Worst Concert Lineup You've Experienced

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Made me recall the worst lineup in my concert going days.

Cheap Trick as OPENING ACT for Corey Heart. Wish I’d kept the poster, had it for years.

People rocked out to Cheap Trick then left before Corey Heart came onstage.

Have to say CT ROCKED it.
 
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Made me recall the worst lineup in my concert going days.
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I’ve been to very few concerts in my life. Very few. I’d have to categorize the ones aligning with your topic in two ways; the most disappointing and the most alarming. In 1977 I saw Styx. That was the most disappointing. I only knew one song and didn’t like any of the others but I was talked into going by a friend. He and I couldn’t hear for three days afterward, which put a total damper on my desiring to go to any more.

I did see Gordon Lightfoot 8 times over a period of 30 years. The first six were outstanding, and never too loud. The last one was very, very alarming. The old gentleman just can’t carry a tune anymore and I felt so embarrassed for him. He’s been back here twice since then but I saved my $85 for extra beer and stayed home.
 
I’ve seen Chicago twice.

Once was back right after Peter Cetera left, it was the best concert I had seen to date.

Was gifted tickets to see them maybe 10 years ago. I left after the 4th song, it was like seeing a very bad Chicago “tribute cover band”. Of course, some of that was being over-shined by the opening act: Earth, Wind and Fire.
 
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The old gentleman just can’t carry a tune anymore and I felt so embarrassed for him.
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The Association was popular during my youth. About 10 years ago I went to see them in a comeback tour at our local waterpark. The concert was free. I got there just as it was starting and had a front row seat. I wished I had sat in the back. I felt sorry for them but didn’t want to add to their humiliation by walking out in the middle of the show.
 
Probably 06 or 07, we saw Sayer Brown locally.

When he asked who had seen them before, my reaction was that yes, I had–but that it was long enough ago that he still had hair 😱:crazy_face:🤣 [I saw them at Marriot’s in Santa Clara in the mid 80s].

Abd a couple of years later, John Conlee (Rose Colored Glasses), with Janie Fricke opening. He still had the full, powerful voice, but he was chopping the ends of lines as he ran out of breath (still will worth seeing, though . . .)

Mo Bandy had successfully adjusted his lines/delivery, but I was amused at his stating that they no longer played, “Where’s the dress?”, as they’d had to pay Boy George $25k to settle the suit. I had two observations:
  1. they needed better lawyers, as that song was just about the definition of “protected parody” (as was the Coors Light commercial with Leslie Nielsen dressed up as an energizer bunny!), and
  2. what they made on that song had to dwarf that settlement!
 
The foo fighters at Wembley. So far away I might as well have watched it on tv. Also a round of 5 drinks was equiv of 40 dollars
 
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[I saw them at Marriot’s in Santa Clara in the mid 80s].
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I saw them at a State Fair right about the time they won that TV show contest. AMAZING show!

Will admit, I have seen them many times since, my brother has worked with them, so even in the later years I am biased 🙂
 
Back in the 80s (makeup applied with trowel, entire cans of hairspray emptied onto head for a single night out, shoulder pads the size of Long Island), three friends and I drove almost two hours to see Level 42, who was opening for the Thompson Twins. Imagine our surprise to see, upon arrival, that they had changed opening acts. After unsuccessfully trying to get our money back, then unsuccessfully trying to sell the tickets on, we ultimately stayed for the concert anyway. It was okay, but the disappointment endures to this day. 😞
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The foo fighters at Wembley. So far away I might as well have watched it on tv.
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Sports stadia are absolutely the wrong venues for concerts. Too many people, too few good seats as a percentage of the total seats available, poor acoustics and the tickets and concessions cost a fortune. I went to one way back in the day and have refused to repeat the experience ever since, no matter how much I longed to see whoever was performing. :-1:t3:
 
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I don’t remember who opened for him, but the worst concert of my life was Billy Joel. I’m not a fan, but the tickets were free (it was in a box at MSG). I left early. I felt like I was being assaulted by the music. I’ve never felt that way before at a concert.
 
I did own an album of theirs at one time but can’t remember what it was called. The song I particularly liked was called Madame Blue or something along that line.
 
We saw the J. Geils Band at the L.A. Sports Arena back in 1982, and U2 was the opening act. We really hadn’t heard much from U2 yet, and we couldn’t wait for them to get off the stage!
 
I had heard of them, finding a time machine to go back and switch places with you.
 
U2 is one of two performers I regret never seeing in concert despite having the opportunity to do so in conditions acceptable to me. The other is Sting.
 
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Might not be too late for Sting, I think he’s doing a stretch at Ceasars Palace next year. Of course you have to go to Vegas, never fun. But I suspect Ceasars Palace has pretty good acoustica. In their concert venue.
 
Don’t feel bad about not seeing Sting. I saw him during his best solo work period. My favorite album of his was “Dream of the Blue Turtles”. I wore that cassette tape out and loved every song. So the hubby gifted me with tickets to see him. Instead of doing the songs from his solo albums that everyone came to hear live, he spent most of the 90 minutes he played onstage covering Jimi Hendrix songs badly, for some odd reason. No “Dream of the Blue Turtles”…no Police stuff…nothing but “Purple Haze” and “All Along the Watchtower” played and sung in a weird jazzy style. Awful.
 
I think the worst concert I ever attended was Hank Williams Jr. He opened for Travis Tritt and Travis was the one I actually went to see. Old Hank was stumbling drunk on stage and started and stopped several times on his biggest hit songs because he couldn’t remember the words and couldn’t stand in one place at the microphone without stumbling. He was surly to the band members and the audience and absolutely refused to do his biggest hit - “All My Rowdy Friends”, which became the song of his everyone knows because it was the theme to Monday Night Football back in the day. He was vulgar and cursed at the audience every time someone shouted out that request, until he finally walked off the stage in the middle of a song and never returned, to the puzzlement and embarrassment of his backing band. I felt bad for them.
 
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I’ve been to many concerts over the years and I don’t remember the opening act of any of them!

Worst concert was The Grateful Dead. It may have been an off night but they were terrible, late showing up and refused to do an encore.

Most disappointing was Jefferson Airplane with Gracie Slick. She just stood there while singing and no interaction with the audience.

One I wished I hadn’t missed was Elton John. At the time, I had never heard of him and didn’t want to spend five bucks for the ticket!

Left me deaf for three days was Judas Priest.

Best ever was a tie between Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. They were amazing in talent and entertainment. I really got my money’s worth. (10$ each)
 
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