Category: Jam Session
Seen any bands that just totally disappointed you? I haven't really yet. Everyone I've seen has been pretty good. Some better than I'd thought they'd be and some just as good if not better then I imagined.
while not a band her self, rehanna.
i love her music, but when it comes to performing live.. just no go
Angel's in airwaves. I used to like them, until they got totally all "lets just be friends" and all that crap. I saw them in concert and they were awful. They depended so much of melodics and harmonics and electronics that they couldn't pull off in concert, it ruined the song.
I love Fleetwood Mac, but my parents went to a couple of their concerts. One the venue was more the problem than the band, poor acoustics, one performance I read about Stevie Nicks being so high on cocaine Lindsey Buckingham had to walk her off the stage. Some bands are better live than others. Neil Diamond puts on a great show, but the Cars were reputed to be stiff & wooden in concert, much more of a studio band.
fleetwood mac could have done without stevie nix or lidsi, those first few blues albums were fucking great!
saw funeral for a friend pretty much by accident, they were supporting iron maidern who my dad took me to see, and funeral were fucking awful live, screaming and shit, really put me off their records that i'd not heard up to that point, but i heard them afterwards and they wern't so bad.
I saw Three Doors Down once and they were totally disappointing, not because they sounded bad, but because they didn't interact with the audience at all. Not only that, but they played their songs exactly as they do on their albums. It was just too straightforward for me. If I want to listen to an album I'll do that, but when I go to a concert I expect at least a little effort on the band's part to do something different.
I'm a little sad to hear that about 3 Doors Down. They're one of the few North American bands I really enjoy. As for me I'm embarrassed to admit I went with a friend to a Britney Spears concert about 11 years ago. it was worth it because I went with someone I really cared about, but I remember there wasn't really much to her or her music. That was back before she turned into .... well, what she is now.
I went to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers once and they totally sucked. It was painfully obvious that they were lip syncing. They were also completely wasted or high or both. The Foo Fighters were the warm up act and completely stole the show.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were terrible the last time I saw them!!! Steven Stills just needs to give it up, he can't sing anymore, which is sad because I liked him a lot. Also, saw the OJs with Chaca Con and she was just awful!
I recently saw the Manhattans, and I didn't really have high hopes, since they'd been around since the sixties. It was far worse than I expected. It was deafeningly loud, the room they were playing in was too small for them, and it seemed as if they'd been performing for so long, that they'd lost their voices.
Cradle of filth. they came to romania in a tour for their album god speed on the devil's thunder. they sucked. moonspell, that played in the beginning of their show were a thousand times better. plus, cof brought a skeleton on the scene, bound to a cross, and I just hate people mocking God, even though I am an extreme metal fan. I am just sick of this atitude, but apart from this, they played songs that sucked, that is the newer ones...
I saw Kiss in 2003 and they sucked. Plus they were so fucked up they didn't even know where they were.
Kiss: "Hello, Houston!"
Crowd: "boooooooooo!"
We were in Dallas.
All the other bands I've seen were really really good. That's a bummer about 3 Doors Down.
So the stones are still performing from the 60s. They had a 50 year anniversary deal and I heard a few cuts they did live. Thought it stunk. I think these 60s bands should just give it up. John Lennon said it once, who wants to hear the moldy oldies when it's been done and redone and they can't hit the notes.
Megadeth
Well, Megadeth suck in the studio, so it stands to reason that they would suck live, lol. Same with Cradle of Filth. Wasn't Type O Negative bad enough? Do they really have to imitate such a shitty band?
Type O existed some time before Cradle. I prefer them, too. Not a fan of screachy vocals. Megadeth was good until about 1994. Saw them in 99.
I haven't really seen any major bands, but a couple of the local bands I saw were terrible. If I get the chance I'd want to go to an Incubus concert, or Tool.
Lol, I know what you mean about local bands. I've been stuck in a position of going to concerts where my friends' bands were playing, and I had to suffer through some truly terrible shit. On the other hand, I've also been introduced to good unknown bands that way, too.
