Spec
10.28.15 | At work right now so i'll add to the list later on. Mainly looking for yall's experiences tho. |
Sinternet
10.28.15 | Oh god I've seen Color Morale. Fucking awful live. 30-minute set, during which they managed to play their way through 4 songs, none of which were close to being their best or most popular. All of thm were half-assing apart from the vocalist who looked liked he was about to pass out the whole time. He did this thing where after every song he spent five fucking minutes talking about his personal life whilst falling on death ears, no-one paid attention and clearly he was pissed off. Pull that talk shit if you're the headliner but when you're the second of three support acts and the first absolutely smashed it out the park don't become stupid fucking talking band. |
Spec
10.28.15 | he should try focusing on some vocal lessons and less about selling t-shirts with "inspiring" lyrics all over them |
Mort.
10.28.15 | Feed the Rhino, indecipherable fuckton of noise.
so was rolo tomassi, tho im seeing them in 2 weeks to see if they have improved |
torts
10.28.15 | color morale played great when i saw them idk |
ellagos
10.28.15 | When I saw In Fear and Faith in 2012 they were barely audible which wasn't their fault sure it's down to the sound guy, but they kinda just gave up and did nothing to rectify the issue which led to 80% of the crowd just fucking them off and going to the bar. |
SgtShock
10.28.15 | Mastodon has a bad rep for their live vocals. I thought Katatonia was kind of weak when I saw them in 2011. Russian Circles was a disappointment although I wouldn't go so far to say their live show was bad. |
Spec
10.28.15 | mastodon seems to have a really difficult time with their live vocals |
ellagos
10.28.15 | @fourthreich they were touring with Make Them Suffer for some reason so yeah |
beefshoes
10.28.15 | They are my favorite band of all time, but Opeth were really iffy for years as far as live shows are concerned. If you watch some of the gigs from the early 2000s, they were very sloppy.
I've personally never been to a bad show. I've seen a lot of bands that have a terrible reputation around here like Periphery, the Faceless, Sylosis...etc, and they've all put on great live shows (even though I'm not a big fan of any of these bands). |
Spec
10.28.15 | yeah most of the shows i've seen have been fine, people complained about protest the hero after one of their shows years ago because rody was so drunk but i thought it made it even better haha |
SCREAM!
10.28.15 | "I thought Katatonia was kind of weak when I saw them in 2011."
Seriously? I was in awe when I saw them open for Opeth in 2013 |
Trophycase
10.28.15 | Saw This Will Destroy You earlier this year and they were just brutally boring. By the time I walked out there was probably 1/3 of the audience left. |
Ebola
10.28.15 | I saw 30 Seconds to Mars at a music festival last year, and I was in awe of how atrocious the performance was. I've never been a fan of theirs, but within about 10 minutes I had gone to the stage as far away from the performance as possible. |
Metaphysics
10.28.15 | I went to Ozzfest '06 where I witnessed Dragonforce play by far the worst live show I've ever seen. The vocalist couldn't sing in tune, both guitarist were I assume drunk. I didn't even need to know their music to hear that they were hitting the wrong notes/playing parts sloppy. I still don't know why I sat through the whole set. |
Spec
10.28.15 | like watching a car crash you cant look away |
basikchanL
10.28.15 | pharmakon was pree annoying live tbh.
she was just tryna be all tuffgurl with her drumsticks and buttons and yelling etc etc but it was so ehhhhh. even laughable at times. and all the greasy industrial metal-hardcore types were drooling/going craze bc shes like sorta cute i GUESS... and ye. ew. just not a good experience tbh.
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Ocean of Noise
10.28.15 | The National were pretty awful, surprisingly.
