worst concert experience?

I think I saw the same APTBS show you did and liked it a lot more than you did.


With Holy Fuck and Sons and Daughters at RNRH?

My only complaint was that their set wasn't longer.


I think I was at that Ozric Tentacles show, too!


Winter '05?

unfortunately, nope and nope :)

only time i've seen APTBS was at the hall of williamsburg, after sirenfest this summer. decent show but way too loud. i wanted to attend the APTBS+HF@RnR show but work got in the way, if i remember correctly.

saw the ozrics at state theater on june 22, 2006 - just dove through my stub collection to confirm that.

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Worst "experience":
Having my wallet stolen.

My friend had won tickets to the Warped Tour in 2001, and I foolishly decided to attend, primarily to see Rancid and Rollins Band. My friend eagerly wanted to see A.F.I. and I had heard a lot of hype about them, so we moved up through the crowd to watch their set.

After a few songs, I decided to move to the back to avoid all the pesky crowd surfers. That's when I noticed that my wallet and keys were gone. There was no way that they fell out since I wasn't crowd surfing or jumping; obviously someone grabbed it out of my pocket while I was trying unwillingly to hold up a crowd surfer.

About a dozen others kept looking for their wallets about the set was over, and fortunately I found my keys. I lost about $60, all my IDs, family pictures, and so on. To this day, I hate A.F.I. by association.

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Runners-up:
1.) Leaving a 311 concert halfway through the set because my girlfriend hated the show. I missed "Let the Cards Fall," which is rarely performed.
2.) Driving through hurricane weather on the highway to get to a Deftones/Glassjaw show. I couldn't see more than 5 feet in front of me the entire way there. Scary.
3.) Being denied entry into the first 45 minutes of the Virgin Mobile Festival because the place I won tickets through didn't have my tickets ready. I missed 90% of Cat Power's set (though I heard her from afar), and she was one of the main reasons I was thrilled to go.
4.) Stepping in a piss-covered ground at every show at The Boathouse for years.

cat power was the worse (in buenos aires)

and also rusted root or as i call them crusted poop at the electric factory a few years ago

just horrid…

i'm sure someone will regale us shortly with stories of the horror that was being denied entry to this summer's radiohead show at nissan, due to the monsoon conditions and road closures. i spent 3 hours tailgating inside a small car with 5 other folks, waiting for show time. left there cold and soaked to the bone.

RH really haven't had any luck playing in DC: tibet freedom fest = canceled by lightening, bull run = flooding, nissan'08 = more flooding… as one of the band members wrote on their website, "what's next - locusts?!?".

Anything at Nissan!

I saw Cat Power at the 930 a few years back and nearly fell asleep on my feet…

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

Nirvana @ Bender Arena. My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us. The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types. So we left before the encore. My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it. I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.

Then there was the time we drove from DC->Orlando to see The Grateful Dead. We got right up to the entrance and were told the show was canceled. That made for a crappy night - not knowing if we drove all the way down there for nothing. The next night went on as scheduled, but we got tear-gassed by the cops.

The Stones at RFK in 89. I was really sick. It was pouring down rain. We were in the 500-level with obstructed view seats. The sound was abysmal up there. I wouldn't have gone at all, but my friend wouldn't go alone. I wasn't going to let her miss it.

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

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

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

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

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

Yes, consider yourself lucky. :) It's painful to see a band you love turn in a performance like that. It made me vow to never see them again, which wasn't a hard vow to keep because I don't recall them coming back here after that.

It was especially disappointing because I'd seen them a few years earlier at Georgetown University, and they were great. I guess they just decided they'd had enough.

Until you experience such massive head trauma from a car accident that you need 11 hour surgery to reconstruct your face with titanium, thus causing debilitating migraines, please keep your ignorant opinions to yourself.

Thanks.

