Most disappointing live act you've seen - Bands/artists that should stick to the studio

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Necrophagist. Because I'd split my face open during dying fetus and had to leave after the 3rd song when the bouncer told me my face was covered in blood and I needed to go get stitches. Also, wasn't really the biggest fan of intense death metal, I was with an old friend and the concerts were fun, but the music was always a bit much for me.

Either that or death by stereo when I was like 14. Went with some friends out to the city alone to this pub that let minors into the show. All my friends get kicked out for smoking a joint in the moshpit like retards during an opening band. Bouncer let me stay because he'd been watching them the whole time and I wasn't into weed then so didn't smoke any. I said fuck it and stayed at the show alone. Ended up staying halfway through death by stereo's set before I realized it was midnight and I was alone in the city and had no idea how to get home or how long the busses ran until. So I left and wandered around until I found a random bus stop, bus driver was nice and told me which bus stop I needed to be at. Fucking get to the bus stop and this crazy mother fucker's just screaming in French being crazy as fuck. I'm sketched the fuck out just hoping he doesn't fucking kill me. Actually manage to make it home at like 2-3 in the morning. Was a school night but parents weren't pissed when I said friends got kicked out for weed and they let me stay, they were just happy I made it home. Got to brag to my friends about getting to see the band we actually went to see.

Actually never mind that concert kicked ass. It's just disappointing I didn't get to see the whole show.
 
Steve Miller Band about 3 years ago. Dreadfully boring to the point that me, my ex, and her brother all got up and walked out after he covered a bunch of old blues standards after some bullshit speech about "rock music, our music maaaaaaaan has roots in the blues maaaaaan." He got blown the fuck out by Peter Frampton who was opening for him who knew exactly what the audience wanted, had great crowd banter, and did a great Soundgarden cover.

The one point I will give SMB was Joseph Wooten, the keyboardist. That man played his ass off.
 
Worst: Sting and The Police.
For some ungodly reason, the support act was Fergie. She pranced and danced all over the stage and when she finally gave up, maybe three people in the crowd clapped. I could literally hear crickets chirping. The old guy sitting next to me asked if he was at the right concert.
Then Sting came on and played with all the emotion and fervour of a golem. It was the first and only time I've seen tantric guitaristry.

The BEST concert I ever saw was Steel Panther, about 5 years ago. Perfect sound, amazing energy, and they never break character, even when taking the piss out of a guy who passed out in the mosh pit.
Also, I saw Bon Jovi a while back and, god damn, Tico Torres absolutely stole the show. That dude is like 5'4" but has the personality of a giant. Highly recommended.
 
bluegenius8585 dijo:
Blink 182

Maybe it was why they axed Tom but honestly he sounded like he walked on to stage after drinking enough to knock down a horse
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Yeah, the last time I saw Blink to see Blink was the Summer Tour they did with No Doubt in 2004, and No Doubt was in top form while Blink was coming apart at the seams.

Conversely the last time I actually saw them was that tour they co-headlined with My Chemical Romance in like...2011? It was just before MCR broke up, I think. And again the other act outclassed Blink. I saw MCR multiple times during their run and they always put on a good, energetic show when I saw them. Blink was an okay bonus but at that point it was like "You're closer to 43 than 23, Mark."
 
Six Feet Under. The opening act was some weird feminist vegan shitband and Chris Barnes sounds like he has destroyed his lungs through smoking a shitload of weed. Also that little faggot complained about people taking pictures and not buying enough merch. Kinda sad what the guy who used to be the main man behind Cannibal Corpse has become
 
I saw the strokes in 2004. My friend was basically a groupie type, huge fan. I only knew like one of their songs.

The Sounds opened, yea they did a better show than the strokes. Her voice sucked tho so I just enjoyed that they were a shitty punk band but they were fun at least .

Strokes was very boring , basically, "This next song is called, (this)" and they would play, and they would stop, and people would clap, and then they'd do it all over again.

At one point, he told some story (a story is generous, it was like 2 sentences) that when he was little his mom bought him ice skates. But the thought was... unfinished, were all like Aaand? And then nothing,another song, another stop, clapping, and onto the next. Friend said "that's more than he usually talks at shows." Ummm okay.

Pretty much almost no crowd interaction, no effects, it was a smaller venue.
 
Bowling for Soup was hilariously bad live, but more in a "we hate our job" kind of way than outright incompetence. The singer kept making self-deprecating jokes about how they all got fat that felt more bitter than funny, the bass player's only trick was tossing his pick and catching it (and did so incessantly), and they played the only two songs anyone wanted to hear them play at the VERY end, at like 1.5x speed, and dashed offstage.
 
I found Nile pretty boring when I saw them a few years ago. I came straight from an all-day punk show at another venue and was festively drunk by the time the Nile show started, and even though I was well in the mood for some death metal fun, they were just dull as fuck. I do tend to find that with a lot of death metal bands, though: great on record but very workmanlike on stage.

Also, Sunn O))). I gave them about half an hour and then left. I love them on record and knew what to expect from the live performance, but there's only so much fun you can have staring at a stage clogged with smoke while the sound of an imploding planet rattles your eyeballs and your feet and back scream from standing all evening (fuck you, I'm old). I was not festively drunk at this show and probably should have been. It was fun to see various crowd members nodding along to different rhythms and occasionally fainting, mind you.
 
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Seeing a middle aged tubby Sakevi waddling around the stage palling around with 20 year old crustfund punks he would have beat the shit out of 30 years ago kinda dispels their "most dangerous/unpredictable band ever" reputation. I'm sure they were decent live back in the day, judging from footage.
 
