Bands You Like Who Were Crap Live

furiousox

Most gigs you hear about were "brilliant" but have you ever seen a band (who you liked) in concert and thought......"Jaysus, this is crap!"

I saw AC/DC and Neil Young in the O2 this year and they were "brilliant"

l also saw Whitesnake (along with Def Leppard, Journey etc) and they were $hite!
Now l like Whitesnake, l saw them in the old SFX over 20 yrs ago but they're a spent force now.

Coverdale's voice is shot, 2 long and boring widdly widdly guitar solos and a drum solo in a 45 min set!! :mad:

Anway, to recap....have you ever seen a band (who you liked) in concert and thought......"Jaysus, this is crap!"

chin_grin

ISIS when they played the Temple Button Music Factory.

Rest (a similar doom/drone band from Cork) were supporting and I thought they were the best band on the night.

I think it was the fact that the drummer kept slipping up in Isis. I mean I'm not a perfect drummer meself and yeah there's been the odd stick drop, but this guy was obviously suffering! It was through numerous songs and trying fills and beats that just didn't go or were too sloppy. And as a result it put me off.

Don't get me wrong they're amazing on disk, but just didn't do it for me live. Left before the encore. Too p*ssed off!

Slayer in The Point in 2006 for the Unholy Alliance tour. Again this was where the support act rocked! (Lamb of God).

And, yeah I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this one. But when Metallica played Marlay Park just this summer. Thought it was one of their worse shows. I mean we don't pay to watch Kirk w*nk out some guitar crap while the other guys go for their rehab break. The whole thing just didn't click. They belted out their greats but it was a mish mash set list. And the tempo was completely ruined by (god me memory is shot) that old guy that got up on stage with them......He was dire. Just looked in complete awe at the unfolding comedy.

carey

Ive been to see AC/DC, metallica, oasis and kasabian in the last few months.

AC/DC were unbelieveble but at both them and oasis the blizzards were supporting and i thought they were the worst live band ive ever seen
Oasis were boring but kasabian and the prodigy kind of made that day for me.

The metallica concert was a bit of a let down compared to their previous show i saw last time they were here.

Yeah so i reckon the blizzards are a disaster but a band called the answer played at AC/DC and they were really good, you should check them out!

bijapos

Bob Dylan at The Point this year, though I expected him to be bad he outdid himself, didn't say one f**king word to us.

Clapton at Malahide last year, no interaction, a bunch of solicitors near us trying to act cool and hip so they could scrounge some dope off me (grow your own you lazy tits) and to boot the sound buggered off during Layla too.

Sex Pistols at the EP last year. FFS.

I was at a gig in Roisin Dubhs in Galway as couple of years ago, went to see The Pale, great band. But the support act were so bad it was bordering on hilarious. Utter ****e, can't remember the name for the life of me.

Catari Jaguar

Tool in the Point a couple of years ago. Hollow, dull, lifeless. They highlight of the show were these lame green lasers. It had lashed rain and everyone was soaked. There was this pretentious water and wind sound playing that just reminded everyone of how uncomfortable they were. also they only played one track off Lateralus iirc and mostly played new material that god awful album 10,000 Days.

Star Bingo

chin_grin wrote: »

Slayer in The Point in 2006 for the Unholy Alliance tour. Again this was where the support act rocked! (Lamb of God).

And, yeah I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this one. But when Metallica played Marlay Park just this summer. Thought it was one of their worse shows. I mean we don't pay to watch Kirk w*nk out some guitar crap while the other guys go for their rehab break. The whole thing just didn't click. They belted out their greats but it was a mish mash set list. And the tempo was completely ruined by (god me memory is shot) that old guy that got up on stage with them......He was dire. Just looked in complete awe at the unfolding comedy.

I think slayer are bored to death of their own predictable setlist outside new album tunes.. very rigid. also was araya's voice shot? happens more n more since the turn of the millenium. most intense shouter in the business is gettn on i guess.. should narrow down their schedule some more. already cut us out of the itinerary

-n metallikur! lol. theyre just good time boys anyhow, long as someone goes home happy as opposed to bloody. albeit it laughing.. for the wrong reasons. denied down to the ground of course by the metallicurchins

Notorious

bijapos wrote: »

Bob Dylan at The Point this year...

