Bands That You Wouldn't Go See Again

[jdp211]

So on the opposite side of the tracks from the other thread, any bands that were supremely disappointing to go see?
Off the top of my head, I haven't been to too many bad shows, but Ducktails a few months back was pretty bad. A not so high energy opener (who rocked!) kind of killed the vibe before he came on.

[dogrange]

Merle Haggard. I love his music, but at this point he seems so uninterested in playing that he should really retire.

[davids]

Off the top of my head: Blondie

I saw them in 1979, and again in, maybe, 1991. Their drummer is good.

[Bob Ross]

- Saw The Cranberries and Toad The Wet Sprocket in the early '90s, that may have been the single most boring concert I've ever attended in my life.
- Saw Nine Inch Nails that same year (I'm thinking it was '93 or '94, whatever year they toured with David Bowie), they were underwhelming.
- Tears For Fears in 1985...yawn.
- I fell asleep during a Porcupine Tree concert in 2007 or 2008 ...but I'd like to think I'd give them another chance, if they ever toured again, so maybe they don't belong on this list.
- Saw The Who and The Rolling Stones decades after their prime ('89 and '90 respectively) so I don't feel any compelling need to ever see them again.

[znfdl]

Journey
Cheap Trick
Tori Amos (like her music, just no need to see her live)
Diana Krall (like her music, just no need to see her live)
Berlin
Blondie
U2 (the concert I saw, they looked like they were just going through the motion of putting on a concert)

[72gmc]

The Replacements. A drunken mess.

[Matthew Strongin]

Sonic Youth.

My ex was a huge fan. I wasn't. She promised I would like them more after seeing them live. I didn't.

[dashDustin]

Stone Temple Pilots.

A large number of the $5 punk shows I saw in the early 2000s.

[theflashunc]

Yo La Tengo. Saw them at Pitchfork back in 2006 and might be the worst show I've ever seen. Including some terrible high school bands that were comprised mostly of my buddies.

[monadnocky]

The Cure well after they started to put out that unadulterated shite in the 90's.
wanted to push that spastic handwaving black eyeliner-wearing Robert Smith out of a high window the entire show.

(I did see them before they started to suck and that was a good show from what I can recall).

I guess it's not likely I'll see them again, but whatever. It was a few hours of my life I'll never get back.

[fa63]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Billy Corgan likes himself too much
Meshuggah - they do not sound very good live
Metallica - Hetfield's singing sucks live and Ulrich's drumming is obnoxious

[Nierman]

Saw Dropkick Murphys a few years ago and their sound sucked. Too much noise and no lyrics. I think the Teenage Bottlerockets ruined the speakers during the opener. At first I feared it was another sign I was getting old - but a couple local music reviews wrote about the same experience.

[false_aesthetic]

Shudder to Think
Alkaline Trio
Everclear (once they started playing the Pittsburgh 3 Rivers Fest)

[edoz]

Metallica, they sounded awful. Everything was distorted horribly and their solution was to turn it up louder.

[jackattack]

Bob Dylan. Saw him 17 years ago, it was a riot, 2 years ago was a snoozefest.

[joosttx]

Dave Matthews

[prcrstn8]

The Stones, even if they were 50 years younger.

[EricKeller]

I wouldn't have gone to see the Black eyed peas the first time, but someone had to chaperone the kids. They had a 6' diameter speaker set up on the stage and that's about all you could hear. I have no idea why they thought it sounded good, sound man must have been deaf. And a lot of the energy coming out of that thing was subsonic, it was physically uncomfortable. The show would have been tolerable otherwise.

My wife wanted to go see the "trans siberian orchestra" -- quotes because it's all pre-recorded except some vocals. That was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. The guy playing violin didn't even have strings on his instrument. Oh, and the "light show" involved shining incredibly bright lights directly at the audience so you couldn't see how bad they were at faking their instruments. Wish I had known to bring my welding goggles.

[bcm119]

The smashing pumpkins at Penn state in the 90s. Not very interesting. Violent femmes at Vassar, sounded cool but wasn't.

[rowdyhillrambler]

Lucinda Williams