Bands you regret having seen
 

I'm talking bands that it could have been feasible for you not to have seen them, but you didn't miss them and now wish you had. So there's no point in saying stuff like "Bon Jovi" unless it wasn't really your (boy/girl)friend, mom, dad, kid or grandma who made you go there.

My biggest one is probably a show with Kiila, Es & Islaja. It's not often that you go to a gig where ALL three bands on the bill are a total joke; looking lacklustre, sloppy, totally desinterested and more than likely stoned off their tits. In their defense, it was on an early Sunday afternoon and probably their first time in Amsterdam. Nevertheless it's pretty much made me stop listening to Fonal stuff afterwards.

Red Hot chili Peppers. the ticket to that piece of crap cost more then my ticket to Bob Dylan.

all those finnish hippy groups suck live, i don't think it had anything to do with them being in amsterdam

hahahahahah, their records are still ace, pokke!!

mine, the only one pretty much: red hot chili peppers on the californication tour; played for an hour and 10 minutes or something, played all their hits at the start of the show, everyone except flea didn't move an inch for the whole time and played all of californication and most of bssm, even the awful songs.

the openers were puya (a puerto rican cumbia/nu metal band) had half the house speakers shorting during their set and they blew the shitty peppers off the stage. and, if now you haven't figured it out, puya sucks big fucking time.

Where do I start?

Bands I've seen that made me want to go deaf:

Iggy Pop
Dinosaur Jr
Sebadoh
Pavement
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Felt
Lush
X-mal Deutschland
Gene Loves Jezebel
Lightning Seeds
Green Day
etc..................

Akron/Family

I used to gig "swap" with a friend. I'd take him to see a band I liked, he'd take me to see one he liked etc. The next question I suppose is why did I have a friend who liked the Lightning Seeds?

I heard Felt were no good live.
I think they agreed with this.
I'm glad I don't have firsthand experience because I love that music and it is still untarnished for me.

a band i don't regret seeing but that were very very very lame and actually is the reason i'm glad i saw them is wolf eyes.

They were pretty bad on record as well. I used to go to so many gigs during that time (late 80s/early 90s), I was bound to go to some real clunkers. I actually saw Felt twice, despite never liking their records. I use to go up to London and go to any gig (within reason).

i've seen wolf eyes 7 times and 5 of those times they were great, the other 2 times it was the venue's fault (appaling sound first time, being way too big and having crappy sound the second)

agreed on the finnish hippie bands sucking live; i found paavoharju and shogun kunitoki disappointing too... the only one i somewhat enjoyed live were avarus. but the first two were on festivals so i didn't care too much, just like sebadoh, malkmus, etc, etc (agreed with pookie though!)

what made that particular gig so regretful was that it wasn't on a festival and neither was i dragged their by a friend. i went especially for those three bands and not a single one of them seemed even halfway interested in putting some effort into it.

Es was bad live? hmmm. well at least their albums, especially Kaikkeuden Kauneus ja Käsittämättömyys and a Love Cycle, are pretty great i think

the time i saw them it wasn't because of the sound, nate young had problems with a mic not feeding back or something but they weren't loud at all, they pretty much didn't do anything but raise their fists and they played two types of dirges, a doomy one six times and a more drone one with olson playing sax.

mike connelly was by far the only one making any decent noise or actually enjoying himself.

and i saw melt-banana at the same venue the following night and they sounded fierce as fuck.

well that partcular time i found them very disappointing, yes... i can't tell whether that was a good representation of what their live shows are like normally, but i wouldn't go see them again to find out... the worst one was islaja though who played like she had just gotten out of bed 5 minutes earlier. it's funny though that my favourite show that year (2006) was also by a finnish band, circle.

sometimes a bad show really puts me off listening to bands afterwards; around 2005 i started checking out the back catalogue of the fall and shortly after i saw them live for the first (and only) time. it was a terrible show and put me off from listening to their music for months on end.


wolf eyes are a bit hit and miss in my opinion. two shows in particular stand out for me as amazing; one was very disappointing and the rest were somewhere in between... i've also seen them 7 times i think.

I don't see how anyone could regret seeing Xmal Deutschland.
Awesome band.


For me...Staind. I was 15.

i think i got severely disappointed by wolf eyes because a) last noise show i saw was justice yeldham and b) i was expecting too much out of it, what with all the people saying how incredible they were live.

it wasn't one i regret seeing at all, but i've seen laptop performers who play better sounds and are more into it.

Avarus were horrible when I saw them, but given what they do, they could have "off nights" as often as good ones.

Tangerine Dream were beyond awful when I saw them, but it was really my own fault for going to see Tangerine Dream in the year 1992, 20 years too late.