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
wimp

Originally posted by Arthwys:
My personal worst experience was Zwan w/ Queens of the Stone Age at Towson's bloody gym. It was general admission, the place was absolutely packed, and it was hotter than hades and humid with the collective sweat of the great unwashed alt-masses. I'm prone to migraine headaches, and ended up with the worst one of my life that night. Made it through the concert but was in serious pain by the time I had to drive over an hour home. By the time I got back I was shaking uncontrollably and in the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life.

It sucked.

As for most disappointing experience, I think daisy's review sums it up best.

Originally posted by serpent boy:
To this day, I hate A.F.I. by association.

Wow, there are so many better reasons to hate AFI…

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Nirvana @ Bender Arena. My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us. The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types. So we left before the encore. My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it. I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.

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I would consider that 20 minutes from your short live salvaged.

When I was in my concert going heyday I had the opinion there's no such thing as a bad concert, just some that didn't live up to expectations….but those of (dis)honorable mention in my 'my god that was not what I was expecting'

Beck at the hfstival - He must've left whatever talent he's alleged to have in the tour bus.

Big Bang Theory as support for The Waterboys in 89 - some people should not be allowed within 50 feet of musical instruments.

Tin Machine - Mr. Bowie, sir…just what were you thinking?

Billy Bragg singing all that Guthrie shit - Why cover songs from an inferior song writer than yourself?

Most shows at the Shusmere - Amazing how the staff of a venue can ruin a show for you.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Nirvana @ Bender Arena. My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us. The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types. So we left before the encore. My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it. I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.

Dude, with friends like that, who needs enemies? Besides missing a show that was great all the way through, you also missed the odd spectacle of Kurt Cobain wigging out at the very end. At first I thought it was just rockstar showboating, and then I saw the worried looks on the faces of his bandmates as they tried to get him to leave the stage and realized it was for real. Sad in retrospect.

Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Nirvana @ Bender Arena. My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us. The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types. So we left before the encore. My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it. I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.

Dude, with friends like that, who needs enemies? Besides missing a show that was great all the way through, you also missed the odd spectacle of Kurt Cobain wigging out at the very end. At first I thought it was just rockstar showboating, and then I saw the worried looks on the faces of his bandmates as they tried to get him to leave the stage and realized it was for real. Sad in retrospect.

OMG! Are you saying that Craig Nichols is the reincarnation of Kurt Cobain?

Jaguar, I was all like "Craig who?" so I Googled Craig Nichols, and all the links I got were for an "internationally renowned Oncologist."

Then I remembered this is from Jaguar. So I Googled "Craig Nichols, shoegaze" and I got the right results. :)

Ah, I never could spell that well and wasn't up to Googling to make sure I got his name exact though I did question myself. Guess I should have taken the extra step. Then again, reading you thinking he might be a Shoegazer made for a good laugh. Btw, if you can find the Letterman meltdown, that's even better.

sick of it all at the old 930 club…i hit that poll HARD and needed 5 stiches in my head. lol.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Nirvana @ Bender Arena. My car wasn't big enough to take all of us, so one of my friends drove us. The show was great, but my friend was one of those "let's leave early and beat the traffic" types. So we left before the encore. My only shot at seeing Nirvana and I missed about 20 minutes of it. I'm still kind of angry about that and I still give my friend a hard time about it whenever I have the chance.

Then there was the time we drove from DC->Orlando to see The Grateful Dead. We got right up to the entrance and were told the show was canceled. That made for a crappy night - not knowing if we drove all the way down there for nothing. The next night went on as scheduled, but we got tear-gassed by the cops.

The Stones at RFK in 89. I was really sick. It was pouring down rain. We were in the 500-level with obstructed view seats. The sound was abysmal up there. I wouldn't have gone at all, but my friend wouldn't go alone. I wasn't going to let her miss it.

Stones show… I had 3d row center seats on the field and ended up NOT GOING. Both my kids ended up with one of the various childhood diseases and I sold the tickets for FACE to someone who happened to walk up to the box office to see if there were any late releases.