I would like to know your worst concert ever ? I would say for me was John mayer or Fleetwood mac.

A friend dragged me to a deathcore concert. Deathcore is the worst genre in the history of music.

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OP, if you don't mind my inquiring, what didn't you like about the Fleetwood and John Mayer shows? There's some serious talent between the two of those.

I can't think of a worst concert of mine, except for a few bad talent show and open mic gigs. Kevin Rudolf played a show at my college. That was pretty bad.

About 2001 we went to a KROQ Acousti Christmas show at the Anaheim Pond. Blink 182, Rob Zombie and others played. We were along the side of the stage, literally up in the rafters and there were strong harmonics being released by the metal beams that damn near drove me nuts. I hated being there and couldn't wait to get out.

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Green Day

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The worst concert I have ever been to was The Cult about 3 or 4 years ago. Aside from the band looking like they couldn't give a crap about where they were playing, they were not bad. What ruined the show were 2 fat guys right in front of me. I don't know what one of them ate for dinner but their noxious gas killed everyone within their radius and it went on the ENTIRE show . We were right up close and I wanted to see how Billy Duffy played She Sells Sanctuary compared to the version I had come up with. My wife and I couldn't take it anymore and we decided to move to a more breathable area. unfortunately it was too far to see his fingers, so I never saw exactly how he played it.

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Seeing Keith Richards nearly electrocuted on stage at a Stones concert in '65 has to be my worst concert memory.

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I saw Buddy Guy at Antone's in Austin, Texas right before his "Damn Right I Got The Blues" album dropped. He played a couple of songs from the album. The opening act was Kim Wilson, backed by the Antone's house band (Derek O'Brien, Sara Brown, Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff, George Raines, and Reese Wynans). After Kim Wilson's spectacular set, I thought, "There's no way this can be topped..."

I was wrong.

The same band (with Kim) stayed up there and the show went on until almost 4:00AM. It was, without a doubt, one of the best performances I have ever seen in my entire life. I place it in the top three club shows, and the top five shows (of any size) I've ever seen, period.

After it was over, I got in my car and drove back to Fort Worth in time for church. There's much more to the story--before and after the show, but that is for another time.

Time passes, I get married and have a kid. The entire time I buy all of Buddy's new albums as they are released, and go back and get his back catalog, too. My wife becomes a fan, but we never get the opportunity to see him live. She is chomping at the bit to see him due to my high praise of the show I saw previously.

In 2002, the year after album "Sweet Tea" is released, and Buddy is playing a free show at the Bedford Blues Festival...my wife says, "It's time for us to go do something as a couple..." (meaning without 10-month-old Armadillo Infant). So we go to see the headliner.

The preceding acts were excellent. Bernard Allison is the one that stands out the most, but every band was great that day, and I said, "Yeah, this is good, but wait for Buddy Guy!"

It was without a doubt the worst show I have ever seen, barring musical genres I don't like.

Mr. Guy was too loud. We were about 100 feet from the stage, and the noise painfully pierced my eardrum through my earplugs. He was playing through two Cyber-Twins, and his tone was atrocious (those were terrible amps, in my not-so-humble opinion). Brittle, processed and unnatural were the first three words that popped in my head when he hit his first note.

We moved back, futher away from the stage. It was still too loud, but we managed. His playing was sloppy, and he would not finish a song. Each time he got into a song and I thought, "Ok, he's getting into the groove...", he would stop and say, "Stop the song! This $%^& ain't no good, it ain't no &^%$-ing blues, I want it so %$^&*-ing funky that they can smell it!"

He cussed and fussed his way through five or six songs. He never settled down, and seemed to get dirtier and nastier with every song. I finally turned to Lady Armadillo and said (actually signalled, because it was too loud to hear), "You ready?"

Without a word, she picked up her lawn chair and started walking to the gate. When we got in the car, she said, “What just happened? His albums are great—even that live DVD (with the GE Smith Saturday Night Live band) was good.”

I don’t know if he was drunk, or having an off night or what.

Buddy Guy has always cussed a bit in his shows. I prefer a clean performer, but I’m not easily offended…but this was the nastiest I ever heard anyone speak publicly in my life. I was embarrassed to be there.

I know 2000 guitarists that could have played those songs better that night—including his backup guitarist in the band. I could have done better, and I’m terrible.

We saw him again at the Crossroads Festival in Dallas, and I’ve seen some live stuff on DVD and YouTube…his playing (and language) was much better, so I might give him another chance in the future…but I’m sure as ^&*%$ not taking the Armadillo Child!

