Stelly Dan only gig Concert been too sound was horrendous weedy voice no Omph bass was non existent after watching two against nature live DVD maybe ever night for over a year. I was so dispointed I didint even tap my feet. Horns sounded no existent. It was at vector arena in Auckland nz terrible sports statidum I whould have strangled guy doing the mixing. Is that a cool job or what. What's chances of 62 tone deaf friend of mine 😊 getting a job as a roadie I pay you. ❤ Opps my friend will. I love steely Dan rip Walter beaker dude had a hard life esp his childhood. Saw clip where Donald becker turned to Walter said how he admired his friend. That was special made up for dud concert. Well there amazing happy music and that live DVD wore it out had glue it super glue in spindle goes. Any bad day at work I pop that on and after 3 songs in I be feeling okay by kid Carlaman I be air drumming and doing bass n guitars screaming the vocals ❤❤❤
I saw them on January 10 1980 at the Montreal Forum. They were so bad that I never forgot the date. I left after 45 painful minutes. The worst show that I saw, by far. It really influenced my perception of them, and since that show I've never been able to really enjoy their music. Their only song that I truly enjoy is "One Way Street" from their first album.
Saw them on their Rock in a Hard Place tour. They just weren't into it. The first bad concert I'd ever seen, only to be topped by Motley Crue in their Theater of Pain tour. I think the common denominator in both shows was heroin.
Bob Dylan concert early 2000s - what a shocker! We walked out and we weren't alone. Droves of people were leaving. It was like we were watching the afternoon soundcheck. He totally ignored the 10,000 strong crowd. Between songs he sauntered to the middle of the huge stage and had a meeting with his band. I presume they were discussing what to play next. He'd then saunter back to the mic and play. I hadn't expected much but he delivered even less.
That Guns N Roses show is the scariest experience I have ever lived through. One second I was on top of people... The next I was under piles of people unable to move. After a very long lime I managed to get to the back of the crowd. Once I was there, I stayed there. Scary. RIP to the people who died.
@scottarchibaldmusic Donington Monsters Of Rock festival 1988 A great line up...well apart from Kiss... Not really my thing😅 Iron Maiden Kiss Dave Lee Roth Megadeth GnR Helloween
I went to Monsters of Rock in 1992, as a very green17yr old. Was right at the front, for the start, which was The Almighty. Before they started it was fine. Plenty of space, no crowd crush. As soon as they hit the first chord, it was like 75,000 people suddenly charged forward. The world suddenly changed into a mixture of Joy and Fear. That first time you realise that you have no control over where the crowd is going and then trying to stay on your feet is something truly terrifying, but I would totally advocate people doing it... These days you would see me at the back, making sure I have taken the correct medication to keep my blood pressure down. Lol!!
I was at that and have always remembered standing on the right side of the field looking at the crowd the moment Guns and Roses were introduced and seeing this mass of thousands people surge down the slope to the stage. It was like watching a human wave and it didn't surprise me people died@paulmcelroy547
THANKS ANDY THAT WAS HILARIOUS, I KNOW IT'S NOT GIGS OR EVEN MUSIC RELATED BUT IN THE LATE 80S MY MATES WERE SENT ON A RESTART COURSE BY THE DOLE OFFICE, YOU KNOW THE KIND OF THING WHERE YOU DON'T GET YOUR GIRO UNLESS YOU SIT IN A ROOM FOR A WEEK WITH A LOAD OF BLOKES WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED BUILDERS AND THEY GET YOU TO TRY AND WRITE C.VS ETC, WHEN ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON A DETECTIVE AND TWO UNIFORMED OLD BILL WALKED IN TO THE CLASS AND ARRESTED THE TUTOR FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE!!! AND AS A SIDE NOTE THE DOLE TRIED TO DOCK MY MATES MONEY FOR NOT ATTENDING ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY UNTIL MY MATE THREATENED TO CALL THE PAPERS. WHAT A LIFE !!! HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I've seen a few bad ones but Robert Fripp's Frippertronics tour was the most bizarre. He spent more time talking than playing and when he thought he heard a tape recorder, stopped playing, turned his back to the audience and wouldn't play until the tape was put on the stage. After several uncomfortable minutes Robert relized he was mistaken and resumed playing. Then the concert stopped for a tea break, literally. After tea Robert played for another 15 minutes or so, took a bow and walked off stage. No encore, and only 45 minutes including the tea break. As the audience sat in silence, bewildered that it was over, someone yelled out "can anyone else play?"
I saw him at Boudisque in Amsterdam and there was no entrance fee so it was a gift. For him, it was research and development. Regardless of whether I enjoyed it or not, nobody was robbed off their hard-earned cash.
Worst show I ever saw, and I've seen many, was Maroon 5 in 2013. They had a huge number of wrong notes every song. It was nuts. Not exactly hard music.
A friend of mine was working at lots of festivals across the UK. He was generally too busy to really see any bands but he made an exception for The Prodigy. He arrived last minute and managed to flash his passes and push through to the front centre of the huge crowd. When the band started there was the usual surge from the crowd where you get transported in several directions without moving your feet. Anyway that happened and his shorts and underwear found it's way round his ankles. Every time he tried to reach them and recover his modesty the crowd surged again and he nearly got trampled. He managed to redress himself after what must have seemed like an eternity. I think it was T in the Park and we all examined the TV footage but unfortunately it hadn't been caught on camera. Not a bad gig but I don't think my mate enjoyed it.
I’ve been watching a few of Fil’s (Wings of Pegasus) videos and my thought is simply: if I have paid $400 to see and HEAR my favourite artist and what I hear is just what is recorded on the CD I bought for $15 …. that isn’t a good concert, is it.
We saw him at the Axiom in Houston in 1992, and it shut its doors that same year. Not saying there's a connection, but the smell after the show was horrible.
I once saw Morrisey supporting Bowie, in Exeter. Morrisey walked off half way through his set due to the crowd shouting for Bowie between his songs. In Morrisey's defence a few years later, he played a gig in Truro and went to the local butchers, bought all of the meat and then donated it to the local homeless day centre. A very decent thing to do, in my book.
The guy who sings "Meat is Murder" offers meat to a homeless day centre? Either he doesn't really believe what he's saying or he's got a real sense of humour... Nice gesture, but doesn't make any sense imo...
I saw Pink Floyd at the Oakland Coliseum in the mid 80’s. It had rained and the ground was wet and muddy. It was cold and drizzly. Some guy a few rows from us was shirtless and screaming through the entire show. I don’t even remember what the music was like, mostly because I couldn’t hear it the shirtless guy was screaming so loud. By the end I was wet and cold and decided those big outdoor shows just aren’t for me.
I attended Monsters of Rock in 1988. Due to the festival's immense popularity, our coach from Leeds was delayed getting to the venue, causing me to miss Guns N' Roses and Helloween, the latter was one of my favourite bands at the time so I was hugely disappointed. Dave Lee Roth (with Steve Vai) delivered an excellent performance that afternoon. As Andy mentioned, tragically, two people died at the festival. As mobile phones were not common then, my mother stayed awake until I got home in the small hours to ensure I was still alive after news of the fatalities had been on the evenings' bulletins but the victims' identities were not released until the following day.
What a fantastic idea, a music club. I wish I was there. More of these should pop up. I hope other people do something similar in other cities around the world. I will keep my eyes open to support the streaming service. One gig that comes to mind is seeing MOBY pre PLAY fame. He danced, “played” some keys, some congas and he did some vocalizations all to a DAT tape that multiple times cut out mid song. He was very frustrated and I did have empathy for him but he was completely unprofessional and rude to the sound crew. It was unforgettable to see him dancing and the music cuts out “briefly”, he would have a fit and then the music would randomly start again and he would instantly start dancing again. Come to think of it I kind of enjoyed it in a twisted way.
My worst gig was one of my own. I'm a guitarist but at this gig I also had to play bass on a couple of songs. I managed all the guitar parts alright but I got completely lost in a song where I played bass. It was in a part of a song where there were only bass and drums so it was quite obvious and I just kept making shit up trying to remember and get back in the song and the drummer just looked at me in panic and was trying to follow what he hell I was doing. I don't know how in the world we got out of it but that moment felt like years with the audience wondering what was going on. After that I was thrown off my game the rest of the gig and almost I felt like I had an out-of-body experience. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh damn... Your story brings back... playing guitar in a "power trio" late 90s; a lot of bands and we had about 20 minutes. I HAD practiced "Aqualung" but in all the stress my brain was not quite there... the opening riffing was horribly out of key and I struggled through the whole song also singing. 😆😄
I went to the Phoenix Jazz Festival to see Louie Bellson in the 1980s and just before they were to go on stage, a strong wind caught a banner hanging from the speaker towers and dragged the whole thing down. People were running like hell, I heard some people were seriously injured by the falling speakers. So much for seeing Louie Bellson. And then there was this Kid Rock show... oh god.
My worst gig ever was seeing Grace Jones very poorly miming her way through four songs (she was so loaded she could hardly even stand up) accompanied by half a dozen cavorting dancers at a rave party about 30 years ago. I couldn't watch it anymore after the first song. There was a skateboard ramp at the other end of the pavilion so I went to watch the skaters instead.
The Who, Boston Garden, March 1976. I'm foggy on exactly what happened. I don't remember them coming on stage. The guy i was with said years later they played one song, but that was all. My research shows it was the first US stop of a world tour. Drove home in a snowstorm. They made up the gig a couple months later as their last US stop before heading back to Europe. Always assumed it was due to Keith Moon being Keith Moon.
i was there. played substitute and i can't explain. then roger said "ah, keith's got the flu" and there was quite the negative reaction. make-up concert was incredible.
I was there ,yep ,Keith passed out show over.Frankly I wouldn’t of made it through myself,I ended up passing out on the wrong train home.Townend said hold on to your tickets we’ll be back. Came back and killed it ,total Live at Leeds.
@@floydshamblesThanks for setting me straight. Don't understand why I can't remember. I came from Milford. Maybe that explains it. I do remember the makeup show being killer.
