I saw him do something similar at the lone star road house; he spun around and knocked over all the horn section mikes.
The lead singer of the Marshall Tucker Band. The band performed only eight songs during the 90 minute show. He was too busy slurring lengthy stories no one could understand and inviting a large group of women onto the stage to flirt and dance with. This was about five years ago at our local casino.
Warren Zevon. Playing in a small bar-Peabody’s- on a really hot night. Warren was sweating up a storm and getting more drunk with each song. He just kept getting more intense as the show went on. It was one of the most fierce concerts I ever saw. It was a good drunken show. Lou Reed on the other hand was a bad drunken or whatever show. Joe Perry barely played at an Aerosmith show. Pretty much just stood with his back to the crowd by the amps. Wouldn’t be rock and roll without a few such stories.
Bob Dylan Melbourne 1992 drunk terrible performance Hole (Big Day Out) Melbourne 1990s - The singer Courtney Love was either very drunk or on something else. Abusive on stage, horrible show. I was not impressed.
I remember seeing a extremely well known 80's/90's band down here live in 85, the bass player and co lead singer, had a rack of VB cans stacked on top of his bass amp, at the finish of every song, he walk back to the amp, down a can in 1 go throw it behind the amp then walk back to the front of stage, when the last can was gulped, one of the roadies would place another rack of beer cans all opened btw on top of the amp and it would continue till the set finished, whatever was left on the top of the amp the roadies would finish...
And, of course, Page at Live Aid was embarassingly hammered. I seem to remember Phil Collins in his autobiography---and who was sharing drum duties for the Zep reunion---describing Page as a "drunken, drooling mess jerking around like a baby giraffe." That may not be exactly right but it's a reasonable paraphrase.
Poor Scott Weiland a few weeks before he passed... I was on side stage with a photo pass and took some really sad shots of him. I left thinking he had a year and maybe three weeks later he died. A shell of his former self...
John Cale 1977-1985 pick any show, he was intoxicated. Also Roy Harper York UK 1981, struggled to sit on a stool and once he had he couldn't plug his guitar in
Bob Dylan in the late 80s. Not sure he knew what songs he was playing. The Replacements when Bob Stinson was still in the band.
Tom Petty, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA in 2006. Slurring his spoken words. Really noticeable when the lights went out and he said something like, "Someone forgot to pay their electric bill." A really disappointing concert made slightly better by guest appearances from Stevie Nicks.
Shane Macgowan and the Popes @ Pinkpop 1995 In 1995 Shane Macgowan and the Popes played a gig at the Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands. It was clear from the beginning that Shane was not on top form. During Dark Streets of London he's even taken off Stage by Charlie Maclennan, leaving the rest of the Popes on stage. Fortunally i saw an excellent Pogues concert many years later.
Yeah, I watched the biopic on Netflix recently. It sounds like he was overwhelmed by the pressures of fame in the early years, and Leon Russell's band leadership relegated him to being an "extra" in his own concerts, but he just couldn't say "No" to anything. He married a down-to-earth (and very tolerant) woman, eventually quit drinking and had great success as a concert draw in later years. I didn't know that he enjoyed such great success later in life. He lived on a big estate in Colorado, he enjoyed his family, his friends, his dogs. He really did get it together. It was a rather heartening story about a very ordinary 'bloke' with an extraordinary voice.
I read his autobiography. He owned up to his alcoholism and said he did things like go swimming with a check for $35,000 pound in his pocket. The check disintegrated and was never recut. He was a mess and nearly destroyed himself. I’ve never bought into allegations that Leon was somehow to blame. A&M put Leon in charge of making a tour out of a bunch of drugged out hippies. It was like herding cats. They got a film and a huge hit record out of the tour and that really put Joe on the map. Leon expressed incredulity at where the anger came from, and said Joe was polite when they crossed paths but distant. Allegedly Rita Coolidge had just broken up with Leon and she was sitting next to Joe for most of the tour spewing venom about Leon. That may have poisoned his mind and he misplaced his anger and frustration about being out of control to his bandleader. Somebody had to be in control tons of money was being spent. Leon was the “boss.” They also produced the first hit rock album put out by A&M, which had previously been a vehicle for the Tijuana brass.
Drunk, stoned or perhaps just plain confused....Ian Astbury. The Cult opened for Metallica in 1989, I saw a few shows. I love The Cult but they were consistantly terrible on this tour. At the Allentown, Pa show, Ian couldn't find his way off the stage, prompting roadies to come out and escort him off. As if he couldn't find his way!
Dave Pegg - Bottom Line NYC. Singing filthy sea shanties about Allan Pepper's mother between sets. We sent him more beer and got dirty looks from Simon Nichol for encouraging him. Ace Frehley. L'Amours, first Frehley's Comet show. Well, that's Ace. These are the only two performers I recall being drunk on stage. I met Debbie Harry once at a party and she was soused.