Which show was the biggest disapointment.

Without a doubt.

Billy Bragg with Wilco…total steaming, smelly feces with tape worms in it!

It wasnt that bad, was it?

Placebo when they played the time before last disappointed me. Spiritualized last show and third from last shows were awful too.

I saw Bowie in Dublin sometime in 89/90/91, whenever he was doing that whole playing the old songs for the last time tour - terrible

I was also at a Nick Cave show 4/5 years ago at the 9.30 where I thought he phoned it in a little

Oh I forgot Manic Street Preachers……

So bad that after 35 minutes someone got on stage to steal the microphone so the band could not play any more. I definitive concert going low point.

Mankie, why did you start another thread about Badly Drawn Boy?

Actually, I've yet to see a truly bad show at the 9:30.

I guess…. the Radiohead Tibetan Freedom Concert midnight surprise show.. but that would be… because I couldn't get in. :p

The Vines. That was too easy :D

Psychedelic Furs opening for Echo & the Bunnymen were just so AWFUL. Duran Duran @ World Music Theater in 1995 was pathetic too (that was part of one of those all-day Q101 festival things…the Stone Roses, KMFDM and the Flaming Lips played earlier that day). Cocteau Twins @ Lisner Auditorium in 1993, absolutely a big stinking pile of shite. 808 State @ the Metro in Chicago, 1993, purely fecal waste. Hmmmm…when I worked at the Club a long time ago, I saw some horrid stuff like the Bogmen, Everything, and Cravin' Dogs. Those were some long and painful nights.

Cypress Hill on Halloween many years ago.
did a midnight show and BOY, did they suck.

or Outkast….i think maybe hip hop isnt so good there.

Originally posted by bunnyman:
Psychedelic Furs opening for Echo & the Bunnymen were just so AWFUL.

They certainly did suffer, along with the crowd, through that one didn't they? They were brilliant at the 930 though, so I'll let them off with a "bad night" pass.

bryan ferry in the mid 80s… he was moody and one of the guitar players was painfully loud

There is I guess a difference between worst show ever (probably Dispatch or the Book of Love), versus those that I hoped would be good. For that I would have to say Queens of the Stone Age this past year. I was expecting something great, but it was just so-so metal. Kyuss was much better back in the day.

But the top bad show was Jackson Browne at Merriweather this summer. Went with a friend, was hoping to hear some of his classics, and other than Running on Empty at the end it was all crap that I never heard (nor my friend who has all the older good albums).

built to spill recently. maybe i was expecting too much.

One big letdown of a show that has always stood out was Violent Femmes at Lisner in 85 or 86. Man I loved that record as a young lad and I was ready to see something great…….but saw something totally forgettable instead.

Originally posted by brennser:
I was also at a Nick Cave show 4/5 years ago at the 9.30 where I thought he phoned it in a little

I saw this show and thought it was great, especially the encore of Stagger Lee. This is the only Nick Cave show I've attended though, so perhaps he's had much better nights.

I saw this show and thought it was great, especially the encore of Stagger Lee.

Stagger Lee was great - I just wish the rest of the gig had been more like that - maybe it was something to do with touring the Boatmans Call which is much quieter than his earlier stuff

A "roses" theme . . .

One of my favorite shows ever, but still I have to say Stone Roses at WUST. No Reni and Ian Brown's voice was shot to hell. Couldn't get over what I thought the show should have been.

Another is G'n'R at Capital Center back in 91. 3 songs off Appetite and the rest Use Your Illusion-a full 3 months before it was released! Thanks Axl.

one of the biggest disappointments. . .

frank black 1994 at emo's in austin.
siouxsie and the banshees sometime in 1995 in austin.

Last years Siouxie and The Banshees show at Nation.

White Stripes 9:30 2002
QotSA 9:30 w/ Dave Grohl