, State Theater, Ithaca, NY
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:14
Aerosmith - They were drunk and awful. Metallica - Same. Terrible playing. 1988. Left early. George Thorogood - There was a local band playing down the street that we were more into. I can still remember the shocked look of the group when two of us got up and left about 10 minutes into the show. No regrets. The local band was way more fun at that moment in time.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:18
PROG:
Marillion at Rock City, Nottingham
NON-PROG
AC/DC - the headline act at Monsters of Rock Festival, Donington Park
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:32
Every concert I have been to.
I always walk out at the end of them.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:33
Porcupine Tree - i was there to see the support act, Projekct 6, and didn't know PT yet, left after 3 songs. Grew to like them.
Dream Theater - was there to see support act Crimson Projekct, stayed for 3 songs, bored to tears, still don't like them.
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Posted By: Jamwalk90
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 08:55
I can't remember walking out of any prog concerts, but some non-prog ones.
NON-PROG: Underworld - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 2015 D12 - Glasgow SECC 2004 There are probably more that I cannot remember right now.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 09:27
Being partly Jewish, I like to get my monies worth, so its very rare I walk out, but there have been a few exceptions:
Cardiacs - Whitchurch 2000 a truly awful experience
Tony McPhee & The Groundhogs - I just remember it was incredibly loud, he was being very 'experimental' and I had a splitting headache. I remember going for a walk, then standing out the venue and listening to it.
Jon Oliva's Pain - Just not my thing
there must be more.....
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 09:44
I remember walking out of the Vennart (Oceansize) set after having seen Knifeworld in a venue with terrible sound. Vennart's songs seemed boring on top of it and I was there for Knifeworld (who sounded terrible too, I'm afraid), so I left after 2 1/2 songs.
Some clubs announce shows at 21:00 but you've got to wait until 22:30 or longer before the show actually starts. Sometimes the opening act starts then, and main act at midnight, in the middle of the week. Very annoying. I walked out of a few to catch the last public transport home or because I had to work early next morning. I remember Supersilent (who were actually good) and post rock band HiM (they started so late I hardly gave them a chance), also Matmos (a favourite band of mine that I saw a number of times and always loved, but once they weren't on the stage at 23:30 or so and I couldn't wait for longer).
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Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 09:46
Gary Wright … backed up the original Bad Co. at the Greek theater in Los Angeles.
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:04
A concert I didn't walk out of, but should have; Judas Priest on the "Screaming For Vengeance" Tour in the fall of 1982 in Montreal; I was hungover, and stupidly on some sh*tty acid, and Priest were so friggin loud-it was the worst nite of my life; add to that it was a weird crowd, some of whom were bullying me a bit....we had come by bus from my home town to see them, so there was nowhere to escape to; needless to say from that day on, no more Priest concerts, or acid....
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Posted By: pauldunhill
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:10
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Hammersmith, mid 80’s - absolutely awful
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Posted By: Captain Midnight
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:17
I went to a TOOL concert, the entire place reeked of weed only walked out on the last song they played (song being Stinkfist) mainly because it's not one of my favorites and I couldn't stand the smell
As for non Prog I saw Barry Manilow I walked out after hearing the songs I wanted to hear lol, but I honestly kind of regret it
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:35
non prog only:
Tiziano Ferro: before the end of the second song Michael Jackson: like watching a video but from far Sting: The best thing was the guest star
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Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 11:44
ah, just remembered another one from the late 80s:
Aerosmith - 4/29/1988, Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, TN
at one point during the show, Steven Tyler was doing his usual frontman flailing and spinning around...kept getting back to the mic a little too late each time. Buuuuuuut somehow his vox were still coming through the PA. Canned vocals, what a shame.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 15:50
Jamwalk90 wrote:
I can't remember walking out of any prog concerts, but some non-prog ones.
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I've walked out from plenty of neo-prog concerts during the 90's at The Spirit of 66 in Verviers (including TFK and PT), but stayed in the area, waiting for the buddies to exit the building.