I recently read that his doctor told him to quit drinking, and he admitted that he was playing and performing better, so maybe he was drunk, I don’t know. I just know that it was the worst show I’d ever seen, especially for a musical artist and genre I like.

Footnote: In 2006, I bought a bootleg recording on Ebay (shh! Don’t tell anybody!) of the Antone’s show I had seen years before. It was a recording from the live radio broadcast of a station in Austin, kinda like SRV’s “In The Beginning” CD. I know it was the same show because I had snuck backstage to get Buddy & Kim’s autographs, and had written the date down on the dollar bill I had them sign. The show was as good as I remember, (more cussing than I remember, but it wasn't too bad)...so I know it wasn’t Miller Lite and rose-colored hindsight that made me think that Mr. Guy was that good.

Even a legend has a bad night and deserves another chance.

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I've been to concerts from Simon & Garfunkel to Janis Joplin to Gordon Lightfoot to Sly & The Family Stone to Waylon, Willie & Kris to The Eagles to AC/DC. The one that was the worst shouldn't have been as it supposedly took place in an auditorium that was acoustically perfect, but Gordon Lightfoot never got his vocals loud enough for anyone not right in front to hear. Repeated shouts of "We can't hear you!" did no good. This was long before Gordon had health issues. The wife and I were very disappointed.

Now AC/DC - yeah, I could hear them!

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I've had several potentially good concerts ruined by bad acoustics or other circumstances not connected with the band, but the worst PERFORMANCE I've ever seen by an established, "name" performer was George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. It was at a show in Rochester, NY back in the mid-90s and the band was terrible. I'm not sure if they were drugged up, didn't feel like playing or were just having an off night, but they frankly just made a bunch of noise up on stage for about an hour before leaving the stage. I had seen them before and have seen them since and they were much, MUCH better both nights. I suppose even the the best bands have off nights.

I have two friends who saw Hendrix on consecutive nights here in L.A. The Saturday show he had to be helped on stage and it was the worse concert they've ever been to. Sunday he tore up the stage and it was the best concert they've ever been to.

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The Rolling Stones along with Foreigner and Peter Tosh at JFK Stadium. The Rolling Stones sucked.

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OK, brace yourself .... The Dave Clark Five.

Oh the band was great, but back in the day, the promoters had little/no experience with 'teen' concerts. They held the concert in an arena and sold 'front row' tickets in folding metal chairs on the floor. Well those were the days when all the girls screamed, wailed, cried and stormed the stage. Moments into the first song all of us on the floor were trampled. The 'best seats in the house' turned into the worst.

The one and only time I saw Eric Clapton in 2001 (or was it 2002?) he put on a really poor show. I don't know if he was sick as a dog or just depressed but I felt I'd wasted my money. The tickets were a god-awful price and he looked, played and sounded like he wanted to be doing anything except playing that show. The fact that Bonnie Raitt opened for him and almost brought the roof down by rocking so damn hard didn't help matters very much. It only illuminated how crappy his performance was. People were booing and by the time he was 5 or 6 songs into it the seats were half empty. I stuck it out only because I'd spent soooo much money buying great seats. I was so close I could see the drops of perspiration on his forehead and I still felt ripped off. Clapton was definitely not God that night.

I've seen worse shows, George Thorogood comes to mind, drunk as a 3 dollar ho, slurring the lyrics so bad and stumbling around the stage tripping over stuff but that was only an outdoor festival and I wasn't invested into it for hundreds of dollars like I was with "God". It pretty much permanently taints your opinion of an artist when they disappoint you sooo badly like that. Shame.

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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.

Im unsure what my worst concert ever was, but i always remember my girlfriends story of her worst, it was the black crowes many years ago at southamptons guildhall in the south of the UK. I think it was on the `3 snakes and 1 charm` tour. now i like the crowes and have seen them play some good gigs, but according to her this one was just awful. They were all so stoned they were facing the wrong way for nearly the whole gig! She said they only played about 4 songs, but jammed those four songs to death for about 30 minutes each with endless guitar solo`s, apparantly the whole audience was very confused and got angrier and angrier throughout the gig. She had all their albums and said she didnt recognise any of what they were playing. Perhaps they were just jams?

Now being a bit more of a muso myself i kinda like the idea of going to see a band and them just making music for you, being creative and different rather than just reeling through the hits note for note (hey, im a zeppelin fan!), but even i can understand the frustration here. I dont think she`s ever forgiven the crowes for that night

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