Completely blowing it during a TV performance

Replacements on SNL. I believe they drank the green room dry. Equal parts idiotic, petulant, and sorta awesome.

(and it's not letting me copy the link from Dailymotion, so you'll just have to look it up yourself.)

 

I think Soundgarden bombed on SNL, was just before they broke up 1996 or so...

 

Sounds great to me.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6yi30_what-a-mess_music

 

Oh my god....Is that Harry Dean Stanton introducing them?!
I didn't know he ever hosted. I MUST see this whole show now.

 

I remember John Sebastion and his band on SNL messing up the beginning to the song 'Welcome Back' and they had to start over.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers doing "Under the Bridge" on SNL.

 

Lana Del Ray stiffed on SNL. Doesn't seem to have affected her career, though!

 

The Stone Roses...actually the fuse that blew.

 

What was bad about that(Replacements)? rocked!!

 

Not really TV, but:

 

Punk group Fear got their SNL shot (thanks to John Belushi), but created such mayhem with their insistence on moshing that they got cut off.

 

Bruce Springsteen's live TV debut on SNL in 1992. Anybody trying to turn their friends into Bruce converts were severely humiliated that night.

 

Some might say the Rolling Stones on SNL 1978 but I thought they were perfect!

 

Elvis Costello's voice was shot during his 1991 MTV Unplugged appearance.

 

I've heard about that performance but have never seen it. I expected much worse. It's pretty cool actually! Boozy and punky. You'd never see anything so raw on the show now.

dan c

 

Well, if 21st century TV counts (i.e., The Internet), then I would have to add Guided by Voices, last Friday evening on Yahoo's streaming live video feed of their New Jersey concert.

It started off well, but then Bob Pollard started drinking beer, then tequila, then grabbed for the whiskey.... By about 90 minutes in to the set, he had downed most of the bottle of tequila, and more or less set aside singing any songs for some lame stand-up routine in which he pontificated on The Boss and other random topics, apparently even including some wonderful "f--- Yahoo" comments that I'm sure were well-received by the hosts of the live stream... I had stopped watching by that point. "Do The Collapse" yet again. :-(

 

Po-faced Goth duo in malfunctioning playback disaster.

 

Another SNL - Ashlee Simpson....

 

I agree! It was a riveting performance. Nearly perfect in its reckless shambles!

 

Why wasn't Ashley Simpson's SNL 'performance' the first to be mentioned...

dan c

 

Surely this has to be at all time?

 

What's the problem with that Replacements performance?

 

You beat me to it. This was a total disgrace, but I also think the fallout signaled a return to focusing on acts that can really perform. SNL's musical guests have since been better because of this, IMHO. Not always, but mostly.

dan c

 

I agree that "57 Channels" is an absolute mess, but take another listen to "Living Proof" -- for my money it's the best live version of the song that he's done.

 

Carl completely blows the intro for "Wendy" in close-up and gets away with it:

The Beach Boys - "Wendy" (Ed Sullivan)