reddit ask: What's a band or artist you wish you HADN’T seen live?
reddit user @OsoRetro asked "One band or artist you wish you HADN’T seen live." and here are some of the answers, you can read the whole thing at the source.
- Madonna, hard candy tour. She came on about 2 hours late, it was raining, she flipped off the crowd when she felt she didn’t get the response she wanted, it was basically watching a worn animatronic going through the motions and disappear.
- Smashing Pumpkins for me. Sound was terrible, the legendary SP wall of sound you hear on the albums does not translate to anything close live, and they played at about 120% of normal pace. It sounded like Billy could barely keep up on vocals, and the whole thing was a mess.
More annoyingly, they started with Today, Bullet and Zero, and only then someone at the sound desk found the "make it louder and also less trebly" button so we could sort of enjoy the rest of the show.
Also it looked like they'd had a fight before coming out. Zero interaction between the band for like the first 45 minutes of it, it was super awkward.
- Motley Crue way past their prime. I saw them in the 80s and they were raw and pure fire. They were at the top. Went to see them with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jet a couple of summers back and they were pure trash. Vince Neil was so terrible. It was embarrassing. Lucky for me I went on a night headlining over Def Leppard, so I could call it a night. Brutal.
- 30 Seconds To Mars. It’s very much Jared Leto pretending to be a rock star instead of BEING a rock star; it all feels like an act to fuel his ego while he prances around to the most generic songs.
- Rihanna. Not a huge fan but she has some catchy tunes. A friend was given several free tickets from his work, and I’ll never turn down free concert tickets.
I wish I’d turned those down though. She is one of the worst “performers” I have ever seen. She didn’t know her choreography, she let the backing track or backup vocalists do most of the singing and she genuinely looked like she didn’t want to be there.
Her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance last year only cemented her terribleness for me.
- Creed. The lead singer was noticeably under the influence of something. The band stopped performing and ended the show almost an hour early because the lead couldn’t stand up anymore.
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what's the worst concert you've ever been to??
- Madonna, hard candy tour. She came on about 2 hours late, it was raining, she flipped off the crowd when she felt she didn’t get the response she wanted, it was basically watching a worn animatronic going through the motions and disappear.
- Smashing Pumpkins for me. Sound was terrible, the legendary SP wall of sound you hear on the albums does not translate to anything close live, and they played at about 120% of normal pace. It sounded like Billy could barely keep up on vocals, and the whole thing was a mess.
More annoyingly, they started with Today, Bullet and Zero, and only then someone at the sound desk found the "make it louder and also less trebly" button so we could sort of enjoy the rest of the show.
Also it looked like they'd had a fight before coming out. Zero interaction between the band for like the first 45 minutes of it, it was super awkward.
- Motley Crue way past their prime. I saw them in the 80s and they were raw and pure fire. They were at the top. Went to see them with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jet a couple of summers back and they were pure trash. Vince Neil was so terrible. It was embarrassing. Lucky for me I went on a night headlining over Def Leppard, so I could call it a night. Brutal.
- 30 Seconds To Mars. It’s very much Jared Leto pretending to be a rock star instead of BEING a rock star; it all feels like an act to fuel his ego while he prances around to the most generic songs.
- Rihanna. Not a huge fan but she has some catchy tunes. A friend was given several free tickets from his work, and I’ll never turn down free concert tickets.
I wish I’d turned those down though. She is one of the worst “performers” I have ever seen. She didn’t know her choreography, she let the backing track or backup vocalists do most of the singing and she genuinely looked like she didn’t want to be there.
Her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance last year only cemented her terribleness for me.
- Creed. The lead singer was noticeably under the influence of something. The band stopped performing and ended the show almost an hour early because the lead couldn’t stand up anymore.
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what's the worst concert you've ever been to??