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Carlos Santana at the Erwin Center. Him and Jeff Beck. Beck went on first and killed it. Carlos followed and played the most low energy, lazy set I've ever seen. Me and my buddy walked out after 30 minutes or so.

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Worst by far was Chris Connelly (Ministry, RevCo, Pigface) at old Emo's for a solo gig.

Everyone was expecting industrial or punk, but instead he tried too become a crooner.  

Spoiler:  he can't sing for shit. 

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On 1/25/2025 at 7:32 PM, Deej said:

Carlos Santana at the Erwin Center. Him and Jeff Beck. Beck went on first and killed it. Carlos followed and played the most low energy, lazy set I've ever seen. Me and my buddy walked out after 30 minutes or so.

What year was this? If around 1994-1995, I saw both while living in Portland, OR and it was fantastic.

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Stevie Nicks - Houston Summit - 1986

Coked out of her mind and fell off the stage.

Me and my sister almost met her at the Stouffer Hotel afterward.  Hell of a crazy night, and I had school the next morning. (Looking on the interwebs, that was the opening show for that tour.)

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3 hours ago, Rip76 said:

Stevie Nicks - Houston Summit - 1986

Coked out of her mind and fell off the stage.

Me and my sister almost met her at the Stouffer Hotel afterward. 

I saw her there in either 84 or 85, with Joe Walsh opening (turns out they were an item at the time, but I don't think the public knew that).

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18 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

I saw her there in either 84 or 85, with Joe Walsh opening (turns out they were an item at the time, but I don't think the public knew that).

I don’t remember where this was, my sister said she saw Walsh open up for her and she was doing something ballad-y (Leather and Lace maybe), and Walsh cranked up a chainsaw on stage.  😄

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26 minutes ago, Deej said:

Joe Walsh remembers nothing of the 80's


Oh sure he does. Well, the 180’s, and 185 to be specific.

Not that it matters since he lost his license, and now he don’t drive. 

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16 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

I saw her there in either 84 or 85, with Joe Walsh opening (turns out they were an item at the time, but I don't think the public knew that).

the end of their relationship was the genesis of the tom petty song "don't come around here no more". from wikipedia:

 

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The original inspiration was a romantic encounter that producer David A. Stewart of Eurythmics had with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac.[4] On The Howard Stern Show, Stewart explained that the title's phrase was actually uttered by Nicks. She had broken up with Eagles singer and guitarist Joe Walsh the night before,[5] and invited Stewart to her place for a party after an early Eurythmics show in Los Angeles. Stewart did not know who she was at the time, but went anyway. When the partygoers all disappeared to a bathroom for a couple of hours to snort cocaine, he decided to go upstairs to bed. He woke up at 5 a.m. to find Nicks in the room trying on Victorian clothing and described the entire scenario as very much reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. Later that morning, when Walsh came by to find Nicks, Stewart heard Nicks throw Walsh out, saying "Don't come around here no more."

According to Jimmy Iovine, he went to Dave Stewart's house after a Eurythmics concert, and Dave showed him what he had of the song – not much besides the chorus and drum beat – and told him he was stuck, so Iovine suggested Tom Petty finish writing it.[6]

 

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23 hours ago, The Original CaliHorn said:

What year was this? If around 1994-1995, I saw both while living in Portland, OR and it was fantastic.

It was probably around that time. They should have had Jeff Beck play second. Santana was too worried about smoking his cigars. 

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19 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

I saw her there in either 84 or 85, with Joe Walsh opening (turns out they were an item at the time, but I don't think the public knew that).

Appropriate for Joe Walsh and the Super Bowl

Complaining about the Eagles : r/49ers

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On 1/7/2025 at 9:56 PM, dcbc said:

I saw him with the Flaming Lips backing him at Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth and it was incredible.

 

String Cheese Incident at the Backyard in Austin (2001).  Utterly boring show.  Then some girl got nabbed by the cops and started freaking out and screaming.  My buddy and I looked at each other and decided to bounce.

 

Honorable Mention: Rush at the Summit (1992).  I entered the venue a casual fan and left never wanting to listen to them again.  Absolutely nothing exciting about seeing them live.  Felt like listening to the album with a relatively mediocre light show.  But the worst part was being surrounded by all the Rush fans. 

Rush was my first ever concert in 7th grade so I really didn't know any better, but yes it was a very bland performance.  Saw this on Instagram originally so at least South Park could inject a tiny bit of personality into a Rush show. 

