worst concert experience?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I heard that show was HOT HOT HOT!!!
 
 

Originally posted by very sonick:
  i remember seeing Great White up in Rhode Island one time......

[azaghal1981]

I heard it was a smokin' show, too!

[DeathFromAbove1979]

The GOons @ Black Cat
 
 
 "Punks" are such douchebags.

[sonickteam2]

a real blast!

[azaghal1981]

A barnburner!
 
 
 Explosive!

[K8teebug]

The Radiohead show that would have been Bull Run.  We had just made it through the gates to see how awesome it would have been when the sky opened up and turned it into a lake.  (At least some of the Nissan attendees got to see some songs performed)
 
 Elliott Smith at the 930.
 
 Cat Power at the Ottobar.
 
 Modest Mouse at the Black Cat (first night)

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I heard that show was HOT HOT HOT!!!
 

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  A barnburner!
 
 
 Explosive!

Originally posted by very sonick:
  a real blast!

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  I heard it was a smokin' show, too!

You all were quite misinformed. The pyrotechnics set the building on fire, and several people died of smoke inhalation while being trampled. It was not generally well perceived as you all would seem to make out. I question whether all of you were actually in attendance.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

I went to a Yo La Tengo show at the 40 Watt Club in 2002 and it was pretty terrible. Here's a review:
 
 

37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster
 April 10, 2002
 
 ATHENS, GAâ??Thirty-seven record-store clerks are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of a partial roof collapse during a Yo La Tengo concert Monday.
 
 "We're trying our best to rescue these clerks, but, realistically, there's not a lot of hope," said emergency worker Len Guzman, standing outside the 40 Watt Club, where the tragedy occurred. "These people are simply not in the physical condition to survive this sort of trauma. It's just a twisted mass of black-frame glasses and ironic Girl Scouts T-shirts in there."
 
 Also believed to be among the missing are seven freelance rock critics, five vinyl junkies, two 'zine publishers, an art-school dropout, and a college-radio DJ.
 
 The collapse occurred approximately 30 minutes into the Hoboken, NJ, band's set, when a poorly installed rooftop heating-and-cooling unit came loose and crashed through the roof, bringing several massive steel beams down with it.
 
 Andy Ringler, an assistant manager at Wuxtry Records, sustained head trauma when he ran back into the building to rescue a fellow clerk.
 
 "I just had to help," said Ringler, listed in stable condition at a nearby hospital. "I saw all these people coming out bleeding and dazed. I gave up my vintage Galaxie 500 shirt just to help some guy bandage his arm. It was horrible."
 
 Added Ringler: "I just pray they can somehow get this club rebuilt in time for next month's Dismemberment Plan/Death Cab For Cutie show. That's a fantastic double bill."
 
 Joe Gaer was among the lucky record-store clerks who escaped unscathed. "I was in the bathroom when it happened," said Gaer, a part-time cashier at School Kids Records. "There was this loud crashing sound, followed by even louder crashing, and then all these screams. If I hadn't left to take a leak during 'Moby Octopad'â??to be honest, never one of my favorite songs on I Can Hear The Heart Beating As Oneâ??I'd probably be among the dead."
 
 "It's just tragic," Gaer continued. "I heard they were going to play Daniel Johnston's 'Speeding Motorcycle.' They almost never do that one live."
 
 Devastated by the disaster, Athens record-store owners are still holding out hope that their employees are still alive.
 
 "All I can do is wait and pray they'll find them," said Bert's Discount Records owner Bert Halyard, who lost clerks Todd Fischer and Dan Harris in the collapse. "They were going to start an experimental/math-rock band together. Dan had a really nice Moog synthesizer and an original pressing of the first Squirrel Bait EP."
 
 As of press time, police and emergency rescue workers were still sifting through the wreckage for copies of Magnet, heated debates over the definition of emo, and other signs of record-store-clerk life.
 
 "I haven't seen this much senseless hipster carnage since the Great Sebadoh Fire Of '93," said rescue worker Larry Kolterman, finding a green-and-gold suede Puma sneaker in the rubble. "It's such a shame that all those bastions of indie-rock geekitude had to go in their prime. Their cries of 'sellout' have been forever silenced."

[miss pretentious]

i was hoping we'd get to relive the great julian eye debacle of 2007 .. not the dfa1979 debacle of 2007/2008

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  i was hoping we'd get to relive the great julian eye debacle of 2007 .. not the dfa1979 debacle of 2007/2008

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
  I had tickets to all 4 nights but only made it through 2.5. I came down with both an ulcer on my eye and uveitis and the band's light show all but blinded me. Monday night I had to leave early, my eye was bleeding and I was having photophobic spasms. I had to call an ambulance and turned up in the emergency room of Jefferson Hospital in the most pain of my entire life. I was for all intents and purposes completely blind, and have only regained a semblence of sight today.
 
