I have to say that I've never attended a concert I didn't love. I guess that's because I'm VERY choosy about who I go see and spend my money on. | |
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CRAZY. ♫"Trollin, Trolling! We could have fun just trollin'!"♫ | |
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I like what you did there great work! | |
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That's not the point. Things happen if you attend enough shows. Like my first response... one of the LOTUSFLOW3R concerts I went to (first show at 8, Prince did 3 that night, plus after parties)....the sound was terrible. But I won't put it down to him. He still did alright, but it was nothing compared to the other 12 gigs I'd seen of him. (live)
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Sometimes it's not the band but other factors... Spent an Oasis gig trying to avoid flying plastic cups of piss as they sailed gracefully overhead in 2005...had a miserable time watching Elton John, freezing my ass off, soaked by an icy cold rainstorm in June (though admittedly, better than pee) | |
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@2045RadicalMattZ: I don't remember hearing many stories about bad performances by The Isley Brothers. The few clips from live performances in the 70's that I have seen on YT were great actually. ----------- My most disappointing gig was likely a Prince concert in 1990 in Rotterdam. It wasn't necessarily a bad concert, but circumstances made it a bad experience.
[Edited 10/3/17 13:28pm] [Edited 10/3/17 14:09pm] RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... | |
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That is awful!!! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... | |
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funkaholic1972 said: @2045RadicalMattZ: I don't remember hearing many stories about bad performances by The Isley Brothers. The few clips from live performances in the 70's that I have seen on YT were great actually. ----- My most disappointing gig was likely a Prince concert in 1990 in Rotterdam. It wasn't necessarily a bad concert, but circumstances made it a bad experience.
[Edited 10/3/17 13:28pm] [Edited 10/3/17 14:09pm] I was there too and yes, it was a soaking wet affair. But still, the concert went all the way up to Baby I'm a Star, so he played the full show which was around 90 minutes. The next day, the wheather was better and the show was too, but it was only around 10 minutes longer. So rumours that the first show of the Nude Tour was cut short are false. But that first show surely went down the drain... But then again... When all those lighters went up during The Question of U... That was sheer magic... | |
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Britney Spears at the 02 in Dublin. I'd always been a fan of Britney as a child but as I progressed through my teens my taste in music changed a great deal and by 2009, at the age of 19, I'd almost completely stopped listening to Britney Spears. But she was playing in Dublin and I thought "what the hell, I might as well go". The free tickets might have swayed my decision. But Christ almighty it was bad. I literally would have been better off staying at home and listening to her greatest hits CD because that's pretty much all they played. The CD. The entire "performance" just came across as so amateurish. She can't dance, I don't know who told her she could, but she can't. I'm not sure if she can sing because she didn't actually sing at all. The entire thing was mimed. If I'd paid, I would have felt ripped off. | |
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funkaholic1972 said:
That is awful!!! True. I remember thinking, sullenly, 'you wouldn't get this at a Mariah Carey concert' | |
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Yup...I cant think of a bad show that I ever went to...but I do remember seeing Prince at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, October 1997 or 1998 (?). WORST SHOW EVER, simply because it was soooooo cold. Ive never been so cold in my life! No lie! I dont think my wife has forgiven me yet! Make it so, Number One... | |
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Well... the ISLEY BROTHERS story came by way of my old percussion player (he just turned "21" HEAVY QUOTATIONS.... I think it was actually 60 or 61.) ♫"Trollin, Trolling! We could have fun just trollin'!"♫ | |
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The Cure in a summer festival about 15 years ago. I’m not going to say that they were objectively bad, but I’m not really a fan, I was there because of other bands. They played 20 minute versions of songs I didn’t know, they dismissed their famous songs and refused to play any ‘singles’ until they did a medley at the end. Now, I realise that if Prince have done this I would have thought it was awesome, but not being a fan I found it unbearable. | |
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I have purchased tickets to several events over the years either featuring Kelis or with Kelis as the main act (in several different states) and they have all been cancelled or had her as a no-show. Even one with NERD/Pharrell and The Roots on the bill. Is she real? It's sad as I've seen many great videos of her live acts over the years. if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2 | |
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Perhaps this may surprise some folks but my most disappointing concert was Joni Mitchell during her Court and Spark tour in the 70s. That album really broke her big-time with a mainstream audience (sort of like Prince with PR but not to that extent). She apparently was bored with the album, it's hits ,and the accompanying arena tour. She sang in such a disinterested way that it prompted thousands of early walk-outs. I was tempted to do so, but I love Joni and was hoping for something to feel but it never happened. I do know that she can be good in concert, but this didn't happen at this concert. In retrospect, I realize that she was such an artist she probably hated to be confined to the mainstream. She never really courted top 40 radio again. | |
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This funk is a serious joint | |
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^ i tried looking all night a couple days ago for that Smokey walking off on his own show audio/video. So sad. Much like the second row seat i had at LITTLE RICHARD , BEN E KING, SAM MOORE (*reverse order of appearance)..i guess nobody's ever shared it. THAT (*seeing Little Richard live; even old) was EFFING INCREDIBLE. That was my "best concert ever" for years. .despite seeing so many... it's truly shameful that there's not any recorded evidence of the man's live work that's readily available. Fucking shameful. it's like having the greatest soprano ever, but no recording technology exists. Anyways. I'm going off track. I've seen a really terrible shit set by a band called MARDUK, opening for NEVERMORE prior to Opeth and IN FLAMES (*back when they were metal) I laughed and booed them at 16, saying YOUU SUUCK! from the front of the stage. Heartless i guess, but it did/DOES suck, and they look like morons painted up like that. Fat pudgy little morons with studded arm bands growling. But i guess some people like that comical shit ♫"Trollin, Trolling! We could have fun just trollin'!"♫ | |
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