Bob Dylan at Hyde park 2019 i think it was. After Neil Young did a superb show Bob came out and proceeded to rework a load of his songs to such an extent it was quite hard to decipher what they actually were. People were streaming out of the venue well before the halfway mark. Also Black Crowes at Edinburgh Playhouse in 1990. Chris Robinson had one of his attitude evenings, sang everything badly then capped it all off by jumping into the crowd to have a fight with someone
Love your humor and your shirt too!👍 Being a financially challenged person I can't afford to go to a concert these days and anything I attended in the past, rocked out really well!🎸😃
Probably more due to problems with my hearing as I get old...Mick Jagger/Joe Satriani in Sydney. Painfully loud. Madness, Luna Park Sydney it just sounded like a wall of mud. When I did eventually hear some top end it was quite fun. And tragically, after waiting decades to see them, Rush at the O2. Again, all I could here was bottom end. Plus they played a lot of their 90s stuff. The saving grace was the brilliant encore which included 2112. I saw both Steve Vai & Devin Townsend recently and they were great gigs, except...only standing, no seats. At my advanced age it takes my back a week to recover from standing all night.
My worst gig was seeing late 80’s. Liverpool band The Christians at Olbys Soul cafe ,Margate and they opened with a song that no one knew and then sing Gary Christian said that it had taken the band. 5 hours to drive to Margate and then stunned me when he said that they’d never come to Margate again ! And then the atmosphere dropped from there . He gave a couldn’t give a toss attitude and admitted that he had left all the band merchandise in his car and couldn’t be bothered to get any of it . I complained to his manager who turns out to be also his wife too . She apologised for his behaviour and said she was ill and wasn’t with him at this gig and that it wouldn’t have happened if she was . She offered me a freebie ticket for another gig but I didn’t take it as I was put off by my experience
Haha...love your buddy Steve holding signs like Dylan in "Subterranean Homesick Blues" for coming attractions, The worse gigs for me were when my heroes acted like dopes: Bonnie Raitt 3 sheets to the wind, struggling through a set I've seen her deliver flawlessly before and since...even Jerry Garcia in the 90's looking grateful to be dying...the Allman Brothers pulling out of a concert at the last second because the bros were feuding. Oddly the worst gig I went to was also the best: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughn in the summer of 1990; the music was as magnificent as you'd expect it to be, but the next day we discovered that Stevie Ray had died in a copter crash in the fog over Alpine Valley. Cried for days with a mix of sadness and joy over being lucky enough to see all these guys jamming on one stage.
I'd gone to see the mighty Therion in Ankara, Turkey. Must be 2003 or 2004. While they were playing their fourth song of the set, there was a power outage. The band hanged on for about half an hour: The drummer played a lengthy solo, then the singer sang an aria. Then they left the stage and we went out. About half an hour later, we saw the lights were back on and we went in again. The band came back on stage and started playing, but in a few minutes the lights went off again and the band left the stage for good. Later we learned that the venue's power generator was impounded a day before the gig.
Worst I attended was Emerson, Lake and Palmer in GLasgow in the early '70s - a waste of good electricity and my time ! Emerson jumped off the stage with a synth thing at one point but it was too high to get back up and a couple of punters in the front row had to give him assistance . Palmer "treated" us to a drum solo on his gigantic drum kit that went on and on and on - sometimes in my worst nightmares I think he might still be thrashing away.
Black and Blue show Milwaukee Arena 1980. (Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult) A wrench fell from the lighting rig and hit Geezer on the head and knocked him out cold. Someone came out and announced that the concert was cancelled. The crowd proceeded to pile all the floor chairs into a mound and lit them on fire. I had crap seats way up high, but an excellent view of the floor shenanigans. Taxi ! ua-cam.com/video/RTzb-sduiWc/v-deo.html
I saw the Catherine Wheel & Slowdive on separate occasions in the early 90s. I sat at the back at the Catherine Wheel and there were people asleep. I joined them. I saw you play with Robert Plant at Glasto 2000. I was in the crowd. Cats in space are from my home town of Horsham
We used to have a free street festival in our town where they would have different stages in a different places, one in a car park, one outside woolworths one in the town square etc. Lol Coxhill was going to so some free jazz improv on the main stage in the town square. i was really looking forward to this. he was on stage and a troop of people banging drums walks through and keeps playing, so he stopped and left the stage, didnt come back.
Among the best and worst gigs for me was actually the same artist - that being Johnny Thunders - who I saw more times than probably any other act, largely because he used to play in Manchester a lot. As most people probably know, Thunders was a massive heroin junkie, and so sometimes he'd be so strung out at a gig that he could barely play and was even physically sick on stage a few times, which was sad to see, but other times he'd knock it out of the park. Which is probably the best advert for avoiding heroin ever. Remember kids, just say no. I have seen a few bands deliberately play some stuff badly just for a laugh though, which is a different thing entirely. I think the best example of that was The Cult, who were clearly pee'd off at people going to their gigs just to hear She Sells Sanctuary, which is of course a great track, but it's not their only good one. Now Billy Duffy is a great player and he certainly could play that one live, but I recall seeing them once deliberately go through that track at about a million miles an hour and really phoning it in too, just to annoy the people who'd only come to the gig to hear that one song. I was laughing my ass off when they did that, because unlike the majority of the people there (Exeter University if I recall correctly) I totally got it and it was hilarious. They actually went up in my estimation when they did that.
Great video thanks for posting. My worst ever gig was the first I ever went to, The Rolling Stones in 1975. They walked on stage like two hours late, and were so awful they got boo’ed off after 20 minutes. Explains my dislike of the stones to this day
Absolute WORST ever was Kanye at Bonnorro 2014. He started out phenomenal actually. The energy was incredible. It was great for the first 3 songs but then he stopped the show, went on a long winded tirade about being one of the greatest ever along with people Paul McCartney and John Lennon, etc. and attempted to sing accapella. It went on for over 30 minutes. It was so obnoxious and bonkers. I left and went to another stage. David Allen Coe, 2004. He came on an hour late. He was absolutely hammered (or it seemed like it was). He blazed through a bunch of songs in like 45 minutes, left the stage and the band just jammed out. Still had a fun time. My buddies and I still talk about it and laugh.
I saw a band called "love hate" opening for Dio in the early 90's. This was at a club called Hammerjacks in Baltimore, where there was a second floor balcony. I got a spot at the railing right over the edge of the stage. Love Hate had some songs on the radio (Why do you think they call it dope and Blackout in a red room), but their guitar player couldn't play (a stand in? Drunk or high?), he was jumping around like he was really rocking out but terrible. So at one point between songs a tech brought him out a different guitar, and the guy next to me yells "Don't give him another guitar, he can't play the one he's got".
i really liked that lot - the issue was they tended to get a bit hammered before gigs rather than after them. they did a brilliant show at Newcastle Riverside in the early 90s
Two concerts come to mind, for very different reasons. My wife and I were celebrating our anniversary, and The New Cars were playing in San Francisco that night. I'm a big Todd Rundgren fan -- and had seen the band on an earlier leg of the tour -- and my wife liked The Cars (we'd seen them once together). We stayed in a historic B&B, which used to be the mansion where the Archbishop of SF lived (and is now a private house, so you can no longer stay there), walked to a lovely restaurant, then a few blocks further to The Fillmore...where there was no line to get in: just security and a few people milling about. Turns out the previous stop was at Lake Tahoe, and the roads were closed, so the tour bus couldn't make it out. A couple of weeks later, the bus got into an accident, guitarist Elliot Easton broke his clavicle, the remainder of the tour was cancelled, and that was the end of The New Cars. The second concert was on Mother's Day 1979, and I'd bought tickets so the whole family could see PDQ Bach at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House. My father had medical issues and got tired easily, so part way through the concert he left to take a nap in the underground parking garage behind City Hall, which was directly across the street from the venue. Unfortunately, this was the night of the infamous Dan White decision, where the former supervisor was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of Mayor George Mosconi and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and a huge riot began...in front of City Hall. Police cars were overturned and set on fire, and at least one line of police in full riot gear was called in to drive the angry mob away from City Hall. We missed the worst of it -- my father napping in the car and the rest of us at the concert, but we saw the aftermath after the show. Anyone who parked in the underground garage and stayed for the entire concert was stuck in the City overnight or had to walk a number of blocks to hail a cab to get home late on a Sunday night, because the garage was closed to prevent the rioters from entering. Dad coordinated with the garage attendants to let him out just before they closed it for good that evening -- shortly before the end of the concert -- and after a circuitous, scary drive managed to get back to the side of the War Memorial to pick us up.
I never realized it - I’m a big Jello Biafra spoken word CD fan, not a DK fan - but, yes, that cover photo was taken a few hundred feet away from where I was at the time, still blissfully unaware of what was happening outside.
Two that come to mind. The first my friend saw. PIL played behind a curtain and the kids didn't dig it. A shower of bottles hurled at the curtain and , you guesses it, the boys in blue were called and the show ended abruptly. Thousands of angry kids outside looking for some agro after that. Luckily I saw the show the next night and it was great. Johnny invited the audience on stage for the last few songs. A jolly good time was had by all. The worst for me was seeing GG Allin here in NYC East Village. After two songs he was naked on stage and wandering into the audience threatening to fight one and all. After about 15 minutes, yup, you guessed it, the ever ready boys in blue arrived and that was the end of the show. .
Yes I saw the Clash twice towards their end, Chapel Hill NC and Williamsburg VA, about a year apart. Not horrible, but certainly underwhelming, both times.
J Geils Band & Muddy Waters at Saratoga Springs, ny. Muddy got sick and the promoters wanted Geils to do their whole set for the same money they were getting as an opening act. So the Geils Band went out and did a phenomenal half an hour that whipped the crowd into a frenzy. They did their last song and then just left the stage. A riot ensued when they refused to come back out and the hall was literally torn apart! What a fuckin' ending!
A Cambridge artist called Ed Cox once played at Anglia Ruskin university. He got kicked out for taking coke in the toilet cubical. 😂 They let him come back to do three songs then go.
i didn’t get tickets to see duran duran play a small venue in cambridge 2011. but i’m livid about it on behalf of the people who queued in the rain all night to get tickets. i mean look at this dross: 1. Before the Rain 2. All You Need Is Now 3. Blame the Machines 4. Networker Nation 5. Come Undone 6. Safe (In the Heat of the Moment) 7. Other People's Lives 8. Tiger Tiger 9. Secret Oktober 10. Shadows on Your Side 11. Mediterranea 12. Too Bad You're So Beautiful 13. Notorious 14. Hold Back the Rain 15. The Man Who Stole a Leopard 16. Girl Panic! 17. (Reach Up for the) Sunrise
"Notorious" & "Come Undone" are the only songs here that I know. Admittedly, I haven't devoted much attention to any of the albums put out by the band in recent years, but I think it would be reasonable for fans to expect that at least 1/3 of any Duran Duran setlist should consist of hits from the 1980's and early 1990's since that time period was the band's heyday.
