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SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:23 am

hehe, MR BIG$$$$

Was that on the Presto tour? I think I sat through that bullshit too. A drill with a pick seems to come to mind. Damn you had to take me back.

But, nothing was as bad as "The Fabulous Poodles" opening for Van Halen. It was either when Van Halen did the 2nd lap after their first album took off or right at the beginning of the 2nd album tour. Can't remember which. Anyhow, this band was SOOOOO bad. I can't even imagine how they got in a position to be on stage.

In a flip I saw Thin Lizzy open for Journey on the Infinity tour(first album with Steve Perry). Thin Lizzy was f**king AWESOME. Gary Moore and Scott Gorham were both still in the band at that point. I can't even tell you how good that show was only to be followed by Journey who still hadn't figured out how to play with SP singing. It was weird and jerky, part prog, part pop, all crap. About half an hour in the croud started chaing THIN LIZZY THIN LIZZY THIN LIZZY hehehe. We got no encore that night.

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:28 am

Oh, dis-honorable mention goes to Monsters of Rock with Van Hagar headlining. Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken, Kingdom Come etc... Every single band sucked. Every one. The sound was awful. They took longer to set up each band than they played. The sets were un-inspired. Nobody from any band played with any other band. No messing around, just get through your 45 minutes as painless as possible and move on to the next pile of shit band.

meeks · Post by **meeks** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:47 am

Back in the day I saw DM with The The as thier opener in St. Louis. DM was just fuckin awful...reached out and fell asleep....The The, however, (played in all red lights) was one of the most amazing things I saw onstage...next to the Cure (which I absolutly hated and despised at the time) blew my mind.

PS: to relate with the others <cough>hink</cough> The just like paradise tour (DLR) sucked too and I was about 10 feet from SV.

geoffrey · Post by **geoffrey** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:54 am

Worst concert ever for me was the final tour of The Police. Had really high expectations. They played everything faster than normal. No jams. It was like they were in a hurry to get out of there. Imagine Roxanne sped up about 20 percent and you get a vague idea of how it was

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:09 am

God, I wouldn't know where to start. Maybe with Mark Holden and Marcia Hines at an Opera House NYE party in the late '70's. I was waiting for the Angels and had to sit through that krap.
Wreckless Eric were total krap and the support was even worse.
New Order at the Hacienda in '82. It was still a great night, just being at the Hacienda but they were diabolically bad and I'd paid a scalper a fortune to get in. They were better in Sydney a couple of years later but still not great.

SecondSkin · Post by **SecondSkin** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:21 am

This one is really easy: Sisters of Mercy, 1999 tour. Actually, it should have been called "Andrew Eldritch Karaoke". Not one instrument was played live, though I doubt that it would have helped anyway. Weird -- all that technology for them to suck, and when it was just 3 guys and an drum machine, they ruled.

Runner up: Jesus and Mary Chain, circa 1985. About 125db of pure feedback, played while facing the rear of the stage. At least it only lasted 20 min.

mumpcake · Post by **mumpcake** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:29 am

Projekt Revolution.

No I didn't pay money to go. They were in the ampitheatre next to my office, and it was loud enough for me to hear in my little cube.

Worst moment - CSN ca. 1985, Steven Stills wanking on an acoustic for like 20 minutes, then says "bet ya couldn't tell, but I just made that up". No kidding.

hoffy · Post by **hoffy** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:05 am

Man, are some of you people showing your age!

Anyway, i doubt you oldies would have heard of this artist but PJHarvey for me was the worst- because you couldn't drink in the venue, it was seated, and i was surrounded by teeny-boppers saying "this song sucks" whenever she'd play a real classic like "rid of me" and not some quasi-pop song of "Stories". bah.

Support act rocked tho. And Polly herself has been glorious every other time i've seen her.

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:28 pm

my bands last gig...

I saw the Chemical Brothers in Leeds at the V97 festsival, and it really had the atmosphere of someone playing a CD in the corner of a room when you really need to concentrate on something. Wholly souless.

Other than that, Echo & the Bunnymen at the same festival (what a boring band they turned into!), and the BlueTones when I was young and didnt know any better

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:32 pm

SecondSkin wrote:This one is really easy: Sisters of Mercy, 1999 tour. Actually, it should have been called "Andrew Eldritch Karaoke". Not one instrument was played live, though I doubt that it would have helped anyway. Weird -- all that technology for them to suck, and when it was just 3 guys and an drum machine, they ruled.

Runner up: Jesus and Mary Chain, circa 1985. About 125db of pure feedback, played while facing the rear of the stage. At least it only lasted 20 min.

God, saw the sisters last year. Glad I was on the guest list, as I would've wanted to kill Eldritch for putting on a light show with a Sisters tape playing from the stage.

That sounds like a goog Mary Chain gig

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:37 pm

Has got to be 2unlimited

They performed at the club where I worked long ago and it was terrible

Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:40 pm

Mystahr wrote:Has got to be 2unlimited

There is something hillarious, yet sinister in that statemnt

MickGael · Post by **MickGael** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 1:59 pm

Many years ago - sometime in the early 80s, as I recall) I saw Nico "perform" in a small club in Buffalo.

She arrived at the club pale, gaunt, chain-smoking and completely strung out on heroin.

No one seemed to recognize her, so (not surprisingly) when she shuffled up to the mic on an empty stage and mumbled incoherently - her eyes mere puffy slits, with no band at all - the people in the club kept talking - quite oblivious to the thin woman on stage.

I will never forget it.

After mumbling (god-knows-what) for a short while, she grew quiet, and scared the hell out of everyone by shouting-out at the top of her lungs:

"I COULD V'ISS OUT ZA TALKKING SHIT!"

That got people's attention. Sort of.

It was patheric and sad. Like a train wreck, really.

I read that she had cleaned up in the last years of her life.

SecondSkin · Post by **SecondSkin** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:19 pm

Bunnyboy wrote: Other than that, Echo & the Bunnymen at the same festival (what a boring band they turned into!),

yeah, I saw them that same year. It wasn't really bad, just verrrry verrrry boring. Many of my friends liked it (and the Sisters show, too), but I think they were just experiencing 80's withdrawl.

ejr · Post by **ejr** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:40 pm

Another geriatric memory....
Most disapointing for me was Suicide in '78. I went from Liverpool to Birmingham to a toilet called Barbarellas ...they came on and hour and a half late the sound was crap and with the encore (96 tears) the set lasted less than 15 minutes....probably inspired the Jesus and Mary Chain though.

worst concert