 

 

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Oh, I just thought of another one.  May get roasted for this so fuck off in advance.  

Saw the worst show and the one of the best shows I've ever seen on the same night, with the same artists.

Went to the Drum, saw Jason Mraz and that big tall goofy white frat rock guy, can't think of his name right now, oh I remember G Love and the Special Sauce.  Low energy, boring, couldn't wait to leave.

Left there and drove directly to Antone's to watch the Grooveline Horns.  Jason and G Love both showed up and that show was fucking incredible.  Even those two guys.  Jason Mraz even danced with my husband, and we were at that show because my husband fucking loved Jason Mraz.

All in all, we needed the valley to enjoy the peak. 

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On 1/7/2025 at 10:56 PM, dcbc said:

String Cheese Incident at the Backyard in Austin (2001).  Utterly boring show.

They peaked in the 90’s. (Sort of like Phish.) Their sound went through a transformation in 2000. I stopped seeing them around that time. Looking at the setlist for that show it looks kind of lame. They didn’t even play the song Texas? Maybe that would’ve been too on the nose.

http://mail.friendsofcheese.com/incident.php?id=897

Did you know their music at all? They were pretty good during their heyday but they were always a little on the saccharine side. There was nothing dark or edgy about their music so it was understandable that some might see them as lightweights. They were all sunshine and light. Made them popular with the women, though. No shortage of hot young hippie chicks hula hooping at their shows. And they could jam. I thought they were going to be the next big thing after Phish but that never came to pass. Moving up from small clubs to larger venues sort of forced them to move away from their bluegrass roots and the new sound (and new tunes) never worked for me. 

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Kenny Rodgers at Rodeo Austin was horrific and sad. Kenny could barely sing or stand. He rolled out to the stage in a golf cart. He brought up other performers to sing his songs. To top it off, he yelled at the crowd for not knowing the words to "Just Dropped in". 

I told the Mrs. that we needed to do a little more research before we agree to go to any concert, particularly one for an aging former star.

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

They peaked in the 90’s. (Sort of like Phish.) Their sound went through a transformation in 2000. I stopped seeing them around that time. Looking at the setlist for that show it looks kind of lame. They didn’t even play the song Texas? Maybe that would’ve been too on the nose.

http://mail.friendsofcheese.com/incident.php?id=897

Did you know their music at all? They were pretty good during their heyday but they were always a little on the saccharine side. There was nothing dark or edgy about their music so it was understandable that some might see them as lightweights. They were all sunshine and light. Made them popular with the women, though. No shortage of hot young hippie chicks hula hooping at their shows. And they could jam. I thought they were going to be the next big thing after Phish but that never came to pass. Moving up from small clubs to larger venues sort of forced them to move away from their bluegrass roots and the new sound (and new tunes) never worked for me. 

Yeah, I had a couple of albums in the 90s.  But your description of the music is spot on.  2001 was the first summer of the Phish hiatus and we were looking for something sort of related.  That wasn't it.  We saw TAB later that summer and it really scratched the itch (with horns).

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On 1/8/2025 at 10:43 AM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Journey's Raised on Radio tour at the FEC in '86. Glass Tiger opened. The tension amongst the band was palpable. Just a flat, going through the motions while thinking the guy onstage next to you is the real asshole. Only concert where I've ever seen a drummer play TWO solos. emoji849.png

Just looked it up & was surprised to see Randy Jackson was the bassist for that tour.

That entire Journey "era" was odd.  Perry became more of a creative focal point (esp. after success of his solo record Street Talk) and the "band megalomaniac" shifted (only temporarily) from Schon to Perry.  Perry ran off drummer Smith and bassist Valory, largely because the expressed disagreement with some of the sound of the new record.  They were replaced by studio musicians from Perry's solo record (Bob Glaub and Larrie Londin), with the majority of the bass work moving to Jackson, who toured with them, as you note.

I was at that show, too.  I felt Glass Tiger was an odd opener, but so be it.  I agree they were going through the motions and the tension was high.  I recall  the show being high quality.  I totally forgot about the 2 drum solos.  I wonder if that was from (1) wanting a break on stage or (2) trying to show the fans that the tour drummer was as capable as Smith.  

When I walked out of the show, I reflected that the Frontiers show in 1983 was considerably better.  Of course they were in a better place.  The opener was Bryan Adams, supporting Cuts Like a Knife, and he was great.

