The worst/best band(s) you have ever seen live. [Archive]

Bobo Adobo

Apr 3rd, 2004, 08:29 PM

Keep in mind, I mean bands that you have SEEN, not who you think is the worst/best live band ever.

The worst band for me would be Slayer. I use to dig them back in the day. When I saw them live, the only way I could describe it was someone playing Radio static really loud and trying to yell over it. Not to mention a got my brand new glasses busted when some high strung fucktard accedently headbutted me. Plus one of the monitors exploded and just about deafened everybody in the venue, but still somehow people actually liked it.:/

The Best would have to be Widespread Panic. I've seen them about 15 times. Each show still holds a significant experience for me. IMO they are the best live band around today, too bad there on a hiatus. The crowds allways cool, eventhough it has become pretty trendy lately.

Edit - An honorable mention who be Claypool's Frog Brigade. I've only seen them twice, but they really know how to put on a show. I've seen Primus, Bucket of Bernie Brains, Rat Brigade(Les with Bob Weir from GD) and Oysterhead. Out of all his bands I thought FB was the most entertaining live. Eventhough Rat Brigade and Bernie Brains hold more of a significant experience.

KevinTheOmnivore

Apr 3rd, 2004, 10:37 PM

Best- I saw Kid Dynamite in some guy's basement in New Jersey. It was during the summer, so it was like 100 degrees in this basement, packed against other sweaty bastards. People were hanging from the pipes on the ceiling, it was wild.

Worst- Brian Jonestown Massacre, two weeks ago. Antone Newcome is a prick.

Honorable mention for best-- AFI, a few years ago in Manhattan. I have never been much of a fan, but they closed their set by covering "Last caress," and nearly blew the roof off.

Big McLargehuge

Apr 3rd, 2004, 11:34 PM

Best- I'm gonnna be a fag and say Tool because they put alot into their shows and even though it is a big stadium show i still like it.

Worst- Most certainly this prize goes to Meshuggah I saw them open for Tool and though the music didn't sound too bad they were boring as shit and every body was ignoring them.

executioneer

Apr 4th, 2004, 01:36 AM

Best- probably some band with les claypool in it :( if you'd asked me last year, it definitely would have been Frog Brigade, but Primus was so awesome that I don't know now :(

Worst- Static-X totally sucked and i kind of liked their album a lot at the time :x

Perndog

Apr 4th, 2004, 03:39 AM

Best: Metallica. You could tell they'd been playing arenas for years.

Worst: Sevendust. You could tell they were on their first arena tour. (they opened for Metallica)

EverythingWillSuck

Apr 4th, 2004, 08:50 PM

Best - either the locust, or mars volta

worst - disturbed. they used to be my fave band ever, till i saw their horrid erformance :(

Schimid

Apr 4th, 2004, 08:57 PM

I love Sevendust. :(

I haven't seen any bands live, but I heard that The Gorillaz play in complete darkness so no one knows who they are, and they only have their cartoon caricatures from the music videos to go by.

Maybe that's a lie, though. :(

Perndog

Apr 4th, 2004, 09:16 PM

If they don't want their identities known they could just wear masks like Slipknot did until their attention-whorishness got too great for them not to be seen. (the masks were supposed to hide them so the music was more important than the image...possibly the most pretentious statement by a rock band I've ever heard).

Cap'n Crunch

Apr 4th, 2004, 10:55 PM

The bassist in Slipknot used to be the bassist in Anal Blast. :lol

Bobo Adobo

Apr 5th, 2004, 12:15 AM

He also was a bad bartender. :(

distance

Apr 5th, 2004, 03:08 AM

Edit - An honorable mention who be Claypool's Frog Brigade. I've only seen them twice, but they really know how to put on a show. I've seen Primus, Bucket of Bernie Brains, Rat Brigade(Les with Bob Weir from GD) and Oysterhead. Out of all his bands I thought FB was the most entertaining live. Eventhough Rat Brigade and Bernie Brains hold more of a significant experience.

which frog brigade tour did you catch? i saw them in 00, 01, 02 and 03 and i think that the 00 show (with the animals set) was my favorite.

worst bands i've seen?
men's recovery project
sigur ros (definitely the most boring show i've ever seen)

i've seen some bad stuff at festivals too..

