yup.

at The Mann.

why on earth would you ever giver her a second chance?
fuck her and her unprofessional whiney bullshit.

if you don't have the heart to play a decent show, stop fucking touring you selfish asshole. I hate her for the way she treats her fans.

My own band played the world's shittiest set back in 99. It sucked just being there. We covered the Night Rider theme song, for fuck's sake.

Other than that, Fugazi, probably my favorite band of all time, was a huge let-down at the 40-Watt in 2000(?). They were still touring for Red Medicine, I think. They took the whole minimalism thing too far. No colored lights, no moving around on-stage, and of course, no dancing in the audience. Last Fugazi show I went to.

I thought Radio 4 was bad when they opened for the Libertines. Until the Libertines played. God, they sucked.

Wasn't this late December 1999? I remember cos it was the night I graduated. I left to hook up with Dr. Trey and get fucked up.

I thought ATR was pretty good when I saw them but they had this other band , Ec8or, opening for them that were just terrible. One guy stood in back and fooled around with the mixer or whatever he had back there, the girl just stood there with her size triple EEE's and every once in awhile would jump up and down and then there was the other guy dressed as a football player who at one point in the show stuck a rubber dildo on top of his football helmet and proceeded to squirt some water out of it into the crowd.

Mercury Rev opening or Porno for Pyros were pretty unbearable.

Sound Garden on the Superunknown tour was pretty boring. They sounded good but just stood like statues.

Built to Spill I love but their live show a few years back in Atl. was so dull I walked out.

Janes Addiction at Coachella made me want to punch Perry Farrell in the face. Before every song, and I mean every song, there some really lame one-liner intro in his signature delay pedal shriek.

examples:

"Do you like my suit!, Do you know where I got it? I STOLE IT!"
"Look around. Do you see the trees? CAN YOU SEE THE MOUNTAINS!"

I believe that was the night we graduated Senator.

Yeah, remember dat yellow we got stuck with? Ugh.

Not only did I see this show, I believe, but I have pictures of it in my basement. It was far from the worst show I've seen. But the band was certainly on borrowed time at that point.

uh oh...i hope this is not a hint of what i can expect when i see the roots open up for wilco next friday at red rocks....

It wasn't the quote that made me dislike the Now It's Overhead show. It was Andy Lemaster's Oberst like antics. In my mind, they both succeed due to talented backing, but Bright Eyes just seems to have better talent.
Tilly and The Wall and Rilo Kiley played before and after Now It is overhead and brought more energy and showmanship to the gig. Lemaster's was more or less doing a "Look at me, I'm a star" routine.
I don't think Omaha is a cultural mecca, but for the heartland, it is probably on par with what Athens and Chapel Hill are today. I also don't get why you would trash the town that is responsible for your record label and livelihood.
Azure Ray was pretty boring during their set with Crooked Fingers and David Dondero. They were great musically, it just seemed like I was listening to a cd the whole time.

Maybe I just want to stick up for my old home team, but the way I justify the lack of overt energy in Now its Overhead et al. is that it's fitting for the music -- tense and suspenseful.

When it's done right, it's pretty cool. I've seen it go wrong, too, when they try to hard to fake it. In the end, I'd rather see the Athens/Omaha crowd hang their hats at a notch above shoegaze than jump around ala Red Hot Chili Pep's.

Sonic Youth opening for Neil Young and Crazy Horse on the Ragged Glory tour at Hemisfair Arena in San Antonio were so fucking bad, I'd have probably left before the headliner had it not been someone I wanted to see as badly as Neil. I mean, I can't even begin to describe how bad Thurston and Lovey sucked that night.

I saw them twice, the first time in support of "Love" and it was tremendous. The second was in support of "Electric" and it was a disaster.

Lousy live acts I've endured:

White Zombie--opened for Gaye Bykers On Acid at the Ritz in NYC back in '88. The opener was supposed to be Pop Will Eat Itself, but apparently there were customs issues. White Zombie were awful.

I walked out on Public Image Ltd. circa 1990.

I've seen really bad Robyn Hitchcock shows. The bad ones were always him solo, no Egyptians. RH has also given some of the best live shows I've ever seen, but by '91/'92 he was spent. I stopped making it a point to see him whenever he was in town.

Psychedelic Furs were rather terrible at The Beacon in '89, but this could have been the venue and our crappy balcony seats. They were dynamite at Radio City two years earlier.

Most recently, The Real Kids show at the Double Door last summer was a disgrace. Felice seemed as if he couldn't care less. If you don't want to be there, don't go on tour and save us all a lot of trouble.

I saw the Lunachicks, opening for I can't remember whom. They were horrendous.

The Mission opened for Psychedelic Furs at Radio City in '87. They were disgraceful as well.

Crap, I saw them with New Order and Echo & The Bunnymen. They were awful.

The Good Life (opening for Spoon)
First time I saw 764-Hero (supposed to be headlining, but Jimmy Eat World and took top billing from under them)

Yeah I saw JLJ open for Bunnymen too, truly truly bad. I didn't see New Order with Bunnymen, but I did see them at around the same time, headlining for The Pogues, I think, and New Order was up there for one of the worst performances ever.

R.E.M. was pretty dissapointing, thankfully The Feelies rocked for 45 minutes or so to open up.

Also saw Pink Floyd in 1977 or '78 at Olympic Stadium in Montreal and that show was a huge let down.

I saw Enon last night and they were kind of boring. I left after 20 minutes.

see if you can follow me on this one:

when i was a junior in high school (1999-2000), none of my friends listened to the same music i did (at the time, predominantly more punk inclined bands). one day, one of them expressed interest in going to see FENIX TX. i had never heard them before but wasn't a huge fan of the pop punk bands of their ilk, but i was so excited that my friends actually expressed interest in going to see a show remotely involving less popular bands, i agreed to go. the lineup was as follows:

fenix tx
new found glory
good charlotte
lefty

i'm not just saying this as one of those "oh man, this music is so embarrassing today but i loved it at the time" things, because it is completely removed from the truth. i hated each and every band that performed (although nfg wasn't so bad) and it was by far the worst concert experience i've ever had. i swear.

Jeez. The only thing that could make that lineup worse would be to throw on some Something Corporate.

Billy Idol in 1990. Only reason I went was because Faith No More was opening. Interesting crowd - Half punk and half mullet.

Sneaker Pimps in 97

Now that's an interesting haircut!

Saw them last night (brother was going, had an extra ticket) in Boston, I was embarassed to be there. Not only were they horrible, but they had these blinding white lights pointing at the crowd which went off the entire show. I was seriously blinking for over an hour after the show