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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: mankie on October 29, 2003, 12:58:00 pm
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Without a doubt.
Billy Bragg with Wilco...total steaming, smelly feces with tape worms in it!
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It wasnt that bad, was it?
Placebo when they played the time before last disappointed me. Spiritualized last show and third from last shows were awful too.
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I saw Bowie in Dublin sometime in 89/90/91, whenever he was doing that whole playing the old songs for the last time tour - terrible
I was also at a Nick Cave show 4/5 years ago at the 9.30 where I thought he phoned it in a little
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Oh I forgot Manic Street Preachers......
So bad that after 35 minutes someone got on stage to steal the microphone so the band could not play any more. I definitive concert going low point.
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Mankie, why did you start another thread about Badly Drawn Boy?
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Actually, I've yet to see a truly bad show at the 9:30.
I guess.... the Radiohead Tibetan Freedom Concert midnight surprise show.. but that would be... because I couldn't get in. :p
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The Vines. That was too easy :D
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Psychedelic Furs opening for Echo & the Bunnymen were just so AWFUL. Duran Duran @ World Music Theater in 1995 was pathetic too (that was part of one of those all-day Q101 festival things...the Stone Roses, KMFDM and the Flaming Lips played earlier that day). Cocteau Twins @ Lisner Auditorium in 1993, absolutely a big stinking pile of shite. 808 State @ the Metro in Chicago, 1993, purely fecal waste. Hmmmm...when I worked at the Club a long time ago, I saw some horrid stuff like the Bogmen, Everything, and Cravin' Dogs. Those were some long and painful nights.
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Cypress Hill on Halloween many years ago.
did a midnight show and BOY, did they suck.
or Outkast....i think maybe hip hop isnt so good there.
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Psychedelic Furs opening for Echo & the Bunnymen were just so AWFUL.
They certainly did suffer, along with the crowd, through that one didn't they? They were brilliant at the 930 though, so I'll let them off with a "bad night" pass.
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bryan ferry in the mid 80s... he was moody and one of the guitar players was painfully loud
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There is I guess a difference between worst show ever (probably Dispatch or the Book of Love), versus those that I hoped would be good. For that I would have to say Queens of the Stone Age this past year. I was expecting something great, but it was just so-so metal. Kyuss was much better back in the day.
But the top bad show was Jackson Browne at Merriweather this summer. Went with a friend, was hoping to hear some of his classics, and other than Running on Empty at the end it was all crap that I never heard (nor my friend who has all the older good albums).
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built to spill recently. maybe i was expecting too much.
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One big letdown of a show that has always stood out was Violent Femmes at Lisner in 85 or 86. Man I loved that record as a young lad and I was ready to see something great.......but saw something totally forgettable instead.
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Originally posted by brennser:
I was also at a Nick Cave show 4/5 years ago at the 9.30 where I thought he phoned it in a little
I saw this show and thought it was great, especially the encore of Stagger Lee. This is the only Nick Cave show I've attended though, so perhaps he's had much better nights.
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I saw this show and thought it was great, especially the encore of Stagger Lee.
Stagger Lee was great - I just wish the rest of the gig had been more like that - maybe it was something to do with touring the Boatmans Call which is much quieter than his earlier stuff
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A "roses" theme . . .
One of my favorite shows ever, but still I have to say Stone Roses at WUST. No Reni and Ian Brown's voice was shot to hell. Couldn't get over what I thought the show should have been.
Another is G'n'R at Capital Center back in 91. 3 songs off Appetite and the rest Use Your Illusion-a full 3 months before it was released! Thanks Axl.
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one of the biggest disappointments. . .
frank black 1994 at emo's in austin.
siouxsie and the banshees sometime in 1995 in austin.
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Last years Siouxie and The Banshees show at Nation.
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White Stripes 9:30 2002
QotSA 9:30 w/ Dave Grohl
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
White Stripes 9:30 2002
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I was pleasantly surprised.
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
White Stripes 9:30 2002
QotSA 9:30 w/ Dave Grohl
Put down the crack pipe and step away from the computer.