I thought that was an excellent gig, one of the best I've been to!

Off the top of my head, Ween weren't the best live. I expected something completely different.

Reginald P. DuM

Kings of Leon, O2 last Christmas.. Bored. Just like listening to a CD.

Numina

Saw Slayer at Hellfest 2008, and we stayed for the first 2 songs but left because it was just so bad. It sounded really weak. Funny thing is that I actually fell asleep at the start of Raining Blood, you could hear it from the campsite.

Goat Mouth

Numina wrote: »

Saw Slayer at Hellfest 2008, and we stayed for the first 2 songs but left because it was just so bad. It sounded really weak. Funny thing is that I actually fell asleep at the start of Raining Blood, you could hear it from the campsite.

I remember that, man they were ****e!

Somnus

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Tool in the RDS a couple of years ago. Hollow, dull, lifeless. They highlight of the show were these lame green lasers. It had lashed rain and everyone was soaked. There was this pretentious water and wind sound playing that just reminded everyone of how uncomfortable they were. also they only played one track off Lateralus iirc and mostly played new material that god awful album 10,000 Days.

Man I thought that was a great gig :P

They played a few off Lateralus as far as I can remember: definitely played Lateralus and I think they played Schism too.

They also played 46 & 2 which was incredible and opened with Stinkfist, which was great. Can't think of any others at the moment.

Zwillinge

I was at Oxegen (schwa) a few years ago and The Counting Crows played. Not their biggest fan, but enjoy what I hear...they were awful! Dull and lifeless stuff.

Same thing happened at an Oxegen previous to that, Red Hot Chilli Peppers played and for a festival gig they were very slow and without much ooomph so to speak!

My own fault for going to Oxegen :P

smelltheglove

Seen Tool a few years ago feckin pants promised so much but the show was absolute bollox,whitesnake this year were not the may west seen them in the olympia a few years ago and they were amazing you can see all the smokin has taken its toll on his voice..

MelissaLahive

Moby at Feile in the mid 90s. He started out by playing some classics like Feeling So Real and Go then half way through the set he picked up an electric guitar and started playing a thrash metal song. Talk about killing the buzz. 30 thousands fans stood there, stunned.

waltersobchak

Lil Kitten wrote: »

Tool in the RDS a couple of years ago. Hollow, dull, lifeless. They highlight of the show were these lame green lasers. It had lashed rain and everyone was soaked. There was this pretentious water and wind sound playing that just reminded everyone of how uncomfortable they were. also they only played one track off Lateralus iirc and mostly played new material that god awful album 10,000 Days.

+1.. i was so disappointed with that gig especially after how unbelievably awesome they were at ozzfest(toolfest) 2002, the sound sucked big time, and the set sucked even more, i hate it when bands just release a new album and then put 8 or more songs in the set, especially when its a band like Tool who's albums take a few months to digest, the only good thing about that gig was it was the first time i got to see Mastadon live..

DazMarz

Gotta say I've always been pretty lucky in all that the gigs I've gone to have been killer (at least in my own mind!!:D) I'm easily starstruck...

siltirocker

Bob Dylan in Galway, a few years back was atrocious.

RHCP in Phoenix Park was crap (half hour of John Fruscantie's solo album!:rolleyes:).

Smashing Pumpkins in RDS a year or two back. (I think hot press gave it one star), i was gutted with how poor this was.

White Stripes was just ****, a guitar/piano/xylo and two drums, a snare, hats and a crash just don't cut it live.

The U2 360' Tour was sh1te compared to the ELEVATION & VERTIGO tours. Thought the hometown show would be special (like it was for a 3hr show in 2005), but it was the same crowd banter and setlist as all the other shows that tour. V.disappointed.

Although not sh1t, Muse in 2006 was fine but, no banter, interaction and only an hour and 10 mins long, no encore.

zenmonk

RHCP in Phoenix Park was lame as was their gig in Daly mount a few years back (92?).
Slayer in Marquee in Cork was rubbish, going through the motions bigtime. Sound was bad too.
House of Pain in Limerick, arrived without Everlast and had some new guy. Played for 30 minutes and walked off to the boos of the crowd.
Took the biscuit.
Iron Maiden point depot "No prayer" tour, utter bollix.#

Every Soundgarden gig.

