In 1970 James Taylor's brother in concert. Walked out on that one.

IMHO i do not think NIRVANA was overrated they were amazing kurts vocals were gravely. Listen to just how powerful kurts vocals were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2UYnxg ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GmCQsYU ... re=related
Nirvana was/is amazing. i wish i was alive and could have seen them in concert

theyre my favorite band, but they ARE overrated... they werent some revolutionary group (like the beatles, hendrix, etc)... were they talented? YES. were the overrated? YES.

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Another vote for Eric Clapton. Forget the year. Possibly 2002 in Edmonton. Possibly 2001. My seats were so close I could see the droplets of persperation on his forhead. I was a huge Clapton fan until I saw him live. He put nothing into it. He just stood there lifelessly. Both his playing and his singing were blah. Like he was just going through the motions and wanted to be anywhere but there. I have a friend who says he mailed in his performance. I never viewed EC quite the same after that.

Funny thing is Bonnie Raitt opened for him and while I knew she was a decent performer I never gave her much thought. She brought the roof down. There wasn't a soul not standing and cheering their hearts out. She made a fan out of me, that's for sure. EC's performance was so anticlimactic that by his 3rd or 4th song half of the colosium had emptied. I only stayed because I paid such a high price for my seats. There was no way on earth EC could have blamed a poor audience for his performance. Bonnie got them so pumped. The biggest applause EC got was when he stepped on stage. It went downhill from there.

Another noteworthy item is that in that era the EC Strat came with Lace Sensors for years and years. I could see all 8 Strats he had on stage and not a single one of them was equipped with Lace Sensors.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

The worst perfomance I have seen was at "Þjóðhátíð" in Vestmannaeyjum (Vestman Islands).
There was this singer who is well know here in Iceland (mostly for his ego rather than talent) who thinks that he is the Frank Sinatra of Iceland.
You could see early in the show that he was getting stressed because he wasn't getting the crowd, and the more stressed he was the worse he got. Half way through the set the around 20.000 audience booed so loud that you could hear him through the PA system (The promoters had said before that festifal that the PA system was the largest and loudest to be ever used in Iceland). Maybe to his credit, the bastard finished his set.

Offical "Iceblu" Geir Ólafsson site: http://www.vortex.is/hugvit/iceblue/whos.htm

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Deyr fé
Deyja frændr
Deyr sjálfr ið sama
En orðstír
Deyr aldregi
Hveim er sér góðan getr

I saw Squeeze a few weeks before they split up, wrong time is an understatement They were gash, the sound, timing, everything was out of sync The on stage arguements were a giggle though

Was the concert really bad or was it only his attitude?

Bob Dylan,saw him three times because I just couldn't believe that the first one was that bad,or that the second one was that bad,you get the idea.

Bob Dylan,saw him three times because I just couldn't believe that the first one was that bad,or that the second one was that bad,you get the idea.

Bob Dylan,saw him three times because I just couldn't believe that the first one was that bad,or that the second one was that bad,you get the idea.

Foriegner...
They tried to string "hot blooded" out into a long jam song. Boring as whale crap.

Then again Billy Squier had opened for them and blew them off the stage.Maybe that's what did it.

Wow.. I guess I am not the only one who thought Clapton live was like watching grass grow ...

I saw him in 1988 and it was the most unremarkable vanilla concert I have ever been to... Flat out boring...

Unfortunately when I saw Guns and Roses at the LA Forum in 1991, Axl Rose was making a lot of mistakes... Forgetting lyrics, bad mothing the audience... But slash and the rest of the band made up for that idiot... So, it wasn't a "bad" concert...

I certainly have seen many really bad garage bands live... But this is not unusual.. I am thinking we are focusing bad shows from "big name" bands...

Other than Clapton, I can't think of any other bad concerts from big names... And I have seen plenty of really good shows from lesser known named bands...

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In Reference to Blues Legend RL Burnside:
After a heart attack in 2001, Burnside's doctor advised him to stop drinking; Burnside did, but he reported that change left him unable to play.

I would have loved to see Billy Squire back in the day. That man had energy.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Yes was a bad one. Frampton opened and was awesome but Yes wasnt so. They played a 20 minute song (Close to the Edge i think it was) no singing and it was boring, it was more keyboard effect, imagine the song Echoes without anything but keyboards, bass and drums. The arena went from a good thousand people to a few hundred. They played their hits, and the singer was alright (no Jon Anderson) but he sounded good on a few. But i kept dozing in and out during that 20min. song. Needless to say, the guitar was amazing

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I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk...

the wife and daughter dragged me along to see seasick steve last year , he plays blues they said , i told them i had listened to the cd's they played and i still thought he was crap , well i was still right by the time we walked out at the end of it , not trying to sound snobby but i told them i had seen such great blues players like rory gallagher , ry cooder , bb king , the groundhogs ect .

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