Concerts you saw but wish you hadn't?

[sundog]

The Cars... 'you might think i'm crazy' period in the early to mid-80's... something with a big robot going back & forth across the stage shooting its red laser eyes out at the audience...
:wtf:


oh yeah... and Mazzy Star... Hope Sandoval kept getting pissed & storming off stage after every 2 songs... then she came back... then left again... then came back... and the band was just standing there... and the lead guitar player left with her a couple of the times...
and the audience was like all :wtf:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. Chuck Berry, opening for Little Richard, in 1973.

Little Richard SMOKED. If you had the opportunity to see ONE Little Richard concert, this was the one.

Chuck Berry, on the other hand, had developed an "attitude" at this point in time. He did a FIFTEEN MINUTE SET.

He opened with "School Days (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell)," did a 10-minute "My Ding-A-Ling," followed by the sloppiest and most inept version of "Roll Over Beethoven" you could imagine,and then stalked off the stage.

:grr:

[Zuni]

2. I LOVE Chuck Berry's music

but he is a sick, depraved pervert asshole in real life

[mitchum]

26. "If Chuck Berry Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right"...

my best friend had t-shirts made up with this message.

Chuck Berry is indeed a sick bastard. And an American Genius
Those who came in his wake with their underage girls and inventive uses of sharks still look like pikers compared to Chuck. Not that I would want to imitate Chuck's...proclivities :)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

34. If I told you what "Spy Magazine" wrote about him...

...the thread would get locked or deleted, IMMEDIATELY.

It was the sickest article I've ever read in my life. Yes, Chuck Berry is an architect of rock & roll. If it existed WITHOUT him, it probably would have existed without the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, basically every band that had a guitar player.

But the man is seriously disturbed, and his income tax / "crossing state lines with a minor" jail convictions turned him into a bitter, contemptuous prick.

[BlueManDude]

3. I saw the title to this thread and said to myself - The Cars

lo and behold you are on the same wavelength. i like their 1st 3 studio records and still listen to them. but live - no thanks.

[sundog]

5. it was beyond bad... even at 14 or whatever i knew that

there was negative energy in the room

[Jara sang]

4. sundog & the New Bohemians

:thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown: They sucked, especially the lead singer... sundog. thank god they wised up and dumped him.

[sundog]

8. not as bad as that band named after Jar-Jar Binks... they were

bribing people with plastic happy-meal figurines just to go to the show :P

[Jara sang]

13. speaking of happy meals

at the sundog show, somebody threw a milkshake at sundog and he left the stage, only to return pissed off. Plus somebody forgot to pick the red M&Ms out of the candy bowl sundog ordered backstage so he hurled his cell phone at a pregnant intern. :P

[Zuni]

18. that is hilarious

Sundog was crazy :crazy:. Too bad he overdosed on radiator fluid and laundry detergent. His genius was erratic, but true. :D

[sundog]

28. you're just pissed cause the pregnant intern was you

:P

[Zuni]

6. There was a band, Uncle Sundog and the Waffle Hounds

their brand of funk bluegrass didn't quite cut it

:D

[Jara sang]

24. That is when sundog went through his "rebel phase"

he locked himself in the penthouse of the Chateau Marmont with a case of Wild Turkey, a 10 gallon tub of crisco and some old seventies porno, his good friends Leon Eric "Kix" Brooks & Ronnie Gene Dunn came by to talk him down. The neo-folk stuff he was trying to do with the New Bohemians wasn't working out so they suggested he "go full tilt hill-billy" and the next night sundog launched his new career as Uncle Sundog and the Waffle Hounds at the Whiskie. We all know how that turned out...

[Zuni]

36. The VH1 Behind the Music episode is so sad

:(

[usedtobesick]

7. The Cars were horrible

Blondie's set of the Rolling Stones Tour in 1980. Davis Bowies Thin Young Duke tour.

[BushisChimpy]

11. A Toby Keith Concert...

I basically got to see everything that was wrong with America

[mitchum]

9. I also had the misfortune of seeing both of those acts!

Both made great records, but had well deserved "suck live" reputations.

Sandoval was pulling her patented "I'm too sensitive to live and will keep my eyes down on the floor the entire time" schtick. Such a pose of shyness is not very believable when one is wearing a see-thru blouse. I started heckling her with "What? Did you lose a contact lens?" comments. Opal was much better anyway.

