Bad bands you've payed money to see play live.

[Helm]

I saw Dark Tranquillity (support act to Candlemass) a while ago. Their singer was a very happy guy.

More recently: Sunn 0))). Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Also, Susperia and Mortiis supporting, of all bands, the reformed Obituary. I wonder who thought that bill was going to be a good idea. Mortiis played the same song twice. Or maybe they were different songs, but they sure as hell didn't show.

Post your paid for boring, bad and/or horrible concert experiences here.

 

[NAD]

Fishbone sucked pretty bad live (A Perfect Circle opened for them, they ruled). Soilwork wasn't very good (they opened for Hypocrisy). Nada Surf (just plain sucked, but Superdrag and the local bands were fun). Plenty others I'm sure.

I was supposed to go to a Sunn O))) show last month but didn't feel like driving to LA.

 

[avi]

jeez, where do I begin?

 

[xfer]

Okay, I think that several years ago, I went down to Philly with maudlin of the Well so they could play a show at this crack house in North Philadelphia. It could have been pretty cool. There were about twelve bands on the bill, unfortunately, and the show was supposed to start at like 1pm, but the first band didn't even get there until like 4pm. We went into a bar across the street and drank and kept periodically visiting the crack house (the bands were playing as loud as they wanted because the entire block was abandoned/burnt out/rubble).

It was a lot of generic grindcore types and finally around 1am (when it was clear MOTW wasn't going to get to play until like 4am) we just got the fuck out of Dodge.

 

[FalseTodd]

Xiu Xiu with The Caribbean - my roommate convinced me to go (no, not seipp) so i went. good god.

 

[Josh Seipp]

Okay, I think that several years ago, I went down to Philly with maudlin of the Well so they could play a show at this crack house in North Philadelphia. It could have been pretty cool. There were about twelve bands on the bill, unfortunately, and the show was supposed to start at like 1pm, but the first band didn't even get there until like 4pm. We went into a bar across the street and drank and kept periodically visiting the crack house (the bands were playing as loud as they wanted because the entire block was abandoned/burnt out/rubble).

It was a lot of generic grindcore types and finally around 1am (when it was clear MOTW wasn't going to get to play until like 4am) we just got the fuck out of Dodge.

oh god. good lord.

it was kinda worth it all though, for

a) that bar which was utterly amazing

b) the sight of the chubby little dude who set up the show arriving like an hour late hauling ass down the street with his leather duster coat billowing out behind him

 

[FalseTodd]

haha also ultimate highlight: when the band parked their car halfway on the trolley tracks while they were unloading, and then when the trolley rolled up and honked at them, he waved it around.

 

[FalseTodd]

note this was some other meathead metal band i referred to, i realize it might have sounded like someone in motw

edit: man i can't use language anymore. I meant that my previous post might sound as though i was referring to someone in motw. Then I realized that this post might sound as though i was saying that the behaviour would be expected of someone in motw. christ. shut the fuck up

 

[xfer]

me trying to roll a joint on my lap in the dark in the minivan and worrying about the police coming by and arresting me and then realising that my chance of getting murdered by the armed dudes patrolling the street selling crack was much higher than a cop busting me for w33d.

 

[deadair]

i couldn't even start a list

 

[mindspell]

I try to forget them.

I have trouble believing Sunn o))) were really bad though, as I understand it you have to be in a certain mood however.

Iced Earth, with or without Barlow were horrible. Sonic Youth were disapointing. Les Georges Leningrad are hit or miss.

 

[Helm]

avi and deadair, enough with the idle threats. Give us the stories.

A word of warning to anyone interested in the possibility of paying 22 euros (or the equal national equivalent where you at) to see Sunn 0)) however: Seeing three guys in robes play for 2 hours of just this same note on two guitars and an analogue 2-octave keyboard isn't the epitome of interesting. The highlight of the show was the tune-up. I felt so robbed and angry at these people around me going 'oh man best show ever' and 'man were we DOOMED or what?' as if they were too ashamed to admit these were clearly 2 hours wasted.

 

[IanDork107]

I try to only see good shows. I went to Converge cause Cave In was opening up and ended up not really liking either but liking Converge a lot more than I expected and Cave In a lot less (cause they pandered to the hardcore crowd). I went to a Rainer Maria show to see Engine Down opening and as expected Rainer Maria almost bored me to sleep. There've been numerous generic metal shows that I've gone to just for something to do assuming I'd be in the mood for it when I got there but where I just haven't been. Last time I went to see Cannibal Corpse I left after their first song because it was too smokey and boring. I did enjoy Vile and Hypocrisy, though.

 

[mindspell]

Isn't that the point of Sunn 0)) in the first place though? What exactly were you expecting? Screaming guitar solos or power chords?

 

[inkybmistro]

yes, but why do they play live?

 

[IanDork107]

Isn't that the point of Sunn 0)) in the first place though? What exactly were you expecting? Screaming guitar solos or power chords?

The two White albums were a little more engrossing than past Sunn 0)) albums. If I recall correctly, one or two songs even had (programmed) drums.

 

[ImNoHippy]

drone me away. some will hate, some will love. i love. and sonic youth was a letdown for me as well. (oh to wish i was able to see them early eighties era)

 

[FalseTodd]

see bands like that is all about the sound, not the watching. they should bring lawn chairs on tour

 

[mindspell]

Exactly my point

 

[Helm]

I can stand, no even enjoy Sunn 0)) in my room, on my bed, without ten gazillion tons of stage smoke blowing up my face while I stand straight up for 2 hours while a rediculously clothed fat person points to the ceiling for 2 minutes before deciding to take his finger down on a little silly keyboard, resulting in a barely audible 'bvooooom'. Ambient music needs a different sort of space, and what seemed to be a 'heavy metal lords of doom' setup in that live didn't work for them at all.

I wasn't expecting much. in the very least an actual set list. As in, gosh, 3 songs. not 2 hours of the same note. I guess what rubbed me the wrong way most of all was the attempt to create a 'ceremonial' atmosphere with the robes and smoke and shit. It might have worked if they just stood still there and all PERFECTLY landed on that one note in arythmical patterns. That would have been unnerving and really alien to listen to (much like what Khanate might be live, I guess). But instead of that there were three robed jerks, obviously unrehearsed (and when you're playing one note, that goes for a lot) trying to 'body-signal' each other for when the note is going to drop and sadly falling all at different paces because person A was looking at the big-breasted girl in front row while person B was holding his finger up in the air omniously and gosh it wouldn't be cool to take it down quickly enough for them to fall on the same beat. Because quick is for pussies and this is total DOOM. Mix that with the Goatsnake fellow alternating drinking wine given to him by a fan and going back to stroking his one note and it was painfully obvious that any ambience to be experienced that night would have to be thoroughly summoned from nothing just so we did not feel cheated out of our money.

And yeah, sorry to blah blah blah but dude it was a bad concert.