--Kaiser--

Tool.
Snooooooore

cournioni

Thought Testament were quite poor when I saw them in the o2 this year. It was more down to the sound being really really poor though. It was poor for the start of Megadeth's set too but picked up after two or three songs.

yupyup7up

to those of you saying that slayer are bad live, Ive seen them 3 times (twice back to back in hammersmith with slipknot for the unholy alliance and the other in the ambassador in 2005.) They were unbeleivably good all 3 times. Must have been something wrong the times ye seen them!

Metallica weren't great when i seen them in the rds 2003.

Mushy

siltirocker wrote: »

Smashing Pumpkins in RDS a year or two back. (I think hot press gave it one star), i was gutted with how poor this was.

White Stripes was just ****, a guitar/piano/xylo and two drums, a snare, hats and a crash just don't cut it live.

Although not sh1t, Muse in 2006 was fine but, no banter, interaction and only an hour and 10 mins long, no encore.

Re: Pumpkins: Lot of that prob had something to do with sound. Was horrendous, but when in a shed on tarmac, cant blame them. Other than that, it was kind of expected for me, so still enjoyed it.

Agreed on White Stripes.

Muse did have an encore that night. Was 3 songs, ending wit Knights of Cydonia. They rarely interact with crowd, it wasn't an exception that nnight. Things do appear to be changing though.

JohnnyCrash

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

Thought Testament were quite poor when I saw them in the o2 this year. It was more down to the sound being really really poor though. It was poor for the start of Megadeth's set too but picked up after two or three songs.

Thought that too! Thought Priest put on a great show also.Begs the question,Are the support acts purpously made sound bad to make the headliners look(sound) good.Wouldnt be the first time?

Mushy

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Thought that too! Thought Priest put on a great show also.Begs the question,Are the support acts purpously made sound bad to make the headliners look(sound) good.Wouldnt be the first time?

One may wonder that alright, its quite legite. Think the support bands don't have full PA though like the main band. Metallica learned their lesson when they gave Kyuss full PA in Australia and proceded to nearly blow the venue away into the next state. For rest of tour was only half PA, so guess its something along those lines.

damonjewel

I've seen the Fall live a few times

And they are very hit and miss (more miss)

I would love to go to a Dylan gig but again its a lucky dip as to what Dylan shows up, Rambling disinterested stoner a la Live aid finale, or a blistering Dylan with Band and a bit of acoustic. For the cash for gigs thats being demanded these days I'm unwilling to take a punt.

gunslinger1987

MGMT at Electric Picnic.

Nea

Biggest disappointment to me was Soundgarden at Sunstroke, White Zombie kicked them off the stage.

Also wasnt impressed with AC/DC at Punchestown, not a big fan tho and the weather and organisation of the gig probably didnt help either

dopes

bob dylan in galway.

so disappointed

damonjewel

John Cale in Vicar St- Total dissappointment, a thirty minute version of heartbreak hotel with him warbling whilst playing the Grand Piano was enough for me to say fyck this and walked out. Also annoying is the crowd reverence for these guys, to my shame I should have walked to the front of the stage and told him he was shee-ite

SteelyDanJalapeno

The Killers at Oxegen 06 or 07, whichever was the 1st oxegen they played,

the sound was **** and there attitude was awful,

Seen Tool at Ozzfest(2002) and in the rds, 2 years back, both shows were amazing!

They played more than one song from Laterlus by the way,

Main Set

1. Stinkfist
2. Forty Six & 2
3. Jambi
4. Schism
5. Lost Keys
6. Rosetta Stoned
7. The Pot
8. Wings For Marie
9. 10,000 Days
10. Lateralus
11. Vicarious
12. Aenema

--Kaiser--

Horgan wrote: »

Seen Tool at Ozzfest(2002) and in the rds, 2 years back, both shows were amazing!

I saw that gig at Ozzfest, thought it was awful, like watching a bunch of robots play (one who looked like a smurf), and the choice of songs was very suspect, the played (-) Ions FFS, who wants to listen to 4 minutes of static noises???

