The crappiest band you've ever seen live??

[HerBlackWings]

Ok, So here's my "thread 'o' the day".
What is the shittiest, most lame band you'v eever seen live? It colud be a band that you typically like who just happened to suck at live performance, or a band you were dragged to see by a friend with horrible taste in music....
Or as in my case: A band that I was told was "really really good, man" and turned out to be quite the opposite. *nods*

So this band is called Niobium, some shit-tastic local band here in Minneapolis. I was there to take pics for another band (who actually kicked ass) and was guilt tripped into staying to see this other band. I heard there was a guy who played the Didgeridoo, a native Austrailian Aboriginal instrument, so I figured it might be interesting. It was interesting for like....5 minutes.
They were the biggest hippie, pot smoking, acid tripping "metal band" ever. All the band members were wearing face paint (and not cool like corpse paint), were wearing retarded pleather pants and cloaks, stupid tribal jewelry and were lighting incense.
*shakes head*
Not good.
They even had people in the crowd dancing with light sticks (as some kind of show for the crowd), as well as 2 belly dancers...DANCING TO NU-METAL! It wasn't working for them at all.
The saddest part is that they drew a huge crowd. They have a real following, so I wouldn't be suprised if they pop up on MTV next year. haha
Here's a link for their myspace (they don't have a site of their own):
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=10090562&Mytoken=20050826160842

[Pulpmariachi]

Savage Garden.

Don't ask, I won't tell.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Sonic Youth when they opened for Pearl Jam....it was horrible. I had a headache after they were done.

[LivingDeadGirl]

pulpmariachi said:

Savage Garden.

Don't ask, I won't tell.

They had that one song that I actually liked...can't think of the name of it now though.

[HerBlackWings]

Savage Garden? haha
I had a friend in high school who was super in love with those guys, and she tried to convince me to go see them with her...but I refused.
Scary stuff man!

[Quorthon]

I'm inclined to agree with the wife here that Niobium was pretty craptacular. However, another local band, Filty Divine--kind of a punkish band--was nerve rackingly bad--like Wendy O. Williams without the charm or talent--or "lovely" singing voice.

[Heineken Skywalker]

Joe Walsh.
This was in the early nineties before The Eagles reunited. He was playing a small club and had obviously been drinking. Forgetting lyrics, slurring lyrics, general mumbling in between songs, etc. Would've been hilarious if they had been free tickets.
I've seen too many shitty local bands to remember any of their names, but Joe is the standout for being a major performer who was crappy live.

[LivingDeadGirl]

heinekenskywalker said:

Joe Walsh.
This was in the early nineties before The Eagles reunited. He was playing a small club and had obviously been drinking.

Joe drinking?? Never would've thought it... ;D Guess he made up for it b/c he pretty much kicked ass the two times I've seen the Eagles live.

[Heineken Skywalker]

livingdeadgirl said:

Guess he made up for it b/c he pretty much kicked ass the two times I've seen the Eagles live.

Yeah, I think that was part of the deal The Eagles made with him for the reunion. He had to clean up his act.

[Bartwald]

Believe it or not but for me it was the recent performance by Nightwish - not only the singer's vocals were so high-pitched they made my ears ache, but they added a major insult to it all by playing a crap cover version of Pink Floyd's High Hopes. THE worst cover I have ever heard.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Another one I just thought of...it wasn't actually bad, but annoying. A couple of summers ago Vince Neil came to Riverfront and he's one of those singers that just sings like every other word of the song. You know what I mean? It's VERY annoying..or maybe I'm just nit-picking. ;D

[Heineken Skywalker]

The reason he only sings every other word is because he runs out of breath. He's really not a very good singer.
They do wonders in the studio.

[Bartwald]

That's probably true about Neil - I like his vocals on studio albums but he does annoy live. Similar problem with Ozzy or Dave Mustaine, but they go way out of tune for a change.

[Quorthon]

admin said:

That's probably true about Neil - I like his vocals on studio albums but he does annoy live. Similar problem with Ozzy or Dave Mustaine, but they go way out of tune for a change.

I think Dave does just fine live (but I'm probably biased). Ozzy, hoo, he needs a teleprompter. Last time I saw him he royally butchered Iron Man. Now, he's been doing that song for 3 decades--you think it'd be easy.

[LivingDeadGirl]

heinekenskywalker said:

The reason he only sings every other word is because he runs out of breath. He's really not a very good singer.
They do wonders in the studio.

Yeah, & he was still a bit on the heavy side too, so all that running around he was doing probably didn't help any either.