I was at that gig 😂 It was rammed and I could barely see anything because the stage lighting was so awful. Aside from the set-list the band sounded alright 🙃
I experienced that crush during Guns and Roses, it was terrifying. I remember pushing my way out of the crowd. My friends and I were amongst the first to arrive that day and I remember sitting in front of the stage in an empty field, then suddenly realizing later there thousands of people behind us.
When I was a high school freshman of 14 I went to see Joe Cocker in Knoxville TN. It’s been over half a century and I can’t recall definitely but the opener might have been Poco. Or maybe Poco was on the stereo when I was making out with the senior girl I went with. But Joe was blitzed, came out, belched and started taking his shoes off. Fell over backwards. Finally and mercifully, the curtain fell. Shows over. Never started actually. Proving you can’t always get by with a little help from your friends.
Worst gig: Allan Holdsworth back in 2000-something. And I love...L O V E Allan Holdsworth, but they played as a trio (Allan, Wackerman and Haslip) and the fact that there was no keyboard to establish a melodic center in the music, made the whole thing very taxing. We where exhausted mentally after 15 minutes. And I remember Wackerman looking so pissed off the entire gig, like he hated every second. And Allan, bless him, apologizing for putting on his glasses to read some sheet music that sounded just like everything else that night. It was so anticlimactic, seeing a hero of mine live, and it was bloody mid.
I have similar experience with Allan Holdsworth and I love his music as you do :-) It was a gig in Berlin with Virgil Donati on drums. Donati played his "let's turn everything into a polythythmic excercize" thing all the time and did not give the music any rhythmic center. It felt to me like a bad dream, the music was falling apart. Besides of that Allans and Haslips rigs broke down a few times during the show.
Well Allan generally played without a keyboard player so it could hardly have been a surprise if you knew anything about his live music😵💫 Also for those being disappointed with his last bands with Donati etc, they fail to understand Allan was really struggling health wise and that is why the other band members filled in more, particularly Virgil who really cared for Allan in his closing days.
For me it was Blue Oyster Cult. The enraging thing about it was that you could hear the gig as it should have been as it was totally down to the mix. You had to strain to hear the guitar which was great but you could barely hear it. It was a bassy mush.
Yeah, I saw Bob Calvert dressed as Biggles perform solo with backing band having an existential crisis mid-track and forget the words and just ranted before disappearing a while. The band continued jamming and when Bob returned he did a much better set. Methinks he got a little chemical comfort off-stage which re-energised him
i saw Fleetwood Mac in an arena in Knoxville in the mid 2000s. tickets were expensive, our seats were terrible, and the energy was low. i had a view backstage, and there was a guy on the drums back there, pounding away. i think he was the drummer we actually heard, not Mick. i like the band, but it was just a boring show. the next day we went to see Loverboy at the state fair FOR FREE, and the blew us away. i wasnt a huge fan, and had forgotten how many hits they had. it was a superfun show!
Saw Fleetwood Mac in the O2 Arena London 3 years ago , musically good but vocally they struggled , their best days are behind them ! Had good seats but paid a small fortune for them , disappointing !
Cannot say I have ever been a fan of Loverboy, but I did see them live ~1985 or so and I remember them being ridiculously good and having a great time.
I was at that 'Monsters of Rock' at Donnington Park in 1988 and it was a mud bath. I friend of mine is a massive 'Kiss' fan and he went up to the front when they were on and he came back covered in mud saying that its crazy down there. The rest of us stayed well back. and yes we later learned that there had been 2 fatalities and as a result 1989 was cancelled.
Nice shirt! I had something similar years ago, same color scheme and pattern. Hard to list the worst gigs. Fela Kuti was very tired and barely performed at all. He just hung around on stage and let the band play. Poor sound quality is so common that it almost isn't worth mentioning. I try to remember ear plugs always. Red Hot Chili Peppers had poor sound quality and they played their music as it is on their records. I wish to hear some different arrangements. I guess most people want to hear everything like they have heard it before. I find that boring.
Going way back I went to see Sad Cafe who had one hit. That was at Hammersmith Odeon and the band came on but the dry ice machine went wrong and it was at least ten minutes before you could see the band. Yngwe J M at Sheffield City Hall started the concert with an off stage feedback solo which was so loud I could not hear the rest of the show. I saw Thin Lizzy at Leeds City Hall a tram shed with the worst acoustics ever and only heard the bass and drums. At Huddersfield contemporary music festival a French group of drummers performed music inspired by pulsars and the sports centre was covered in sand. The concert was very niche and after this my five a side was cancelled as the sand couldn't be cleared. Lastly a great gig by Steeleye Span ended abruptly when Maddy Prior broke her ankle.
John Prine sometime in the 70’s at Tulagi’s in Boulder CO. Unfortunately John was a bit inebriated which happened back then. He was playing with Stevie Goodman who was great that night. Now I love John Prine and I saw him several times afterwards both before and after he got sober and he was great those times. Frank Zappa, also in the 70’s somewhere in Denver. Someone from the audience stupidly threw a pomegranate and hit Frank with it. He uttered a string of expletives and left the stage. Joni Mitchell got rained out at Red Rocks amphitheater. That would have been magical.
I swear my ears were bleeding after experiencing Motorhead, we saved what was left of our hearing by moving back a few rows after the first track, foolishly standing right by the amps on stage at first. They were so loud that the big amp labelled 'Bastard' was moving by itself across the stage with the vibration. The bass and especially drum impacts felt like shockwaves, so yeah, they were too loud. Exciting gig though. (Always took earplugs to gigs in case after that).
Big Audio Dynamite... I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Had to move away from the stage as far as possible. then U2 at the same gig...just because they were bor-ing
Was that the anti-nuclear power charity gig U2 did in Manchester in (I think) 1992 with Kraftwerk, Big Audio Dynamite and Public Enemy? The acoustics where always horrible at the G-Mex.
The Long Beach Dub All-Stars, what the surviving members of Sublime fell into after Bradley Nowell's death, at a club in Boise, Idaho. I brought a friend with me. I was badly under the impression that LBDAS would sound something like Sublime, and it was much more, shall we say, confrontational. I think we left early. The Sunday Night Club (streaming, of course) sounds interesting! I wonder who's out there playing ... whatever prog sounds like in the 21st Century. It is, in fact, the "Charisma Six-Bob Tour" all over again, but at just one venue. It's a great idea.
Two of the best gigs I’ve witnessed are Alice Cooper at Wembley empire pool when they filmed Welcome to my nightmare, and The Sensational Alex Harvey band at Hammersmith Odeon , when they recorded their live Album. Oh yes, Thin Lizzy at Skindles in Maidenhead on the Jailbreak tour. That’s three!😻 Fantastic!
Al Green 1996. He'd sing the first word of a verse, say something like, "Yeah, you know this one!" and then point the mic to the audience who'd take it from there. Every song. Even the stage announcements.
The Beautiful South 1999 Wembley Arena, they had The Barenaked Ladies as support who were pretty funny and lively, then The Beautiful South came on they were wooden, and it felt like they had rowed or something before going on stage. The music sounded like they were not interested in playing and there was little or no interaction with the crowd. I admire Paul Heaton as a songwriter and he seems decent, but that was the worst gig I've been to. Another that sadly was Ronnie James Dio supporting Alice Cooper in I think 2001 at Wembley Arena. We were up fairly high and the sound was awful it was loud echoey and just not listenable. We walked out halfway through and had a pint. The first half of Alice's set was pretty bad sound wise too. I still feel gutted that I saw Dio but couldn't hear sod all of the music. Good luck Steve it's a brilliant idea, I am based in South London so may pay for the streaming subscription when I can.
I saw Ozric Tentacles at my local club (Club 85 in Hitchin) back in November. That was a real suprise that they were playing a small club, i had previously seen them at Brixton Academy and Astoria on Tottenham court road, Brilliant gig, its definitely worth looking at your local music venue to see who is playing.
Any big festival in a field, like Glastonbury. Hated them since I was 20 and I'm 70 now. All except the one where we played, and went on early so the band going to the hospitality tent and getting blootered was after our gig.
In no particular order: PiL: once in the 80s in Preston, a gang of punks were at the front and spitting on John Lydon, after about 20 minutes, he got fed up, screamed, "we are not your enemy" and stomped off. Some years back, I decided to go and see them in Barcelona (I live there now), they cancelled and although they'd announced it on social media, I didn't know, so turned up anyway and the venue was closed. Sisters of Mercy: saw them in '85 and they were great, been to see them a couple of times in Barcelona: bloody awful. The last time, they advertised the start of the gig, but came on earlier so many people turned up late, the sound was atrocious and they got booed at the end of the gig; they are playing here again next year, needless to say, I won't be going. Manu Chao in and around Barcelona: I've seen him 3 times and it's always very tedious, lots of getting the crowd to sing 'lo, lo, lo', but never really playing any of his songs. Morcheeba: Glastonbury 2000, although I've seen comments on social media saying it was a great gig, the sound was pretty terrible where we were stood. What made it worse is that Leftfield were playing at the same time, but my friends wanted to see Morcheeba so I went with them and the next day I overheard conversations with people saying how great Leftfield were.
All the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort then later they brought me this song Oh, I hope you run into them, you, who've been travelling so long
Sabbath in Brum, December 2013, was a bit crap, mostly because the audience kept holding up their phones and even iPads so nobody shorter than 6'6" could see. Also Ozzy's idea of being a frontman seemed to be bending over, clapping his hands and shouting "Yeah!" for two hours. Odd to see Steve is booking Pallas, Solstice and Trilogy. Saw them on the same bill in December 1983. Still got the programme.
Buddy Miles around 1997. He had some pick up band that looked cheesy. The show started with “Them Changes” which was cool. Buddy gave it his all behind the drums but he seemed tired and was very overweight (more so than ever before). After he did some Hendrix tunes on drums, Buddy picked up an acoustic guitar and sat in a chair and played these somber folk/blues tunes. The small club cleared out as did my group too. I remember Buddy glaring at us as we began leaving. I felt bad.
The low point (I kind of wish I'd been there in a way) is when Finlay Quaye was ordered off stage in a venue in Gloucestershire. The crowd was getting restive then all suspension of disbelief was abandoned and the promoter marched on stage, grabbed the mike and said something regarding 'polluting his stage with bullshit'. Yea, bad gig. I don't know if Finlay has made a better impression since. I hope so.
