Whats the worst concert you have been to?

I have two ,The first was Barry White at the R.A.H. In 1974 0R 1975 the sound was so bad we left half way through, so did many others.
The second was Barclay James Harvest at Hammersmith Odeon 1978 the Xii tour .They came on did 2 songs ,power fault half hour later half a song. that was it ,power back 2 songs good night thanks,we all went home. No sorry or refund or tickets for another date.4 bloody hours we were there , and the people that had to leave to get the last trains home did not get the last 2 songs.regards munch

I went to see The Beautiful South in manchester a couple of months ago. They were absolutely superb but Badly drawn Boy was the support act and bloody hell he was bad. He can't seem to hold a note.

The first was Joe Cocker in 1985.
A guy did puke his dinner on my tennis shoes.
Unforgettable.
The second: Ulan Bator in about 2003.
The place was simply closed.
Spent the rest of the evening in a bar with the worst cover band my ears ever heard.

Hi Gianluigi have you still got them ? be worth a fortune on Ebay. regards munch

Oasis at Earls Court, some 15 years ago. Quite terrible.

If it was Cocker's puke.................

Btw our singer reached the stage 2/3 hours late.
He was completely drunk and did jabber in the microphone for about 40 minutes.
Then somebody came and took him away.
End of the happening.
I've never bought a Cocker's album in all my life!

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Originally posted by graham55:
Oasis at Earls Court, some 15 years ago. Quite terrible.

Hi Graham!
I can imagine.
The two Oasis records i have seem to be recorded into a bucket.
Shame.
They've made some good pieces!

My worst gig was seeing my favourite band Free. Kossoff was so out of his head that he kept trying to put a coke bottle into his mouth and kept smashing it into his forehead. I had seen them before when they were just brilliant. It was there last tour and no wonder they were awful.

You lucky lucky b------ i would have put that down as a classic concert.love to have seen them live. regards munch

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Originally posted by Gianluigi Mazzorana:
If it was Cocker's puke.................

Btw our singer reached the stage 2/3 hours late.
He was completely drunk and did jabber in the microphone for about 40 minutes.
Then somebody came and took him away.
End of the happening.
I've never bought a Cocker's album in all my life!

His early stuff is very good .regards munch

Gianluigi

Oasis made two brilliant LPs at the start of their career. Mostly stolen from The Beatles. But they went downhill terribly quickly, and I was there to see it.

G

Deep Purple at Wembley arena 197? a whole 65 minutes which included a power fail except PA.

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Originally posted by graham55:
Gianluigi

Oasis made two brilliant LPs at the start of their career. Mostly stolen from The Beatles. But they went downhill terribly quickly, and I was there to see it.

G

Not the words, they nick the riff .still a good band to see live at a small gig.munch

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Deep Purple at Wembley arena 197? a whole 65 minutes which included a power fail except PA.

It was Wembley pool in the 70s.munch

The worst concert I ever went to was the second I played in!

It was Leominster Priory - a place with such a legendary acoustic that DG recorded John Eliot Gardiner with his Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra there once, with equally unhappy results.

It has to be the coldest Church there is! In our case there was no heating and everyone could been seen breathing! The strings went sharp and it was horrible because the organ did not.

We were playing Duruffle's Requiem, and this has a significantt organ part. Though it was freezing, I had managed to sweat through my Dinner Jacket! Horrible. For the DG recording they left the boiler running flat out for three days! It was apparently still very cold...

ATB from Fredrik

Fredrik what did you play? regards munch

I saw Tony McPhee and the Groundhogs once (older folk amongst us may remember them). Where Tony was playing a guitar solo and stepped up onto the drum riser. Still don't know what really happened but the next thing I know is the drums are all over the stage. Looked like he caught his guitar chord on ythem somehow and when he went to move forward the drum kit followed him. All you could see was the drummer and roadies running about the stage trying to pick up pieces and get them set up. Tony just kept on playing as if nothing had happened.

As regards Free munch yep I was very lucky. Paul Kossoff is still the only guy who can make me cry when he plays guitar. Yep I am a big softie.

Sadly it was Michelle Shocked, whose records I really like, playing Brum's Glee Club a few years ago. She was obviously not in a good place head-wise, the audience went colder and colder, and at one point she just walked off and didn't return. Hope she's better now.

Btw, I saw the Groundhogs a couple of years ago at Swindon's Arts Centre and they were brilliant, though they must all be deaf as the volume was shattering.

I once saw Nazareth and wished I hadn't - they were dreadful - much as I expected them to be, but I got dragged along.

Curved Air weren't much better, perhaps even more disappointing as I was expecting them to be good.

I saw the Rolling Stones at the free Hyde Park thing years ago and I think it was just about worth what I paid to get in.

I went the following year too and it was Grand Funk Railroad (dreadful) - the support group were Heads Hands & Feet who were much much better, but didn't play for very long - probably wanted to leave London before GFR came on.

Same thing happened to me with Nazareth. Except in mine they had got their families bused into the Usher Hall in Edinburgh and they were giving it the hoopin' and hollerin' bit. That just seemed to inspire them to get worse.

RE the Stones first time I saw them I thought they were poor however I thought the second gig of theirs I went to the same year was excellent. But mabye it's my memory playing tricks on me cause I know some folk who thought even the second gig was crap

Never saw Grand Funk, for some reason I used to like their We are an American Band album. Why I do not know.