What was your worst concert experience?

[intheflow]

I've had a few. Probably the worst was when this random dude spewed all over me at a Dave Matthews concert. I was two hours from home, so that sucked even more and my car smelled for forever!

Closely followed by a bad acid trip at a Foghat concert in the '70's. I thought the acoustical panels hanging from the ceiling were razor blades to be dropped on the unsuspecting fans.

Can anybody top these?

[tuvor]

1. Uh, at a Sophie B Hawkins show

my male friend caught the bandana she'd been fondling all concert long, and we got the NASTIEST stares from a couple-dozen lesbians.

[intheflow]

7. Ooh! Vicious lesbians!

Actually, that's a good band name: Vicious Lesbians!

[Radical Activist]

2. I was given free tickets to the 5th dimension

They should have payed me to go instead. This was in the 90's so it was reeeeaaaally bad.

[quispquake]

3. Is it possible to have a GOOD acid trip at a Foghat concert???

Had to ask!!!

[intheflow]

5. LOL!

In retrospect, no!

[Pepperbelly]

4. I saw Boston in San Diego at the Sports Arena ...

and our seats were nose-bleed section BEHIND the right channel speaker pile.

:(

Still ... :smoke:

A bad concert is still better than a good day at work.

[buddhamama]

6. a friend dragged me to a GWAR show

need i say more? nah.

[intheflow]

8. Yes, you need to say more.

Who or what is GWAR?

[intheflow]

10. Never mind, went to their web site.

"Leave your flesh at the door and enter GWAR's domain!"

Yeah, they look like the masters of their domain, all right.

Edited because if you link to GWAR's home page graphic, apparently it comes up saying "I love the cock." So I took out the link. But interesting that GWAR would do that, huh? Or could my post have been hacked somehow?

[miss_kitty]

19. self delete

never mind

[buddhamama]

23. and they do

"...love the cock". the show i was at, one of the band members had a huge rubber cock; half way thru the show some creamy white substance shot out of it onto the audience. ewwww!

[intheflow]

25. This must tie into their "leave your flesh at the door" line.

these guys are all about loving the bone! LOL!

[buddhamama]

27. lol

n/t

[quispquake]

12. I LOVED Gwar!!!

Okay, musically they sucked, but WHAT A SHOW!!!

[buddhamama]

14. i don't like to insult bands

and by default insult fans of the said band. i don't like their music and the "scene" sucked too, imho.

here's a link to their website if you're interested
http://www.gwar.net/

[intheflow]

15. Insulting bands is not the same as insulting fans.

There's no accounting for taste. Besides, most people like lots of bands and different kinds of music, so insulting one band isn't that bad.


But I wonder if the objection would have been raised if we were talking about show tunes...?

[buddhamama]

26. music is a matter of choice

personal choice. some people are personally offended when their band/s get insulted.

i love show tunes.

[intheflow]

30. Me too.

It's one of my closet secrets. :-)

[buddhamama]

31. not anymore

:-)

[Medium Baby Jesus]

9. Kiss!

My ex gf dragged me about two years ago. They sucked big time. They even made Ted Nugent sound good (opening act).

:puke:

[bbernardini]

11. Dave Matthews Band, Hershey Park, sometime in the 90s

My wife purchased tickets from a relative. She's always been a big fan, I generally despise them. The crowd consisted of obnoxious drunken teenagers (one of which hit my wife with poorly thrown ice, but was too drunk to notice), and the sound mix sucked. On top of that, the performance was just dreadfully boring. Even my wife agreed. We left early. The next night, we went to see Air Supply at the New Jersey State Fair, and they kicked DMB's ass all over the place. No lie.

[rocktivity]

13. I attended the first Guns N Roses concert when they showed up late

Ninety minutes late, to be exact. And on top of that, I'd gotten inside ninety minutes late because a country fair was being held in the venue parking lot, cutting the available parking spaces in half!

:headbang:
rocknation

[FDRrocks]

16. Memphiskapheles

Saw them at a small club. The show was horribly publicized that I didn't know they were in town until the day of. There was literally 10 people there, and the band was none to pleased. The proceeded to get trashed on stage and half assed it, with the (excellent) drummer being the only one acting like a professional.