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Black Grape. Worst concert ever.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
Put down the crack pipe and step away from the computer.
this is most disappointing, not worst, I had EXTREMELY high expectations for both
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Damn, how could I have forgotten this one:
PiL and 9353 at the Ontario Theater (Seth was this your fault?)
So we were highschool kids from the 'burbs, got a dad to drive us to the show. Had called ahead and was told the scheduled times and it seemed the whole thing would be over by 11pm. HA! We just got to listen to Siouxie on a cassette and see some guy check monitors for 2 friggin' hours. Left at 11pm as that was curfew and a dad was waiting, and no one had showed up.
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Originally posted by Moon Mulllens:
Black Grape. Worst concert ever.
Thank you..I very nearly went to that one, but thought it might be a train-wreck.
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Yo La Tengo last spring...
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horde tour line-up: neil young/beck/primus
pittsburgh gets: neil young/bosstones/toad the wet sprocket
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the recover. i was playing phone games and looking at my watch...
and poison the well was also pretty boring. specially after DEP.
i know no one likes my music here...
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Counting Crows w/ Live at MPP Aug. '00.
I didn't have expectations for Counting Crows, I think they suck live. A friend took me along, and both bands put on an awful show.
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Originally posted by Celeste:
Yo La Tengo last spring...
That was one of the best shows i have seen in DC.
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Luna at the Blackcat
Love at the Blackcat
I think I fell asleep at the show by the singer of Soul Coughing at the Blackcat.
But, above all, GUIDED BY VOICES. What an awful band!
However, I guess that if I had seen a Foo Fighters show, they would be tied with Guided by Voices.
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
But, above all, GUIDED BY VOICES. What an awful band!
He was just touting Electric Six, nuff said ;)
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
Love at the Blackcat
huh?
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Morrissey at MPP in say, 1991. I think it was after "Kill Uncle" came out, American Music CLub at the Black Cat (1994 I think) and Tricky at the old Bohagers (mid -90's around the time of Tricky's 2nd release)
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Originally posted by Barcelona:
Love at the Blackcat
huh? [/b]
They were so bad that I had already fogotten the name, but I just remembered it, I meant Low.
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thats better ;)
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New Order, I think at the Ontario, during their first US tour in the early 80s. Don't get me wrong, I love the band but they totally fucked up that night. They were all drunk as shit and didn't get onstage until hours after they were supposed to have started. If what I heard was correct, they had to be pulled out of some deli or restaurant across the street and forced onstage. Maybe it was Seth who finally kicked their asses on. It was an IMP show. Not a night that I envied him. Then they proceeded to suck ass.
I've heard that they are capable of performing very well....when they control the substances.
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
New Order, I think at the Ontario, during their first US tour in the early 80s.
Was that the Power Corruption and Lies tour?
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Brian Jonestown Massacre a week or so ago at the Black Cat. Also, a few years ago at the 930 Cornershop played a very mediocre set.
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Christ, that was so long ago that I don't remember. The Beach and Blue Monday were about the only known songs at the time, and I mean before either were rereleased or remixed about a thousand times.
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Christ, that was so long ago that I don't remember. The Beach and Blue Monday were about the only known songs at the time, and I mean before either were rereleased or remixed about a thousand times.
Cool,i saw them there on that tour and was wondering if it was the same gig.i remember being disapointed but thats about it.Saw excellent shows by The Furs(forever now tour) and The Cure(the Top tour) there before it shut down.PIL was a good show there as well.
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
But, above all, GUIDED BY VOICES. What an awful band!
However, I guess that if I had seen a Foo Fighters show, they would be tied with Guided by Voices.
Chances of our becoming show buddies: NONE
Whew, man, what do you like?
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i'll third the miserable that first new order tour experience... they played detroit on quite possibly one of the hottest nights ever. st andrews was packed to the gills it was 100+ degrees in club. they band came on at the last possible minute to get in their hour long show before the 2am curfew. disappointing for sure... come to think of it the other time i saw them live it was lousy.