GeorgeCostanza

bijapos wrote: »

Bob Dylan at The Point this year, though I expected him to be bad he outdid himself, didn't say one f**king word to us.

+1

Saw Dylan at the point in 2003. Absolute dirt from start to finish. I wouldn't go to see him again if you paid me. I'll stay home and listen to Blood on the Tracks instead...

Hank_Jones

Saw the Stones a few years ago at Slane and thought they were pretty woeful. Might have just been the acoustics...but I doubt it.

Black NG-60-90

Mushy wrote: »

Re: Pumpkins: Lot of that prob had something to do with sound. Was horrendous, but when in a shed on tarmac, cant blame them. Other than that, it was kind of expected for me, so still enjoyed it.

I was at that gig. The RDS is a terrible venue, the acoustics were terrible. As for the band themselves it was pretty much the BC show. Billy was completely full of himself and dragging out United States to 20 minutes long was painfull. But some songs sounded awesome like Stand Inside Your Love, it's a pity the whole show wasn't like this.

lord lucan

I normally only go to see bands i'm into so i've rarely been let down. The only show that springs to mind is Bon Jovi in '95. I'd seen them in the point in 1990 and '93 and they put on a great live show. Went to see them outdoors in the RDS in '95 and they were muck,ended up leaving after an hour and going on the rip in town!

Agent Smith

RHCP - Landsdown road
RHCP - phoenix park

second timei had a free ticket

bigfeller

Nea wrote: »

Biggest disappointment to me was Soundgarden at Sunstroke, White Zombie kicked them off the stage.

Was at that gig - probably my least favourite of the sunstrokes. But White Zombie were amazing. I was never much of a fan but they were classic live. Then Soundgarden came out, stood on one spot and droned. Awful

Reginald P. DuM wrote: »

Kings of Leon, O2 last Christmas.. Bored. Just like listening to a CD.

I saw them when they supported the Pixies in Lansdowne Road - they just looked like they didn't want to be there. Terrible live.

louisa200

red hot chilli peppers a few years ago at oxegen.. they were dire and I walked away, big disapointment.. although I have to say the worst worst worst concert I have ever been to was paul bleedin mcartney in the outdoor venue in dublin.. someone bought me a ticket, some of the worst few hours of my life and i will never get them back.. what a tosser

jenizzle

I actually enjoyed The Killers debut till I saw them at Oxegen. Woeful so they were.

Guns n' Roses - saw them twice in '06, went to sleep half way through the first time I saw them.

Het-Field

Iron Maiden : The Point : 20th December 2006. Matter of Life and Death Tour. Was waiting for all the classics, but they pulled out the entire record. I was very disapointed to only hear Iron Maiden, Hallowed Be Thy Name, and Fear of the Dark.

Metallica : RDS : 11th June 2006. Escape From the Studio 06 Again, a fairly predictable gig after "The God That Failed", and "The Unforgiven". The playing Master of Puppets in its entirety is not as great as one would have you believe. The element of suprise is one of Metallica's strong points. It took the Wembley gig to fully restore my faith in their live assault.

-All other Tallica gigs I have attended have been superb.

Deftone : Ambassador : 11th July 2006. Dont remember much, save for my constant desire to go home. A boring gig where one song melted into the next, and there was nothing at all to write home about.

symbolic

System of a Down, they just can't do it live....

peter1892

Aerosmith at Marlay Park a few years were awful, don't think they actually played a note to be honest...Chris Cornell opened for them and he was even worse!

I was at an Oasis gig* in Lansdowne in 2000 which was dire as well (I'd seen them before & they were good). Nasty crowd too, the atmosphere was more like a football match when things are turning moody than a concert. Metal fans are (generally speaking) much better behaved


