Most disappointing concert you have attended

[Craig in Indy]

Pat Metheney during his Ornette Coleman Song X tour.

 

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Pat Metheney during his Ornette Coleman Song X tour.

I like his music, but honestly couldn't imagine him putting on an energetic show....

 

[Craig in Indy]

I'd been to several of his Group concerts before going to this one, and the only reason I went was because the local radio station was promoting it with Group music, and needless to say it was nothing like that. I couldn't find a shred of structure in the music to hang onto, so it was basically noise to my ears. It was the first concert I ever walked out on (so far I've done that twice, the second one being Ben Folds, but only because the sound was so God-awful I couldn't stand it).

The Metheny Group can be energizing, but they also have just as many dreamy numbers that can kind of put you in a trance.

 

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I'd been to several of his Group concerts before going to this one, and the only reason I went was because the local radio station was promoting it with Group music, and needless to say it was nothing like that. I couldn't find a shred of structure in the music to hang onto, so it was basically noise to my ears. It was the first concert I ever walked out on (so far I've done that twice, the second one being Ben Folds, but only because the sound was so God-awful I couldn't stand it).

The Metheny Group can be energizing, but they also have just as many dreamy numbers that can kind of put you in a trance.

main reason I like Methany.... but you can still be energetic with slower or less driving music like that... oh well... everyone is entitled to an off day I suppose
I can't decide if I like Ben Folds or not... A friend of mine is obsessed with him, she has a ridiculous amount of memorabilia and cd's and anything he has ever put out in some type of physical form, but I can't decide if I like him or not... it's not that I'm indifferent to his music, I just can't decide if I like it or hate it

 

[Craig in Indy]

Folds is kind of a quirky musician. I think most folks either love him or hate him. We were at that concert because we'd seen him live a year earlier when he was touring with Guster and Rufus Wainwright, and I thought he was pretty witty. He seemed kind of like a smaller, smart-ass Elton John.

 

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Folds is kind of a quirky musician. I think most folks either love him or hate him. We were at that concert because we'd seen him live a year earlier when he was touring with Guster and Rufus Wainwright, and I thought he was pretty witty. He seemed kind of like a smaller, smart-ass Elton John.

brilliant way to describe him

I'm kind of funny with Elton too, sometimes I absolutely love his tunes, but others I'm just like "christ... shut it off... its so boring" then a day later I'll be back to being fascinated by it... so maybe that's my problem...

 

[Dave78]

Without a doubt Santana was the most disappointing concert I've attended. The concert was a twin-bill with Jeff Beck headlining. Had Beck opened up for Santana that night, I'm sure we would have walked out halfway into Santana's set. What a crap performance.

At least Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio on drums made up for it.

 

[Craig in Indy]

While I didn't walk out on them, I've been disappointed at concerts by: The Beach Boys, The Doobie Brothers, Stephen Stills & Manassas, all mainly because of crappy singing and/or guitar playing. Maybe they were all having bad nights.

OTOH, I've seen these performers several times and they never failed to impress me: Steve Goodman, The Roches, Bruce Cockburn, Guster, The Pat Metheny Group, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Karla Bonoff, Melissa Etheridge.

And two out of the three times I saw Dan Fogelberg he was good. The other time I couldn't tell because the sound was craptastic. Other concerts with really, really bad sound have included Jimmy Buffett (though I saw him once outdoors at the University of Miami, long before the Parrot-head thing and it was great), Ben Folds, REM, Toad the Wet Sprocket, John Hiatt.

I'm sure I'm forgetting several on both sides of the coin.

 

[Foxhound]

Without a doubt Santana was the most disappointing concert I've attended. The concert was a twin-bill with Jeff Beck headlining. Had Beck opened up for Santana that night, I'm sure we would have walked out halfway into Santana's set. What a crap performance.

At least Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio on drums made up for it.

If that was their tour from the mid-nineties, I agree. Jeff Beck and Terry Bozzio were great; Santana not at all.

 

[Fug]

Sept.2008
Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Doane Perry and two other guys that call themselves, "Jethro Tull".