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Echo and The Bunneymen at Recher's Theatre in Towson a few years back.
That lead singer SUCKS!
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tricky, 2001 (first time i had walked out of a show EVER)
spiritualized, 2002 (second time i had walked out of a show)
sigur ros, 2003
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Originally posted by sniper10:
Echo and The Bunneymen at Recher's Theatre in Towson a few years back.
That lead singer SUCKS!
yeah right... do you suffer from craniuminarseholeitist?
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i'll fourth it. it was utter shit up in boston. i was shocked. as i had seen depeche mode live and they could pull off electronica based music beautifully but new order, utter shit. though this was in the early 90's.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i'll third the miserable that first new order tour experience... they played detroit on quite possibly one of the hottest nights ever. st andrews was packed to the gills it was 100+ degrees in club. they band came on at the last possible minute to get in their hour long show before the 2am curfew. disappointing for sure... come to think of it the other time i saw them live it was lousy.
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and i forgot sting, in 1996 in milan italy. he forgot the second stanza to englishman in new york!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by lily1:
tricky, 2001 (first time i had walked out of a show EVER)
spiritualized, 2002 (second time i had walked out of a show)
sigur ros, 2003
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red hot chili peppers at lollapalooza in 1991 or was it 1992. all i know is that i was shocked at how bad their set was. so so so bad.
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Originally posted by SPARX:
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Christ, that was so long ago that I don't remember. The Beach and Blue Monday were about the only known songs at the time, and I mean before either were rereleased or remixed about a thousand times.
Cool,i saw them there on that tour and was wondering if it was the same gig.i remember being disapointed but thats about it.Saw excellent shows by The Furs(forever now tour) and The Cure(the Top tour) there before it shut down.PIL was a good show there as well. [/b]
So when did PiL go on? That is my worst show as I didn't get to see the damn thing. I assume Jah was gone by that time, or was he and (god forbid Levine) still with them.
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I saw PIL play with B.A.D. around town somewhere -- I think a gym at GW. Back around 91, 92. PIL was good, B.A.D. was awful. All the music was pre-recorded.
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Originally posted by Bagster:
I saw PIL play with B.A.D. around town somewhere -- I think a gym at GW. Back around 91, 92. PIL was good, B.A.D. was awful. All the music was pre-recorded.
hey, was that was the 120 minutes tour? i saw it back in san jose. . .with blind melon, live, pil and bad II. . .mainly wanted to see pil. . left during bad II.
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I'd have to say that I've always wanted to see New Order and everyone I know says they suck live...but their live at Finsbury Park DVD contains some of my favorite New Order/Joy Division music ever, even if Barney has to read most of the lyrics off a teleprompter. He did a great job with vocals on "She's Lost Control" and "Transmission". The live versions of "Regret" and "Your Silent Face" are so good I don't even listen to the studio versions anymore. Echo & the Bunnymen at the Recher was a GREAT show! And what a setlist to boot...that show kicked ass.
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I heard that New Order were great at Merriweather(or wherever it was) many years later but I missed that one. All depends when you catch them, it seems. I've heard a lot about the same problems with Primal Scream. Both bands put out great records but too often suck live, mostly because they can't control their substance intake. Heard the same report from London a couple years ago when Bobby Gillespe came out onstage to play Rock The Shack with New Order after Get Ready was released. Supposedly, Bobby was completely trashed, along with the others, and the show sucked it.
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Saw New Order at Merriweather and at DAR. Both shows were great, Merriweather better because they let you stand and move about. The Merriweather show (or was it two shows?) was New Order, PiL, and Sugarcubes I think (reverse order). They were pro by then not getting plowed first.
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cake at 930
yawn fest sing along...
plus that dood has no stage presence
free tix, bad show
at least i didnt have to pay
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Originally posted by pepsi..tatse it:
cake at 930
yawn fest sing along...
plus that dood has no stage presence
free tix, bad show
at least i didnt have to pay
Actually, I think they are not that bad when they play live. However, Cake is a band with some very good songs (50% of their songs) and some mediocre songs (50%) that tends to put mostly mediocre songs in their live shows.
