worst concert experience?

[Vas Deferens]

How's the State Theater by the way? I might go there for the first time for Broken Social Scene next week.
 
 

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Steve Kimock Band state theatre in March of '04 I think?
 
 

[azaghal1981]

The general concensus on this board is that it's a shithole but I didn't mind it the times I've been there.
 
 
 And you're passing up APTBS for BSS? For shame!

[Vas Deferens]

I might still make it to APTBS since it's a late show. The opener for BSS starts at 8:30...
 
 Or I can skip APTBS for this one:
 
 http://www.boweryballroom.com/calendar/show/2189/
 
 but I already have a ticket for Magnetic Fields in Philly that night.      
 
   

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
 
 
 And you're passing up APTBS for BSS? For shame!

[azaghal1981]

Wow that looks ridiculous.
 
 ::checks calendar::
 
 
 Nothing.
 
 
 Hmmm...

[sweetcell]

state theater: i think it's fine.  only ever seen two shows there, enjoyed them both.  i appreciated the laid-back athmosphere, the fact that you could arrive early and have dinner there, and the randomness of the crowd... at the ozric tentacles, there were several families of yokels who had no idea what hit them - but got in to the music anyways.  staff was always really nice, and they have decent beers on tap.
 
 oh, azaghal: having seem APTBS previously, they only get a 6 or 7 out of 10 from me.  slightly above average, but i'm definitely not staying out late to catch them at the 930 this week.  BRING YOUR EARPLUGS - these guys are loud.

[azaghal1981]

I think I saw the same APTBS show you did and liked it a lot more than you did.
 
 
 With Holy Fuck and Sons and Daughters at RNRH?
 
 My only complaint was that their set wasn't longer.
 
 
 I think I was at that Ozric Tentacles show, too!
 
 
 Winter '05?

[sweetcell]

unfortunately, nope and nope    
 
 only time i've seen APTBS was at the hall of williamsburg, after sirenfest this summer.  decent show but way too loud.  i wanted to attend the APTBS+HF@RnR show but work got in the way, if i remember correctly.
 
 saw the ozrics at state theater on june 22, 2006 - just dove through my stub collection to confirm that.

[azaghal1981]

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[serpent boy]

Worst "experience":
 Having my wallet stolen.
 
 My friend had won tickets to the Warped Tour in 2001, and I foolishly decided to attend, primarily to see Rancid and Rollins Band. My friend eagerly wanted to see A.F.I. and I had heard a lot of hype about them, so we moved up through the crowd to watch their set.
 
 After a few songs, I decided to move to the back to avoid all the pesky crowd surfers. That's when I noticed that my wallet and keys were gone. There was no way that they fell out since I wasn't crowd surfing or jumping; obviously someone grabbed it out of my pocket while I was trying unwillingly to hold up a crowd surfer.
 
 About a dozen others kept looking for their wallets about the set was over, and fortunately I found my keys. I lost about $60, all my IDs, family pictures, and so on. To this day, I hate A.F.I. by association.
 
 ---
 
 Runners-up:
 1.) Leaving a 311 concert halfway through the set because my girlfriend hated the show. I missed "Let the Cards Fall," which is rarely performed.
 2.) Driving through hurricane weather on the highway to get to a Deftones/Glassjaw show. I couldn't see more than 5 feet in front of me the entire way there. Scary.
 3.) Being denied entry into the first 45 minutes of the Virgin Mobile Festival because the place I won tickets through didn't have my tickets ready. I missed 90% of Cat Power's set (though I heard her from afar), and she was one of the main reasons I was thrilled to go.
 4.) Stepping in a piss-covered ground at every show at The Boathouse for years.

[hutch]

cat power was the worse (in buenos aires)
 
 and also rusted root or as i call them crusted poop at the electric factory a few years ago
 
 just horrid...

[sweetcell]

i'm sure someone will regale us shortly with stories of the horror that was being denied entry to this summer's radiohead show at nissan, due to the monsoon conditions and road closures.  i spent 3 hours tailgating inside a small car with 5 other folks, waiting for show time.  left there cold and soaked to the bone.
 
 RH really haven't had any luck playing in DC: tibet freedom fest = canceled by lightening, bull run = flooding, nissan'08 = more flooding... as one of the band members wrote on their website, "what's next - locusts?!?".

[RatBastard]

Anything at Nissan!

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I saw Cat Power at the 930 a few years back and nearly fell asleep on my feet...
 
 but the worst was seeing the Kinks at the Bayou years ago sometime in the late 80s (yes I'm old).   I was psyched to see this great band of yesteryear.  And then they came on way late, they played a short set, could barely be bothered with an encore, and worst of all, played several of their best songs in a medley.  That's when I realized a once-great band had degenerated into a group of aging bad-toothed British hacks just out to make a buck.   It is one of the reasons for my longstanding aversion to nostalgia shows.

[Bombay Chutney]

Nirvana @ Bender Arena.  My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us.  The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types.  So we left before the encore.   My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it.  I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.
 
 Then there was the time we drove from DC->Orlando to see The Grateful Dead.  We got right up to the entrance and were told the show was canceled.  That made for a crappy night - not knowing if we drove all the way down there for nothing.  The next night went on as scheduled, but we got tear-gassed by the cops.
 
 The Stones at RFK in 89.  I was really sick.  It was pouring down rain.  We were in the 500-level with obstructed view seats.  The sound was abysmal up there.  I wouldn't have gone at all, but my friend wouldn't go alone.  I wasn't going to let her miss it.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  but the worst was seeing the Kinks at the Bayou years ago sometime in the late 80s

I remember being pissed I couldn't make that show.  Thanks for making me feel better.