[sundog]

12. at least no one threw anything... i thought there might be a riot

when the lights came up after 30 minutes

[mitchum]

16. She also looked like she was suffering an ordeal when the Reid brother...

in JAMC (who she was dating at the time) came out and gave her a big hug.
She's just further proof that junk use does not always lead to musical genius.

[sundog]

23. agh! i forgot she was with one if the reid bros

speaking of which... i saw jamc on the automatic tour & it wasn't really write home material either

[progmom]

10. cheap trick

tickets were $1. my husband and his brother were big fans.

crowd of people who paid $1 per ticket and drank way too much beer
+ pms
+ music i'm really not crazy about
= really really cranky progmom

[sundog]

14. i'm jealous

:P

[progmom]

27. yeah - you would have loved it

especially when people starting yanking up clumps of grass and dirt from the hill and throwing it at passers-by.

:eyes:

[sundog]

29. are you serious?

were there lots of pick up trucks & women with 'classy lady' t-shirts & such there

[progmom]

33. yes and yes

It was..........special.

[sundog]

35. 'touch of class' 'foxxy lady'

i love those

[usedtobesick]

15. John Tesh at Red Rocks

Just kidding, John Tesh Rocks! :spank:

[MrSlayer]

17. Dokken about 16 times.

It seems they were always opening up for whatever band I wanted to see in the 80's. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, W.A.S.P. and many others. I have seen them more times than some of my favorite bands simply because they were never able to break into the headlining ranks. Dokken sucks.

[mitchum]

22. I used to have to suffer the putrid Nantucket at outdoor festivals...

in the late 70s and early 80s for the same reason.
Also, Drivin' 'n' Cryin' in the 90s for the same reason.

[punpirate]

19. Decades ago...

... the Beach Boys. Mike Love was drunk. Expensive tickets, too....

[mitchum]

20. Aerosmith back in the day when they (and Jack Douglas) made good records

they were kings of the high school parking lot, but they had a well-deserved reputation for sucking live. Very well-deserved.

Queens of the Stone Age a couple of years ago. Their rock sounded so prefab that could have been...English. Honest, they reminded me of Gene Loves Jezebel or some such shit.

The Fall on their "Let's soak the states" tour last year.

[CanuckAmok]

21. "Fear" reunion tour.

I foolishly expected the energy and intensity of the clip from "The Decline of Western Civilization", and instead got four paunchy middle-aged atonal alcoholics on the stage and a crowd full of white-supremacists.

[Roon]

25. BOC and Rainbow

The show was boring as hell. If I wasn't with my friends I would have left.

[Ladyhawk]

30. Pretty much every "Christian Rock" concert I ever saw as a fundy.

Oh...and Mike Warnke in person...lying asshole.

[Initech]

32. Ever hear of Third Day? Phew...

Crap! Crap! Crap!

[MountainLaurel]

31. Michael Bolton

Not necessarily a bad concert, but just the humiliation of paying money to see him.

[WCGreen]

39. I was humiliated and saw him for free....

First night at a new Clients, a radio station. Had to go......

He put on an opera cape, jumped up on a speaker and started to whail.... I think it was suppose to be opera style singing but it was just icky...

[Tikki]

37. Some young lady singer in the early 80's named....

Rachel Sweet.....not so good a singer or performer.

She seemed like a nice person, though....



Tikki

[u4ic]

38. A New Year's Eve concert in Toronto

with Corey Hart, The Spoons and Platinum Blonde...the last friggin GO train back to the burbs was just before midnight and I missed half the concert. It would have taken me about 3 hours to get home that night...what I saw of the concert was lousy, anyway.

Crowded House...they were crap live.

Madonna...I think it was the Who's That Girl tour. It was at Exhibition Park in Toronto, and right next door at Ontario Place they were having an international fireworks contest...guess what I ended up watching? (well, most of the audience did, and she was mighty pissed off) I could have gotten into OP for 1/4 of the price.

All these were from the 80's...

[assclown_bush]

40. Pia Zadora. My parents dragged me to her concert...

When I was a kid...I think she did a medley of her hit "The Clapping Song".