Got to agree about sound quality. I am so sick of sound engineers cranking the volume to ridiculous levels! When sound pressure levels are too high it is impossible to to hear the music clearly, which is a particular problem for more complex music. An example last year was a Steve Hillage gig in Cardiff. I’m a lifelong Hillage fan and have been going to his shows since the mid 70s, but the engineer at this gig cranked the levels so high I gave up and walked! Ironically I saw Steve at the same venue a couple of years before and the sound was spot on. Indeed, I also walked out of a Glenn Hughes gig at the same venue for the same reason. I don’t know what these so called engineers are thinking because volume does not magically make the music better, heavier, rockier, etc?! Maybe it’s because their ears are shot and they forget that most of the audience aren’t stone deaf🤬
Good luck with the project Steve! Almost wished I lived in Kiddie! We've all heard the Great Gig in the Sky, but what I'm now wondering what is the Crappiest Gig in the Sky?
Worst gig was from one of my favorite bands. My bloody valetine at Santa Monica Civic in Southern California early 2000's. I'v been in & around loud bands forever bla bla... but this was so loud I think Shields was using jet engines from the nearby Airport instead of amps. I'm aware that crazy volume is their thing- it was so punishingly loud people were leaving. With earplugs in and hands jammed over my ears I stayed as long as I could bear it and slunk away . Ears rang through to the next day. Kevin Shields might have been "sucked off...or away" by the crowd but I was gone by then.....Ha ha ha great show Andy, glad I found it.
Bobby Kimball has dementia, as I understand it. Not sure when it was diagnosed, but it's been a bit now. I sent him a couple of emails a few years ago telling him how much I liked his work in Toto. He responded several times - very nice. It's a great shame really....
5:33, 'I dont know what I'm doing...' Welcome to our world Andy, we dont know what your doing most of the time either, just settle into it and go with the flow, you'll enjoy it, immensely!
For me 1. Kiss at Wembley Arena in 1981 or thereabouts. The council banned the fire effects, so what was the point? 2. Rush, Southampton Gaumont, Permanent Waves tour. I could have just listened to the records really loud as it was note perfect. 3. Led Zeppelin, Knebworth, 1979. Way too far away, couldn't see a thing. 4. Bob Dylan, St James's Park, 1984. Heavy metal guitarist in his band. Bob Dylan? 5. Robert Plant and his Shapeshifters, WOMAD, 2012. Surprisingly not very good. 6. Grateful Dead, Wembley Arena, 1990. Didn't take LSD for this one, bad mistake, unlike their superb Rainbow shows in 1981. Very, very boring. 7. Hawkwind, Stonehenge, 1984, Earth Ritual. Leery crowd, complete opposite to Space Ritual. The Enid were much better.
A legendary list. Of the twenty or so Hawkwind gigs I saw only two that were mediocre: Glastonbury in 1981 (weed-addled crowd were unresponsive and a bloke who wasn't was shouting obscenities at the band) and a lacklustre Folkestone gig a few years back with only pensioner Dave Brock from the original band. Still OK rather than terrible, the 'wind put on a good show.
@PaIaeoCIive1684 My favourite Hawkwind show was at Newcastle City Hall on the Levitation tour, when they were at their tightest and fastest. Dropped a microdot or two, and after the show I was blind for an hour or so as I just stared and stared at the unbelievable science-fiction spectacle unfolding before me. I don't think I can have blinked a single time through the entire strobe-dominated show (I must have?). Went and stayed with some goths in Fenham after the gig. They, and their house, were exceptionally dark and shadowy, black drapes over all the walls, but they needn't have bothered as all I could see was fluorescent yellow trails all night. Hilarious.
@@thefollandgnat Far out, man! Sounds like a stunning experience. My earliest HW experience as a young teen was the Levitation tour in London with Ginger Baker drumming and a cosmic space rock visual extravaganza blowing my young mind -- their stage show was always superb. I'd seen my first proper gig (Jethro Tull) a month earlier and this was even better. Left there with my ears throbbing (it was loud!) and mind buzzing with the experience. A few HW gigs later (Choose Your Masques tour) me and mates were lucky enough to meet the band at the stage door and even got a humungous spliff and Jack Daniels passed round (Dave's, I think) and had a great chat. Only disappointment was not meeting Mike Moorcock, my favourite SF author, who'd been on stage with them but left earlier. Epic concerts and a legendary band.
I've never been to a show that was not good, but I do recall a new band- Blue Oyster Cult- blowing the British headliners Flash off the stage. And when I saw The Doors, my seat was next to the air conditioner so it was freezing.
I don't know what the situation is with The Robin, but it's a venue of a certain size, and maybe the economics of prog bands playing there simply no longer works when there are smaller alternatives elsewhere, and it's not as though many bands play more than a handful of gigs on a tour these days. Mostly Autumn were there last weekend, and having seen them at the venue several times, and the size of crowd they attract, I don't understand how it can work financially. And, as far as I know, they are one of the bigger draws on the circuit. My worst gig was Finley Quaye at the Phoenix Festival in 1997. He came on stage late, was apparently not in his right mind for some reason, and once he'd played Sunday Shining most of the audience walked out. Rush at the NEC on the Clockwork Angels tour had terrible sound where I was, and I never expected that at a Rush gig. Very disappointing for the last time I saw the band.
Rage against the Machine's first reunion gig where they headlined Reading Festival. They were doing ONE gig! I had mossed them first time round and tickets sold out quickly. Living a couple of hours from Reading and having family on the area, me and and a group of mates who usually went to the festival travelled up the night before parked up at families house dragged all our shit to tue festival with an eye of finding someone selling spares or finding a tout. Really dedicated to getting to see that ONE and only show. Touts smellt blood and so weekend tickets where allteady starting at double price, which see stupidly turned down, we'll find better prices we said, they migjt not even be teal tickets. Each time we wenbback to the touts yhey went up and up and up, and we kept searching for tickets dragging qll our stuff with us for camping as we went. We eventually drank enough going in and out of pubs that we through caution to the wind, tickets had quadrupled in price we had to empty our savings accounts and went through the gates with knots in our stomachs, these are definitely fake tickets. Imagine our absolute elatione when the inspector waved us through. Thibg is now that we each paid enough for a long weekend away in europe to see this bloody festival so the pressure is on to definite not waste any fun. It was an okay year. RATM where amazing but the weekend couldn't live up to the hype of having paid that much to get in. To add insult to injury that Xmas Killing in yhe Name of became no 1 in the charts and to thank everyone for the effort RATM announced a series of gigs the next year including a FREE Entry gig at Hyde Park! What a jip eh? Hahaha!
The most boring must have been Bob Dylan in southern Sweden in 1989. In second place Springsteen in Gothenburg a few years ago. I gave up after 15 minutes. On the other hand, the same person was phenomenal in 1983 at the same arena. This even though I don't like Springsteen or would listen to him in the car. The funniest concert must have been a death metal band in Grebbestad, also in Sweden.
I met a UK drummer from Manchester ,Mr.Andy in 2017, Paul Usher in Capitol City, played in toss the feathers,a whistle heavy band. He didn't like too many people but he said i was okay, I said yeah You too, I guess. We had the same birthday, he was a City and Hamilton guy.he backed a guy down one day that invaded his space .he was there in the shelter places about six months.he got into it with a day shelter dude on thanksgiving and i never saw or heard from him again.ill take him as rare bright spot my vest wearing biscuit sharing pally.God redeemed and restored me praise Jesus got me back to my origins and Paul best to you,cheers,and i couldn't really be a whistles fan but rock on
LOL. I love this guy. I liked how he warned us that sponsored adverts would be popping up and told us to just ignore them as they would be over soon. Haha !😅 most UA-camrs would tell us to support the advertising to support the channel ! Brilliant ! I saw Gil Scott Heron, great gig but he was late and stoned. Worst gig was Gordon Lightfoot. About half an hour in he just said "F*ck it !" and walked off and never returned.
Chris de Burgh in Belfast, 1990ish. Frightening. Especially the “emotional” lady in red. But “High in Emotion” had me running out the back door to the pub.
My list? I was in tbe band for most of them.
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Lol! If he'd have seen my band, his #10 would definitely fall off that list.
Haha. Me too.
That's being too self critical least u actually played not on tape I never have guts or talent not a musician I give anything have a ounce of talent.
Stelly Dan only gig Concert been too sound was horrendous weedy voice no Omph bass was non existent after watching two against nature live DVD maybe ever night for over a year. I was so dispointed I didint even tap my feet. Horns sounded no existent. It was at vector arena in Auckland nz terrible sports statidum I whould have strangled guy doing the mixing. Is that a cool job or what. What's chances of 62 tone deaf friend of mine 😊 getting a job as a roadie I pay you. ❤ Opps my friend will. I love steely Dan rip Walter beaker dude had a hard life esp his childhood. Saw clip where Donald becker turned to Walter said how he admired his friend. That was special made up for dud concert. Well there amazing happy music and that live DVD wore it out had glue it super glue in spindle goes. Any bad day at work I pop that on and after 3 songs in I be feeling okay by kid Carlaman I be air drumming and doing bass n guitars screaming the vocals ❤❤❤
my friends and i snuck into an aerosmith concert at a motor speedway, they were so bad we snuck back out.
I saw them on January 10 1980 at the Montreal Forum. They were so bad that I never forgot the date. I left after 45 painful minutes. The worst show that I saw, by far. It really influenced my perception of them, and since that show I've never been able to really enjoy their music. Their only song that I truly enjoy is "One Way Street" from their first album.
This is so funny! If it’s true, it’s unbelievable funny!❤
Saw them on their Rock in a Hard Place tour. They just weren't into it. The first bad concert I'd ever seen, only to be topped by Motley Crue in their Theater of Pain tour. I think the common denominator in both shows was heroin.
Long time Aerosmith fan and their live shows are definitely hit or miss. Back in the day they released a double live album and it was terrible.
You took the words right out of my mouth. The worst show I ever went to.
Finally! A promoter thinking about how people get to and from a gig. More power to you
Bob Dylan concert early 2000s - what a shocker! We walked out and we weren't alone. Droves of people were leaving. It was like we were watching the afternoon soundcheck. He totally ignored the 10,000 strong crowd. Between songs he sauntered to the middle of the huge stage and had a meeting with his band. I presume they were discussing what to play next. He'd then saunter back to the mic and play. I hadn't expected much but he delivered even less.
That Guns N Roses show is the scariest experience I have ever lived through.
One second I was on top of people... The next I was under piles of people unable to move. After a very long lime I managed to get to the back of the crowd. Once I was there, I stayed there. Scary.
