So many choices on the Best concert and did not want to pollute that thread. What was the most Boring concert you attended.

Mine had the be a Grateful Dead concert at Alpine Valley WI in 1985. It was also my first show that I attended alone.

The Dead were in town for two nights and my buddies wanted to go for the weekend. I had to work Friday night so said I would join them for the Saturday show. Alpine Valley was a couple hours North of where we lived so leaving after work, I didn’t get to the campground till after 2:00am. Couldn’t find my

Couldn’t find my buddies so I found a spot to roll out my sleeping bag to crash for the night. The next morning I woke to find out I was sleeping on someone else’s oil leak so my sleeping bag got trashed.

Packed up my stuff and headed towards town to fill up and get some beer. On the way out of town headed to the venue, I got a speeding ticked which sucked the rest of my cash. Don’t think I had $20 for the rest of the day and didn’t have credit card yet.

When I finally got to the venue, I found my buddies camped out in the parking lot (don’t know if Alpine Valley still allows that) and they were so trashed from the night before, they ended up bailing on night 2.

WTF! So, I’m 2 hours away from home with a full tank of gas, a case of beer and $20 bucks. I paid for my tick so I was staying to watch the show.

I recall the show starting early in the afternoon. I had a lawn ticked but managed to get into the seats to stage left as the venue was not sold out. Ended up next to some hippie chick who needed 3 seats wide so she could hippie dance. And that she did.

IDK. All the songs sounded the same so I got bored and ended up leaving before the encore. Just couldn’t find that Dead magic....

The deciding factor in getting F1 tickets in 2017, was the fact that Justin Timberlake was performing after Qualifying on Saturday. This got my wife on board to getting tickets & going to the race (she's since much more interested in F1, up from just tolerating it on the TV during race season).

I'm not a JT fan, only know a few songs that were radio-popular in high school. Part of the problem, was that after the opener (who was quite good, IMO), someone turned the volume to 11 & 'ripped the knob off'. Everything was so loud, if you didn't know the songs, you couldn't even come close to deciphering what was being sung.


2nd to that, & not for it being a bad show, was my college roommate & I got John Mayer tickets in 2006 (IIRC). We left maybe 5 minutes into his show. We'd only gotten the tickets because Ben Folds was the 'opener' (he did a near full show after a small band opened for him).

I didn't "attend" in the sense of buying tickets and willingly going, but I worked security for a Colt Ford country-rap concert once. That shit was awful.

Just as bad was working the Florida-Georgia Line/Nelly concert. Oof. Not country-rap, but country + rap. Still terrible. Did get a chuckle out of Nelly inviting three women out of the audience up to the stage to booty dance while he performed one certain song, only to quickly discover that one of them was like 15, at which point he kept begging her to stop dancing so provocatively (which she didn't), claiming that he had daughters of his own around that age.


It also didn't help that not only was the music terrible for either of these concerts, but I was sweating my nuts off the entire time.

Hands down, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band during his Born In The USA tour. It was in a football stadium, tickets were $25 and it was miserable. I wasn't a fan, but decided to check it out to see what the hype was all about. Shitty venue (I hate big outdoor concerts), poor sound, and music I ended up loathing. I sat during the entire performance with my chin in my hands, wanting to go home, but my ride didn't want to leave.

Bo Diddly. Late, ill and probably under the influence of narcotics. Casino show late in his carreer. Brought his signature square guitar and young female companion.

Sang maybe two songs tops. No signature moves.Forgot words. You know Bo Diddly got a diamond ring...

I posted what he USED to be like below:

Bob Dylan. Pittsburgh, PA. August 19, 1994 @ Station Square.

mid 80's


George Thorogood,
he had just released a mediocre concert album, and I swear he was lip synching to the album,

very very dull, did not play well, and the venue was not the best,



Ricky Scaggs and Kentucky Thunder,

all the folks lined up on stage, each with his own mike,

played exceedingly well, very much a group of great musicians,

no personality at all,

unlike other bluegrass bands that tend to group together and play off each other,,


ETA, P250's post reminded me,

wife and I are big SKA fans,

local show one night,
1st act was a local band, or parts of one (it keeps reforming or morphing a bit depending on who is playing) I think they go by The Really Good Guys now, they were excellent,


middle act was The English Beat, excellent as always, and the reason we went,



feature was Reel big fish,

3rd song in and we left, they sucked, horribly,

we cruised by the merch booth on the way out to look at EB shirts, etc, and ended up meeting Dave Wakeling,
wife got a shirt autographed,
super nice guy, truly earned his rep and the nicest guy in the business,

he told me the only reason he did the tour as the middle act was to get his work out infront of a different age group,

I saw Jethro Tull in the late 80's at Nassau coliseum,very boring concert.The opening act fairport convention was even worse.