 The hospital was increasingly unprofessional. They refused me a room even though I have insurance, and shot a steroid into my eye and discharged me even though I could not see and told me to see an opthomologist ASAP. I told them I'm from Richmond, cannot see, and have no clue where anything is in Philly and they said it wasn't their problem. They offered to put em in a taxi and to tell the driver to drop me off at ahomeless shelter. The wheeled me out of the hospital and left me on the front stoop. I wandered back into the waiting room and sat there for 6 hours until my father drove down from Rochester to come get me. My car is still in DC and my luggage in Philadelphia.            
 
 Basically, it was a terrible last couple of days although the shows were good. I don't blame the band because if my eyes were hurting, I should've left earlier, and the doctor said even w/o the light show, I would've been in that condition within a day, it only sped it up.
 
 One positive note about humanity: I was texting a kid from Netphoria the setlists and I told him I had to leave because of my eye and he kept calling to see how I was doing. When I was sitting in the waiting room, he apparently posted on the Pumpkins board about what had happened and another fan from a few blocks away came down and checked on me and filled my prescrition (since I couldn't walk/see). I gave him my ticket for night 4 but he didn't know I even had one, so he was just doing it to be kind. So there are still some cool people out there.

[miss pretentious]

wishes really do come true.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  wishes really do come true.

I've discovered in life that when you really, really need it the most, that's when rock and roll dreams come true.

[bearman🐻]

For me it was unlucky concert #13, Ned's Atomic Dustbin at the Metro in November of 1992. In the grand scheme of things, it SHOULD have been a great evening. I hung out with the band beforehand, and the crowd was really pumped for the show. My 2 friends Colleen and Erin were right up front, I was just behind them by a couple people. The band came out and during the first song "Suave and Suffocated" (kind of ironic looking back), there was a massive crowd surge and I went down like a ton of bricks because we were SO packed in and there was nowhere to move. A bunch of people landed on me, and I was face down on the floor, getting stepped on, kicked, and what blew me away was how there was ZERO oxygen down towards the floor. I felt like I was drowning. My glasses broke (and I'm blind without them) but after what seemed like forever I finally managed to force my way back on my feet and I staggered away to the back where people looked at me like I was crazy. My friends never even saw what happened to me, but I had bruises and footprints all over me. To this day, I cannot stand it when there's too many people around me. I have a bootleg of the show because it was broadcast on WXRT at a later point, and you can actually hear people screaming (thankfully not me) right at the beginning when people started falling on top of each other. Ned's shows always had a bit of a knucklehead factor, but that night just plain sucked. It was not fun.

[sweetcell]

bearman - your story reminds me if being at the first RATM reunion show at coachella.
 
 i've been going to punk/hardcore gigs since i was 14'ish, and have been in more than my share of mosh pits (including several that i probably had no business in).  i had seen Rage twice before they broke up.  rough stuff, definitely, but still fun.
 
 nothing could have prepared me for that coachella pit.  i was halfway between the stage and the soundboard.  when the band hit the stage the surge picked me up and move me a good 12 feet.  i've never experience a hurricane of humanity like i did when the music started.  it wasn't fun.  i tried my best to suck it up, deal with the endless random elbows to the face, the suffocation, and shoves from all directions, let alone being hit by endless crowd-surfers... i lasted less than one song before fighting my way out of there.  and i do mean fight - the only form of communication that those people seemed to understand was "bully".  i practically had to climb over folks, thank god for survival instincts and accompanying adrenaline boost.  i won't soon forget the looks on people's face - humans turned into animals.  eventually made it back to the soundboard where there were still a few traces of civility.  once i caught my breath i was able to enjoy the show.
 
 guess i was asking for it.  there is no other band that can do to a crowd what RATM does.  not necessarily a good thing.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
 
 guess i was asking for it.  there is no other band that can do to a crowd what RATM does.  not necessarily a good thing.

I hate crowdsuring so much, almost always have.  
 
   at Woodstock 99 during Limp Bizkit, my buddy said he was "going up".
 
   now there was easily over 100,000 people in front of this stage and we were barely in the front half sorta middle right.  he went up and the crowd took him so far we couldnt even see him anymore, he crowdsurfed out of sight!!
 
   that was at aroud 7pm. we didnt see him again until about 4am.   but this is off topic. sorry.