WORST Concert You’ve Been Dragged To By S.O?

[gpounce32768]

Dragged to by an S.O: Journey the screaming was like a knife in the skull, and the fans were loud also

No an S.O- but a friend of mine invited me along to a Rush concert- that was the most boring sausage fest I've ever been to. The fans seemed to like it, but man did it ever drone on- over the radio their songs sound different to me but on stage they all sounded pretty much the same. OTOH I never did get Rush...

 

[john5220]

1. Barry Manilow
2. Lucinda Williams(yeah, I know....she's supposed to be all that but I found her to be very depressing )

 

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1. Barry Manilow

Doesn't get much worse than that! Well, maybe a Babs concert would be worse...

 

[SA-708]

OUCH!
I thank my lucky stars that my wife despises Mikey B

The funny thing is, before the big break of Laura Brannigan recording one of his songs, which launched his adult contemporary music career, he was a hard rocker. Not that my wife was a fan back then, mind you.

Hair metal Michael Bolton, with his friend & former band mate Bruce Kulick on guitar:

 

[jack penfold]

I'd have to say Hall & Oates recently. The opening act was St James and the Broken Bones--they had 8 pieces up there with 3 horns and sounded almost flawless. H&O came on and had tons of feedback and were out of balance..heard the same exact same report from a friend in Nashville when Tear for Fears opened. They decided to play Maneater in reggae style and i hated it.....they got it together the last 5 songs, but for the money...it really sucked.

 

[truck]

Not my significant other, but a family member. My mother worked at a local dept. store and a friend of mine's mother worked in the ticket office at the same store. My mother calls us to dinner (4 kids) saying she has a surprise for us. We all run in to the table, "What's the surprise!?, What's the surprise!?" My mother says I got you all tickets to see David Cassidy and the Partridge Family. My 2 sisters screamed with joy, I leaned over to my brother and said, "You tell anyone at school and your a dead man."

 

[Dennis Gardner]

The worst performance, Jackson Browne in his heyday. Boring as could be.....running on empty.

The worst sound was Steely Dan right at the sound board 3/4 distance from the stage at a casino. I don't for the life of me understand how the sound guys got it so wrong at their own position. Nothing but bass boom.......

 

[Bobcat]

Wife got us tix to Josh Turner a few years ago with her family. Not a fan of him or them.

 

[misterjones]

Been dragged and hated - Rufus Wainwright (he was drunk or high and flubbed lyrics and didn't give a damn)
I dragged and the dragee hated - Bob Dylan 1978 (go figure).

 

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Dragee. Chuckle.

 

[ooba tooba]

Mine was Johnny Mathis a few years back. She loves the guy, I can’t stand him, but you know how it is...

Lots of little old ladies with happy, dreamy looks on their faces, and me, embarrassed as hell, trying to hide.

Your worst?

Twice with Mathis for me and the ex going back to about '90 or '92. ugh. He did a curtsy like bow at the end
Also had to sit through a Lenny Kravitz show when he came out with that uninspired cover of American Woman that for some reason was played on the radio every 11 minutes for a year. The opener was a young enthusiastic Sean Lennon who was booed by Kravitz fans for wishing his dad a happy birthday and playing some awesome psychedelic songs.

 

[beans]

Way back when, I got dragged to a Tears for Fears concert by a date. This was about 15-20 years after their "prime" (if there ever was one), and it was only one of the two guys anyways (don't ask me which one--don't know, don't care). Pathetic attempt at re-living the 80's--and it was pathetic. When they did "Shout", I was about to shout, shout, let it all out--but I doubt the rest of the fans would have wanted to hear what I would be shouting.

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Hearing that makes me feel a little better because I liked some of the tracks on the album Elemental when it was Roland Orzabal by himself. When the tour came around I thought about going to the show but didn't, and was kicking myself afterward, Not so much after hearing this.

 

[jblnut]

Two words...Air Supply

I was offered two tix and I could not say no (long story). They were stunningly excellent in execution, sound and showmanship, but the music could not have been farther from my comfort zone.

jblnut

 

[beans]

Twice with Mathis for me and the ex going back to about '90 or '92. ugh. He did a curtsy like bow at the end
Also had to sit through a Lenny Kravitz show when he came out with that uninspired cover of American Woman that for some reason was played on the radio every 11 minutes for a year. The opener was a young enthusiastic Sean Lennon who was booed by Kravitz fans for wishing his dad a happy birthday and playing some awesome psychedelic songs.

That's interesting because Claypool-Lennon Delirium is my favorite new band. They do a pretty freaky cover of Tomorrow Never Knows.

 

[ooba tooba]

That's interesting because Claypool-Lennon Delirium is my favorite new band. They do a pretty freaky cover of Tomorrow Never Knows.

They performed it at the show I attended in Detroit. My poster and pics. (Poster is a blacklight too!)

 

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They performed it at the show I attended in Detroit. My poster and pics. (Poster is a blacklight too!)View attachment 1030320

So it was Claypool-Lennon that opened up for Lenny Kravitz?

 

[ooba tooba]

So it was Claypool-Lennon that opened up for Lenny Kravitz?

No, the Kravitz/Lennon show was in the late 90s.

 

[Johnno_Oz]

I got dragged to and Adele concert. The Sydney Olympic Stadium is home to my local rugby league team and I'm a member. The Friday concert sold out and there was no Saturday gig as my team was playing that night. The SFS must have done a deal with South Sydney Rugby League club, so the members were offered first bite of the tickets as part of the deal. So I bought her a couple of tickets for her birthday.

I thought she'd take her daughter...she instead took me. I feared the worst.

It was actually a pretty good gig. Sound quality was superb. But 10 or so songs in a row about being dumped and what a bastard "he" is wore a bit thin. 50,000 menopausal women seemed to agree and sway along with her.

There were a couple of highlights. Skyfall and the story behind EON offering her to write a song and her at first knocking it back were funny. She cusses like a sailor!

The parking sucked, took us an hour to get on the road.

I did drag her to a Pixies gig with Black Francis screaming his head off, so we're kind of even.

 

[bberkom]

My wife likes mostly the same music as me. In the last year we've seen the Pixies, Sigur Ros, Father John Misty, Beach House. All great shows. Never dragged me to anything bad.

 

[btomjvc]

A friend invited me to see Tool. He and I have been into different types of music and many of the same bands for years, so I thought why not. It had to have been the worst loudest piece of crap I could imagine. A packed crowd of college kids, loving every minute. As for me that show couldn't get over quick enough. I was supposed to stay at he and his wife 's house overnight, but I thought the 2 hour drive home would clear my head. If I never hear them again I believe i"ll be o.k.