RIP to the people who died.
Was that Montreal?
@scottarchibaldmusic Donington Monsters Of Rock festival 1988
A great line up...well apart from Kiss... Not really my thing😅
Iron Maiden
Kiss
Dave Lee Roth
Megadeth
GnR
Helloween
I went to Monsters of Rock in 1992, as a very green17yr old. Was right at the front, for the start, which was The Almighty.
Before they started it was fine. Plenty of space, no crowd crush. As soon as they hit the first chord, it was like 75,000 people suddenly charged forward. The world suddenly changed into a mixture of Joy and Fear.
That first time you realise that you have no control over where the crowd is going and then trying to stay on your feet is something truly terrifying, but I would totally advocate people doing it...
These days you would see me at the back, making sure I have taken the correct medication to keep my blood pressure down. Lol!!
I was at that and have always remembered standing on the right side of the field looking at the crowd the moment Guns and Roses were introduced and seeing this mass of thousands people surge down the slope to the stage. It was like watching a human wave and it didn't surprise me people died@paulmcelroy547
THANKS ANDY THAT WAS HILARIOUS, I KNOW IT'S NOT GIGS OR EVEN MUSIC RELATED BUT IN THE LATE 80S MY MATES WERE SENT ON A RESTART COURSE BY THE DOLE OFFICE, YOU KNOW THE KIND OF THING WHERE YOU DON'T GET YOUR GIRO UNLESS YOU SIT IN A ROOM FOR A WEEK WITH A LOAD OF BLOKES WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED BUILDERS AND THEY GET YOU TO TRY AND WRITE C.VS ETC, WHEN ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON A DETECTIVE AND TWO UNIFORMED OLD BILL WALKED IN TO THE CLASS AND ARRESTED THE TUTOR FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE!!! AND AS A SIDE NOTE THE DOLE TRIED TO DOCK MY MATES MONEY FOR NOT ATTENDING ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY UNTIL MY MATE THREATENED TO CALL THE PAPERS. WHAT A LIFE !!! HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I wonder who he was??
(I'm a True Crime fan, .. imagine that on You Tube!!)
You made my Xmas . its like hanging with your crazy friends having you on the tube.🥁
I've seen a few bad ones but Robert Fripp's Frippertronics tour was the most bizarre. He spent more time talking than playing and when he thought he heard a tape recorder, stopped playing, turned his back to the audience and wouldn't play until the tape was put on the stage. After several uncomfortable minutes Robert relized he was mistaken and resumed playing. Then the concert stopped for a tea break, literally. After tea Robert played for another 15 minutes or so, took a bow and walked off stage. No encore, and only 45 minutes including the tea break. As the audience sat in silence, bewildered that it was over, someone yelled out "can anyone else play?"
I saw him at Boudisque in Amsterdam and there was no entrance fee so it was a gift. For him, it was research and development. Regardless of whether I enjoyed it or not, nobody was robbed off their hard-earned cash.
Worst show I ever saw, and I've seen many, was Maroon 5 in 2013. They had a huge number of wrong notes every song. It was nuts. Not exactly hard music.
Andy you've done it again! Really love the content my friend, from Melbourne AU.
A friend of mine was working at lots of festivals across the UK. He was generally too busy to really see any bands but he made an exception for The Prodigy. He arrived last minute and managed to flash his passes and push through to the front centre of the huge crowd. When the band started there was the usual surge from the crowd where you get transported in several directions without moving your feet. Anyway that happened and his shorts and underwear found it's way round his ankles. Every time he tried to reach them and recover his modesty the crowd surged again and he nearly got trampled. He managed to redress himself after what must have seemed like an eternity. I think it was T in the Park and we all examined the TV footage but unfortunately it hadn't been caught on camera. Not a bad gig but I don't think my mate enjoyed it.
Yeah expect the wild west
Imagine looking forward to a gig for ages then being ejected from it and immediately charged with indecent exposure. Fate can be cruel sometimes.
I’ve been watching a few of Fil’s (Wings of Pegasus) videos and my thought is simply: if I have paid $400 to see and HEAR my favourite artist and what I hear is just what is recorded on the CD I bought for $15 …. that isn’t a good concert, is it.
This ticket master extortion bollocks makes me so glad I came of age in the 90s and not now.
Just LOVE Fil and what he does to expose miming and autotune!!
GG Allin completely ruined my Bar Mitzvah reception.
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We saw him at the Axiom in Houston in 1992, and it shut its doors that same year. Not saying there's a connection, but the smell after the show was horrible.
WTF!
Impossible
GG Allin - A new experience in personal hygiene
I once saw Morrisey supporting Bowie, in Exeter. Morrisey walked off half way through his set due to the crowd shouting for Bowie between his songs.
In Morrisey's defence a few years later, he played a gig in Truro and went to the local butchers, bought all of the meat and then donated it to the local homeless day centre. A very decent thing to do, in my book.
The guy who sings "Meat is Murder" offers meat to a homeless day centre? Either he doesn't really believe what he's saying or he's got a real sense of humour... Nice gesture, but doesn't make any sense imo...
Please, please keep doing these rants about rock n roll. They're keeping me sane (somewhat) in a hard, hard time.
I saw Pink Floyd at the Oakland Coliseum in the mid 80’s. It had rained and the ground was wet and muddy. It was cold and drizzly. Some guy a few rows from us was shirtless and screaming through the entire show. I don’t even remember what the music was like, mostly because I couldn’t hear it the shirtless guy was screaming so loud. By the end I was wet and cold and decided those big outdoor shows just aren’t for me.
I attended Monsters of Rock in 1988. Due to the festival's immense popularity, our coach from Leeds was delayed getting to the venue, causing me to miss Guns N' Roses and Helloween, the latter was one of my favourite bands at the time so I was hugely disappointed. Dave Lee Roth (with Steve Vai) delivered an excellent performance that afternoon. As Andy mentioned, tragically, two people died at the festival. As mobile phones were not common then, my mother stayed awake until I got home in the small hours to ensure I was still alive after news of the fatalities had been on the evenings' bulletins but the victims' identities were not released until the following day.
The most important invention of all humanity is the fast forward button !
Yes and the MUTE button for TV, brilliant!👍😉
What a fantastic idea, a music club. I wish I was there. More of these should pop up. I hope other people do something similar in other cities around the world. I will keep my eyes open to support the streaming service.
One gig that comes to mind is seeing MOBY pre PLAY fame. He danced, “played” some keys, some congas and he did some vocalizations all to a DAT tape that multiple times cut out mid song. He was very frustrated and I did have empathy for him but he was completely unprofessional and rude to the sound crew. It was unforgettable to see him dancing and the music cuts out “briefly”, he would have a fit and then the music would randomly start again and he would instantly start dancing again. Come to think of it I kind of enjoyed it in a twisted way.
My worst gig was one of my own. I'm a guitarist but at this gig I also had to play bass on a couple of songs. I managed all the guitar parts alright but I got completely lost in a song where I played bass. It was in a part of a song where there were only bass and drums so it was quite obvious and I just kept making shit up trying to remember and get back in the song and the drummer just looked at me in panic and was trying to follow what he hell I was doing. I don't know how in the world we got out of it but that moment felt like years with the audience wondering what was going on. After that I was thrown off my game the rest of the gig and almost I felt like I had an out-of-body experience. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh damn... Your story brings back... playing guitar in a "power trio" late 90s; a lot of bands and we had about 20 minutes. I HAD practiced "Aqualung" but in all the stress my brain was not quite there... the opening riffing was horribly out of key and I struggled through the whole song also singing. 😆😄
I went to the Phoenix Jazz Festival to see Louie Bellson in the 1980s and just before they were to go on stage, a strong wind caught a banner hanging from the speaker towers and dragged the whole thing down. People were running like hell, I heard some people were seriously injured by the falling speakers. So much for seeing Louie Bellson. And then there was this Kid Rock show... oh god.
My worst gig ever was seeing Grace Jones very poorly miming her way through four songs (she was so loaded she could hardly even stand up) accompanied by half a dozen cavorting dancers at a rave party about 30 years ago. I couldn't watch it anymore after the first song. There was a skateboard ramp at the other end of the pavilion so I went to watch the skaters instead.
The Who, Boston Garden, March 1976. I'm foggy on exactly what happened. I don't remember them coming on stage. The guy i was with said years later they played one song, but that was all. My research shows it was the first US stop of a world tour. Drove home in a snowstorm. They made up the gig a couple months later as their last US stop before heading back to Europe. Always assumed it was due to Keith Moon being Keith Moon.
What research? Good grief man, get it right will ya. They played TWO songs!
Yes, Keith had apparently mixed brandy with barbs. 😋
@@apollomemories7399Good grief man, learn to read. Were you there? What were the songs? I used the Who official website for the dates.
i was there. played substitute and i can't explain. then roger said "ah, keith's got the flu" and there was quite the negative reaction. make-up concert was incredible.
I was there ,yep ,Keith passed out show over.Frankly I wouldn’t of made it through myself,I ended up passing out on the wrong train home.Townend said hold on to your tickets we’ll be back. Came back and killed it ,total Live at Leeds.
@@floydshamblesThanks for setting me straight. Don't understand why I can't remember. I came from Milford. Maybe that explains it.
I do remember the makeup show being killer.
Bob Dylan at Hyde park 2019 i think it was. After Neil Young did a superb show Bob came out and proceeded to rework a load of his songs to such an extent it was quite hard to decipher what they actually were. People were streaming out of the venue well before the halfway mark. Also Black Crowes at Edinburgh Playhouse in 1990. Chris Robinson had one of his attitude evenings, sang everything badly then capped it all off by jumping into the crowd to have a fight with someone
I've seen tons of great Dylan shows, so there's bound to be a duffer sometime. I always hated Black Crowes.
Ha ha, Dylan always does that. I really like different arrangements.
Now that's a shirt worth being sponsored for! 🤠
Andy - you make me smile. Cheers, Jim 😅😎
Love your humor and your shirt too!👍 Being a financially challenged person I can't afford to go to a concert these days and anything I attended in the past, rocked out really well!🎸😃
Probably more due to problems with my hearing as I get old...Mick Jagger/Joe Satriani in Sydney. Painfully loud. Madness, Luna Park Sydney it just sounded like a wall of mud. When I did eventually hear some top end it was quite fun. And tragically, after waiting decades to see them, Rush at the O2. Again, all I could here was bottom end. Plus they played a lot of their 90s stuff. The saving grace was the brilliant encore which included 2112. I saw both Steve Vai & Devin Townsend recently and they were great gigs, except...only standing, no seats. At my advanced age it takes my back a week to recover from standing all night.