Might have just been a bad night for them, though. |
chug73
10.28.15 | Motionless in white were terrible when I saw them at Soundwave. It was 40+ celcius out so I don't blame them but still, was really disappointed. |
tempest--
10.28.15 | man I've seen countless shitty local bands
one time every member except the the drummer and vocalist has their back to the audience for the entire set
one time a guy was trying to hype the crowd up but there was like no one there (early in the night) and no one knew em because they were relatively new so the vocalist came down to the mosh to get a pit started and there was like 1 other dude who was actually moshing |
Deathconscious
10.28.15 | "Might have just been a bad night for them, though."
pretty sure Matt goes up there drunk sometimes, he gets stage fright. |
chug73
10.28.15 | Spec: I've seen mastodon multiple times and they've always had shitty vocals.one time they actually had to turn Brent down bc he was fucking plastered and was swaying so bad he couldn't play his guitar. |
TheBarber
10.28.15 | "pharmakon was pree annoying live tbh."
yeah saw her open for Swans and gotta agree with all you said about yelling tuffgurl, except most of the audience was kinda laughing and taking the piss out of her and it got worse as she went into the crowd with her toy noise gizmos, kek'd through her whole performance because of those yells |
TheBarber
10.28.15 | Holly Herndon was pretty comedically bad when I saw her too, bunch of weak voice wails and some hipster cunt playing a lo-fi version of gmod spamming lettuce and noodles on the map then followed by beta af textures from the beginning of the 3D era of gaming or something jumbled around |
Archael
10.28.15 | Local bands where the drummer thinks hes hot shit and plays with reckless abandon, fuck those guys |
ScuroFantasma
10.28.15 | "I went to Ozzfest '06 where I witnessed Dragonforce play by far the worst live show I've ever seen. The vocalist couldn't sing in tune, both guitarist were I assume drunk. I didn't even need to know their music to hear that they were hitting the wrong notes/playing parts sloppy. I still don't know why I sat through the whole set."
Damn really? I saw em earlier this year and they were uncannily good. They've got a new vocalist now but still, the guitarists were insanely good and they all put on a great show. |
Funeralopolis
10.28.15 | "one time every member except the the drummer and vocalist has their back to the audience for the entire set"
I have seen bands do this before what the fuck is up with that? A lot Like Birds and 68 both spent most of the show looking at the back of the stage.
'68 was probably the worst show I ever saw, they spent most of the facing the back wall, constantly improvising poorly, they'd be in the middle of the song and slow it down or start playing something totally different killing all momentum they were building. Between almost every song they were telling us to buy their album with the vocalist half stuttering over himself when trying to talk to the audience. I left partway through, complete bullshit.
Attack Attack! back in the day at warped tour, the vocalist was completely out of breathe only poorly screaming every few words or so, everything sounded muddied, some people in the audience were actualling booing them.
Some random hardcore band, played so god damned loud my mouth was involuntarily clattering, they just sounded like a blast of noise and I had to leave the venue because my mouth wouldn't stop clattering.
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Funeralopolis
10.28.15 | "pharmakon was pree annoying live tbh."
That's a shame I always figured she'd be pretty good live. |
tempest--
10.28.15 | [2] DragonForce being good now
seen em twice, 2012 and 2014 (or was it 2015? idk) and they were pretty fun
apparently they were garbage on tour around the mid to late 2000s and that's why they got that reputation of not being able to play their instruments but they're pretty solid nowadays |
tempest--
10.28.15 | oh and yea Marc Hudson is god so |
Sevengill
10.28.15 | ZP had an awesome voice but he was kind of a cunt |
Sinternet
10.28.15 | 'Some random hardcore band, played so god damned loud my mouth was involuntarily clattering, they just sounded like a blast of noise and I had to leave the venue because my mouth wouldn't stop clattering.'
pffft pussy, fucking up your jaw is 2 hardcore 4 u |
ScarlettPimpernail
10.28.15 | '68 was probably the worst show I ever saw, they spent most of the facing the back wall, constantly improvising poorly, they'd be in the middle of the song and slow it down or start playing something totally different killing all momentum they were building. Between almost every song they were telling us to buy their album with the vocalist half stuttering over himself when trying to talk to the audience. I left partway through, complete bullshit.
Thats funny. Just saw '68 and it was very much the same. They had a stange setup where they would face each other instead of the crowd. They would play some groovy stuff and then stop and then switch off soloing. Kind of annoying. They seem pretty self righteous as well. |
Dmax28
10.28.15 | ^Did you see them at Aftershock in Sacramento? (I saw a little bit of them and knew it wasn't for me.)
