Worst Concert You Ever Paid To See

[beerman37]

Pretty self explanatory. I've been to a ton of shows in my life (me & my wife are music junkies). We saw Jethro Tull one time and it was horrid. If they have 15 songs that I don't know, they did all 15 of them that night. The Doors Of the 21st Century were also pretty pathetic

[shade]

Jethro Tull pwned live

 

 

they played like all of aqualung

[beerman37]

The time I went they sucked ROYALLY. The only song from Aqualung they did was Aqualung and ignored the rest of the album, which made no sense to me. Then they did about 15 songs in a row from their albums from the 80s that i think have sold a combined 10,000 copies that not a single person around me knew. I'm all for artists trying to do different stuff during shows so that the shows dont always have that same old, same old feel.....but I think you do have to throw the audience a bone once in awhile.

[soundless_space]

Dude, Jethro Tull is great live. I couldn't believe how good Ian Anderson still was... and everyone got a free CD.

 

I saw We Are Scientists live in Boston about a year ago... sounded nothing like the CD. Not impressed.

[beerman37]

maybe I just went to an off show (or an off tour). I love Jethro Tull too. The opening act of that show was Emerson, Lake & Palmer and they kind of stole the show from Tull

[soundless_space]

Holy crap, how long ago was this? I would've loved to see ELP live.

[beerman37]

Just looked at the ticket stub! 8/31/96 at the Tweeter center in New Jersey

[shade]

As for bad shows I've paid for....

 

Snow Patrol...they were way too one dimensional....the drums were the same throughout.

 

the Openening band "Athlete" stole that show as well.

 

 

I can't even remember why I went...probably something about a girl.

[Muran]

Ah, that's disappointing to hear about Snow Patrol...

 

My parents forced me to go see a Celine Dion concert in Vegas when I was a little girl. It was sick.

[Hyphnip]

I can honestly say that I've never paid money for a concert and regretted the decision after. I've seen some terrible openings acts (Pygmy Love Circus opening for A Perfect Circle stands out in my mind) but the main event (so to speak) has always been worth the money.

[Shiri]

Same here. But I really haven't been to many shows.

[shade]

I can honestly say that I've never paid money for a concert and regretted the decision after. I've seen some terrible openings acts (Pygmy Love Circus opening for A Perfect Circle stands out in my mind) but the main event (so to speak) has always been worth the money.

Pygmy Love Circus does suck...but at least Danny Carey is in it.

[beerman37]

U2 once had a group called Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprosy open up..They were pretty awful

[soundless_space]

As for openers, this group that opened for Ted Leo was just awful... Love of Diagrams. Trying to be like Sonic Youth or something and it just didn't work.

[Hyphnip]

Pygmy Love Circus does suck...but at least Danny Carey is in it.

yeah, that didn't make me feel any better after the lead singer flashed the audience his dick twice during their set (luckily, the first time, I was just looking around the theatre and didn't see it and then after the song my friends tells me what happened and as he is telling me and I'm not looking at the stage, the singer whipped it out again. i got lucky

[Ravenous megin-sane]

just local shows, so it hardly counts

[primetime_deliverance]

I paid big bucks to see the Mars Volta, and it sucked.. considering how high my expectations were. RHCP more then made up for it though, those guys are seasoned performers.

[shade]

The Mars Volta was good when they played at the Kool Haus in Toronto by themselves. No Opener

[Audio of Being]

I saw The Trews and 54-40 last year, to everyone that was there, including the music critic, we all said that The Trews played awesome, and 54-40 was flat, even with new guitarist Dave Genn.

[AnOceanPearl]

I didn't enjoy the Sam Roberts show I saw, and Avenged Sevenfold was pretty shitty too.

[garsk]

tool, they just seem to be very uninterested about performing that night.

[bishopx]

I went to see Guns N Roses and Metallica when they did their joint tour...Metallica was fucking awesome...but they didn't get on stage til almost 10:30 pm, because that jerk off axl was almost 90 mins late to get on stage.

[heyrabbit]

deftones, thrice and taproot. I like all three bands, but chino was drunk, i think, and the other two bands didn't make up for it

[Hyphnip]

deftones

when was this?

all i've ever heard is that Deftones suck live but when I saw them a little while back my mind was fucking BLOWN!

[AnOceanPearl]

deftones, thrice and taproot. I like all three bands, but chino was drunk, i think, and the other two bands didn't make up for it

I saw Thrice at Warped Tour a couple years back and they were killer.