Latest walk out to date: Motorpsycho three years ago - way too metal and way too loud.
outside prog: I would've walked out of Level 42 and Scorpions if they hadn't been the opening acts of Stevie Winwood and Rainbow, respectively.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 16:47
In the Pre-Internet days of the 1980s, I got tickets to see John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt. I thought, kick ass -- the radio commercials for the concert were playing CCR hits, and since I was too young to see CCR, this was going to be great.
Bonnie Raitt was great, but Fogerty took the stage and started playing "Centerfield" and other crap. A guy sitting next to me finally told me that Fogerty was in court with his old record company and he couldn't play any CCR tunes. I exploded with various obscenities and walked out. False advertising and no internet. Boy, was I pissed.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 17:11
The Dark Elf wrote:
In the Pre-Internet days of the 1980s, I got tickets to see John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt. I thought, kick ass -- the radio commercials for the concert were playing CCR hits, and since I was too young to see CCR, this was going to be great.
Bonnie Raitt was great, but Fogerty took the stage and started playing "Centerfield" and other crap. A guy sitting next to me finally told me that Fogerty was in court with his old record company and he couldn't play any CCR tunes. I exploded with various obscenities and walked out. False advertising and no internet. Boy, was I pissed. | That must have been a very annoying moment indeed when you wanted to use the internet and discovered that it hadn't been invented yet. I feel for you!
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 17:58
Brings back memories!
Only a couple....I saw The Tubes at a bar in Tulsa, they were horrible.
A friend and I went to see Marillion in Chicago, we were impressed with the Fish era band, but the version we saw (August 15, 1995) was just boring, so we left early.
I've seen a bunch of concerts that were not all that great, including Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater and Kansas (in their later years). However, I didn't walk out on those.
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 19:41
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - boring Rocky Ericson - boring
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Posted By: Mikich
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 19:56
Helmet. We were there to see the opener Henry Rollins Band. This was at the Tower Theater in PA. Their sound was way off. Otherwise we might have stayed
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Posted By: Themistocles
Date Posted: August 08 2025 at 20:04
Dexys Midnight Runners: does anyone consider them prog? (there's always one)
Mister Mister: listened to 3 songs then took in some other bands
Both were at Summerfest in Milwaukee Wisconsin in the 80's
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 00:15
Sting, Berkeley Theater 1991. Vinx opened the show and blew him away.
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 04:40
I’d like to think that this thread was started thanks to my post in another thread!?!
So: not prog, but I walked out of Within Temptation in Birmingham (UK) 2018. Got soaked waiting to get in (not that that made a difference!). Was so looking forward to seeing them, but the sound was atrocious from the start and hadn’t improved by an hour. I went for a pee, and then just decided to walk out rather than go back in. I had a long drive home….
Nearly walked out of Bon Jovi on the New Jersey tour at Wembley Arena when they sat on barstools to play an acoustic version of LOAP. I get that sometimes a band want to do something different, but it was my first (and only) Bon Jovi gig…..AND REALLY?????!!!!!!!!!!!!😡Support act was the brilliant Dan Reed Network and they blew them away 😎
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 06:09
I've not properly walked out of any gig but I left earlier than planned more to avoid the car park crush. Godspeed You Black Emperor at Bristol about 2018 were interesting but it was all the same and there is a point where I had seen and heard enough. Peter Gabriel - Earls Court about 1992. He played Solsbury Hill and then it was out before the crush. Didn't want or need to hear Sledgehammer. Yes at Birmingham NEC about 2003 were bad even with JA still in the band. Think I left earlier than planned again just to avaid the car park madness. Toto - Birmingham NEC. One long yawn of a gig. We had enough.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 06:39
I walked out on Sigur Ros a couple of years ago. I was really looking forward to it but they were focused on their more ambient stuff and never changed it up in the first half of the show. I got very bored. Got to intermission halfway through and I headed for the doors. I was not alone.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 06:42
richardh wrote:
I've not properly walked out of any gig but I left earlier than planned more to avoid the car park crush. |
that's happened a few times as well.
