Wondering what bands have people personally seen and were blown away at how bad it was?

My list:
Dylan a couple weeks ago. His opening act Merle Haggard blew him away.
Cinerama. I love them but again their opening act ballboy took the show. Gedge sounded like he smoked a carton of cigs
Blind Melon. Saw them in a strange mix of bands. (Live, Blind Melon, B.A.D. & PIL) They were completely trashed on stage.

Everclear. Worst show I've ever been to. I look back now and question why I went at all.

Sonic Youth last summer were decent but I was still wiped from the Modest Mouse show the night before and Sonic's openers were so entirely bad. Sunburned Hand and Wolf something. Eyes or Parade. One of them. Either way, just bad, structure-less noise.

Ironically, one of the worst shows I've ever seen was a band that also put on one of the BEST shows I've ever seen: Yo La tengo.

First time I saw them, they were amazing! Great set list, some surprising covers ("We're An American Band, "Somebody's Baby") done VERY well, and just a lot of outstanding music.

The second time was 1.5 hours of noise and feedback jams, with a couple of songs thrown in for good measure. Probably fun for the people on stage, but not for the audience.

Probably that Liars show me and Aural Fixation walked out of.

That's probably Wolf Eyes then.

The worst show I've ever seen was probably Dave Matthews Band. I'm not just saying that because I can't stand them anymore but I went to a show a few years ago that was just incredibly boring.

Don't hate me because I've seen DMB live. I was young and naive then.

i thought they'd be bad, but the proclaimers easily gave the most horrendous performance i've ever seen. (they opened for barenaked ladies & friend had free front-ish row seats.) their only redeeming feature was the drummer kinda looked like trent.

Oh shit!
I forgot
The Frogs

Just one, big, annoying "WTF?"

EDIT: I walked out.

I know I've walked out of shows due to general sucking, but can't place who it was. Getting old. Blonde Redhead were pretty darn eh when I saw them.

As a teenager everyone always told me yoy had to see floyd. I wen I saw 30 minutes and left. Bunch of old guys on stage with lasers and smoke machines. Probably the only show I walked out of

I saw them and thought it was a pretty great show. I was obsessed with Pink at the time, though. The band did nothing on stage but the lights were cool. I also spent $40 on my ticket and for that price I was going to convince myself it was a great show even if it wasn't.

razorlight earlier this year was pretty much a trainwreck, other than one or two songs that they pulled together.

fiery furnaces at last year's siren festival. i know to not expect actual songs at their shows, but they just couldn't get anything going well then. and that's not exactly the best setting for them anyway.

i was just looking over my little database of shows and noticing that most shows that i dislike are more for the crowd than the band. i hated hot hot heat and moving units a few years ago, but that was more due to other factors than them. they weren't good at all, but not horrendous.

I've seen a lot of crappy bands that were decent live, but my vote goes to Stephen Malkmus. The show I saw in New York had some opening band that played 5 songs that contained 4 chord loops and lasted over two hours (I think their name was Endless Boogie? That's probably wrong) And then Malkmus previewed his material from Pig Lib, which I hated and was just boring live. He did two songs from his debut and those were great, but mostly it was just standing for 6 hours while nothing happened.

U.S. Maple. Hands down, the shittiest live act i've ever seen, and tht speaking volumes. They were opening up for pavement at some point around the [iBrighten the Corners[/i] tour and i shit you not they were more or less booed offstage. Right after the first song a friend of mine (who i didn't know at the time) bellowed out "hey, you guys really suck!" in the dead silence. in 4 seconds the entire venue was echoing this statement and they left after the next song.

a close second was the second time i saw JSBX. the crowd is EVERYTHING with that guy

the worst mercury rev, opening up for Wilco. The Samples were pretty bad. Smashing Pumpkins at the Rose Garden back in about 97 were horribly boring.

horrible, just not my bag. i dont go to many shows, so I choose pretty carefully, so most of the bad ones I remember are openers.

on the above comment re: YLT - I saw them once, at Cat's Cradle in NC and they were really good.

I also saw everclear at a festival once about 8 or 9 years ago and they were quite good, even though I don't really like everclear.

Ooh, oooh. Dream Theater. God they were bad, and the venue sucked, and the crowd was an affront to the notion of human progress.

Mars Volta at ATP were awfully bad, too.

Stone Temple Pilots are easily the worst live show I've ever seen.

1. Mazzy Star opening for Cocteau Twins were so boring i almost fell asleep standing in the crowd. God that was an hour I wish i had back.

2. Q and Not U opening for Interpol this past winter. They were so bad. They kept spouting political crap to a crowd that didnt care. And worst of all was there set had to keep running long because Carlos D was sick. Ack.

3. Babes in Toyland opening for Skinny Puppy. Complete talentless hacks. Babes the weren't let me tell ya.

I had fun at the Stone Temple Pilots Tiny Music... tour. It helped that I really liked that album.

Oh god though, that just reminded me. Screw Malkmus, the worst live show I've ever seen was Metallica during their post-Lollapalooza solo tour. I had earplugs in and my ears still rang for 5 days. More than that, though, was the three-hundred fucking explosions that consisted of their live routine, and then lights fell down onstage and everything started deconstructing. Because something "went wrong". And then some guy ran around on fire. And then the electricity went out! So they did their acoustic material!

I fucking paid for that. Why?

what's with the board love for Dream Theater? God i will never understand that band. They're like Rush for even bigger metalnurds, only without the whimsy. and no "OF SALESMAN!!!" that makes Rush almost tolerable to me.

I used to live with a guy who would play me that cover album they did over and over trying to convince me that tey were better than the originals. Now he's a neoyuppie that asks me if i've heard the new coldplay album every time i talk to him, regardless of whether or not they recently put anything out.

Hate 'em. Dude I was foolishly dating was a fan, but even he thought it was lousy.

hey, i'm not knocking your taste. like i said i've been to worse. but there's a pretty serious contingent of DT fans around here.

Was James Hetfield the one running around on fire?

Really? Who?

It's close but I'll go with Todd Snider. He opened for Robert Earl Keen. Took off his shoes before he started playing. Some of the rednecks in the crowd started to heckle him. Completely lost his cool and stormed off stage after 1 song, a crappy cover of They Call Me the Breeze. Dead air for about 1 hour and half.

Either that or Cowboy Mouth. Who I wished would have quit after one song. Jazzfest and I was stuck in a sea of people. I don't go to rock concerts for a motivational speaker. Unfortuantely it was crowded and I didn't want to lose my spot for some of the bands that I wanted to see later at that stage.

1st time I saw Doves they were freakin' horrible...no sound, bad attitudes...they've since made up for that

Le Tigre-kathleen hanna just plain sucks imho...awful band, awful sound.

I walked out of a secret Blur show at SXSW, it was only Damon and Dave at that point...Alex couldn't get in the US...horrible show

The Rapture...same show as the above Blur show...I wanted to dance, dance, and dance...they made it quite impossible.