My worst gig was seeing late 80’s. Liverpool band The Christians at Olbys Soul cafe ,Margate and they opened with a song that no one knew and then sing Gary Christian said that it had taken the band. 5 hours to drive to Margate and then stunned me when he said that they’d never come to Margate again ! And then the atmosphere dropped from there . He gave a couldn’t give a toss attitude and admitted that he had left all the band merchandise in his car and couldn’t be bothered to get any of it .
I complained to his manager who turns out to be also his wife too .
She apologised for his behaviour and said she was ill and wasn’t with him at this gig and that it wouldn’t have happened if she was .
She offered me a freebie ticket for another gig but I didn’t take it as I was put off by my experience
Haha...love your buddy Steve holding signs like Dylan in "Subterranean Homesick Blues" for coming attractions, The worse gigs for me were when my heroes acted like dopes: Bonnie Raitt 3 sheets to the wind, struggling through a set I've seen her deliver flawlessly before and since...even Jerry Garcia in the 90's looking grateful to be dying...the Allman Brothers pulling out of a concert at the last second because the bros were feuding.
Oddly the worst gig I went to was also the best: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughn in the summer of 1990; the music was as magnificent as you'd expect it to be, but the next day we discovered that Stevie Ray had died in a copter crash in the fog over Alpine Valley. Cried for days with a mix of sadness and joy over being lucky enough to see all these guys jamming on one stage.
I'd gone to see the mighty Therion in Ankara, Turkey. Must be 2003 or 2004. While they were playing their fourth song of the set, there was a power outage. The band hanged on for about half an hour: The drummer played a lengthy solo, then the singer sang an aria. Then they left the stage and we went out. About half an hour later, we saw the lights were back on and we went in again. The band came back on stage and started playing, but in a few minutes the lights went off again and the band left the stage for good. Later we learned that the venue's power generator was impounded a day before the gig.
Worst I attended was Emerson, Lake and Palmer in GLasgow in the early '70s - a waste of good electricity and my time ! Emerson jumped off the stage with a synth thing at one point but it was too high to get back up and a couple of punters in the front row had to give him assistance . Palmer "treated" us to a drum solo on his gigantic drum kit that went on and on and on - sometimes in my worst nightmares I think he might still be thrashing away.
he'd be the only one not playing the underground.
Funny that one of my faves was Emerson Lake and Powell (Palmer sat it out that year)
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Lol, Proggers are Mental!!
Black and Blue show Milwaukee Arena 1980. (Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult) A wrench fell from the lighting rig and hit Geezer on the head and knocked him out cold. Someone came out and announced that the concert was cancelled. The crowd proceeded to pile all the floor chairs into a mound and lit them on fire. I had crap seats way up high, but an excellent view of the floor shenanigans. Taxi ! ua-cam.com/video/RTzb-sduiWc/v-deo.html
Awesome video have a great weekend Andy ❤😊
That was the BEST advertising I’ve ever seen! ❤️! I simply can’t resist!
Keep em coming Andy,love your rants !!
I saw the Catherine Wheel & Slowdive on separate occasions in the early 90s. I sat at the back at the Catherine Wheel and there were people asleep. I joined them. I saw you play with Robert Plant at Glasto 2000. I was in the crowd. Cats in space are from my home town of Horsham
Suggestion.. Ten best gigs you have been to, for which video exists on youtube
We used to have a free street festival in our town where they would have different stages in a different places, one in a car park, one outside woolworths one in the town square etc.
Lol Coxhill was going to so some free jazz improv on the main stage in the town square. i was really looking forward to this. he was on stage and a troop of people banging drums walks through and keeps playing, so he stopped and left the stage, didnt come back.
Wish I lived closer to Kidderminster. Sounds like a cool little club.
Among the best and worst gigs for me was actually the same artist - that being Johnny Thunders - who I saw more times than probably any other act, largely because he used to play in Manchester a lot. As most people probably know, Thunders was a massive heroin junkie, and so sometimes he'd be so strung out at a gig that he could barely play and was even physically sick on stage a few times, which was sad to see, but other times he'd knock it out of the park. Which is probably the best advert for avoiding heroin ever. Remember kids, just say no.
I have seen a few bands deliberately play some stuff badly just for a laugh though, which is a different thing entirely. I think the best example of that was The Cult, who were clearly pee'd off at people going to their gigs just to hear She Sells Sanctuary, which is of course a great track, but it's not their only good one. Now Billy Duffy is a great player and he certainly could play that one live, but I recall seeing them once deliberately go through that track at about a million miles an hour and really phoning it in too, just to annoy the people who'd only come to the gig to hear that one song. I was laughing my ass off when they did that, because unlike the majority of the people there (Exeter University if I recall correctly) I totally got it and it was hilarious. They actually went up in my estimation when they did that.
Great video thanks for posting. My worst ever gig was the first I ever went to, The Rolling Stones in 1975. They walked on stage like two hours late, and were so awful they got boo’ed off after 20 minutes. Explains my dislike of the stones to this day
Absolute WORST ever was Kanye at Bonnorro 2014. He started out phenomenal actually. The energy was incredible. It was great for the first 3 songs but then he stopped the show, went on a long winded tirade about being one of the greatest ever along with people Paul McCartney and John Lennon, etc. and attempted to sing accapella. It went on for over 30 minutes. It was so obnoxious and bonkers. I left and went to another stage.
David Allen Coe, 2004. He came on an hour late. He was absolutely hammered (or it seemed like it was). He blazed through a bunch of songs in like 45 minutes, left the stage and the band just jammed out. Still had a fun time. My buddies and I still talk about it and laugh.
Pub quiz fact: Gil Scott-Heron's dad was a football player and was signed up and played for Glasgow Celtic.
I saw a band called "love hate" opening for Dio in the early 90's. This was at a club called Hammerjacks in Baltimore, where there was a second floor balcony. I got a spot at the railing right over the edge of the stage. Love Hate had some songs on the radio (Why do you think they call it dope and Blackout in a red room), but their guitar player couldn't play (a stand in? Drunk or high?), he was jumping around like he was really rocking out but terrible. So at one point between songs a tech brought him out a different guitar, and the guy next to me yells "Don't give him another guitar, he can't play the one he's got".
i really liked that lot - the issue was they tended to get a bit hammered before gigs rather than after them. they did a brilliant show at Newcastle Riverside in the early 90s
Thanks!
Two concerts come to mind, for very different reasons.
My wife and I were celebrating our anniversary, and The New Cars were playing in San Francisco that night. I'm a big Todd Rundgren fan -- and had seen the band on an earlier leg of the tour -- and my wife liked The Cars (we'd seen them once together). We stayed in a historic B&B, which used to be the mansion where the Archbishop of SF lived (and is now a private house, so you can no longer stay there), walked to a lovely restaurant, then a few blocks further to The Fillmore...where there was no line to get in: just security and a few people milling about. Turns out the previous stop was at Lake Tahoe, and the roads were closed, so the tour bus couldn't make it out.
A couple of weeks later, the bus got into an accident, guitarist Elliot Easton broke his clavicle, the remainder of the tour was cancelled, and that was the end of The New Cars.
The second concert was on Mother's Day 1979, and I'd bought tickets so the whole family could see PDQ Bach at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House. My father had medical issues and got tired easily, so part way through the concert he left to take a nap in the underground parking garage behind City Hall, which was directly across the street from the venue. Unfortunately, this was the night of the infamous Dan White decision, where the former supervisor was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of Mayor George Mosconi and Supervisor Harvey Milk, and a huge riot began...in front of City Hall. Police cars were overturned and set on fire, and at least one line of police in full riot gear was called in to drive the angry mob away from City Hall.
We missed the worst of it -- my father napping in the car and the rest of us at the concert, but we saw the aftermath after the show. Anyone who parked in the underground garage and stayed for the entire concert was stuck in the City overnight or had to walk a number of blocks to hail a cab to get home late on a Sunday night, because the garage was closed to prevent the rioters from entering. Dad coordinated with the garage attendants to let him out just before they closed it for good that evening -- shortly before the end of the concert -- and after a circuitous, scary drive managed to get back to the side of the War Memorial to pick us up.
Didn't that riot provide the cover for Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (Dead Kennedys)?
I never realized it - I’m a big Jello Biafra spoken word CD fan, not a DK fan - but, yes, that cover photo was taken a few hundred feet away from where I was at the time, still blissfully unaware of what was happening outside.
Two that come to mind. The first my friend saw. PIL played behind a curtain and the kids didn't dig it. A shower of bottles hurled at the curtain and , you guesses it, the boys in blue were called and the show ended abruptly. Thousands of angry kids outside looking for some agro after that. Luckily I saw the show the next night and it was great. Johnny invited the audience on stage for the last few songs. A jolly good time was had by all.
The worst for me was seeing GG Allin here in NYC East Village. After two songs he was naked on stage and wandering into the audience threatening to fight one and all. After about 15 minutes, yup, you guessed it, the ever ready boys in blue arrived and that was the end of the show. .
Oh man, that PIL show was infamous!
Definitely Weather Report in London and the Clash also London - I think they were at the end of their careers and were glad to get off the stage
Yes I saw the Clash twice towards their end, Chapel Hill NC and Williamsburg VA, about a year apart. Not horrible, but certainly underwhelming, both times.
The Clash always were nothing but a pile of shite though.
J Geils Band & Muddy Waters at Saratoga Springs, ny. Muddy got sick and the promoters wanted Geils to do their whole set for the same money they were getting as an opening act. So the Geils Band went out and did a phenomenal half an hour that whipped the crowd into a frenzy. They did their last song and then just left the stage. A riot ensued when they refused to come back out and the hall was literally torn apart! What a fuckin' ending!
A Cambridge artist called Ed Cox once played at Anglia Ruskin university. He got kicked out for taking coke in the toilet cubical. 😂
They let him come back to do three songs then go.
i didn’t get tickets to see duran duran play a small venue in cambridge 2011. but i’m livid about it on behalf of the people who queued in the rain all night to get tickets. i mean look at this dross:
1. Before the Rain
2. All You Need Is Now
3. Blame the Machines
4. Networker Nation
5. Come Undone
6. Safe (In the Heat of the Moment)
7. Other People's Lives
8. Tiger Tiger
9. Secret Oktober
10. Shadows on Your Side
11. Mediterranea
12. Too Bad You're So Beautiful
13. Notorious
14. Hold Back the Rain
15. The Man Who Stole a Leopard
16. Girl Panic!
17. (Reach Up for the) Sunrise
"Notorious" & "Come Undone" are the only songs here that I know. Admittedly, I haven't devoted much attention to any of the albums put out by the band in recent years, but I think it would be reasonable for fans to expect that at least 1/3 of any Duran Duran setlist should consist of hits from the 1980's and early 1990's since that time period was the band's heyday.