If so, what did you think of Jane's Addiction? |
CaimanJesus
10.28.15 | 36 Crazyfists is pretty bad live |
CaimanJesus
10.28.15 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv0ykV5bVs |
ScuroFantasma
10.28.15 | "Apparently they were garbage on tour around the mid to late 2000s and that's why they got that reputation of not being able to play their instruments but they're pretty solid nowadays"
Ah okay yeah that would do it. And Temp did you catch them at Soundwave? |
chug73
10.28.15 | I did. They killed it. |
ScuroFantasma
10.28.15 | Agreed they were excellent live, seriously skilled musicians. Missed out on seeing them at the signing tent though, I wanted to watch Steel Panthers full set (I stand by that they were unmissable) but my friend went and she took my hat to get signed which was cool of her. |
chug73
10.28.15 | They said that the reason they sucked during the Inhuman Rampage tour was bc they weren't using monitors and their techs were clowns that didn't tune anything. |
tempest--
10.28.15 | yeah both times I saw DragonForce were at soundwaves |
TheSonomaDude
10.28.15 | It used to be DragonForce, idk if it's still that way
Modern Metallica is pretty bad too. They sound like an office tribute band now. |
tempest--
10.28.15 | yo man Metallica are amazing seen them twice and rocked my ass off |
MattGandee
10.28.15 | "36 Crazyfists is pretty bad live" - Agreed. When I saw them a few years ago, their objective seemed to be to play every song at the fastest tempo possible, ruining their slightly more subdued (or at least slower) numbers in the process. And they invoked every bad hardcore show cliche (the "wall of death," etc.) which is pretty much a guaranteed groan and eye roll from me.
Having said that, I've only seen them once at a festival, and there have been some bands in the past who've disappointed me at festivals only to completely blow me away when I saw them headline. Here's hoping I just caught the guys on an off performance. |
brainmelter
10.28.15 | just saw julian casablanca and the voidz this weekend and it was so shite
he uses distortion on his voice but it was too much, couldnt understand what he was saying
awkward when he tried to talk to crowd |
chug73
10.28.15 | I saw TDWP one time. Awful. Mike could never scream that well and it's bad live, real bad. |
Hurricanslash
10.28.15 | Had to see Wiz Khalifa yesterday because I wanted to see A$AP Rocky live, and oh man, oh man oh man. Most of his vocals were brutally slurred, and he looked and sounded like he hasn't had any food for about 6 weeks, it was kinda concerning.
A shame, his backing band was really good. And Rocky's show was just amazing. |
Evreaia
10.28.15 | Code Orange Kids suck too, worst live act I've seen so far.. |
DoofusWainwright
10.28.15 | Worst live performance I've seen was Marilyn Manson at Reading - he had to keep getting oxygen and played a dog awful set |
grindcorecore
10.28.15 | i think northlane when they still had adrian was pretty bad. it always felt as if adrian was out of breath or just didn't try to scream as well as he could |
grindcorecore
10.28.15 | issues are pretty bad too |
BlueandOrange
10.28.15 | 30 seconds to mars. Most phoned in performance i've ever seen coupled with a piss poor acoustic interlude. I left by the time Jared leto started singing pokerface. |
Deathconscious
10.28.15 | maybe he should just stick to acting. |
chug73
10.28.15 | Yeah Northlane w Adrian was bad. Shame, he's a chill guy |
ScuroFantasma
10.28.15 | "Worst live performance I've seen was Marilyn Manson at Reading - he had to keep getting oxygen and played a dog awful set"
He seemed pretty far out on drugs when I saw him, easily the most disapointing set I saw. It wasn't terrible but it was pretty bad and very underwhelming for what I expected. |
NorwichScene
10.28.15 | Worst bands I've seen live:
30 Seconds to Mars - way too much swearing
Ben Howard - a complete c##t
Aiden - first was good, later terrible
Coheed and Cambria - Boring
Senses Fail - too much preaching
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hobblepot
10.28.15 | I was lucky enough to see 30STM during their self titled tour, they were actually really good live back then. They really suck now. The best band I've seen live has to be Rammstein, and the worst is most definitely Bring Me the Horizon. Oli can't sing live for shit |
hobblepot
10.28.15 | Breaking Benjamin used to be good live but cos of Bens illness his voice isn't so great anymore. He tries really hard and for the most part pulls it off but sometimes you just think 'this is painful to watch |
ScuroFantasma
10.28.15 | "the worst is most definitely Bring Me the Horizon. Oli can't sing live for shit"
Shit, they're headlining soundwave next year :/ |
DoofusWainwright
10.28.15 | Also saw a fat and unmotivated Deftones stink out Brixton Academy back in 2003, that was a shocker.
