worst concert ever.... (Page 2)

Ringo Starr and His All-Star Band.

What the heck was I smoking?!

The worst, albeit funniest, part of the show...  Ringo announces, "I wold like for you all to put your hands together and join me in welcoming to the stage, a rock and roll legend.  I superstar.  I terrific musician and good friend fo mine, MR. JOE WALSH!"

To which he then did the worst thing you could do with Joe Walsh on the stage - hand him the microphone...  "I would brzzhjfg to the thwoobits of moosh kur-little ezbit qwittle..." for about 3 minutes.  I tired of gibberish from a long-since, drug-fried brain.  Or what's left of it.  And then he just begins to play "Life in the Fast Lane" on his guitar before the band knows what's happening.

Crosby Still and Nash around 2002 for the "Live it up" tour. Horrible album, horrible concert. Stills was totally hammered and not getting along with Crosby or Nash, so it was hard to watch. I've seen them with Neil Young and they were tremendous.

Also saw Pat Metheny with Ornette Coleman in 1987 and it was 2 hours of atonal Jazz. I'm a huge Metheny fan but that was rough.

I just remembered this one!

I was in Bulgaria as part of a big US Military/NATO/Eastern European Nation exercise and this guy shows up at the ship and says "I need to get 30 service members for a concert tonight!"  So the CO makes all the midshipmen and all the junior sailors go to this concert  (first indication it would be bad).  

The ladies (term used loosely) sang along with pirated CDs, danced horribly, and it was one of the most bizzaro "concerts" you could imagine.  If they would have given us booze, it would've been great.  The CO of the ship was laughing when we got back and he said "they got me for that one last time around."

Pearl Jam in November 20, 1993 in Nacogdoches TX.  Their drummer passed out after they played alive.  They worked through it to their credit using only guitars, until they brought out the drummer from one of their opening acts Urge Overkill to finish out the show.

Then in spring of 1995 went to see Danzig, and they had Type O Negative opening for them.  It was in a really dark, really shady looking gutted out department store.  Extremely strange, but at the same time very fitting.  Strange and poor sound quality.

Berlin in 1986.  I used to end up with free tickets to show and that was by far the worst - they only had the one song I recognized and I didn't even like it.  

Wait, that wasn't close to the worst.  My GF, now wife, had tickets to a show and her friend bailed at the last minute...so I got to see Cher in 1990 or so.  I later got treated to a Yanni concert under similar scenario - I didn't like it, but at least Yanni had some talent.

Surprisingly good show that I was carted of to via my wife and free tickets was Neil Diamond.  In the Round with lots of shinny clothes.  I actually enjoyed the cheesiness of it.

I took my little sister and her friend to see Dokken in the '80s.  They wanted to leave after Dokken ended, but I made them stay through Aerosmith.

I took my wife to see Pearl Jam  in Kansas City in July 2002/2003.  Did I mention it was outdoors? Right after we arrived (about 30 minutes before the show) the temperature dropped about 30 degrees and it started POURING--thunder, lightening, howling wind, hail, you name it, we saw it that day.  Of course, the concert couldn't start while the rain was falling.  They gave us some lame excuse about water and a stage full of electrical equipment.  I had to buy an empty soda cup ($8) to invert over our cell phones (early-ish days of phones) so they wouldn't get trashed in the storm.  Water was pouring down the amphitheater and was about knee deep.  People kept being swept down the aisles when they stepped out of rows because of the current.  Eventually, the rain stopped and the concert began about four hours late. We got to see two songs before needing to leave so my wife could make it to work on time.  She did go an download the bootleg off their website later that night so she got to hear the whole concert, even if it wasn't live.

Touche!  I had forgotten all about Dance Hall Days, so they weren't a one hit wonder after all - I do remember vividly that they were far more entertaining than The Cars that night, though. 

Worst was probably the American Idol tour back when Clay Aiken won it. Oh the things a young man will do to get with a lady...

Also saw DMB in the gorge, drove 11 hours to get there and he completely ignored the crowd, no interaction at all. Good music, awesome drum solo's but lacking in the interaction.

Meatloaf 2011. The AFL (Australian Football League) bought him to OZ for the AFL grand final half time show. I watched it on TV thinking "damn i've got tickets to see him in a couple of weeks.He sucks!" I went to the show hoping it would be better but no.  He sucked the big one!

that was truly awful - the AFL performance.  Incredibly bad.

The Wiggles.

They were the intermission show for Barney. You would thing that seeing a talking purple dinosaur is creepy. But that is nothing compared to four grown men singing "Fruit Salad" to a bunch of sugar rushed three year olds.