I was at that gig 😂 It was rammed and I could barely see anything because the stage lighting was so awful. Aside from the set-list the band sounded alright 🙃
Yeah that’s a terrible song choice. Perhaps they were sick of playing the hits.
Music venues are closing at a mad rate. Please support this. The Sunday club is a lovely idea and deserves to succeed.
I experienced that crush during Guns and Roses, it was terrifying. I remember pushing my way out of the crowd. My friends and I were amongst the first to arrive that day and I remember sitting in front of the stage in an empty field, then suddenly realizing later there thousands of people behind us.
3:19 ok this im liking. Advertising for a local venue. Honestly that’s a win win. Things that help venues can help musicians.
When I was a high school freshman of 14 I went to see Joe Cocker in Knoxville TN. It’s been over half a century and I can’t recall definitely but the opener might have been Poco. Or maybe Poco was on the stereo when I was making out with the senior girl I went with. But Joe was blitzed, came out, belched and started taking his shoes off. Fell over backwards. Finally and mercifully, the curtain fell. Shows over. Never started actually. Proving you can’t always get by with a little help from your friends.
Worst gig: Allan Holdsworth back in 2000-something. And I love...L O V E Allan Holdsworth, but they played as a trio (Allan, Wackerman and Haslip) and the fact that there was no keyboard to establish a melodic center in the music, made the whole thing very taxing. We where exhausted mentally after 15 minutes. And I remember Wackerman looking so pissed off the entire gig, like he hated every second. And Allan, bless him, apologizing for putting on his glasses to read some sheet music that sounded just like everything else that night. It was so anticlimactic, seeing a hero of mine live, and it was bloody mid.
It's a shame when you see one of your favorites and you leave disappointed. It's happened to me as well.
I have similar experience with Allan Holdsworth and I love his music as you do :-) It was a gig in Berlin with Virgil Donati on drums. Donati played his "let's turn everything into a polythythmic excercize" thing all the time and did not give the music any rhythmic center. It felt to me like a bad dream, the music was falling apart. Besides of that Allans and Haslips rigs broke down a few times during the show.
It was worse than his usual porno music?
Well Allan generally played without a keyboard player so it could hardly have been a surprise if you knew anything about his live music😵💫 Also for those being disappointed with his last bands with Donati etc, they fail to understand Allan was really struggling health wise and that is why the other band members filled in more, particularly Virgil who really cared for Allan in his closing days.
For me it was Blue Oyster Cult. The enraging thing about it was that you could hear the gig as it should have been as it was totally down to the mix. You had to strain to hear the guitar which was great but you could barely hear it. It was a bassy mush.
Hawkwind in the seventies. Bob Calvert had a meltdown backstage, they were two hours late on stage, but they were immense. Best night of my life.
Yeah, I saw Bob Calvert dressed as Biggles perform solo with backing band having an existential crisis mid-track and forget the words and just ranted before disappearing a while. The band continued jamming and when Bob returned he did a much better set. Methinks he got a little chemical comfort off-stage which re-energised him
i saw Fleetwood Mac in an arena in Knoxville in the mid 2000s. tickets were expensive, our seats were terrible, and the energy was low. i had a view backstage, and there was a guy on the drums back there, pounding away. i think he was the drummer we actually heard, not Mick. i like the band, but it was just a boring show. the next day we went to see Loverboy at the state fair FOR FREE, and the blew us away. i wasnt a huge fan, and had forgotten how many hits they had. it was a superfun show!
Saw Fleetwood Mac in the O2 Arena London 3 years ago , musically good but vocally they struggled , their best days are behind them ! Had good seats but paid a small fortune for them , disappointing !
Cannot say I have ever been a fan of Loverboy, but I did see them live ~1985 or so and I remember them being ridiculously good and having a great time.
I was at that 'Monsters of Rock' at Donnington Park in 1988 and it was a mud bath. I friend of mine is a massive 'Kiss' fan and he went up to the front when they were on and he came back covered in mud saying that its crazy down there. The rest of us stayed well back. and yes we later learned that there had been 2 fatalities and as a result 1989 was cancelled.
Nice shirt! I had something similar years ago, same color scheme and pattern.
Hard to list the worst gigs. Fela Kuti was very tired and barely performed at all. He just hung around on stage and let the band play.
Poor sound quality is so common that it almost isn't worth mentioning. I try to remember ear plugs always. Red Hot Chili Peppers had poor sound quality and they played their music as it is on their records. I wish to hear some different arrangements. I guess most people want to hear everything like they have heard it before. I find that boring.
Going way back I went to see Sad Cafe who had one hit. That was at Hammersmith Odeon and the band came on but the dry ice machine went wrong and it was at least ten minutes before you could see the band. Yngwe J M at Sheffield City Hall started the concert with an off stage feedback solo which was so loud I could not hear the rest of the show. I saw Thin Lizzy at Leeds City Hall a tram shed with the worst acoustics ever and only heard the bass and drums. At Huddersfield contemporary music festival a French group of drummers performed music inspired by pulsars and the sports centre was covered in sand. The concert was very niche and after this my five a side was cancelled as the sand couldn't be cleared. Lastly a great gig by Steeleye Span ended abruptly when Maddy Prior broke her ankle.
I hope The Sunday Club does great, good luck.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Wolverhampton October or November 1980. I just walked out, couldn't take it anymore after half an hour or so.
John Prine sometime in the 70’s at Tulagi’s in Boulder CO. Unfortunately John was a bit inebriated which happened back then. He was playing with Stevie Goodman who was great that night. Now I love John Prine and I saw him several times afterwards both before and after he got sober and he was great those times. Frank Zappa, also in the 70’s somewhere in Denver. Someone from the audience stupidly threw a pomegranate and hit Frank with it. He uttered a string of expletives and left the stage. Joni Mitchell got rained out at Red Rocks amphitheater. That would have been magical.
the worst gigs are where the bass drum is too loud (and that´s almost always...)
I swear my ears were bleeding after experiencing Motorhead, we saved what was left of our hearing by moving back a few rows after the first track, foolishly standing right by the amps on stage at first. They were so loud that the big amp labelled 'Bastard' was moving by itself across the stage with the vibration. The bass and especially drum impacts felt like shockwaves, so yeah, they were too loud. Exciting gig though. (Always took earplugs to gigs in case after that).
Big Audio Dynamite... I thought I was going to have a heart attack. Had to move away from the stage as far as possible. then U2 at the same gig...just because they were bor-ing
Was that the anti-nuclear power charity gig U2 did in Manchester in (I think) 1992 with Kraftwerk, Big Audio Dynamite and Public Enemy? The acoustics where always horrible at the G-Mex.
@@NellyCelephant-f7e no was in Australia during Zooropa era. BAD were the support.
The Long Beach Dub All-Stars, what the surviving members of Sublime fell into after Bradley Nowell's death, at a club in Boise, Idaho. I brought a friend with me. I was badly under the impression that LBDAS would sound something like Sublime, and it was much more, shall we say, confrontational. I think we left early.
The Sunday Night Club (streaming, of course) sounds interesting! I wonder who's out there playing ... whatever prog sounds like in the 21st Century. It is, in fact, the "Charisma Six-Bob Tour" all over again, but at just one venue. It's a great idea.
Two of the best gigs I’ve witnessed are Alice Cooper at Wembley empire pool when they filmed Welcome to my nightmare, and The Sensational Alex Harvey band at Hammersmith Odeon , when they recorded their live Album. Oh yes, Thin Lizzy at Skindles in Maidenhead on the Jailbreak tour. That’s three!😻
Fantastic!
My eye caught Thin Lizzy and I thought that you were going to say a bad gig!
Al Green 1996. He'd sing the first word of a verse, say something like, "Yeah, you know this one!" and then point the mic to the audience who'd take it from there. Every song. Even the stage announcements.
The Beautiful South 1999 Wembley Arena, they had The Barenaked Ladies as support who were pretty funny and lively, then The Beautiful South came on they were wooden, and it felt like they had rowed or something before going on stage. The music sounded like they were not interested in playing and there was little or no interaction with the crowd. I admire Paul Heaton as a songwriter and he seems decent, but that was the worst gig I've been to.
Another that sadly was Ronnie James Dio supporting Alice Cooper in I think 2001 at Wembley Arena. We were up fairly high and the sound was awful it was loud echoey and just not listenable. We walked out halfway through and had a pint. The first half of Alice's set was pretty bad sound wise too. I still feel gutted that I saw Dio but couldn't hear sod all of the music.
Good luck Steve it's a brilliant idea, I am based in South London so may pay for the streaming subscription when I can.
I saw Ozric Tentacles at my local club (Club 85 in Hitchin) back in November. That was a real suprise that they were playing a small club, i had previously seen them at Brixton Academy and Astoria on Tottenham court road, Brilliant gig, its definitely worth looking at your local music venue to see who is playing.
Gil Scott Herons father played for celtic.
Any big festival in a field, like Glastonbury. Hated them since I was 20 and I'm 70 now. All except the one where we played, and went on early so the band going to the hospitality tent and getting blootered was after our gig.
In no particular order:
PiL: once in the 80s in Preston, a gang of punks were at the front and spitting on John Lydon, after about 20 minutes, he got fed up, screamed, "we are not your enemy" and stomped off. Some years back, I decided to go and see them in Barcelona (I live there now), they cancelled and although they'd announced it on social media, I didn't know, so turned up anyway and the venue was closed.
Sisters of Mercy: saw them in '85 and they were great, been to see them a couple of times in Barcelona: bloody awful. The last time, they advertised the start of the gig, but came on earlier so many people turned up late, the sound was atrocious and they got booed at the end of the gig; they are playing here again next year, needless to say, I won't be going.
Manu Chao in and around Barcelona: I've seen him 3 times and it's always very tedious, lots of getting the crowd to sing 'lo, lo, lo', but never really playing any of his songs.
Morcheeba: Glastonbury 2000, although I've seen comments on social media saying it was a great gig, the sound was pretty terrible where we were stood. What made it worse is that Leftfield were playing at the same time, but my friends wanted to see Morcheeba so I went with them and the next day I overheard conversations with people saying how great Leftfield were.