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to bad the singer has no stage presence....
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Forgot to mention Pavement in Raleigh in 1999. One of the bands I respect the most, but would have rather seen them in the early mid nineties.
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Jon Doe (or is it John?) at Graffiti in Pittsburgh, 1990, I think. Got free tickets from WRCT (was a DJ then). Woman at the ticket counter was a bitch about me getting in free. The show was awful. Boring, dull, terrible lyrics. I expected a hell of a lot more.
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Funny thing, Wilco has completely recovered from the mediocrity of the Mermaid Avenue Sessions, and gone on to produce some great music.
Billy Bragg never seemed to recover, continuing on in medocrity...sort of like both Jay Farrar and Jay Bennett in their post-Jeff Tweedy collaborations. But Bragg arguably had started to decline with his third album, well before his work with Wilco.
Originally posted by mankie:
Without a doubt.
Billy Bragg with Wilco...total steaming, smelly feces with tape worms in it!
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Went to a "blind date" show at the club in 1997, where the beer company pays some huge act to play at a small club. These shows in other cities were Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Beck, Bowie, etc...
The date of the show coincided with the beginning of a Rolling Stones tour and the rumor was they were in town.
So we wait through some boring opener and the jackass DJ from DC 101 comes out and says "are you ready DC!!! Our band tonight is huge! You know all their songs, so get ready to sing along!! Give it up for...SEVEN MARY THREE!"
We left after 2 songs. One of the biggest disappointments of my life, concert or otherwise.
To this day I still believe that there was a "real" band that backed out at the last second and 7 mary 3 was the backup. Any 930 staph care to give the real story behind this?
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So we wait through some boring opener and the jackass DJ from DC 101 comes out and says "are you ready DC!!! Our band tonight is huge! You know all their songs, so get ready to sing along!! Give it up for...SEVEN MARY THREE!"
We left after 2 songs. One of the biggest disappointments of my life, concert or otherwise.
LMAO! I would have walked out too. :cool:
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
[Saw excellent shows by The Furs(forever now tour) and The Cure(the Top tour) there before it shut down.PIL was a good show there as well. [/qb]
So when did PiL go on? That is my worst show as I didn't get to see the damn thing. [/QB][/QUOTE] Levene had left by then but it was still worth the time and effort to attend(still have the tour shirt).As for when they went on,way to long ago for that memory to show up.
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for me it was carbon leaf at Herndon festival in 2002. i live close by so i went. just imagine a more immature me.....i didnt think they sucked to bad till i was standing there 4 songs in wanting to go try and win another spider man doll. i used to be afraid of rides...a year ago... (i wasted to much money on that and ended up with only 2 little dolls, spiderman and the greengoblin...)
carbon leaf suck but that was sadly my first time seeing a real band live.
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Originally posted by eros:
Went to a "blind date" show at the club in 1997, where the beer company pays some huge act to play at a small club. These shows in other cities were Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Beck, Bowie, etc...
The date of the show coincided with the beginning of a Rolling Stones tour and the rumor was they were in town.
So we wait through some boring opener and the jackass DJ from DC 101 comes out and says "are you ready DC!!! Our band tonight is huge! You know all their songs, so get ready to sing along!! Give it up for...SEVEN MARY THREE!"
We left after 2 songs. One of the biggest disappointments of my life, concert or otherwise.
To this day I still believe that there was a "real" band that backed out at the last second and 7 mary 3 was the backup. Any 930 staph care to give the real story behind this?
Funny...I was trying to imagine, as I read your post, who the disappointing secret band might have been...Seven Mary Three is so much worse than anything my twisted mind could come up with.
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the prince after show at the club, something like 5 summers ago. he showed up after keeping the crowd waiting for hours, jammed with his band, didn't play a discernable song, and left. wanker. he's so tiny, couldn't even tell if he had on buttless pants ...
