What is your worst concert experience?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by beachboydw, Jul 11, 2013.

  1. cungar

    cungar Forum Resident

    Location:
    Torrance, CA
    Some guy spazzing out next to me for the whole night at an REM show at the Universal Amphitheater on the Life's Rich Pageant tour. One of the best concerts I ever saw nearly ruined by some crackhead.
     
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  2. pdenny

    pdenny 22-Year SHTV Participation Trophy Recipient

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    Hawthorne CA
    I assumed the OP is asking about concerts where we were actually in the audience. Significantly tougher to change the channel that way :p
     
  3. overdrivethree

    overdrivethree Forum Resident

    i've never seen a truly awful show by a notable performer. i have been severely irritated/bummed out by the rudeness of audience members. in these cases, it's people pulling crap that definitely wouldn't fly on the street, and don't fly in a concert venue.

    the main one was going to see Mission Of Burma here at a venue that was probably a few sizes too small for what they could have drawn. the place was packed, and admittedly, the sightlines weren't great once the club filled up. about halfway through the show, a dude of comparatively diminutive stature up and slugged me square in the back, hard. i turned around and he yells "get your tall ass the @#$% out of my way."

    for some reason, i didn't retort or retaliate in any way. i was so bummed/jarred by this happening right as i was enjoying the show, i just went "i'm sorry," turned around and walked out of the club. i let some little jerk ruin MOB for me. that one still smarts.
     
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  4. danner

    danner Forum Resident

    Location:
    Birmingham, AL
    Ha! I just got into Mark Robinson's stuff last year. Air Miami and Unrest are great bands.
     
  5. wayved

    wayved Guest

    Six Layer Cake? No excuse for that.
     
  6. He's apparently a hockey kind of guy. I bought some Unrest discs direct from Teen Beat last year and Robinson included a note making some disparaging remarks about the Ottawa Senators. It didn't help that he was right. :)
     
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  7. hominy

    hominy Digital Drifter

    Location:
    Seattle-ish
    Toby Keith at the Tacoma Dome. Horrible blaring acoustics (almost 100% base drum) and the PA was so distorted that Keith sounded like a brickwalled chipmunk. Then there was the audience, a bunch of drunk idiots standing on chairs and whipping out their cellphones to try and record the show for their friends. They were also trying to talk to them, loudly. We got the heck out of their before the encore, if there was one.
     
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  8. musicfan37

    musicfan37 Senior Member

    Marshall Tucker Band a couple years ago at Snoqualmie Casino. The lead singer was so drunk I think he only sang about 6-8 songs all night. He was too busy telling slurred stories no one could understand and dancing with a bunch of girls he invited on stage.
     
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  9. Vidiot

    Vidiot Now in 4K HDR!

    Location:
    Hollywood, USA
    Man, we saw Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons perform at the Greek Theater here in LA back in 2005, for a Hurricane Katrina benefit, and that venue had the worst goddamned EQ I've ever heard in a concert. I swear, the highs were boosted like 15dB @ 10kHz, something awful like that... just screechy and pinched beyond belief, plus it was way, way louder than it needed to be. From that time onwards, I've always brought earplugs to all live events.
     
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  10. sublemon

    sublemon Forum Resident

    Belle and Sebastian/Cinerama, Trocadero, Philadelphia 1998. One of their first few US shows. The crowd was large (probably sold out) and the line to get in was long. By the time I got in, Cinerama (Wedding Present side project) was mostly done with their set. And I had advance tickets, but the Troc must have had idiots at the door or something, they did a terrible job. Then, after a long delay between bands, B&S came out and said they couldn't play because one member had gotten sick and was taken to the hospital due to an adverse reaction to antibiotics or something. They were too worried to play a show. I guess that was admirable. But being Philly of course, the crowd was like "F*** you!" Just on top of the competence at the venue it did pretty much suck.

    Anyway, finally got a chance to see them last night and they made up for it with a very enjoyable show.
     
  11. sublemon

    sublemon Forum Resident

    Oh, and every show by very quiet bands (The Clientele, etc) where half the crowd incessantly yacks away at the bar or the back of the venue. If you go to a show to talk with your stupid friends, you should be punched in the face.
     
  12. bumbletort

    bumbletort Senior Member

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    Baltimore, Md, USA
    Is it possible to 'like' a post more than one time?
     
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  13. bumbletort

    bumbletort Senior Member

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    Baltimore, Md, USA
    I guess whatever route gets you there--with me I stopped watching The Today Show after the endless onslaught of nepotism, Privilege hires, etc.

    That and I like news in the morning.
     