But of late, I refuse to go to big halls (arenas & such) as I'm going slight agoraphobic, so it's less a concern.
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 09:09
essexboyinwales wrote:
I walked out of Within Temptation in Birmingham (UK) 2018. Got soaked waiting to get in (not that that made a difference!). Was so looking forward to seeing them, but the sound was atrocious from the start and hadn’t improved by an hour. I went for a pee, and then just decided to walk out rather than go back in. I had a long drive home….
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Oh, my goodness! I was there as well, up in the balcony. I took Mrs Jared who had been waiting for a year for that gig and we booked in the Premier Inn down the road. Yes, the rain was utterly torrential and my word, wasn't the sound awful?? Funnily enough, I had a friend who was downstairs and he said a few days afterwards that the sound was some of the most distorted he'd ever heard. Not a good evening.
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 09:49
Jared wrote:
essexboyinwales wrote:
I walked out of Within Temptation in Birmingham (UK) 2018. Got soaked waiting to get in (not that that made a difference!). Was so looking forward to seeing them, but the sound was atrocious from the start and hadn’t improved by an hour. I went for a pee, and then just decided to walk out rather than go back in. I had a long drive home….
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Oh, my goodness! I was there as well, up in the balcony. I took Mrs Jared who had been waiting for a year for that gig and we booked in the Premier Inn down the road. Yes, the rain was utterly torrential and my word, wasn't the sound awful?? Funnily enough, I had a friend who was downstairs and he said a few days afterwards that the sound was some of the most distorted he'd ever heard. Not a good evening. |
Yes I know you were there Jared as I replied to you about it a few days ago in one of Paul’s poll threads (Dutch Symphonic Metal 8th album? Or something like that…..)🤓
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 11:52
essexboyinwales wrote:
Yes I know you were there Jared as I replied to you about it a few days ago in one of Paul’s poll threads (Dutch Symphonic Metal 8th album? Or something like that…..)🤓 |
Oh, sorry mate... too many threads, hard to keep up with conversations..
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: August 09 2025 at 12:20
The Beautiful South at the RAH. Too much with choirs that had nothing to do with their well known songs.
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Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: August 17 2025 at 15:50
Uriah Heep...Wonderworld tour. David Byron had a nose bleed when they entered the stage. People began screaming for "Traveler In Time"..."Magician's Birthday..etc..When David Byron introduced the next song ...which was some kind of ballad. He began singing a soft ballad and you could literally hear the loudness of the crowds screaming for "Easy Livin'" and "Rainbow Demon"..
David Byron stopped the song and several people's voices shouting out with the F word.. David Byron then said: "I want you all to quiet down ..I'm going to sing this and I need silence"
The band started the song again and each time Byron began the verse the crowd screamed louder. Byron stopped the band again and said: "If you don't shut up..we're going to play 50s music and you wouldn't like that would you??"
The crowd were furious at this point. Screaming things like "F-off " and Byron couldn't hear himself singing..so he made hand signs to stop again.
This time he says: "Okay...you wouldn't shut up so we're going to play 50s music now" ...and they did.. 😃 They didn't play 50s Rock n' Roll, ( which would have been tolerable)..instead they played stuff that sounded like Fabian..or that song "Earth Angel" and as the crowd kept booing..they went from one crappy song to the next...while David Byron laid on the floor occasionally lifting the mic to his mouth to say: "Had Enough?" It went on for a considerable amount of time and they weren't even trying to play the old stuff instead nor did they ever let up and that's when I walked out ..