FNM at Hyde park two years ago were really poor too |
zakalwe
10.28.15 | Silver Mt Zion - Aimless twaddle
My Chemical Romance - Fucking Rubbish
Mastodon - Disappointing |
Source
10.28.15 | A lot of people around here seem to think The Chariot were good live, but I saw them in 2007 and their show was almost painful to sit through. Climbing around on equipment doesn't equal a good live show imo |
BlueandOrange
10.28.15 | Senses Fail - too much preaching [2] |
DoctorJackal
10.28.15 | I saw Tremonti live recently and they sucked pretty bad. I left the venue to grab a beer. They were so boring. |
Judio!
10.28.15 | Mastodon sucked hard live when I saw them two years ago |
KILL
10.28.15 | obscura were pretty bad live and the singer got pissed that no one was cheering at the end of their shitty tunes |
YetAnotherBrick
10.28.15 | a friend of mine said A Lot Like Birds was sloppy as fuck
and yo if you go to a National show and it ain't great i feel bad for you son, cuz the time i saw em was one of the greatest nights of my life. |
SharkTooth
10.28.15 | gonna quote pedro70512 because his experience was identical to mine
"Worst concert I ever went to was (wait for it) Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Saw them at Foxwoods from the nosebleed seats and it was almost unbearable. The interludes were long, boring, and melodramatic, and it was all based around a story that made no sense whatsoever. The violin looked for all the world like it was mimed to a backing track and whenever a musician played a solo, it looked like a desperate attempt to make sure someone noticed him for a change over all the smoke and lasers. After the first hour and a half, they announced "and for the second half of our show...!" and most of the audience headed for the exits. It had to have been embarrassing for them."
yeah there is no way any band could be worse than Trans Siberian Orchestra tbh |
dbizzles
10.28.15 | Accidentally saw Escape the Fate at Warped one year. All I saw was pale butt crack and nipples and the worst vocals ever. Pure shit. They are the most noteworthy band I can think of when it comes to garbage live performances. |
dbizzles
10.28.15 | Oh yeah, and Oceano (surprise) was calling everyone faggots for not giving a fuck about their opening set on a Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. |
DoofusWainwright
10.28.15 | Almost forgot, most controversially disappointing - Godspeed YBE at Brixton a couple of years ago. Didn't feel it at all, snooze fest.
YetAnother - agreed, the time I saw The National they were perfect |
tacos n stuff
10.28.15 | I remember years ago I went to warped tour to see the chariot. The chariot killed it but almost every popular metalcore band my friends dragged me to were trash. ADTR were almost laughable. The cleans were cringy af. |
BeyondCosby
10.28.15 | The only "bad" concert experience I've had was going to see As Blood Runs Black live back in '09 or '10. They were coming to a local theater so I figured I'd shell out ten bucks to see them. The problem with the show was that For the Fallen Dreams was opening for them and their front man kept hyping the crowd the wrong way.
I have no problem with getting the crowd pumped but when you're yelling stuff like "fuck you faggots let's go" and "this crowd fuckin' sucks make a pit you assholes" it tends to backfire. The vibe between the band and the crowd was really awkward and it didn't help with the overall progression of the concert.
Put this in another thread but thought it was relevant. |
sonictheplumber
10.28.15 | butcher babies. 2 chicks singers hoppin on trampolines soundin like shit while some dicks lay down queefy chug guitar. opening for gwar and the crowd LOVED them while me and johnny just stood fuckin still
other lame openers - some indie band openin for dinosaur jr, sounded like shit sputnik would like. also gaza openin for corrosion of conformity, and im tempted to put this one jam band that opened for ozric tentacles cause they were so boring but they covered thela hun ginjeet by crimson and that was pretty cool. |
Aerisavion
10.28.15 | Saw Does it Offend You Yeah open for Linkin Park back in 2010.