*waiting for the 'serves you right going to see them Manc Tw*ts' response

Casinoking

Do your homework on the Dylan gigs FFS. It's widely known that he doesn't "play the hits like they were on record" anymore, he hasn't done so for about the last, oh I dunno, 35 years. He had changed the lyrics to most of the tracks on Blood on the Tracks by the time he got to the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. I see another comment about him "not saying a word to the audience", I've seen him 14 or 15 times and, apart from introducing the band, he only spoke to the audience once in all those shows, 3 or 4 words in Cork in 06. I was at both Point shows this year and thought they were pretty good as Dylan shows go, his voice was clear in the sound mix and the band was tighter than they have been for the last couple of tours. The Galway gig in 04 was also a great performance, he still had Larry Campbell on guitar at that stage and played a good mix of material. Another comment in this thread mentions it being a lucky dip as to whether it's the "disinterested stoner from Live Aid or the blistering Dylan with Band with a few solo acoustic numbers". If it's THE BAND you're referring to, he hasn't played with them since the Last Waltz in 1976, and solo acoustic slots haven't been part of the show for donkey's years. I remember someone telling me they were at a terrible Dylan gig a few years ago, he played too many new songs. I was at the same gig and the number of "new" songs was zero, he played a couple off Love and Theft which was 2 or 3 years old at that stage but almost everthing else was from the 60's and 70's. If you're a fan of Dylan through some of his many "Greatest Hits" albums there's a good chance you'll hate the gigs, if you go with an open mind to hear a fresh take on an incredibly varied back catalogue you will enjoy yourself. Rant over, the gig that stands out as the worst I've ever seen was the Stereophonics in the Point around 2000. I wasn't a massive fan, but I do remember the crowd cheering when their amps stopped working, and when Kelly Jones told the crowd they could either play acoustic or go home he was loudly prompted to do the latter. Also saw Paddy Casey make a fool of himself in Galway one year, Mundy was on the same bill and he had to bring him back on to sing Mexico to appease an increasingly unsettled crowd.

Fad

Blur at Oxegen *shakes head*

MSTRKRFT at Oxegen (Wrong forum.......)

There's more but I'm generally quite lucky.

B.E.S.T.

Went to Oasis about seven years ago in New York and fell asleep I was that bored.
Hate to say it but the U2 360 tour Stop at Giants Stadium in New York a couple of months ago didn`t live up to expectations. I m a big fan and but was not impressed at all.

discobeaker

Some of the worst shows i have seen were

The Eagles in the RDS (I managed to fall asleep standing up!)
Billy Corgan's solo rubbish in the ambassador afew years back.
Metallica - well every metallica show or cd cos they are a terrible band.
Kings of Leon @ the Pixies gig,Lansdown RD - they didnt want to be there
Chilli peppers in Lansdown road - the sound was awful.

Some of the best shows i seen have been

James Brown in Vicar Street - The sound and his band were just amazing
Faith No More @ The Olympia was just a thing of beauty to behold.
RATM @ Oxygen - Yes it was oxygen but i had waited 12 years to see Rage so it was pretty amazing.

Have probably seen more good and bad ones but its late and im tired

siltirocker

Casinoking wrote: »

Do your homework on the Dylan gigs FFS. It's widely known that he doesn't "play the hits like they were on record" anymore, he hasn't done so for about the last, oh I dunno, 35 years. He had changed the lyrics to most of the tracks on Blood on the Tracks by the time he got to the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. I see another comment about him "not saying a word to the audience", I've seen him 14 or 15 times and, apart from introducing the band, he only spoke to the audience once in all those shows, 3 or 4 words in Cork in 06. I was at both Point shows this year and thought they were pretty good as Dylan shows go, his voice was clear in the sound mix and the band was tighter than they have been for the last couple of tours. The Galway gig in 04 was also a great performance, he still had Larry Campbell on guitar at that stage and played a good mix of material. Another comment in this thread mentions it being a lucky dip as to whether it's the "disinterested stoner from Live Aid or the blistering Dylan with Band with a few solo acoustic numbers". If it's THE BAND you're referring to, he hasn't played with them since the Last Waltz in 1976, and solo acoustic slots haven't been part of the show for donkey's years. I remember someone telling me they were at a terrible Dylan gig a few years ago, he played too many new songs. I was at the same gig and the number of "new" songs was zero, he played a couple off Love and Theft which was 2 or 3 years old at that stage but almost everthing else was from the 60's and 70's. If you're a fan of Dylan through some of his many "Greatest Hits" albums there's a good chance you'll hate the gigs, if you go with an open mind to hear a fresh take on an incredibly varied back catalogue you will enjoy yourself. Rant over, the gig that stands out as the worst I've ever seen was the Stereophonics in the Point around 2000. I wasn't a massive fan, but I do remember the crowd cheering when their amps stopped working, and when Kelly Jones told the crowd they could either play acoustic or go home he was loudly prompted to do the latter. Also saw Paddy Casey make a fool of himself in Galway one year, Mundy was on the same bill and he had to bring him back on to sing Mexico to appease an increasingly unsettled crowd.

