Man, I want to see US Maple so bad. I'm not kidding.

Cursive

Cat Power a month ago. She opened for Nick Cave and she just kept stopping and whinging or being self-deprecating, it really wasn't any fun. I still love her though

DITC. (for those that don't konw, they are a loose collection of some of the best mc/producers to ever exist: diamon d, lord finesse, showbiz and ag, OC, fat joe)

i was all excited to see some living underground legends, they waitd 3 hours after the opening act (the very fantastic MOP) and when they did come finally come on it was fucking Pary Arty one of the worst MC's ever.

eventually AG came out, and even though i knew every lyric to the songs he was rapping, i still couldn't understand a single word due to horrible reverbaration (because the huge hall was empty when 90% of the crowd had already left)

it was hoorible.

i haven't seen a hip hop show since.

yeah, i know --- i just started to loathe them after that show at the gypsy and decided to call them all fabio. it was solidified in nashville. . .

Man, most of the terrible shows I go to are local bands. Rarely does a national act really anger me, but here are three.
1. Mike Watt: He opened for Primus the first time I saw them. It was around the Ballhog or tugboat album. I never got why he needed two drummers on stage for his rather simplistic songs.
2. Now It's Overhead: They opened for Rilo Kiley in September. Andy Lemaster might be a good producer and even a decent musician, but he's an arrogant pretentious hack on and off stage. He said Omaha was devoid of culture in a Denver Newspaper, while stating it was a miracle such an amazing music scene took off there.
3. Tie between Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie: I like both bands and the songs sounded great, but Death Cab is dreadfully boring on stage and Isaac Brock seemed extremely fatigued and completely disinterested in playing a sold out show.

The Roots. Played the Classic Center in Athens. Crowd = 98% white, most of them jam band fans, more so than hip hop.

They would start to lay downa groove, get into a song, the crowd would get into it, and ?uestlove would stop and be like "Y'all ain't feelin us right!"

and then he proceeded to try to get the crowd to do the "I say hey, you say ho" thing. I tried to fins out where the after party was to beat him up, they sucked so fucking bad.

and it put me off of them completely. Except Rahzel, cos he's got the skills to pay the bills, and the drummer's OK, too.

i've seen some amazing roots shows and some half-assed ones, so i can imagine what you experienced.

I think everyone here should see Extreme Elvis and write a review.

The Roots were pretty bad when I saw them live opening on the Odelay tour. But ATARI TEENAGE RIOT definitely outsucked them...two guys just jumping around onstage with mics, two girls that stood in the back and seemed to do NOTHING.

Plus you probably had to listen to the music of ATR, which can't be a good thing.

So you hated their show because of something the guy said in the newspaper? That actually doesn't seem to be so bad, Omaha is pretty devoid of culture, and it was just a matter of luck and the determination of a few people that got a scene to start up there.

When I saw Now It's Overhead, I thought they blew the rest of the bands away by how good they were. Of course, they only had to outplay Bright Eyes, Azure Ray, and The Good Life, but they were the only ones I wanted to hear more of.

you mean ?uestlove?

New Found Glory (hah, don't laugh... I was like 16 or something).

The Exit (opened for Muse), bleeeeeeeeeeeeeh

U.S.E. (opened for Ted Leo), even more bleeeeeeeeeeeh

The Bravery. good lord.

I don't think I ever walked out of a show, these were opening for other bands... so yeah.

i'm mad at STP more because of my friendshan the actual STP show. The Flaming Lips were the opening band and we missed them because my friends took their sweet ass time driving.

and to this day i'm still pissed off that i never got to see the Flaming Lips when they were still a rock band.

was this the butthole surfers show?

Here's mine:

A drunk fat guy done peed on me.

Mark Eitzel went all Cat Power at a solo show at Go! Studios in Chapel Hill a few years ago. Just really down on himself the whole time. Opener Tim Easton apparently left before the show ended, so when Mark called him onstage for a duet of sorts and found that he had already left, he looked devastated and promptly ended the show after like 45 minutes. It was awkward.

Luckily he got his shite together when he opened for Low a month or so later. He had a guitarist (or maybe it was a drummer) onstage with him to balance his neuroses out, so he at least made it through the whole set.

Yeah, you right. Black Thought is the no rhyme slingin sucka ass MC. ?uestlove and Rahzel get a pass.

Cat Power

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure it was the Jesus and Mary Chain. I make that mistake all the time, sorry GLJ fans.

damn. I can understand the anger man.

Catpower, by a mile.

A few years ago, she opened a show for JSBX here in New York, during which she kept tuning and re-tuning her guitar while trying--every so desperately--to get through the first verse of "(Can't Get No) Satisfaction."

She walked off the stage without saying a word, ending a performance that lasted all of five minutes (and without having completed one song). The New York crowd at Irving Plaza were merciless in registering their contempt, pummeling her with a chorus of jeers and insults.

This was, quite clearly, the most embarrassing live show I have ever seen.

I should probably give her another chance.

The only time I ever saw Yo La Tengo was at Austin City Limits in 2003. And they sounded just like the latter description. Pissed me off. I've never seen so many people cover their ears for such an extended period of time as much as that audience did. Lots of feedback fits. Unbearable. I was thinking to myself "surely they aren't always like this?"

Has anyone ever seen a good Cat Power show?