Basically it was just a big indecipherable mess. The vocalist kept trying to tell bad jokes and he ended the set by trashing a keyboard... For some reason. |
Epilogue
10.28.15 | Dillinger Escape Plan
Loljk |
Mort.
10.28.15 | was this thread made yesterday cos i dont remember commenting it in recentely i thought it was weeks ago |
WatchItExplode
10.28.15 | Dragonforce without question...sounding like the audio was coming from an i-pod connected to the board with a shorted-out adapter. I was there for Cynic though so I left. |
CaimanJesus
10.29.15 | After watching another live performance by 36cf I think I actually prefer mastodon live. They can put on a decent performance occasionally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkhCVet2g7M |
chug73
10.29.15 | when brent isn't shitfaced |
Dmax28
10.29.15 | Idk I've seen Mastodon twice (last year and this month) and they seemed like they were tight as hell both times. |
chug73
10.29.15 | Seen em 3 times, fist time was bad....brent was fucked. 2nd was good but 3rd was all business, really killed it. |
Minushuman24
10.29.15 | Mastodon was crazy disappointing. Real Friends, Fall out Boy, Imagine Dragons are all pretty shit live. Makes sense though |
TheGreatQ
10.29.15 | I saw Abandon All Ships live once so they win by default. |
MercySeat
10.29.15 | I was forced to go to a Kings of Leon show once and was bored out of my mind. Also, I've always heard the Kinks were pretty lousy live. |
Nazzadan
10.29.15 | Bring me the Horizon was terrible live, Oli was asking the audience to crowdsurf up to him to give him a high five, no one did it and he was pelted with shoes (our town throws shoes at musicians during shows, whether they are good or not) and whined like a bitch about it.
Velvet Revolver was pretty bad live from what I remember but that was a long time ago. |
DoofusWainwright
10.29.15 | I actually forgot that I watched Dragonforce at Download, hilariously terrible |
SparkToBelieve
10.29.15 | Motionless in White and Set it Off are the worst bands I've ever seen.
ps. I watched Abandon All Ships at Warped Tour a few years back and they were surprisingly spectacular. |
Spec
10.29.15 | I saw Being As An Ocean opening for someone and there was zero stage presence. It was completely silent between songs, no banter or anything. Totally awkward performance. |
SparkToBelieve
10.29.15 | I remember being really into The Color Morale (this was back during their second album was out) I looked them up live on youtube and I saw Garret screaming like a little pussy and I was like wtf? then I read on Wiki that he changed his vocal style on the third record so it'll sound more "natural" lol
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Ghost22446
11.12.15 | Shit, they're headlining soundwave next year :/
BMTH are also coming to Moscow in Olympic Stadium on 9th December. Olympic Stadium is basically our Wembley Stadium, so either their sound engineer will make their performance sound like Wembley, or it will be complete utter piss-poor excuse for a live show like Reading Festival was. (Oli will never be able to sing in live like he did in studio.) |
torts
11.12.15 | theres also the fact that oli doesn't sing half of his parts live |
Sinternet
11.12.15 | why sing when the crowd can do it just as awfully? |
nychicano
11.12.15 | I thought about getting the cure tickets but saw some youtube vids they look like a shit band to watch live. |
BlueSwan
12.13.15 | a lot like birds is mint live |
Tunaboy45
12.13.15 | I can't even say I had a bad time at King 810, the crowd banter was great. |
Spec
12.13.15 | The best band for crowd banter is Protest The Hero I think. Rody is a natural at comedy. He can talk for fifteen minutes without playing a song and it's actually okay. |
LunaticSoul
12.13.15 | I confirm some of the names on here (Mastodon, Katatonia, Opeth). I've seen all of them several times and they have always been underwhelming.