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Originally posted by eros:
Went to a "blind date" show at the club in 1997, where the beer company pays some huge act to play at a small club. These shows in other cities were Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Beck, Bowie, etc...
I feel bad for laughing at your misfortune but that's horribly funny. What a disappointment.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Funny thing, Wilco has completely recovered from the mediocrity of the Mermaid Avenue Sessions, and gone on to produce some great music.
Billy Bragg never seemed to recover, continuing on in medocrity...sort of like both Jay Farrar and Jay Bennett in their post-Jeff Tweedy collaborations. But Bragg arguably had started to decline with his third album, well before his work with Wilco.
Originally posted by mankie:
Without a doubt.
Billy Bragg with Wilco...total steaming, smelly feces with tape worms in it!
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I cant think of anything more mediocre than Wilco.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I cant think of anything more mediocre than Wilco.
our lady peace
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I cant think of anything more mediocre than Wilco.
our lady peace [/b]
wrong, try again. (hint, theyre from Oxford, go ahead and say it)
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
I cant think of anything more mediocre than Wilco.
our lady peace [/b]
guided by voices.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
guided by voices.
post ok computer radiohead
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
guided by voices.
post ok computer radiohead [/b]
i think the opposite.
PRE-OK Computer Radiohead. not that i dont love the first 2 discs, though.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i think the opposite.
PRE-OK Computer Radiohead. not that i dont love the first 2 discs, though.
I just love ok computer really, well and the bends, but mostly ok computer, now that is enough radiohead praise
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i think the opposite.
PRE-OK Computer Radiohead. not that i dont love the first 2 discs, though.
I just love ok computer really, well and the bends, but mostly ok computer, now that is enough radiohead praise [/b]
hehe, tricked you!
actually, now that we are on the disappointing show thread, Radiohead would win, for the shows that just dont happen!
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Blink's Pop Disaster Tour in Dallas. 45 minute set, no encore, and too many stupid 13 year olds.
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The recent Fuel show. The show itself was OK. I enjoyed the music. It was the crowd. Not your typicla 9:30 crowd if there is such a thing. I have been to a pretty wide variety of acts that the club and one thing seems to be a common thread for all of the people who show up. They are all there for the music and nothing more if you know what I mean. You know how it is at some venues that people show up just to be able to say they were at the "fill in the act here" show. Sort of a hoity toity thing. This show had more than a few folks who looked to me more of the plastic people as I like to call them. Oh well still had a good time, but not having to see the two skanks upstairs would have made it a better evening!
DB
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otep at jaxx... the bitch kept shit about the messiah and the revolution and just fucking bored me to sleep and s.t.u.n who opened for manson just weren't that exciting
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Originally posted by amyj:
Blink's Pop Disaster Tour in Dallas. 45 minute set, no encore, and too many stupid 13 year olds.
That's what you get for attending a Blink 182 show.
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Just remember a huge disappointment show. Cracker at the 9:30 in the late 90's when Eurotrash girl was big. The bands (forget the opener's name) got no respect from the audience. A friend and I got in free but left because you could not hear the band over the talking. It was crazy, sold out I believe, but so much talking that you could not hear the band over the din. All those frat boys in baseball caps (it was a sea of fancy baseball caps) drinking lite beer chatting. Was as if you went to a bar and there was music playing in the background. And all these idiots had paid $15 for the honor.
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July 1999:Nas at the 930 Club. It was diappointing for the fact that Nas didn't show up. The opening acts(I remember Toni Blackman was there) was great. It was around 10 or 10:30 p.m. when they told the crowd NAS couldn't make it. He entered my good graces again when I saw last summer on Usher's 8701 Evolution Tour. He put on a great show.
Other disappointing performances:
Mindwar Sympathy opening for Kittie: Nov. 2001
I haven't seen an opening act get this much lack of respect.
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s.t.u.n. needs their own audience, its impossible to open for manson. 930club is not the place to see them. its to big. the singer is crazy if he isnt so cramped and could climb shit.
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packs of 13year olds is a nightmare....