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  14. Purple Jim

    Purple Jim Senior Member

    Location:
    Bretagne
    Chuck Berry in Manchester (1974?). He didn't like all the rockers crowding the front of the stage. He stopped mid-song a couple of times telling people to cool it. He then let two couples (dressed in complete 50s Teddy Boy/Girl clothes) dance alongside him on stage. It was absolutely fabulous - for about 5 minutes but he suddenly got annoyed again and stormed off-stage, never to return. So it was a 15 minute concert. We did get our money back a few weeks later.
     
  15. coffeecupman

    coffeecupman Forum Resident

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    Caterham, UK

    OH MAN I would have KILLED to take your place! Not seeing the Cramps live while Lux was still with us remains one of my great regrets in life.

    ccm
     
  16. 1959

    1959 Forum Resident

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    UK
    Led Zeppelin at Earl's Court in 1975. Top-price tickets and our seats were behind the speaker stacks. Band security threatened to throw us out if we complained, then wouldn't let us leave early. Three hours of turgid, self-indulgent onanism later, and finally we were allowed to leave. This was the very epitome of dinosaur-rock and, when punk came along a year or so later, nobody was happier than me to see bands of this ilk struggling to come to terms with the backlash.
     
  17. Gloi

    Gloi Forum Resident

    Location:
    Lancashire,England
    http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/depressionsprestonriot.htm

    I was at the Depressions/Vibrators gig in Preston when the riot broke out (see link). It was like a wild west saloon fight with chairs and tables used as weapons. My friend and I got on stage and took shelter behind the amps. When the police arrived they took everybody's names and addresses before we we were allowed to leave and came round interviewing people a few days later. Of course the ones that had started the fight that ended in the lad being killed had left long before the police got there.
     
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  18. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    Jimmy Buffett, Nissan Pavilion, 2002.

    No, it wasn't because of the usual suspects showing up dressed like cheeseburgers and blitzed on cheap beer. It wasn't because of JB himself either - the show consisted of the Songs You Play To Death and his then-current album (Far Side of the World), but that was to be expected and the performance was fine. He did do a ridiculous bluegrass version of "Boat Drinks," but I couldn't blame him for trying something a little new.

    No, what did make it a fairly unpleasant experience was, first of all, my date canceled on me at the last minute and I had to go alone (she did at least pay me for the ticket, although she sent me a check for the damn thing rather than even coming to see me in person), plus the a*****e parking lot attendant forced me to park my car with one tire sitting on top of a big pile of broken glass. I tried repeatedly to explain that the glass was there (I could see he hadn't seen it), but he just kept shouting me down with "DO IT! DO IT!" I finally figured I had no choice but to risk either getting punched or going home or taking my chances on the broken glass, and I went with Door Number Three. Once I had parked my car where the scumbag wanted it, I went over and tried to explain about the glass. I said, "Look..." but he just said "Yeah, that's good" and ignored me thereafter.

    By sheer good luck, I didn't get a flat. I thought about complaining to the management, but I had no idea what the guy's name was and, because I'd been so pissed off at the time, I hadn't though to even get a good enough look at him to describe him or anything. ("He was treating the concertgoers like ****" would have only narrowed it down to about 80% of the staff, from what I saw.) Besides, no actual damage had been done, even if that was just by chance. Although I lived in DC for two more years after that, I never went to Nissan Pavilion again, and if I'm ever back in the area I never will.
     
  19. alchemy

    alchemy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Sterling, VA

    I hate concerts at the Nissan Pavilion. Poor traffic control getting in & especially out. Most of sound at the shows I've seen there was terrible. I avoid concerts there. I think it is now called Jiffy Lube Pavillion. Stay away if you like good sound at your concert experience.
     
  20. houston

    houston Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dallas, Texas, USA
    and he's probably been bragging ever since, about the big guy he whooped at a MOB show!
     
  21. houston

    houston Forum Resident

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    Dallas, Texas, USA
    is that the place out in, or near Manassas, Virginia?
     
  22. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...


    Yes. Beautiful area, but that's the only good thing I have to say about it anymore.
     
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  23. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Alexandria VA
    Yup. It's technically Bristow, but for all intents and purposes, it's Manassas...
     
  24. maxnix

    maxnix Forum Resident

    Lynyrd Skynyrd mid-70's in NYC . . . Ronnie Van Zandt was too drunk to sing, he was literally propped between Rossington and Collins . .they played for fifteen minutes and "good night!" Yes, they were the headliners.

    Not their fault, of course, but I was at that legendary ELP show in Roosevelt Stadium, NJ, where the weather turned so bad it literally blew their stuff off the stage, canceling the show. The place, which was chaos on a good night, was dangerously ugly.

    Johnny Winter about ten years ago, only becasue he was so obviously ill at the time, that Texas growl was barely a whisper. So sad I had to leave after three numbers.
     
  25. bokonon

    bokonon Forum Resident

    Location:
    Fremont, CA
    30 Seconds to Mars, went with my son. I was out of my element (to put it mildly) :)
     

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