The singer is one angry, drunk, british fuck. "I said get me another fucking pitcher right...the....fuck....NOOOOOOW!" They didn't even play "Doomsday". :(

[miss_kitty]

17. I was nearly crushed at an Iggy Pop concert at the Showbox in Seattle

when the drum kit caught on fire-no, not because the drummer was so hot, but because someone lobbed a flare up onto the stage from the audience. It hit the back of the stage and rolled right under the drum kit.

I was in the front, and people push forward to see what's happening, I found out that night.

Iggy dug it though, had said up until the he HATED Seattle audiences because they were so fucking boring. Now, they were his fave. He hadn't planned on doing an encore, but decided to after that. The rhythm section was made up of pots and pans. So it was a best and worst thing, I guess. I could never really enjoy a concert after that. Went to only a few thereafter.

Flamingyouth said that concert is legendary. I'd had no idea.

[FDRrocks]

20. If you can find it to rent...

There's a DVD of spoken word by Henry Rollins called "Live at the Luna" which is hilarious. Anyways, theres a special on the DVD called Henry vs Iggy, in which Rollins describes the rolling rivalry between him and Iggy to see who could be more intense and break more shit for the longest period of time on stage.

Iggy won, and hearing Henry relate Pop's mentality, I can fully understand why someone burning his drummers kit would actually please him.

Apparently both Rollins Band and Iggy were opening for the Cure, who had thier stage setup onstage the whole time. Iggy completely trashed it...lol

[miss_kitty]

22. yeah he's pretty nihilistic

He was practically peeing himself with glee when he came out on stage, all the band members, IIRC, carrying various pots and banging on them with wooden spoons.

I was surprised The Man allowed the concert to continue.

[hfojvt]

18. Sammy van Hagar, Salt Lake City 1986

I figured, I like Sammy, I like Van Halen. I also figured that smoking would not be allowed in mormon country. Any concert that allows smoking is bad for me, because I am distracted by that huge cloud of foul-smelling carcinogens that is overhead.
Also, they was a huge anti-Dave sentiment at the place which I thought was uncalled for. They played too much of their 5150 album, which was not my favorite, and not enough of the Dave and Sammy classics that I love. All the songs had these two minute instrumental endings which I hated because I was anticipating the next song which hopefully would be better.
Then Eddie goes out there to do his solo, and I swear he was only going to move along to a tape, because after half a minute he turns and shakes his fist and yells at Sammy and the drummer (?) who apparently stopped the tape as some kind of prank.

[rocktivity]

41. Speaking of "huge clouds"

I saw Bob Marley at the Apollo in Harlem. I was in the balcony, and could barely see anything because of the cloud of marijauna smoke the fans on the orchestra level created. That was one of my BEST concert experiences!!!

:headbang:
rocknation

[bettyellen]

42. Sounds like the P Funk show I went to , lotsa ambiance ! ! LOL !

wow marley at the apollo.. i woulda loved to have seen that......

[Political_Junkie]

21. Nazereth with The Joe Perry Project opening,

both bands sucked big time. There were six of us there and the only one who enjoyed it was the guy who had dropped six hits of acid before the show. He never even noticed that we left early. The shows still going as we're leaving and he says, "Man, that was soo awesome!" LOL

[RevolutionaryActs]

24. 3 Doors Down at the Monroe Fair...

There were no good seats, and so lots of people were standing in front of the stage, it wasn't a mosh pit, because no one was moshing. I was there with my brother, his gf and another girl. I was a little bit in front of my brother, because he's tall and I couldn't see. So I'm standing there and these kids (well 16/17 year old boys) come and stand in front of me, and start acting up because they were obviously drunk or something. One kid was head banging like crazy and nearly hit me in the face a couple times, I kinda pushed him and this girl with them got the hint and told them to stop. So they move up and almost get in this fight with this big trucker looking guy, who had to be held back by his friends.

This one kid comes back and stands in front of me, and starts moshing and banging into me, right as I'm about to say or do something... my big brother who has a slight temper, just shoves the kid. Hard. The kid knocks into his friends and they shove him back and he lands a flying sucker punch on my brother's nose, my brother falls back blood streaming from his nose, he gets up and punches the kid in the cheek and he goes flying back into the crowd, the gf holds back my bro to stop the fight and the kid starts to come again, the gf shoves him. I think I shoved the kid too....

