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An early version of post-rock darlings Tortoise playing at Lounge Ax in Chicago circa ‘93 or ‘94. Multiple bass players not even trying to find common ground or a skeletal melody. Cooler-than-thou indierock crowd hanging on every ‘note’. So bad it was funny for a while, then it just hurt. I really wanted to see the headlining band (Codeine) so had to stick it out.
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Probably Robert Plant in the late 80’s. Where did his voice go? Chris www.stereorock.com
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I remember walking out on Metallica in the late 80s. A real "yawner"… Lloyd – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com > Newsgroups: alt.guitar.amps > x-no-archive: yes > So bad actually you walked out. > Mine was Jo Jo Gunne, a dreadful Spirit spinoff in the early ’70’s.
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> while, then it just hurt. I really wanted to see the > headlining band (Codeine) so had to stick it out.
I’m jealous that you got to see Codeine, that was a great band. My friends once dragged me to see Dave Matthews Band, and it was so awful the memory sends a shiver up my spine.
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Being preoccupied with tone and sound, I immediately thought of a Van Halen show in the Seattle Center Coliseum in the early 80’s. It was so damn LOUD that you couldn’t hear the music. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > x-no-archive: yes > So bad actually you walked out. > Mine was Jo Jo Gunne, a dreadful Spirit spinoff in the early ’70’s.
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I don’t know if anyone knows who Canada’s Big Sugar are but I left one of their shows in a club because it was way too loud. The guy had 3 Marshall stacks in a club! Chris
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Any of those crappy ska bands that play at my college. I don’t like ska. They only have a blues band once in a great while. Nate.
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George T-good
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could have been at Chaucer’s Ale House, Oakdale, NY. Having grown up in that place and listen to many great bands there (Stanton Anderson, Jitter Bug Jones, Rat Race Choir among many others) we went one night to check out some new band we had never heard of. They step on stage acting as if they were "the shit" Dressed up in make up and all. 2 songs in we walked out. The
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> I don’t know if anyone knows who Canada’s Big Sugar
Probably some loud, Canuck named Gord ……. dosen’t it just rile ya though, eh? dw – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> are but I left one of > their shows in a club because it was way too loud. The guy had 3 Marshall > stacks in a club! > Chris > x-no-archive: yes > So bad actually you walked out. > Mine was Jo Jo Gunne, a dreadful Spirit spinoff in the early ’70’s.
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Hmmm, right ….. no explanation necessary …. dw – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > George T-good
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Rush Moving Pictures. Absolutely the most boring show ever.
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>So bad actually you walked out.
Sananta 1995. Jeff Beck opened and wowed, Santana headlined and bored.
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It’s a tossup between two concerts. Humble Pie, 1975, had the lead singer spitting tobacco at the poor roadie who kept trying to untangle a mike cord and dodging spit. T Ride, 1998, was so loud and distorted that you could only make out every fifth word they sang. This was maybe a blessing. Both concerts had horrible guitar work. Ken Albin
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It’s funny, how I’ve seen a few of the shows mentioned on this thread, and felt totally the opposie. Mine however was either the Clash, opening for the Who in the 80’s, or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Anytime I’ve seen them. Brutally loud and distorted, like their sound man was trying to actually make them suck on purpose. Bob Maggio Not a downstroke, fistpicker. www.curbdog.org
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Rush in 75′ David Lee Roth- he couldn’t remember the words and seemed smashed. When he went to sing in the boxing ring out in the audience the delay was so bad he was in different time than the band on stage
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> It’s funny, how I’ve seen a few of the shows mentioned on this thread, and felt > totally the opposie. > Mine however was either the Clash, opening for the Who in the 80’s, or the Red > Hot Chilli Peppers. Anytime I’ve seen them. Brutally loud and distorted, like > their sound man was trying to actually make them suck on purpose. > Bob Maggio > Not a downstroke, fistpicker. > www.curbdog.org
I’ll go along with RHCP, after a 20 minute Stratbridgepickupicepickthroughthebrain-solo I was ready to go. Not to mention Anthony and Flea chiding the fans for groping a girl who was crowd surfing. They threatened to stop playing. Ended up sitting through the entire show because I didn’t drive. Turns out ALL of us wanted to leave, but no one said anything because we thought the others wanted to stay. Only good things were the opening acts, Muse and the Foo Fighters. Both actually TRIED to put on a good show. &E
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Alien Sex Fiend when supporting Alice Cooper in the late 80’s. Man that was bad. Normally every support band has at least one guy clapping for them – but no – they got bottled off of the stage. They still did two encores though – and got booed everytime. Then again, Alice Cooper wasn’t that much better either. — Stircrazy! Making the world a louder place. http://www.stircrazy.fsnet.co.uk
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Steppenwolf in 1976 in Burlington, Iowa. There were no original members in the band the promoter was a rookie loser who had too many bands scheduled. Steppenwolf didn’t play till nearly 2:00 AM and most of the members had spent from 10:00 PM on loading up on heroin in the dressing room. When they came out they couldn’t even play Rock Me Baby (I mean not play it at all not just not play it correctly). It was all down hill from there on sheeeesh!! On the other hand King Crimson wasn’t all that great a few weeks ago at the Chicago Theater either (go figure). matt