I left half way through. I was with friends so had to go and sit outside. I just couldn't bare it any longer. I swear they played the same song over and over.

I paid THIRTY FIVE fucking dollars to see Modest Mouse once, and they sucked. I like them, but they were fucking terrible live. Thirty five dollars... bastards.

^ First time I saw them, they looked pissed, like they had a horrible fight before the show. It's really unnerving having Eric Brock glare at you with intense hatred for over an hour.

Second time I saw them, they were in a pleasant mood and did better, but there is some weird lack of energy they have on stage. They just can't seem to get pumpin'. The albums rock harder for some reason.

I've heard some live MM where they were obviously drunk. Mix this with the "lack of energy" thing, and my oh my it's shitty rock. (I even have a version of "Neverending Math" where, after a verse, Eric says, "Wow. That was shitty," acknowledging the truth and sounding a little surprised at it, maybe even apologetic).

white zombie twice. once they opened for pantera, the second time the melvins and rev. horton heat opened and we stayed for half a set.

Dragon Force, but I was forced to see them sooo...

This one local band that sucked balls. My friend was in love with the singer and dragged me to about 20 of their shows (no joke, we counted one day)

dragonforce are hilarious; utterly ridiculous.

love them.

I wanted to kill myself, honestly.

Every second kid was wearing a Slipknot shirt.

hahahahahahaha, i would have love to be there for the laughs.

reminds me of when i went to ozzfest, a riot of a time i had...there's stuff i'm still laughing about.

Were you dragged there?

My plan was to go to Montreal and hang out/walk around. The people I went with new the plan but refused to let it take place once we got there. I was majorly pissed off and in pain from standing.

Standing at a show is worth the pain only if the band is half decent.

i see, maybe if you were in on the joke, you would have enjoyed it as something semi-unintentionally funny?

no, i actually went alone, i wanted to see sabbath, priest and slayer and some others; but the things i saw and heard there...man!!!

that's also the day i learned that people in new jersey all smoke menthols. ugh...

What joke? Haha

I can kind of imagine the things you would hear at Ozzfest, and I bet they were hilarious.

Also, menthols gross me right out. Apparently they're semi-good to smoke when sick but I've never tried.

Bob Dylan. Worst concert I've ever been to, including local shows. I didn't mind his voice, but what I did mind was his not giving a shit about the audience, not being into it at all, and turning every song into a nearly identical shitty blues song. I hardly even listen to him anymore.

my ex-ladyfriend used to smoke them when she bothered to spend on her own smokes so every once in a while i had to partake.

everytime i've been to an outdoors concert in new jersey, i run out of cigs and i have to bum one from somebody and it has ALWAYS been menthol. and they are always gross!!

come to think of it, it reminds me of last year's sounds of the underground; probably the worse festival i've been to besides the vive latino. it wasn't a total wash because i got in there for free, did an interview plus job for a cowboy were great and shadows fall were ok. necro sucked, amon amarth sucked, i didn't see darkest hour but they seemed to be doing the same crap as the last time i saw them, all that remains sucked, everytime i die were amusing and i didn't stick around to see gwar or testament. gwar could have saved my experience but i was already bored of sitting down on the floor drinking ice called piss u.s. people call beer and smoking cigarettes.

I hate when people don't buy their own smokes. This one kid at school asks to bum one from me like everyday. I obviously started saying no after the 3rd day of him asking.

I've been the the Warped tour twice, I don't really have any good experiences from that? I saw the Casualties for the first time and they were okay, but they're definitely not one of my favorite bands. The first time I went I didn't get to see any bands that I was slightly interested in.

I've seen stryper. spinal tap in the flesh

circle are fantastic live

the twang

why?

dEUS - Pocket Revolution tour, sept 06 (or 05 ? I'm not sure)
Very disappointed.
I thought it would be more peppy, noisy, experimental...

No Neck Blues Band.

I've seen Es and Islaja on the same night. Es was just one guy (the founder of Fonal rec.) solo and he played quite nice keyboards-mic-guitar-through the loop pedal-stuff. Islaja sucked hard though. Especially the guitar player was painfully lame.

Esoteric - I left after one song. Godawful fake stoner metal cheese - ugh.
Kreator - I left after 30 seconds. Nostalgic Kraut-Thrash? Nein, Danke!
Prolapse - Arse-indie of the lowest order. I went back to the bar and had a far better time.
Nebula - Sub-standard Deputy Dawg boogie-metal. We left en masse after 10 minutes of the idiot frontman singing about his geetar.
The Herbaliser - at some festival in Finsbury Park in 1997. I was expecting much from these people, and instead got a lame ersatz funk workout. Boooring!
Jackie O Motherfucker - You know you're onto a sure-fire loser when a white experimental band dig out the turntables and start rapping in a non-ironic way.