I attended a concert for Breaking Benjamin, and I have mixed feelings about it. I really like the band and was really excited to go (I went to the one they had here in San Antonio in 2009). Although I was really happy just being there, at the same time, I couldn't enjoy it fully. The bands that played before Breaking Benjamin were great and the guy from Sick Puppies seemed the most interactive with us; he talked more compared to the other 3 groups which was cool. But when it came to when Breaking Benjamin performed, they didn't interact as much with us, which I didn't mind at the time, but what more got to me was that I couldn't really hear Ben singing for whatever reason, which may have had also to do with this other thing: There was this guy standing next to me who was singing along like most of the rest of us, which I wouldn't have cared about, except that he was practically freakin' shouting the words. Everyone else in the audience was singing in a normal voice except for that dude standing next to me. If I didn't like that band very much and especially that I kind of like ben *smile*, that incident would've honestly turned me off of attending another concert. But because I like them, I'd likely go again if possible.
I saw Breaking Benjamin that same year, and I had no problem hearing Ben's vocals. It really depends on how good the acoustics are in the place you're seeing any band, and, if they were the headliners, and were the last to play, your ears might have been so numb by that point from all the loud music that you couldn't have heard anyone's vocals clearly. If you saw them at an outdoor venue, that could explain it, too. I hate outdoor venues, they make everything sound shitty. I have to defend Ben here, because the following year, I saw him play solo in Atlantic City, and let me tell you, that was a great show. He talked to the crowd, was funny, and sounded great acoustic. Who were the other bands on that tour besides sick Puppies? When I saw Breaking Benjamin, they played with Three Days Grace and Flyleaf. Flyleaf did not impress me one bit live, although I arrived late to the show and missed most of their set, so maybe I'm judging them unfairly.
Adelidas Way and Rev Theory were the other 2 bands; it was them and then Sick Puppies and then Breaking Benjamin. Yeah, I think it may have been a combination of reasons as to why I couldn't hear Ben's voice. I didn't feel like my hearing was off or anything; I could hear the other bands fine, and during the part that had Breaking Benjamin, I could hear him for some parts of the performance, and there was even a point where everyone including Ben had stopped singing for a few seconds during one of the songs. But, yeah, part of what might have made it hard for me to hear everything well was that we were at an outdoor place unfortunately, and then I also had that dude almost right next to me literally shouting the lyrics during most of the Breaking Benjamin part of the concert. So I don't/didn'tt blame Ben for why I couldn't hear his voice as much; I know part of it had to do with that guy's shouting and probably also the acoustics in general.
I understand. I guess I just thought you were really ripping on Ben because of the topic title. I certainly wouldn't blame an outdoor venue for writing off a band as a live failure, but maybe that's just me.
Two awesome bands, I'd love to see them too.
@poster 22:
Yeah, this probably wasn't the best discussion to post what I said, being that I would definitely go to another concert again where Ben was performing. *smile* I honestly think it was more that dude I mentioned about that got to me at the time. But of course, that sort of thing could happen anywhere. I haven't had a concert (by anyone) I've regretted attending; all the performances by the artists/bands themselves (including the Breaking Benjamin one) were good, so I actually can't say there's been one I would never attend again. My bad for posting on this specific discussion and giving you the wrong idea. *smile* That does stink for those here that have attended concerts where the performances did not go well though.
@poster 23:
Yeah, it was a great time. I'm jealous that she got to see Ben in a solo concert as well as seeing him with the band in another one *smile*, but yeah, that'd honestly be cool if I had the chance to attend another concert featuring that band and/or Ben again. I got really lucky that time being that I had some money left over from Financial Aid. I love going to concerts in general though (at least when I can anyway), but that doesn't happen very often so ... *smile*
Type O Negative was a fantastic band, the loss of whom those of us with good taste in gothic/doom metal will ever mourn. I was fortunate enough to see them live before Pete Steele decided to die, and while I enjoyed their music, I was surprised as hell at the strong 'New Yo'k' accent. Eh yo, dis fookin' song's from dat one album dat we fookin' reco'ded ova deh at dat one place. One two three fooah!
I don't think I would go see Cradle again, (random aside, they have nothing in common with Type O, save fashion choices), because if you go to see Cradle live, it's more about the show than the music. There's pyrotechnics, skeletons, burning virgins, that sort of thing.
In o9, I got to see Lacuna Coil, which I would do again until my balls were shrivveled and dry and my lobido was a useless gland in a shadowy and shameful corner of my physical makeup. But one of her opening acts was Kill Hannah, a group of barely male high tenors in women's pants and makeup, crying about exes and parents and assentially surrendering their balls. I don't know about Hannah, but I would certainly kill myself before sitting through another aweful set like that.