All the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort then later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them, you, who've been travelling so long
Sabbath in Brum, December 2013, was a bit crap, mostly because the audience kept holding up their phones and even iPads so nobody shorter than 6'6" could see. Also Ozzy's idea of being a frontman seemed to be bending over, clapping his hands and shouting "Yeah!" for two hours.
Odd to see Steve is booking Pallas, Solstice and Trilogy. Saw them on the same bill in December 1983. Still got the programme.
Buddy Miles around 1997. He had some pick up band that looked cheesy. The show started with “Them Changes” which was cool. Buddy gave it his all behind the drums but he seemed tired and was very overweight (more so than ever before). After he did some Hendrix tunes on drums, Buddy picked up an acoustic guitar and sat in a chair and played these somber folk/blues tunes. The small club cleared out as did my group too. I remember Buddy glaring at us as we began leaving. I felt bad.
The low point (I kind of wish I'd been there in a way) is when Finlay Quaye was ordered off stage in a venue in Gloucestershire. The crowd was getting restive then all suspension of disbelief was abandoned and the promoter marched on stage, grabbed the mike and said something regarding 'polluting his stage with bullshit'. Yea, bad gig. I don't know if Finlay has made a better impression since. I hope so.
He's been completely off the radar since Geldof's missus died.
Top lads bigging up the live scene.....my prog word, notey.
At 2:31, is that Bob Dylan in one of his heavily disguised personas?
Got to agree about sound quality. I am so sick of sound engineers cranking the volume to ridiculous levels! When sound pressure levels are too high it is impossible to to hear the music clearly, which is a particular problem for more complex music. An example last year was a Steve Hillage gig in Cardiff. I’m a lifelong Hillage fan and have been going to his shows since the mid 70s, but the engineer at this gig cranked the levels so high I gave up and walked! Ironically I saw Steve at the same venue a couple of years before and the sound was spot on. Indeed, I also walked out of a Glenn Hughes gig at the same venue for the same reason. I don’t know what these so called engineers are thinking because volume does not magically make the music better, heavier, rockier, etc?! Maybe it’s because their ears are shot and they forget that most of the audience aren’t stone deaf🤬
"Sucked off by the crowd" 🤣... Fusion fest sounds good, will have to check it out.
Didnt know that guy from Love Actually had lost his hair though.
Good luck with the project Steve!
Almost wished I lived in Kiddie!
We've all heard the Great Gig in the Sky, but what I'm now wondering what is the Crappiest Gig in the Sky?
Definitely my favourite fellow Brummie❤
Happy new Year mate🤘
Andy how do I pay to join the stream to the The Sunday Club. Australia's just a bit far to travel every month😂
Helped by Andys glamorous assistant 😅
Worst gig was from one of my favorite bands. My bloody valetine at Santa Monica Civic in Southern California early 2000's. I'v been in & around loud bands forever bla bla... but this was so loud I think Shields was using jet engines from the nearby Airport instead of amps. I'm aware that crazy volume is their thing- it was so punishingly loud people were leaving. With earplugs in and hands jammed over my ears I stayed as long as I could bear it and slunk away . Ears rang through to the next day.
Kevin Shields might have been "sucked off...or away" by the crowd but I was gone by then.....Ha ha ha great show Andy, glad I found it.
Bobby Kimball has dementia, as I understand it. Not sure when it was diagnosed, but it's been a bit now. I sent him a couple of emails a few years ago telling him how much I liked his work in Toto. He responded several times - very nice. It's a great shame really....
Is Steve bringing the Sunday Club to any London venues?
You always make me laugh. Thanks Andy
5:33, 'I dont know what I'm doing...'
Welcome to our world Andy, we dont know what your doing most of the time either, just settle into it and go with the flow, you'll enjoy it, immensely!
For me 1. Kiss at Wembley Arena in 1981 or thereabouts. The council banned the fire effects, so what was the point? 2. Rush, Southampton Gaumont, Permanent Waves tour. I could have just listened to the records really loud as it was note perfect. 3. Led Zeppelin, Knebworth, 1979. Way too far away, couldn't see a thing. 4. Bob Dylan, St James's Park, 1984. Heavy metal guitarist in his band. Bob Dylan? 5. Robert Plant and his Shapeshifters, WOMAD, 2012. Surprisingly not very good. 6. Grateful Dead, Wembley Arena, 1990. Didn't take LSD for this one, bad mistake, unlike their superb Rainbow shows in 1981. Very, very boring. 7. Hawkwind, Stonehenge, 1984, Earth Ritual. Leery crowd, complete opposite to Space Ritual. The Enid were much better.
A legendary list. Of the twenty or so Hawkwind gigs I saw only two that were mediocre: Glastonbury in 1981 (weed-addled crowd were unresponsive and a bloke who wasn't was shouting obscenities at the band) and a lacklustre Folkestone gig a few years back with only pensioner Dave Brock from the original band. Still OK rather than terrible, the 'wind put on a good show.
@PaIaeoCIive1684 My favourite Hawkwind show was at Newcastle City Hall on the Levitation tour, when they were at their tightest and fastest. Dropped a microdot or two, and after the show I was blind for an hour or so as I just stared and stared at the unbelievable science-fiction spectacle unfolding before me. I don't think I can have blinked a single time through the entire strobe-dominated show (I must have?). Went and stayed with some goths in Fenham after the gig. They, and their house, were exceptionally dark and shadowy, black drapes over all the walls, but they needn't have bothered as all I could see was fluorescent yellow trails all night. Hilarious.
@@thefollandgnat Far out, man! Sounds like a stunning experience. My earliest HW experience as a young teen was the Levitation tour in London with Ginger Baker drumming and a cosmic space rock visual extravaganza blowing my young mind -- their stage show was always superb. I'd seen my first proper gig (Jethro Tull) a month earlier and this was even better. Left there with my ears throbbing (it was loud!) and mind buzzing with the experience. A few HW gigs later (Choose Your Masques tour) me and mates were lucky enough to meet the band at the stage door and even got a humungous spliff and Jack Daniels passed round (Dave's, I think) and had a great chat. Only disappointment was not meeting Mike Moorcock, my favourite SF author, who'd been on stage with them but left earlier. Epic concerts and a legendary band.
I've never been to a show that was not good, but I do recall a new band- Blue Oyster Cult- blowing the British headliners Flash off the stage. And when I saw The Doors, my seat was next to the air conditioner so it was freezing.
B.O.C. Rocks
I don't know what the situation is with The Robin, but it's a venue of a certain size, and maybe the economics of prog bands playing there simply no longer works when there are smaller alternatives elsewhere, and it's not as though many bands play more than a handful of gigs on a tour these days. Mostly Autumn were there last weekend, and having seen them at the venue several times, and the size of crowd they attract, I don't understand how it can work financially. And, as far as I know, they are one of the bigger draws on the circuit. My worst gig was Finley Quaye at the Phoenix Festival in 1997. He came on stage late, was apparently not in his right mind for some reason, and once he'd played Sunday Shining most of the audience walked out. Rush at the NEC on the Clockwork Angels tour had terrible sound where I was, and I never expected that at a Rush gig. Very disappointing for the last time I saw the band.
Saw the 2 Females Of Metal there Delain etc great venue rubbish refreshments and food 😂😂😂
Rage against the Machine's first reunion gig where they headlined Reading Festival. They were doing ONE gig! I had mossed them first time round and tickets sold out quickly. Living a couple of hours from Reading and having family on the area, me and and a group of mates who usually went to the festival travelled up the night before parked up at families house dragged all our shit to tue festival with an eye of finding someone selling spares or finding a tout. Really dedicated to getting to see that ONE and only show. Touts smellt blood and so weekend tickets where allteady starting at double price, which see stupidly turned down, we'll find better prices we said, they migjt not even be teal tickets. Each time we wenbback to the touts yhey went up and up and up, and we kept searching for tickets dragging qll our stuff with us for camping as we went.
We eventually drank enough going in and out of pubs that we through caution to the wind, tickets had quadrupled in price we had to empty our savings accounts and went through the gates with knots in our stomachs, these are definitely fake tickets. Imagine our absolute elatione when the inspector waved us through.
Thibg is now that we each paid enough for a long weekend away in europe to see this bloody festival so the pressure is on to definite not waste any fun.
It was an okay year. RATM where amazing but the weekend couldn't live up to the hype of having paid that much to get in.
To add insult to injury that Xmas Killing in yhe Name of became no 1 in the charts and to thank everyone for the effort RATM announced a series of gigs the next year including a FREE Entry gig at Hyde Park! What a jip eh? Hahaha!
My friend Tom is the drummer in Emerald Dawn, this Sunday I was jamming with Fred Baker (Soft Machine)
The most boring must have been Bob Dylan in southern Sweden in 1989.
In second place Springsteen in Gothenburg a few years ago. I gave up after 15 minutes.
On the other hand, the same person was phenomenal in 1983 at the same arena. This even though I don't like Springsteen or would listen to him in the car.
The funniest concert must have been a death metal band in Grebbestad, also in Sweden.
In 1980 I went to a gig by Bauhaus at Surrey university (Guildford). I've never heard such a badly performed racket in my life.
Was this the same gig when they supported Magazine on the "correct use of soap" tour?
I met a UK drummer from Manchester ,Mr.Andy in 2017, Paul Usher in Capitol City, played in toss the feathers,a whistle heavy band. He didn't like too many people but he said i was okay, I said yeah You too, I guess. We had the same birthday, he was a City and Hamilton guy.he backed a guy down one day that invaded his space .he was there in the shelter places about six months.he got into it with a day shelter dude on thanksgiving and i never saw or heard from him again.ill take him as rare bright spot my vest wearing biscuit sharing pally.God redeemed and restored me praise Jesus got me back to my origins and Paul best to you,cheers,and i couldn't really be a whistles fan but rock on
LOL. I love this guy. I liked how he warned us that sponsored adverts would be popping up and told us to just ignore them as they would be over soon. Haha !😅 most UA-camrs would tell us to support the advertising to support the channel ! Brilliant !
I saw Gil Scott Heron, great gig but he was late and stoned. Worst gig was Gordon Lightfoot. About half an hour in he just said "F*ck it !" and walked off and never returned.
Chris de Burgh in Belfast, 1990ish. Frightening. Especially the “emotional” lady in red. But “High in Emotion” had me running out the back door to the pub.
What were you doing ever being there?