The Band You Saw Live, But Wish You Hadn't

The kind of opposite to my last thread. Are there any bands you went to see live, which left you feeling majorly underwhelmed?

I once went to see the Lost Prophets live and they were absolutely dire, it was a shoddy gig and I wasn't at all impressed. I had seen them at a festival and they seemed ok, but when it was their own fans, they didn't do very well for them. It put me off the band to an extent, but then so did their music becoming poor anyway.

I later saw Iron Maiden live, now its not really their fault, but I wish I hadn't because they are such a big band, there were thousands upon thousands of people there, and I was so far back I couldn't possibly enjoy it. They opted to play none of their many classics too, im not an avid fan, but I knew enough of their tracks by ear to easily fill a two hour gig, instead they played Run To the Hills as I was leaving near the end, and nothing else I knew! Perhaps they were catering for their early fans, but I can't imagine many were there in a sell out crowd of tens of thousands.

My Chemical Romance supported another band I had gone to see, and were pretty shit too, I wasn't at all impressed by them, it may have even been the same gig as Lost Prophets!

I bet there are plenty of scorned fans on Listal, lets here it folks, whos not hot live? Save people some time and money!

Care to explain what made them suck? As I said in the other thread, its so much nicer when people write coherent responses in full paragraph form, giving reason etc. Listing and saying the odd sentence doesn't give me much to go by when replying.

Not saying to be rude, Just Saying.

I saw a christian band named C.O.G.(Children of God).
It was free..but I could have went my whole life without that annoying music.

I can appreciate that Enko, I guess bands try and play for all of their fans, in my instances they alienated me as a relatively new fan (in comparison to their massive history) even though I knew a sizable chunk of their discography. Do you know most of Bostons songs? Or do you mean they were just jamming on the guitar, playing whatever they fancied. Sometimes thats cool, I've seen a gig end with a 20 minute guitar solo before that just had everybody staring in awe.

Not heard of C.O.G, Tori. But I imagine how tedious they must have been if they were free to listen to. I am sure not all Christian Rock bands are awful, I also imagine that there are probably a few bands I know that I've never realized are CR bands. But I can't say I would actively seek one out from experience!!

Yeah. I'm not really a Christian, but I love rock and I couldn't take that. It was really bad music, and just made no sense really. C.O.G. is a band around where I live so they're not that big.

I saw Simple Plan in concert, and I absolutely detest their music anyway, but it was for a friend's birthday. I can't stand bands today and their whiny, emotional lyrics that lack any depth or merely decent instrumental.

Another one is Goldfinger which was just at Summerfest - the music wasn't horrible, but the crowd was filled with crazy teenagers and I was about 2 seconds from being swallowed by a mosh pit. I backed away from that one...:D

I saw The Killers and now I'm not much of a fan.

The music sounded far too much like it does on the album, but mostly I was upset with what little regard they held for their audience/fans. The show was sold out, house was packed, and they barely said hello. They came out, played their songs and then left. That kind of arrogance and disrespect just left a bad taste in my mouth.

Coheed and Cambria are fantastic live! They put on quite a decent show, and really get the audience going. It was them who I saw when after playing the gig, their lead went on a 15-20 minute (ie a bit long) solo whilst everyone just stood and watched impressed. The fact he did it after the show and not in whilst the others slacked or something, was great! It wasn't just noise either, it sounded good.

I saw Goldfinger at a festival and I have to agree their fans were an irritation! I stood behind the largest member of my group so he would take any beatings that escaped the crowd.

You Americans get the greatest gigs over there, Coheed recently did a 4 day thing where each evening they played an entire Album from start to finish live. I'd kill for them to do it in the UK!

Another Milwaukee native?

I didn't make it to Summerfest at all this year, unfortunately. Too busy preparing to move, moving, and then unpacking. Too bad, as I really wanted to see Gnarles Barkley and Coheed and Cambria, at least.

Of course! Go Milwaukee :) I had originally wanted to see Coheed and Cambria, but work gets in the way of these things...I did, however, make it to People in Planes, which was actually pretty entertaining considering I had never heard of them before Summerfest. I missed Seether, though.

The Avril Lavigne concert wasn't what i expected.

REO speedwagon. I like most eighties music and theirs is good but in concert they sounded horrible. don't know if they were having a bad night or if it was the accoustics or what but something was up.

Bad Company. Dude they r good but 2 many people didnt know who they were and it was one of those crappy free concerts