Dole

Apr 5th, 2004, 05:16 AM

Kevin: you bastard, I am horribly jealous.

BEST:
Frank Zappa
Brian Wilson
Nomeansno
Mad Capsule Markets
Subhumans
Youth Of Today

WORST:
Starsailor
hundreds of shitty english local bands

Black Flag

Apr 5th, 2004, 06:57 AM

i too am EXTREMELY jealous of kevin

best - shockwave, i'm an erie kid, i can't help it

worst - A18, you know you're in for some fun when the band you're seeing is named after prohibition

FartinMowler

Apr 5th, 2004, 12:28 PM

I dunno best... sound quality I would say Canadian bands I got to see in small venues when they where just starting like the Tragically Hip and Sara Mclachlan or Sara Harmer or many others Every stadium concert was ok and I enjoyed Prince and Supertramp and other big names but the best is small and intimate.

Snatchtastic

Apr 5th, 2004, 03:17 PM

I heard that The Gorillaz play in complete darkness so no one knows who they are, and they only have their cartoon caricatures from the music videos to go by.

Maybe that's a lie, though. :(

No that's actually true and that was a fun show.

The best ever was The Prodigy.

Bobo Adobo

Apr 5th, 2004, 03:37 PM

which frog brigade tour did you catch? i saw them in 00, 01, 02 and 03 and i think that the 00 show (with the animals set) was my favorite.

I saw them first at Bonnaroo 02, and then at the Vic in Chicago 03. Both pretty good shows. The Later was pretty much a Purple Onion set. At Bonnaroo they did a few covers like Thela, shine on and locomative breath.

iron mitchell

Apr 5th, 2004, 04:31 PM

best:
lightning bolt (best show ever and everyone knows it.)
wolf eyes (this band has hurt me three times now. not to mention the fact that the dvd-r has been watched in our apartment at least once a week for the past 6 months!)
emil beaulieau (download a video off of soulseek.)
tan as fuck (the best band nashville has housed. these guys remind me why smoking pot remains cool.)
extreme animal (cheesiest, most insane, best thing ever! i hadn't even heard of these guys before this show. paperrad is better than anything.)
kites (i finally saw this fellow last night. way more intense live than recorded. he managed to somehow keep up even after his mask, which was holding the majority of his noisemakers, fell apart. see him or be a bitch.)
caroliner rainbow (i had never heard these guys before seeing them... only heard tales and seen pics but those do no justice to these fucked up dudes! their parents were manning the merch table, bro!)
jackie-o motherfucker (wow. this band really surprised me. i enjoy their recordings and all, but i totally didn't expect to be amazed by this band for an hour and a half!)

worst:
freeze tag (the obligatory terrible local band. i've seen hundreds of these but this was the worst.)
the unicorns (biggest........disappointment........ever.)
pernice brothers (every song sounded like a different weezer song, only really shitty.)
the postal service (wow. this show was so bad my friend and i created something called the "stare of disappointment" just for shows such as this.)
!!! (the first time i saw these guys they were great, but then i saw them on tour with outhud and they were seriously the biggest turd ever! this band is so dead and outhud is at least as terrible.)

glowbelly

Apr 5th, 2004, 05:18 PM

best - x
worst - bon jovi >: my fren MADE me go >:

Big Papa Goat

Apr 5th, 2004, 10:34 PM

Best: Metallica. You could tell they'd been playing arenas for years.

Worst: Sevendust. You could tell they were on their first arena tour. (they opened for Metallica)

When I saw them a few weeks ago I thought they were pretty good, but Godsmack was probably even better.

But Opeth is the worst band live, because their drummer is some kind of nervous wreck that can't keep his shit together.
And on the DVD they keep going on about how heavy certain songs are relative to their other songs. I'm pretty sure the singer said exactly this before The Drapery Falls: "This is probably the third heaviest Opeth song". Goddamit thats gay.