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 17 2025 at 17:35
Maybe one or two at a festival but other than that I don't think I've ever walked out on a concert.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 17 2025 at 17:46
Jacob Schoolcraft wrote:
Uriah Heep...Wonderworld tour. David Byron had a nose bleed when they entered the stage. People began screaming for "Traveler In Time"..."Magician's Birthday..etc..When David Byron introduced the next song ...which was some kind of ballad. He began singing a soft ballad and you could literally hear the loudness of the crowds screaming for "Easy Livin'" and "Rainbow Demon"..
David Byron stopped the song and several people's voices shouting out with the F word.. David Byron then said: "I want you all to quiet down ..I'm going to sing this and I need silence"
The band started the song again and each time Byron began the verse the crowd screamed louder. Byron stopped the band again and said: "If you don't shut up..we're going to play 50s music and you wouldn't like that would you??"
The crowd were furious at this point. Screaming things like "F-off " and Byron couldn't hear himself singing..so he made hand signs to stop again.
This time he says: "Okay...you wouldn't shut up so we're going to play 50s music now" ...and they did.. 😃 They didn't play 50s Rock n' Roll, ( which would have been tolerable)..instead they played stuff that sounded like Fabian..or that song "Earth Angel" and as the crowd kept booing..they went from one crappy song to the next...while David Byron laid on the floor occasionally lifting the mic to his mouth to say: "Had Enough?" It went on for a considerable amount of time and they weren't even trying to play the old stuff instead nor did they ever let up and that's when I walked out .. |
Sounds like a terrible concert but an outstanding story so not all bad
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 17 2025 at 17:52
Forgot one of mine - Magnum at Redcar Coatham Bowl Cleveland England
Redcar was a fairly rough area of Northern England when I was growing up in the area. The Coatham Bowl was a small all standing venue where many of the bands coming through the area played. This particular Magnum gig in the early 80's was notable because someone stole a pedal off the front of the stage during the Magnum gig. Magnum stopped playing and insisted it be returned. At the start it was quite fun with rowdy drunken banter from the crowd and plastic beer glasses being thrown around. After about 10 minutes of this we saw a plastic beer glass fly overhead with a turd in it. That was the moment that we decided it was the right time to leave the gig.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 17 2025 at 18:43
Jacob Schoolcraft wrote:
Uriah Heep...Wonderworld tour. David Byron had a nose bleed when they entered the stage. People began screaming for "Traveler In Time"..."Magician's Birthday..etc..When David Byron introduced the next song ...which was some kind of ballad. He began singing a soft ballad and you could literally hear the loudness of the crowds screaming for "Easy Livin'" and "Rainbow Demon"..
David Byron stopped the song and several people's voices shouting out with the F word.. David Byron then said: "I want you all to quiet down ..I'm going to sing this and I need silence"
The band started the song again and each time Byron began the verse the crowd screamed louder. Byron stopped the band again and said: "If you don't shut up..we're going to play 50s music and you wouldn't like that would you??"
The crowd were furious at this point. Screaming things like "F-off " and Byron couldn't hear himself singing..so he made hand signs to stop again.
This time he says: "Okay...you wouldn't shut up so we're going to play 50s music now" ...and they did.. 😃 They didn't play 50s Rock n' Roll, ( which would have been tolerable)..instead they played stuff that sounded like Fabian..or that song "Earth Angel" and as the crowd kept booing..they went from one crappy song to the next...while David Byron laid on the floor occasionally lifting the mic to his mouth to say: "Had Enough?" It went on for a considerable amount of time and they weren't even trying to play the old stuff instead nor did they ever let up and that's when I walked out .. |
That's hilarious!!!!
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: August 18 2025 at 03:34
Non-prog: Dire Straits, Lancaster University 1981 - boring!!
Prog: Dream Theater, HRH Prog, London - 2011 - as above and so self-important! Hawkwind - Roundhouse, London - 2017 - terrible sound, no excuse for it these days - Mr. Dibs was a poor front man (sorry, I know he loves Hawkwind but enough) Opeth - HRH Prog, London - 2010 - awful band, don't know why people think they are prog.