I would not call it one of the worst shows I have ever attended, though.  I'll need to think about that :)

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On 2/7/2025 at 1:05 PM, Classic Rock said:

Kenny Rodgers at Rodeo Austin was horrific and sad. Kenny could barely sing or stand. He rolled out to the stage in a golf cart. He brought up other performers to sing his songs. To top it off, he yelled at the crowd for not knowing the words to "Just Dropped in". 

I told the Mrs. that we needed to do a little more research before we agree to go to any concert, particularly one for an aging former star.

I wish I could remember the year (1982?), but it was near the peak of his popularity in the early 1980s.  My parents bought tickets with friends to see Kenny Rogers at the FEC.  They came home and said, "he played for 56 minutes."  I seem to recall some outrage in the paper the following day.  The quality may have been OK, but the quantity was lacking.

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Another Dylan here...Not the best venue to form an opinion, but he played the HLSR at the Astrodome sometime in the late 90;s?  Fucking terrible.

 

Walked out of an Eric Johnson show.  Bought tix because Derek Trucks opened for him so we got there in time for that.  Johnson came out and played Cliffs of Dover in the first 3 songs and me and my buddy bailed.

Talk about a contrast in styles..

 

Also walked out of a String Cheese show and I was a fairly decent fan, but the description above was just how I felt  I was living in a ski town and they played 2 nights.  Middle of the 2nd night, I told my buddy...I'm done and walked home.  It just clicked with me that they don't do much for me...and this was right around the time they moved from strictly bluegrass to some techno infused garbage.

Snoop Dogg was fun, but he was like 2 hours late.  Opening DJ was trying his best to keep things going, but as people started to boo and get restless, he started to talk a little shit like "Y'all keep booing, he ain't ever coming out" 

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Rod Stewart early 80s at FEC, show was a little over an hour or 1 1/2 long. 

Most surprising concert experience was Julio Iglesias at FEC.  Tickets were an Xmas gift for Mom and I got stuck going with her as Dad didn't like him and Sis didn't want to go either. 

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2 hours ago, zlavydra said:

Some shit band called Live in the mid- to late 90s at Meriwether Post pavilion somewhere in Maryland. Abysmal.

The band that gave us my favorite Beavis and Butthead moment:

 

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I once saw Ian Moore get pissed off and leave his guitar on the amp for half an hour at Antone's. But that wasn't anywhere near as bad as Linkin Park as part of Summer Sanitarium 2003 in Houston. 0 energy. Pretty sure they just had their CDs playing in the engineer's booth. 

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On 2/7/2025 at 1:05 PM, Classic Rock said:

Kenny Rodgers at Rodeo Austin was horrific and sad. Kenny could barely sing or stand. He rolled out to the stage in a golf cart. He brought up other performers to sing his songs. To top it off, he yelled at the crowd for not knowing the words to "Just Dropped in". 

I told the Mrs. that we needed to do a little more research before we agree to go to any concert, particularly one for an aging former star.

I was at that show, and that is my answer to the "worst concert question".  Holy Christ that was awful.  Your description doesn't scratch the surface of how bad it was.  Kenny had one foot in the grave.

We saw Tanya Tucker one of the years before that and she was ok.  She could still sing and her voice sounded roughly the same.  I feel like we went to another one of the "nostalgia" concerts at Rodeo Austin another year but cant remember which one.  Kenny was the last.

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12 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

We saw Tanya Tucker one of the years before that and she was ok.  She could still sing and her voice sounded roughly the same. 

Yeah, we saw her at ACL Festival in 2023 and she was hanging in there just fine.

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Marshall  Tucker Band in Miami.  I don't know which roadie won the rights to the name but whatever the fuck that was... I had bragged to Cuban girlfriend how much she was going to like MTB, boy was I WRONG 

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Ok I finally have one.

Richmond, VA fairgrounds, 1993 ish.

Before I reveal the bands, admission was $20 per vehicle. So we loaded up a keg of Budweiser into a long bed chevy and brought the gang. And a bunch of hash.

Fleetwood Mac, and it was before Lindsey, Christine, and Stevie worked out there differences and reunited, so essentially, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and some fill ins..

And Bad Company with no Paul Rodgers.

They weren't bad, per se, just incomplete. But the price was right.

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On 12/28/2024 at 4:07 AM, G650 said:

 

Oh shit, this actually reminds me of the unequivocally worst show I've seen, David Allen Coe in like 2005. I had totally blanked this from my memory. But he was so incapacitated they carried him out and put him on a stool, and it was just 30 minutes of absolute gibberish.

I was at that show, only it was 2002 in Melbourne Beach Florida.

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