Rongi

Apr 5th, 2004, 10:37 PM

Best - Frank Zappa halloween show. I don't remember a lot of it cause i was young, but it was a blast
Worst - Radiohead. the music was ok but they didn't really do much besides play.

huond

Apr 5th, 2004, 10:50 PM

Best - Ween 9-18-03 in Dallas. I saw them 3 times that week and that was by far the most fun i've ever had at a concert. :(

warst - Trey Anastasio. I felt nausious after mere minutes.

distance

Apr 8th, 2004, 01:05 PM

I saw them first at Bonnaroo 02, and then at the Vic in Chicago 03. Both pretty good shows. The Later was pretty much a Purple Onion set. At Bonnaroo they did a few covers like Thela, shine on and locomative breath.

yeah, i didn't mind the purple onion stuff, but the drum 'solo' was really unnecessary.

i still think the best were the 00 sets. you should check out recordings if you can.

Big Papa Goat

Apr 9th, 2004, 03:31 AM

Ween was really cool, but they could have done a better encore. They're drummer was awesome thoguh, he looked like Al Roker in a cowboy hat.

Rongi

Apr 10th, 2004, 06:57 PM

That was my avatar once :picklehat

huond

Apr 10th, 2004, 07:54 PM

I am amazed by Ween's drummer, Claude. He was in a car accident about a year and a half ago where he nearly died and had to go through tons of surgery/rehab and he was back behind the drums within months. He said he had to pretty much learn from scratch, but he was fucking great when I saw him just about a year after the accident. go jimmy go. :(

Supafly345

Apr 11th, 2004, 02:44 AM

Best: The Who 2002 US Tour

Worst: The Washington High School band Christmas concert of 1999

nothing4buddha

Apr 12th, 2004, 01:33 PM

best: smashing pumpkins
worst: sonic youth X-(

jeh

Apr 27th, 2004, 08:42 PM

best - fear factory (just saw them last night w/slipknot)
worst - too many to name..any local bands would count

Big Papa Goat

Apr 28th, 2004, 01:12 AM

Fear factory AND Slipknot? :lol

jeh

Apr 28th, 2004, 09:47 AM

Fear factory AND Slipknot? :lol

ever heard of the jagermeister music tour?

sspadowsky

Apr 28th, 2004, 02:04 PM

I've seen too many good concerts to say that one is the best, so here are my favorites:

Tom Waits (yowza!)
Overkill (about a dozen times)
Motorhead
Clutch
Poe (at a Borders store, karaoke-style- one of the best "concerts" I've ever seen)
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
The Trip Daddys (www.tripdaddys.com) (St. Louis-area psychobilly band)

EverythingWillSuck

Apr 28th, 2004, 04:51 PM

Best

Mars Volta - they did a 7-minute version of Interiatic Esp with MARACAS :eek
Melt Banana - yes
The who - it was only a couple days after John's death and they still did great
Melvins - hahahahahah buzzo
High on fire - I am proud to wear their sweatshirt
Locust - aside from the buzzing sound at the end of their set that almost killed everyone's ears

Worst

Disturbed - I used to be a big Disturbed fanatic. That was until I saw them
Papa Roach - Coby Dick (or whatever his name is now) should never try to act like a metalcore singer
Sum 41 - OKAY FUCKERS SHITS CUNTS FUCKERS LETS FUCK THIS SHIT UP LIKE ASS
Your enemies friends - first song = good, the rest = uhggugghhug
STUN - Don't quit you jobs

Mr. Oysterhead

May 9th, 2004, 10:42 PM

Best: Les Claypools FFB

Worst: Mudvayne

Emu

May 9th, 2004, 11:21 PM

Okay, I'll bite. Who the fuck is Les Claypools.

sspadowsky

May 10th, 2004, 02:09 AM

Okay, I'll bite. Who the fuck is Les Claypools.

Ummm.... Primus?

executioneer

May 10th, 2004, 03:52 AM

http://www.blarg.net/~mobbswm/Portland-01leswater.jpg

EverythingWillSuck

May 10th, 2004, 07:12 PM

now that i saw coachella i have to say that the sound technicians for BRMC are more exciting than the band :(

Ronnie Raygun

May 10th, 2004, 08:02 PM

The worst is The Moldy Peaches.

Alive

May 10th, 2004, 09:19 PM

Best: Absolutley would have to say Van Halen and Rush.

Then mudvayne (i know its a beer/mosh/vomit party, but hey there music was played perfectly in time/tune and volume.

Worst: tap root that opened for the above. (i know, what a mix)

thebiggameover

May 10th, 2004, 10:00 PM

best: i hate it when your pregant

worst: cake. they played one song and then left the stage because somebody hit the lead dude with a peace of ice...

