Worst Concert Lineup You've Experienced

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I am pretty selective about concerts. The worse was in college when a girlfriend insisted we go see Stevie Nick’s. Joe Walsh opened for her. Funny thing is, I am a huge Fleetwood Mac fan. But with a couple of exceptions, the best Fleetwood Mac songs are the one where Nick’s is not the lead vocal. Also a huge Eagles fan, Joe Walshe is a great guitarists for them. But seeing him in concert, solo act, stoned out of his mind, not so good.

ETA:. Saw an interview on TV a few years back of Joe Walsh. He seems to have really cleaned himself up and seemed to be a genuinely nice guy.
 
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I’m old and at the height of the rock n roll era I was a teen and college student. I still have a box with all my ticket stubbs. I’ve seen so many famous and not so famous bands because I lived in Dayton Ohio…close to Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Dayton itself was known to be a great concert venue.

I’ve seen The Rolling Stones three times but never saw the Beatles…a big regret as they played in Cincy. Also never saw Led Zepplin 🥺 but I’ve seen well over 75 concerts in my days. It’s amazing my hearing is intact.
 
I loved rock concerts and they were very reasonably priced back then…even in 1970’s dollars. I paid 5 to 10 bucks for most of them and even Jimi and Janis were $14. That’s what? 30 to 40 bucks today?
 
That’s so weird, I went and saw Journey with Heart and Cheap Trick opening, and most of us thought CT had the worst show. Nothing against them, but in this show they played all of their songs super speed and spent half of their time bashing Axl Rose.
 
Pretty much the entire lineup at Rock-am-Ring 2009, the nadir of which was Limp Bizkit whose idea of a “new” single was the theme song from Mission Impossible 2. However it was the best festival experience. Basically we were three woefully under prepared Brits, in unusually cold weather and a lovely group of locals took pity on us.
 
tafan2 said:
Might not be too late for Sting, I think he’s doing a stretch at Ceasars Palace next year.
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Thanks for info, but I don’t regret it enough to fly a third of the way around the planet to see him in concert 😉
MaineCoonKitty said:
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”.
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My opportunity presented itself during the Dream of the Blue Turtles tour. What was I thinking, turning that down? :woman_facepalming:t2:
 
LOL…You wouldn’t have heard any of the Blue Turtles stuff. You would have heard bad covers of Purple Haze!
 
Was this in 1985-86? That was when I could have gone. I knew people who went and they said it was fabulous. :woman_shrugging:t2: No Hendrix, just stuff from the Dream of the Blue Turtles album and some other non-album performances. At the time, Sting only had the one solo album.
 
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Yeah…it was in the mid to late 80’s, although the actual year escapes me. Maybe he was tired of playing his own stuff every night by the time he got around to my neck of the woods and decided to become a “Jimi clone”!😆
 
Where I lived at the time, there would have been riots if the concert had played out as you describe. 😡
 
Pattylt said:
a big regret as they played in Cincy
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Here is a small world story for you. My dad bought a camper trailer that was used as a dressing room for the Beatles at the Cincy concert. We lived outside of the city.
 
Saw Hank Jr. fall OFF the stool before he ever sang a note. Everyone was refunded their ticket price.
 
I’d be insulting my myself if I said that, and lying in any event because I didn’t think it for even a second.

I’ll be on vacation during all of his concerts in France, except the one in Lyon but that’s too close in date for me to make the travel arrangements. Boo. 😦 It’s really too bad—that concert will be held in an ancient Roman amphitheater.

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

Have to say CT ROCKED it.
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This was not the worst lineup I’ve ever seen…but it did involve Cheap Trick. They were the headliners; the opening act was a group nobody had ever heard of. AC/DC. I was a naive small-town 16-year-old kid who wondered why it was so hazy in the arena that night…and what was that smell??? Curious…it didn’t smell like cigarettes or cigars… 🤣
 
My musical tastes are varied. I can’t remember seeing a bad show. The best was George Strait. Merle Haggard opened, and he was battling pneumonia so it wasn’t good. Others that stand out were Michael Buble, Il Divo, Sugarland, and The Zack Brown Band.
 
You’re actually right people just wanna say they played it/went to it. Meh
 
The best one I’ve ever been to and I really didn’t expect it to be was an 80s reunion of bands : Belinda Carlisle, banarama, heaven 17 and headliners culture club.
 
I’ve been to a LOT of concerts but have never seen Cheap Trick. I have all their albums and several of their concert DVDs. They are great!
My favorite concerts have been
Ike and Tina Turner
Rod Stewart
KISS
Def Leppard
 
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