So we leave and get my brother cleaned up and miss the concert. No one really was in the mood for it after all that.

I know the kid got thrown out, my brother saw him as he was coming out of the restroom, and the kid ran off in a hurry. In the bright lights I guess it became apparent to him that my brother could kill him, the kid was like 5'9, and my brother is 6'3 and probably out weighted him by a good 50 lbs.

Yeah that night sucked. LOL and I babbled on... oh well....

[intheflow]

28. That's what I'm talking!

Rock and roll! (/dumb dude voice)

[RevolutionaryActs]

29. LOL! freak.. :-P

:D

[tsakshaug]

32. Trans siberian orchistra

Won tickets. No idea who or what they were. Apparently they don't know either. Sort of Styx meets manheim steamroller meets ELO.
The light show gave wonderful wife and I headaches.

[CO Liberal]

33. A Concert Celeberating the 25th Anniversary of Allied Chemical Corporation

My mother worked there at the time, and the whole family went. The concert was held on the front lawn of the company, which was once a private estate and they set up a stage near the lake. It featured Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra (long before I developed my taste for Big Band Music), and Trini Lopez.

Midway through Trini's set, the mosquitoes arrived....

[intheflow]

37. When my family did things like this

we called it "forced family fun." Always forced, rarely fun.

Still, you can say you saw the Glenn Miller Orchestra, so how cool it that? (Very cool, in my book.)

[WMliberal]

34. having the flu at a Weezer concert.

They were my favorite band at the time. I'd payed $27. I wasn't going to miss it, even if I did have a 101 fever.

[intheflow]

39. I saw the Go-Gos open for the Police when I was 8-1/2 months pregnant.

People could smoke at concerts back then. It sucked very badly for me up in the rafter seats we had.

On the lighter side, it was pretty funny to watch people's faces when my boyfriend shouted, "Out of the way, pregnat woman coming through!" And there I was--REALLY pregnant. LMAO!!

[ET Awful]

Worst? The Dead at Tweeter Center in 2002

or was it 2003 (not very memorable for any reason other than the following):

During the second set, some drunken bastard starts yelling trying to sing along . . . only problem is he's singing the wrong song, literally, a totally different song. In addition to this, interspersed with his singing, is screaming at the top of his lungs "YOU ROCK! OH YEAH! I LOVE YOU GUYS!" All of this is slurred almost beyond comprehension, but since the sound system for the lawn seats at Tweeter sucks donkey balls, it was easier to hear him than it was the band.

Bar none the worst experience ever at a concert.

This doesn't include post-concert experiences like having to rush a guy to the hospital after he fell through a motel room window after leaning against it like you would a wall, evidently the glass was pretty thin.

[EstimatedProphet]

35. Iron Butterfly reunion tour

Og God did it suck. They were trying to scare the audience I think. But the worst part of the night:
this kind of thing may be uncommon, but occasionnally if I am carrying a lot of tension in my scalp muscles (like from squinting in bad light, for example), the tension builds up for a while, then releases all at once in a pop.
So I'm in the show, and Iron Butterfly is playing terribly, and they play a song called-get this-"Silent Scream", which as far as I can figure is just supposed to emotionally disturb people, and my scalp pops. Well, in this environment and during this song, it really freaked me out-I thought I had an aneurysm. I sat in the concert for the next few minutes convinced I was going to die, and only was able to reason my way out of it by explaining to myself that if it were indeed an aneurysm I would already be dead.
The concert sucked.

[maveric]

36. Pat Travers, 1980, San Diego State Univ amphitheater.

Boooorrring!!! Only concert I've ever walked out of.

[NWHarkness]

38. Black Sabbath, 1974

Bowen Field House at Eastern Michigan University.

Ozzy spent most of the time sitting on a folding chair behind the speakers. He would get up every once in a while, walk slowly over to the mic and sing a few lines, then sit down again.

They played for maybe 20 minutes, then walked off. No encore.

But still, most of the stoned idiots in attendance left talking about what a great show it was.

[intheflow]

40. I saw Black Sabbath in 1980 or '81.

Not really my kind of music, but they were part of a larger music festival. They were so loud, my ears rang for days. And that's saying a lot, because I actually like my r&r pretty loud!