B-52s at some Universal Studio Mardi Gras thing a decade ago. They all seemed to be at least 60 and on pain killers. I can't say I expected anything going in though.
 
Flaming Lips got mentioned and I have to agree. I saw them a few times when they opened for RHCP and they got booed every time. Their stage set show of background entertainment was more fun to watch.

Minutemen, the other opening band, were kick ass, though.
 
TroyMcGoy2ElectricBoogalo dijo:
Six Feet Under. The opening act was some weird feminist vegan shitband and Chris Barnes sounds like he has destroyed his lungs through smoking a shitload of weed. Also that little faggot complained about people taking pictures and not buying enough merch. Kinda sad what the guy who used to be the main man behind Cannibal Corpse has become
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Has Chris Barnes ever really been good in Six Feet Under? I think he's been dreadful for about 25 years now, outside of the unintentional comedy of Graveyard Classics 2 and that one song on their first album where he screams OH MY FUCKING GOD
Precocious Halfwit dijo:
I found Nile pretty boring when I saw them a few years ago. I came straight from an all-day punk show at another venue and was festively drunk by the time the Nile show started, and even though I was well in the mood for some death metal fun, they were just dull as fuck. I do tend to find that with a lot of death metal bands, though: great on record but very workmanlike on stage.

Also, Sunn O))). I gave them about half an hour and then left. I love them on record and knew what to expect from the live performance, but there's only so much fun you can have staring at a stage clogged with smoke while the sound of an imploding planet rattles your eyeballs and your feet and back scream from standing all evening (fuck you, I'm old). I was not festively drunk at this show and probably should have been. It was fun to see various crowd members nodding along to different rhythms and occasionally fainting, mind you.
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That's really going to be the case with any technical death metal band. I can let it slide as long as they play the songs around 80 percent accuracy because I could imagine the difficulty of playing those compositions just moving around non-stop. Same case with when I saw Gorguts whenever they made their comeback last decade. Absolutely stationary but they were tight as fuck and played everything to perfection.

Funny you mention the people swaying their heads to different rhythms during the Sunn O))) show because I had seen Godflesh right after they released their comeback album (and they fucking ruled on the basis of just totally crushing your body with a wall of sound alone) and the opener was a noise band that kinda sucked but I saw some retard behind me swaying along to no rhythm whatsoever and that was loads more entertaining than the performance itself.
 
Went to see Linkin Park in Atlanta a few years ago with the wife (her band) not mine. They pretty much droned all fucking night long about the environment. We left early, and vowed to never see them again.

We went to Birmingham, Alabama to the Crawfish Boil Music Festival. That porky nigger from the Voice was there and all he could muster was to stand center stage with a towel wrapped around his neck mumbling through his set list. Couldn't understand a word coming out of his mouth.
 
Oddjob OTP dijo:
B-52s at some Universal Studio Mardi Gras thing a decade ago. They all seemed to be at least 60 and on pain killers. I can't say I expected anything going in though.
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That's a shame, because they were famous for being absolutely WILD live back in the day. They absolutely dominated Rock In Rio '85. Maybe that was just a rough night for them.
 
Recently saw Squid Live. Dissapointing, was boring with no energy.

I blame them being a young/newish band more than anything else, but would suggest avoiding until they get some more experience.


Worst band I have ever seen live was Vampire Weekend in Australia, they were clearly at the end of their tour and were running out of energy. Can't blame the boys but at least get the towns name right in the shoutouts.
 
So I took my younger sister years ago to see that British boy band One Direction on her request, back when they were the hottest group to listen to around her age. The audio was so jacked that we ended up leaving.
 
Monkey Shoulder dijo:
Dream Theater.
The musicians were decent enough, but the vocalist was fucking awful and completely turned me off the band.
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I wonder if Dream Theater are one of those bands where you have to catch them on the right day? I've only seen them once and they were absolutely note-perfect, James' vocals included, but I have definitely seen videos of other performances where he's as flat as a fart or just out of tune completely.

Goyaanisqatsi dijo:
That's really going to be the case with any technical death metal band. I can let it slide as long as they play the songs around 80 percent accuracy because I could imagine the difficulty of playing those compositions just moving around non-stop. Same case with when I saw Gorguts whenever they made their comeback last decade. Absolutely stationary but they were tight as fuck and played everything to perfection.

Funny you mention the people swaying their heads to different rhythms during the Sunn O))) show because I had seen Godflesh right after they released their comeback album (and they fucking ruled on the basis of just totally crushing your body with a wall of sound alone) and the opener was a noise band that kinda sucked but I saw some retard behind me swaying along to no rhythm whatsoever and that was loads more entertaining than the performance itself.
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Yeah, that's a fair point, I guess you can either throw yourself around the stage or you can actually play your surprisingly complicated music competently. Like I say, I had been at a punk thing during the day so I suppose I was still in 'enjoy poorly-played powerchords' mode! To balance things out, I did see Origin a couple of years previously and they absolutely blew my tits off - I'm not strictly a fan of technical DM but they were passing through my city and I was really impressed with the performance.

Godflesh are one of those bands I've been meaning to catch for years and have always missed through work or other tedious adult commitments. They definitely seem like a physical experience as well as a sonic one! It's wanky as hell to say (especially in a thread where we're suposed to be dunking on bands) but I love that about noise/extreme music performances - it's so fun to see how people move to stuff that either has weird rhythm or no perceptible rhythm at all.
 
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