I have had to leave early due to transport issues, notably Pierre Moerlen's Gong in 1980 at Leicester - only got the first half hour!
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Posted By: pauldunhill
Date Posted: August 18 2025 at 11:42
that sounds a marvellous laugh - far better than listening to Heep's usual stuff!!
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 18 2025 at 12:49
A few friends and I saw a John Etwhistle solo band show, February 9, 1996. We didn't walk out, but considered it, as it was the LOUDEST freaking concert we ever heard! Tolerated, really!
Absolutely ear-splitting! They played in a smallish venue called Synergy in the Chicago suburbs.
(Mind you, I'm a performing musician....once, with my Spinal Tap tribute band "Casual Crobar," some folks complained that our sound check was too loud. I glanced at Dangerous Dave on guitar, we smiled, and turned up our amps. It's only rock & roll).
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 18 2025 at 13:54
At Nearfest I think I walked out on Thinking Plague. I wasn't familiar at all with them. I had no problem with Magma or Sleepytime Gorilla Museum though. I think it had something to do with the atonal nature of TP's music. If you aren't used to it then it can rub you the wrong way. RIO still isn't my favorite but I've come to appreciate more avant forms of prog (and music in general) in recent years.
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Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: August 18 2025 at 14:38
I walked out of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets a few years back. I had really high expectations, and there were some good moments, but it was way too loud for these Boomer ears. The same went for a lot of others based on the exodus during Set the Controls. The feedback just kept building up to an unlistenable sludge. We went outside and debated going back in because I really wanted to experience Echoes. Went back in and found an usher who was handing out earplugs. Echoes was better, but by then I was worried about going deaf so I didn't enjoy it much.
Back in 1980 - The Blue Oyster Cult Black Sabbath "Black and Blue" tour. Our seats were off to the left of the stage, and should never have been available because the stage was 100% obscured by the speaker stacks. This one was way too loud too. We jammed cigarette butts in our ears. That didn't work. We suffered through BOC by finding places to stand until security started hassling us. Left after the first Sabbath song (Heaven and Hell if I remember right).
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Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: August 19 2025 at 04:38
Volume seems to be a recurring theme here. It can go the other way - at HRH prog in 2010, Steve Hackett was too quiet!
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: August 19 2025 at 05:06
I take earplugs to every show, including jazz, too much Motorhead and AC/DC as a teen
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Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: August 19 2025 at 09:32
Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark.
Agree 100 %.
I've never seen them live. Can't understand anyone wanting to - unless they are alien lifeform.
A drippy load of NOTHING.
One of the worse bands ever.
.... Strange. Just this morning whilst (futilely) thrifting the vinyls, and as usually coming up with nothing - yep, there it was, the "Organization" lp.
Good to see it in the company of Nana, Phil Collins and Engelbert lps.
It belongs there.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: August 19 2025 at 09:43
1999 International Progressive Music Festival in San Francisco. Day 2 I walked out of both Lana Lane and The Rocket Scientists as well as Porcupine Tree. They were both too "glitz", for lack of a better word. The rest of the acts were a little more quirky and fun. But those two took themselves way too serious. Which is saying something given they shared the bill with Magma. Porcupine Tree seemed like they were set up to play Wembley, not the borderline intimate setting of the Palace of Fine Arts.
Also walked out of Public Enemy when they did the crossover tour in the early 90's with Primus and Anthrax. I was very interested in seeing them, but every single track had a maximum volume siren in the background that just drowned everything else out. I stepped out until Anthrax came on. They and Primus saved the evening for me.
Most recently The Dear Hunter headlined a gig where I actually went to see the opening act, CHON. When CHON finished their incredibly intricate guitar work, The Dear Hunter just did not hold my interest. Maybe on a different bill that more matches their motif, but it just didnt work for me. Didn't help that I had a long drive home.
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: August 19 2025 at 11:49
Tool 2011. We had bad seats...upper left balcony. The stage was dim and dark, and the lead singer seemed to be hiding. My husband said,
"Let's split and I'll take you to any restaurant you want. I'd rather listen to a Tool CD than strain my eyes to make out human specks."
