Worst Concerts You Have Attended ??

I thought I answered this but got distracted and did not submit my response. 

Worst: The Cars on City Island in Harrisburg, PA for the Heartbreak City tour. Now I have come to really love the band over the years but this particular night was not good for them. They did not seem to want to be there. This was in July 1984. Contrast this with Asia in August of 1983 at the same venue. While the turnout for Asia was not as good, they put on a great show and even played some Yes and ELP as they really only had two albums at the time. Also, I think they felt the real fans are the ones who showed up. For some reason the The Cars did not even address the audience once. One other show that was not so great for me was Yes at Starwood Amphitheater outside Nashville. My friends loved it and I was bored to tears for some reason. Love prog but never really got into Yes.

Best: There are two I will list here. (1) Genesis at the Capital Center in Landover Maryland. This was a cold snowy night in January 1987. The snow on the roof made it where the Showco Prism system could not be flown due to the weight. Something about this night was special. Loved it with fond memories of better days. (2) Pink Floyd at Vanderbilt Stadium on The Division Bell tour. This show opened with Astronomy Domine and was fantastic as well. This tour is a benchmark that will never be replicated. There are great tours since but this one sort of stands on its own. 

The band I have seen the most is Rush with a show in Nashville on the Hold Your Fire tour being the single loudest event I have ever been to. When the downbeat of The Big Money kicked in it blew you into the back of the arena. Unbelievably off the charts loud. The U2 360 tour at Vanderbilt was also too loud so I will ding them on that. I has hearing issues for several years after that show and have not been back to a live concert since. 

The being said I am tempted to fly over to O2 area for Genesis's "The Last Domino" tour if it can happen later in the year. 

Worked at the Tinley park world theatre first year it opened.
   Grateful Dead was ok.
my friend and I bought some pb&j sandwiches from those damn hippies, little did we know, they were not normal sandwiches.  
 We put o n our African shirts with the V neck design, used our badges to get into show.
 Had a blast, not including the cruddy surprise from those darn sandwiches.  Went to his house, watched “best of the best” blitzed on whatever was in those sandwiches. Drove back , put work shirts on, and punched out after traffic left, we did this for almost every good rock show the opening season. 
 Had a blast and made a 30 year friend to boot!
      Show was good, I was used to the music being a fan of the band.
   The Dead were a good live jam band.

  Cheers

 

Dwight Yoakam April 16, 2016 Pikeville, KY. What a letdown. The sound was so bad when he talked between songs you couldn’t understand him. Not one word. Since I pretty much have his entire catalog committed to memory I could make out which songs he was playing but only barely.  I thought maybe the whole audience was on the MTV show Punk’d. Sadly we were never let in the joke if indeed we were. This was my 9th or 10th time seeing Dwight and all times before the sound had been sublime but not here. And to beat it all it was his hometown and he had family members in attendance. Best show Pearl Jam September 5, 2000 Pittsburgh, PA. They kicked the show off with Evenflow, to my knowledge the only instance they’ve played it as an opener, and it was buckle your seatbelt from there on. I personally feel that they were at the peak of their power on the 2000 tour, I saw them in multiple venues that year but the Pittsburgh show reigns supreme. It was truly a religious experience. It was outdoors in an amphitheater and the sound was still fantastic, although the boys threw down so well that night I think it would’ve sounded good on an old Sears tape recorder. I’m 95% sure the official bootleg of this show is available on iTunes. I highly recommend checking it out. Runner-up and another religious experience was Fugazi April 5, 2002 in Huntington, WV. These guys were amazing live and that’s all I can say. It was life changing. 

Robert Palmer....he had no interaction with the crowd

Two particularly  bad shows for more for different reasons.
Hall and Oates as they opened the Fillmore in Philadelphia. As they took the stage at 8 walked off the stage at 9:30 .  including  3\minutes of Daryl promoting his TV show . For the home-town boys this was the worst christening of a venue in Philly on record!  No second set - maybe they had to go put their make-up on and got lost in the new building.....
Springsteen at the LINC in Philly - great 3 hour show that was marred by me being  two rows from the top and the sound reverberating all night long . I should have paid more to be down on the floor. 
A third bad experience was going to see Marshall Tucker , The Outlaws and I think Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band at the Spectrum . Rear-ended on the Schuykill expressway on the way down. Someone selling glow sticks accidently breaking one and spraying the liquid on my face -  I was in stinging pain in one eye for nearly an hour . and ...the person behind me throwing up on me during the show  ..........seriously the Trifecta. 
The show was great and I stayed to  watch it all