Big Al Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I saw John Waite in summer of '85. I was 15, working at Six Flags Over Texas, and he played a concert there. Fortunately, I was with two rather attactive female co-workers. UNfortunately, neither one of them wanted to have sex with me (a precursor to the rest of my high-school life). So, yes, that concert sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe G Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I guess from the hairband days, Cinderella/Bon Jovi would be the absolute worst. Especially since no women pulled up their shirts. As a musician, playing in the pit for a week of Barry Manilow's Copacabana The Musical was hard to, er... cope with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I guess from the hairband days, Cinderella/Bon Jovi would be the absolute worst. Especially since no women pulled up their shirts. As a musician, playing in the pit for a week of Barry Manilow's Copacabana The Musical was hard to, er... cope with. But, the guys get shirts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Skid Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I also saw Aldo Nova, must have been 1985 or so. Don't recall much about it, other than a friend passing out during the concert from drinking most of a fifth of Kessler's mixed with a Seven-Eleven Coke "Big Gulp". Damn Yankees (yes, the "super group" with Nugent, Tommy Shaw from Styx, and that dude from Night Ranger) Starship (yes, that Starship, the creators of that truly classic song "We Built This City" ) Triumph (multiple times, "Allied Forces" and "Never Surrender" tours, IIRC) Like my friend Al, didn't even get laid. Probably still have my Triumph concert tee-shirt around here somewhere, so I guess that makes up for it! :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) I also saw Aldo Nova, must have been 1985 or so. Don't recall much about it, other than a friend passing out during the concert from drinking most of a fifth of Kessler's mixed with a Seven-Eleven Coke "Big Gulp". Wow! I did that at Pink Floyd in '88, but didn't pass out. I wish I had, though, given how boring the concert was (in retrospect). Of course, I didn't get laid that night either. But it was a bunch of us guys in full "DUUUUUUUUUUDE" mode. None of us'd gotten laid if we were the last dudes on earth. Edited January 2, 2008 by Big Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Probably still have my Triumph concert tee-shirt around here somewhere, so I guess that makes up for it! If you don't wear that to the next organissimo show, I'm gonna kick your ass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 The Herbie Hancock show at Symphony Center in Chicago this past August. Absolutely the worst show I have ever attended...including local/unknown players and any rock show I may have attended in my youth........Horrible with a capital "H". Pretentious banter, mugging for the audience, name dropping all the pop stars he's played with and a bad performance on top of it. I have walked out of one show in my life and this is it.....many had left before me and I left after maybe three tunes. Got the play by play from others that stayed longer than I and the results were the same. m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Skid Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Probably still have my Triumph concert tee-shirt around here somewhere, so I guess that makes up for it! If you don't wear that to the next organissimo show, I'm gonna kick your ass! I'd consider that under one condition: you guys do a cover of a Triumph tune. In the very unlikely event you don't know any Triumph tunes, a Loverboy cover would also be acceptable. And don't even think about telling me you don't know any Loverboy tunes, 'cause I already know you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I've had a few "winners" in my day, starting at about 4 years old (if that counts) Dr Hook & The Medicine Show Sha Na Na Loverboy (opening act) Stryper (!) Ted Nugent (opening act) Your list make take the prize since it includes Sha Na Na and Dr. Hook. The others I can understand. A few for me..... Rick Springfield and not 1980s Rick Springfield, but rather attempted comeback Rick Springfield in a casino lounge type show. My ex-wife was a dip shit fan and conned me into it before we were married. The things we fuckin' do for the ladies. Billy Squire, although I only stayed about 15-20 minutes after the opening act was done (Def Leppard). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheldonm Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I also saw Aldo Nova, must have been 1985 or so. Don't recall much about it, other than a friend passing out during the concert from drinking most of a fifth of Kessler's mixed with a Seven-Eleven Coke "Big Gulp". Damn Yankees (yes, the "super group" with Nugent, Tommy Shaw from Styx, and that dude from Night Ranger) Starship (yes, that Starship, the creators of that truly classic song "We Built This City" ) Triumph (multiple times, "Allied Forces" and "Never Surrender" tours, IIRC) Like my friend Al, didn't even get laid. Probably still have my Triumph concert tee-shirt around here somewhere, so I guess that makes up for it! :blush: I used to shoot for a rock promoter so I saw lots of R&R. Saw Triumph as well....thought they were kinda good back in the day . m~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robviti Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 The Herbie Hancock show at Symphony Center in Chicago this past August. Absolutely the worst show I have ever attended...including local/unknown players and any rock show I may have attended in my youth........Horrible with a capital "H". Pretentious banter, mugging for the audience, name dropping all the pop stars he's played with and a bad performance on top of it. I have walked out of one show in my life and this is it.....many had left before me and I left after maybe three tunes. Got the play by play from others that stayed longer than I and the results were the same. m~ those that stayed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 I've seen Duran Duran five times with my wife. She says I have suffered enough and doesn't expect me to go anymore. That said, they put on a pretty good show and definitely play the hits sprinkled with some new material. Until I read this post I had totally forgot about being dragged to a Duran Duran show in 1987 by my girlfriend. Thanks for the memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Please don't hurt me. Tonya Harding between the end of her skating days and the beginning of her boxing "career". Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Twizzle Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 This should probably be part of a thread about concerts that saddened/depressed us. In 1979 or 80 (I don't remember exactly) I went to see Hank Mobley at a place called DC Space in downtown Washington. He was playing with a trio of local musicians. They got through one tune and in the middle of the second Mobley stopped playing and started in on a rambling disjointed monologue. I don't remember what he was saying but after 5 minutes or so the drummer gently ushered him off the stage into the backstage area. There was a brief intermission while the rest of the band got together and decided to continue without him. I left soon after that and walked home feeling bummed out about this lost opportunity to see a legendary musician. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 when hank talks, YOU LISTEN! how disrespectful of the drummer- try and remember what he was talking about....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 oatmeal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Twizzle Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 when hank talks, YOU LISTEN! how disrespectful of the drummer- try and remember what he was talking about....... He was just a tad more lucid than yourself which mean he was making no sense and unfortunately embarrassing himself. Maybe you're into that kind of self-destructive scene but even in my early 20s I found it to be sad. The drummer did him a big favor and handled it with dignity and class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 One of the most disappointing concerts I ever saw was McCoy Tyner at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA in the 1980s. He played a lot of tunes that coupled static modal tunes with static latin/rockish rhythms, and the bass player played the same solo on every tune. But I know in my bones that the Outlaws/New England bill that I saw in 1979 was among the worst concerts ever given. Trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertrand Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I find the alleged humorous use of a photo of people looking in horror at the Twin Towers collapsing to be in the poorest of taste. Bertrand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 ok randy, i dig what youre saying man...so was Hank drunk? hank was not using in '79 as far as i know, hank must of just been having a bad night, because hank is not, nor did he go, crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I find the alleged humorous use of a photo of people looking in horror at the Twin Towers collapsing to be in the poorest of taste. Bertrand. Had the same feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoGrubb Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 I saw John Waite in summer of '85. I was 15, working at Six Flags Over Texas, and he played a concert there. Fortunately, I was with two rather attactive female co-workers. UNfortunately, neither one of them wanted to have sex with me (a precursor to the rest of my high-school life). So, yes, that concert sucked. You're saying the concert would've been great if you'd gotten laid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Concerts I got nothing out of... There are some where the act I went to see was fine but the others were crummy Johnny Burnette, who was on with U S Bonds and Gene McDaniels. Burnette was as completely nothing as can be imagined. But Bonds was very good at what he did and McDaniels was heroic! I went to see Osibisa in 1971. They were great but the backup band, a Welsh rock group called Budgie was absolutely dire. We all (and I mean almost the entire audience) left the hall and smoked some stuff outside, then went back in for Osibisa, which was great! The only concert at which I got NOTHING but extreme boredom was a performance of one of Beethoven's string quartets. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 I went to a concert in Central Park, NYC around 1972/3 and I actually saw Brownsville Station('Smokin' in the Boy's Room' was their one and only hit) opening up for someone else I can't recall except thet their music was very unlike Brownsville Station. The drummer had one of those gigantic kits with double bass drum, double and even quadruple everything else. For their whole set he only played the hi-hat, snare & one bass drum- all the rest was for show only! After a few tunes and much booing, the singer said" I hear you guys yelling 'You suck', but we're gonna keep playing" Right after he said that they launch into another tune amid much booing, and some guy near me threw an apple at the stage and it hit one of the unused drums in the drummer's set, split in half, and half of the apple hit the drummer square in the forehead!!! This of course led to a standing ovation for the guy with the great arm!!! So even though the music was awful I did get entertained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted January 4, 2008 Report Share Posted January 4, 2008 I went to a concert in Central Park, NYC around 1972/3 and I actually saw Brownsville Station('Smokin' in the Boy's Room' was their one and only hit) opening up for someone else I can't recall except thet their music was very unlike Brownsville Station. The drummer had one of those gigantic kits with double bass drum, double and even quadruple everything else. For their whole set he only played the hi-hat, snare & one bass drum- all the rest was for show only! After a few tunes and much booing, the singer said" I hear you guys yelling 'You suck', but we're gonna keep playing" Right after he said that they launch into another tune amid much booing, and some guy near me threw an apple at the stage and it hit one of the unused drums in the drummer's set, split in half, and half of the apple hit the drummer square in the forehead!!! This of course led to a standing ovation for the guy with the great arm!!! So even though the music was awful I did get entertained. That was the very first rock concert I ever went to! They were opening for ZZ Top. I'm pretty sure it was '74. That tune was on the radio so much, everyone was sick of them before they even hit the stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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