EDIT: also for best: the minibosses...

Helm

May 10th, 2004, 11:12 PM

Hmm... best live I've seen must have been Candlemass. All two times.

Worst live I've seen would be a series of local bands but the worse live show I payed money to see would be uhh... Tiamat. Which is a shame, given how great that band used to be.

Also avoid Evergray as they're boring as fuck, and Angeldust.

I'd like to see Today is the Day :(

Helm

May 10th, 2004, 11:15 PM

Oh and a friend of mine swears that the best band that he's seen live is the argentinian stoner/jazz whatever trio Natas. I just dig how their name is Satan backwards. And the worst were Lord 13 (local Kyuss rip-off)

sadie

May 11th, 2004, 01:35 AM

worst: john anderson with his annoying "swingin" song at a local middle school when i was about 12.

best: todd rundgren at a small nc club in '91. he did "fuck you, jesse helms." :P
or the dead in raleigh, probably '92. when they started playing "box of rain," the sky immediately started misting the hot-as-hell day cool.

subterfuge

May 14th, 2004, 02:03 AM

The worst "band" I ever saw was some guy with a guitar singing pseudo-intellectual hippy bullshit in a whiney voice. He played before TheyMightBeGiants went on, and the anticipation to see TMBG was adding to my irritation caused by the whining weener. He was so shitty, I don't even know his name.

The best shows tie for first place: AFI, who rocked the muthafuckin hizzouse with 2 solid hours of the awesome.

And, VNV who had the raddest light show ever to pulse with their amazing music.

sspadowsky

May 14th, 2004, 11:35 AM

Helm

May 14th, 2004, 12:17 PM

Steve Austin swears it was just a bad night :( Really. He does. :(

Well, at least Mastodon verifiably rule.

Miss Modular

May 14th, 2004, 12:22 PM

Best: Los Amigos Invisibles, NYC 2001
Worst: Ol' Dirty Bastard, AKA Dirt McGirt, NYC 2003

soundtest

May 14th, 2004, 12:57 PM

worst: Squarepusher like last month. boring as fuck. no visuals + an aging guy trying to look busy behind a couple of laptops occasionally fist pumping to get a reaction from the crowd.

sspadowsky

May 14th, 2004, 01:06 PM

Steve Austin swears it was just a bad night :( Really. He does. :(

Well, at least Mastodon verifiably rule.

About Mastodon you are very correct. I caught them live in Chicago a couple of years ago. I had actually gone to see High on Fire, and ended up liking Mastodon better. They are extremely talented.

Sergeant_Tibbs

May 15th, 2004, 01:23 AM

Volt 16 and Bile. Worst people to open, ever.

McClain

May 16th, 2004, 11:17 AM

Michael W. Smith rocked the fuckin' house of Christ when he opened for Carmen in Indianapolis.

Bobo Adobo

May 17th, 2004, 01:42 AM

or the dead in raleigh, probably '92. when they started playing "box of rain," the sky immediately started misting the hot-as-hell day cool.
:lol
My uncle used to always rave about when he saw the Dead play at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in '74. It was a rainy day and The sun came out for about five seconds right after Bob Wier sang the Lyrics "...and the sun will shine in my back door some day" from Going down the road, Feeling bad. He said the whole crowd went nuts. They are trully gods amongst men.

Another honorable mention would be when I saw Keller Williams play in some club in chicago a fews years ago. Some drunk meathead collegeboy fuckheads started throwing beer bottles at him during his set, and he immediatly started improving some song making fun of them whil they were getting kicked out of the club. He still finished the show, I got to meet him afterwords :) .

tenno

May 23rd, 2004, 07:15 PM

Awesome!

NIN - Trent's choices in music does a great job of bringing yah up, hammering you and then sliding yah back down to normalcy, plus great interaction and visuals

ORBITAL - fuckin bad ass live, the video for SATAN is so damn good

WEIRD AL - come on ITS FUCKING WEIRD AL!!!!!

MSI - Mindless plays a great show, its all crowd interaction

MOBY - his speed metal solo was the BOMB SHIT!

SHITTY!

Sunny (GAY) DAY REAL ESTATE - snore snore snore

ORGY - nifty music but the singer just kept wrapping his neck in the microphone wire and pumping his fist.......this was their first arena however...