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 20 2025 at 00:24
Rick1 wrote:
Volume seems to be a recurring theme here. It can go the other way - at HRH prog in 2010, Steve Hackett was too quiet! |
I noticed! Back in the 1970s, I think bands used to compete for decibels!
Deep Purple was once rated as the loudest....I have a friend who went to a Blackmore's Rainbow show & said that was the loudest he ever heard!
Bringing earplugs is always good advice!
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: August 20 2025 at 01:57
Manowar...terrible and ridiculous macho stage presence, which I couldn´t stomach. I know it´s their schicht, but I found them pathetic and unwatchable...
I think it was in 1999 and they shared the bill with Dio and Motörhead as far as I remember.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 20 2025 at 03:31
UMUR wrote:
Manowar...terrible and ridiculous macho stage presence, which I couldn´t stomach. I know it´s their schicht, but I found them pathetic and unwatchable...
I think it was in 1999 and they shared the bill with Dio and Motörhead as far as I remember. |
I wouldn't go to a Manowar concert even with free tickets, transportation, accomodation etc. Godawful band...
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Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: August 21 2025 at 13:43
My first Rock concert was horrible.. 😃
1974...Spectrum...Philadelphia Brownsville Station..Jo Jo Gunne...Slade
It was not a seated event and there was vomit on the floor..( in various places too)..just don't say I didn't warn you
Brownsville Station had the single "Smoking In The Boys Room" They were a Rock trio and they definitely had a garage band sound. Cub Koda...the guitar player/lead singer...while singing "Smokin' In The Boys Room" was hit in the eye with a cigarette. He grabbed his eye and was in pain from the burning sensation.
The 2nd band on was Jo Jo Gunne. I wasn't into that style of Rock..however the band SOUNDED good and you could tell they were a bit seasoned on their instruments. As they played...the monitors began to cut out. Jay Ferguson apologized to the screaming crowd after stopping the song and he began talking directly to the sound tech. He responded by saying..."You guys really need to fix the problem..we can't play like this" The problem was magically fixed and the band started again. This time feedback began roaring through the monitors. Jay Ferguson stopped the song and said..."You need to fix this problem or we're walking" " " We are professional and we're not putting up with this" One more time....the monitors cut out again..Ferguson stopped the song and said.."Are you playing games with us?" "That's it..we're walking!!"
Then the headliner SLADE were too loud...I didn't care for their music..so I walked
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 22 2025 at 18:48
How about concerts that the BAND walked out of??
I saw Led Zeppelin on July 6, 1973 at the late, great Chicago Stadium!
Since this was just a few days after our July 4th "Independence Day" celebration, many in the crowd brought all sorts of fireworks, some of which were quite powerful!
At the end of the concert, someone fired a very powerful skyrocket at the stage, and it exploded right over Robert Plant's head onstage!
He was PISSED!! He said "see you next year!" and walked off, with the entire band. (I think they might have played for a bit longer, at least, if that hadn't happened).
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 22 2025 at 21:20
^ Zep hated fireworks with a passion, even their own onstage fireworks. That's why at one point in TSRtS when a huge timed explosion goes off Plant says "It's alright !"--- he was concerned people would be scared. That was when in-concert pyrotechnics were still fairly new.
There's a story about them hanging out before a show and CS&N were shooting beer cans with pistols from the seats. "Americans and their guns" one of them supposedly said.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 23 2025 at 04:40
DoobieBrother6 wrote:
Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark.
Agree 100 %.
I've never seen them live. Can't understand anyone wanting to - unless they are alien lifeform.
A drippy load of NOTHING.
One of the worse bands ever.
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I liked them in their early days of Enola Gay, Electricity and Maid Of Orleans (Mellotron!) but they did get bad very quickly with Tesla Girls (ugh!) and the like.
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