I had to work three Grateful Dead shows, three nights in a row, back in the 90s. To say I hate the Dead would be an overstatement. I'm fine with a song or three, about a half hour worth at any one time maybe (so, like, one bongo solo, mannn), but three fucking nights of it in a row was wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much.

I've had bad acid trips that ended more quickly and less painfully.

(not really, but you get the gist.)

Had a GF that roped me into a Hall & Oates, or maybe it was James Taylor, concert one time. It was so memorable I don't recall which it was

Night Ranger, 1985, at Park West in Park City, Utah. Only concert I've ever walked out of early.

Let's go back to 1978

My friends and I bought tickets to see Black Sabbath.
We were really stoked to see Sabbath.

We got to the show early got our 5 dollar concert shirts and properly prepared for the show, sitting in the parking lot listening to our favorite songs.

Get to our seats, the lights go down, and this opening band came out.
It was some little band called Van Halen.
Blew our freaking doors off.
Instantly we were fans of the band, and bought 8 track tapes right after the show.

Then Black Sabbath came out.
Ozzy was really blasted on something, drugs, alcohol, or both.
Tony Iommi was out of tune, and Bill Ward was bored.

It was awful. Shortly after BS fired Ozzy.

That sticks out in my mind.

Jimmy Buffet at Shoreline Amphitheater sometime early 2000's. Thankfully I sat in the back with a bunch of drinks. Stayed away from all the shark fins.

I alluded to this show in the best concert thread. I have seen the Rolling Stones twice, once in Denver Coliseum, on the floor in the 12th row; we spent the entire show standing on the folding chairs that were our seats. Opening act was Stevie Wonder, who played every instrument on the stage. The Stones were brilliant

The worst, just a couple years later. The Stones at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins. It was a summer show. The opening act was Charlie Daniels and honestly, I was never a fan. The Stones didn’t come on until after 4:00 in the afternoon, after all afternoon in the sun. Hot, tired, and we weren’t into it. The Stones weren’t into it either. Sound was awful too.

Did some research and found out that Elton John joined the Stones onstage—I didn’t even remember that. He was supposed to stay and sing Honky Tonk Woman, their opening number, with them. I guess that’s the only song he knew, nevertheless, he stayed on stage for 10 songs, pissing off Keith Richards—especially, and Billy Preston because a coked out Elton John was mindlessly noodling around through the whole set.

Smashing Pumpkins. 2016.

Horrible. Walked out a few songs in.

Def Leppard Hysteria tour, 1988. I want my $17.50 back.

Steeleye Span back in the 90s. Man, they sucked.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
Smashing Pumpkins. 2016.

Horrible. Walked out a few songs in.

Hell, you can tell from their albums that they would suck live. Billy Corgan is barely tolerable as a singer when heavily mixed and edited and corrected in post. I can't imagine what he must sound like live, especially that many decades past his prime (if he had one).

Similar to Rush, who I enjoy despite Geddy Lee's strained warbling, not because of, and who I have no desire to hear live.

Ray LaMontagne. Ever had a girlfriend that just kinda laid there while you did your thing?...This concert was the equivalent of that. He had an oriental rug that he stood on, just left of center stage. The spot had an overhead spot light on it. The light came on and he sung 1 song, then the light went out. Then it came on again and he sung another song, wash, rinse repeat. He never moved from that spot the entire concert. The most boring concert I've ever been to

I like his music, but I will never see him in concert again. Oh, and this was a Red Rocks Amphitheater here in Colorado. One of the best venues in the U.S., but definitely the worst concert I've ever been to.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Def Leppard Hysteria tour, 1988. I want my $17.50 back.

That was my first concert! Brendan Byrne arena in The Meadowlands in NJ. Queensryche opened up for them. Definitely not the best concert I've ever been to, but it was my first!

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
Smashing Pumpkins. 2016.

Horrible. Walked out a few songs in.

They've never been good live. I saw them when they were big and they were terrible. Same thing with Jane's Addiction.

My worst show was Pearl Jam around 1996. Vedder clearly wanted to be anywhere else. The band was off. I was bitterly disappointed given that I'd seen them in 1993 and it still ranks in my top 5 shows. The energy at that 93 show could probably have been felt from space.