I've only seen Dylan once. Guy with me was at the two unreal 2000 Vicar Street gigs. In Galway. Would like to think im well versed in his back catalogue. I wasn't expecting hits, he hadn't done that in years. I thought the way he had his back to the audience was class personally. :rolleyes:
The problem is this wasn't a gig or a show this was a big all day event/ summer concert. And although technically true, i would hardly call mumbled, extended versions of an 1984 b-side a fresh take on "an incredibly varied back catalogue".
You go to a show that you've spent cash on, you expect to be entertained. Fullstop.

damonjewel

Casinoking wrote: »

Do your homework on the Dylan gigs FFS.

I do and this is what I see

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/bob-dylan/5228685/Bob-Dylan-live-at-the-O2---review.html

Casinoking wrote: »

If it's THE BAND you're referring to, he hasn't played with them since the Last Waltz in 1976.

I wasn't referring to them at all, just illustrating (perhaps over illustrating) that you don't know what you're going to get with Dylan. I know many of Dylan fans who have handed out a fair few euros on his gigs. And what I hear back is really mixed, from brilliant to poor. Which really has put me off.

Although I'm not an Expert Dylanist I would have a fair handle on his catalogue, and I would actually approve of him digging out some of his more obscure stuff.

As you have mentioned the The Band, they had a concert in the Olympia (I think) during the 80's. My uncle was at the first night and said it was an absolute disaster, they were plastered, badmouthed Robbie Robertson, one fell over on stage. Even the magazine In Dublin ran an article on it saying it was one of the worst concerts by anyone in Ireland. Yet the following night apparently they were fantastic.

old gregg

peter1892 wrote: »

Aerosmith at Marlay Park a few years were awful, don't think they actually played a note to be honest...Chris Cornell opened for them and he was even worse!

... and before Cornell there was the icing on the cake ... THE FEELING
was at this, would not be an Aerosmith fan and had free tix but I thought it was reasonably OK for a greatest hits tourist like me, but then again, it was probably formulaic for folks who'd be into them.

Slayer at the point were awful, agreed ( I thought In Flames were great that night, so were Lamb of God [then again, I'm nearly 50 and grew up on metal])
RHCP at the Phoenix pk were awful, agreed (Pixies stole that show for me)
Shpongle at the Roundhouse in London a few weeks ago were not great
The last Stones gig at Slane was awful, the first one was memorable
U2 360 tour at Croker was a waste of money, Vertigo in Cardiff was great
... it goes on forever

Black NG-60-90

Horgan wrote: »

The Killers at Oxegen 06 or 07, whichever was the 1st oxegen they played,

the sound was **** and there attitude was awful,

The first Oxegen they played was 04 on the new band stage. They played the main stage in 05 which was when i saw them. It was a pretty sloppy set from them and Brandon's voice sounded awful. I don't remember the sound quality or their attitute being being that bad though, they did interact with the crowd.

Mental Mickey

discobeaker wrote: »

Some of the worst shows i have seen were

The Eagles in the RDS (I managed to fall asleep standing up!)
Billy Corgan's solo rubbish in the ambassador afew years back.
Metallica - well every metallica show or cd cos they are a terrible band.
Kings of Leon @ the Pixies gig,Lansdown RD - they didnt want to be there
Chilli peppers in Lansdown road - the sound was awful.

Some of the best shows i seen have been

James Brown in Vicar Street - The sound and his band were just amazing
Faith No More @ The Olympia was just a thing of beauty to behold.
RATM @ Oxygen - Yes it was oxygen but i had waited 12 years to see Rage so it was pretty amazing.

Have probably seen more good and bad ones but its late and im tired

That's a matter of opinion. They are a great live band. Their cd output has been dodgy since "ReLoad", though.