Worst band though as headliner that I've ever seen though must have been The Korea. I've seen half the show and left, they were awful. Ah, and Born of Osiris are also a joke live. Another band that was headlining a tour they should have been opening in comparison to the quality acts before them |
CalculatingInfinity
12.13.15 | Unless you them after 2012, how were Opeth underwelming? When I saw them they were incredible. |
TheSonomaDude
12.13.15 | A lot of teen deathcore bands are absolutely dreadful judging by their YouTube live footage. Abandon All Ships might be the worst live band ever. |
LunaticSoul
12.13.15 | CalculatingInfinity: I've seen them in 2008 and 2011. In 2011 in particular it was the tour in which Akerfeldt refused to do any growl and the setlist was quite 'eh'. The humor in between was sort of mediocre, always going through the usual share of blasphemies and Italian swear words musicians apparently can pick up at a glance.. And then the drummer did a 8 minute long obscene solo that I still remember, it was so boring a friend of mine I was with at the gig just said he couldn't hold anymore and just wanted to leave. I'd say it was a 5.5 gig |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.13.15 | i saw the devil wears prada get boo'd off stage by amon amarth fans once it was hilarious |
Ovrot
12.13.15 | I saw this one band open for gwar and the singer looked like a heroin junkie and he just laid on the stage face down in a big jacket and kinda mumble screamed into the floor while the rest of the band just looked embarrassed
didn't matter through cause the gwar show rocked |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.13.15 | to be honest that sounds infinitely more amusing to see than gwar
that being said ive seen gwar 4 times so im kinda over it |
CalculatingInfinity
12.13.15 | @Lunatic: I saw them during that 2011, agreed that drum solo was hard meh but I loved the rest. The banter was actually funny since it was a crowd in Birmingham and so they gave plenty of material.
"i saw the devil wears prada get boo'd off stage by amon amarth fans once it was hilarious" - That sounds amazing. |
Sevengill
12.14.15 | Paysage D'Hiver has never given a good concert. |
FearThyEvil
12.14.15 | Marilyn Manson didn't remember any lyrics, the tuning and sounds was awful, Manson sounded terrible, and of course he shoved a towel up his ass and threw it into the crowd.
Chelsea Grin..... I probably don't have to explain much as those vocals say it all
Dragonforce was just god awful.
Neither of these three I intended to watch but they were on stage at the time and I needed to kill time. Actually Manson closed which was a joke. |
FearThyEvil
12.14.15 | Have to add Periphery was absolute garbage live. The sound engineer really fucked that up but man Spencer sounded even worse than on record. Least they had energy I guess but I really didn't enjoy them at all. |
TheGreatQ
12.14.15 | "Abandon All Ships might be the worst live band ever."
Best part was when their guitarist got tired of pretending that it wasn't a pre-recorded track playing and just let go of his guitar and stood there. |
LunaticSoul
12.14.15 | Also Deftones are underwhelming live, Chino doesn't really sound like Chino that much.. and he squeals. A lot.
Oh yeah also Bring Me The Horizon are embarassing live, who'd have expected that |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
12.14.15 | every video ive seen of deftones live chino has sounded like complete ass yeah |
FearThyEvil
12.14.15 | I saw them live three times and honestly he sounded just like he does on the albums. Maybe I just got lucky |
porcupinetheater
12.14.15 | Saw Animals as Leaders twice, and they were numbing both times. Very little connection with the audience in any capacity, content to stand still on stage the whole time and wank. Pretty much what their studio albums sound like. |
onionbubs
12.14.15 | hoobastank is terrible live. and for some reason they like to play girls just wanna have fun live a lot. |
Nazzadan
12.14.15 | Oh god you just reminded me I've seen Hoobastank. They opened for Velvet Revolver for some reason a while back |
VheissuCrisis
12.14.15 | Red Hot Chili Peppers were pretty bad. Poor set choice too.
Pendulum were disappointing, as they played about 3 actual songs and the rest was experimental bullshit. |
onionbubs
12.14.15 | And the reason was yoooooooooooou
my cousin saw them with incubus. he said that day he saw both the best and worst live bands of his life in one night. |
ZippaThaRippa
12.14.15 | Hoobastank and Velvet Revolver on the same ticket, now that's a painful one |
truekebabpower
12.14.15 | Mastodon sounded pretty damn good when is saw them. Instrumentally they are always on point and the vocals were at least decent. Maybe it's just because my expecrations were super low.
SOAD on the other hand sounded dissapointing, still put on a show though. |
