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i saw DIDDY DIRTY MONEY (puff daddy and 2 chicks ) in detroit in 2011 it was at motorcity casino, and we got there early because we wanted to be up front. apparently that was NO PROBLEM because everybody took their time getting in there and Diddy was not that late. tyga was first(yes the kardashian lite), and he was awful, not because of the sound or anything but because hes tyga Diddy was actually great and did a lot of both his new stuff and old stuff, and he did talk to the crowd a lot and he didnt phone it in. the worst part was that you could only get CIROC, the official drink of DIDDY
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Snowy posted:All these oddball Dylan reports actually kinda make me want to see him. Maybe if it was free. Bob Dylan is kind of the hackiest answer to this question, dude's been doing the same weird live show for at least a decade now.
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Aesop Poprock posted:One time I saw Beck in Trenton NJ and there was a part where him and a bandmate were supposed to do dueling banjos. The problem was they were just faking playing it to a recording and they both missed their cues on who was supposed to go first so the banjo recording happened while they both stood there looking like idiots. they knew the gig was up so they just looked confused and then danced around with the banjos like idiots sounds like an obvious joke you missed due to aspergers.
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i saw dylan like a month ago because my wife wanted to and i dont know a goddamn thing of his besides times a changing, lay lady lay, and the theme song from parenthood so it was just a goddamn mess he never said a word to the crowd and i had no idea what the gently caress he was singing he also tried to croon some frank sinatra covers and feel like that old bastard was trolling the gently caress out of me
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Snowy posted:Hell yes they were amazing, and it was in a church with a huge screen behind them showing the moon slowly turning. Just incredible poo poo. Followed up by laughable Hawkwind, it was crazy they were the headliners but there weren't a lot of Sleep fans yet. Awesome. I really really want to see them live if they still tour. Aesop Poprock posted:One time I saw Beck in Trenton NJ and there was a part where him and a bandmate were supposed to do dueling banjos. The problem was they were just faking playing it to a recording and they both missed their cues on who was supposed to go first so the banjo recording happened while they both stood there looking like idiots. they knew the gig was up so they just looked confused and then danced around with the banjos like idiots I saw Beck back when I was in high school and at one point after a song, he took a drink of milk from a carton he had sitting on a stool and announced into the mic "I prefer my milk.......homogenized."
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I've mostly been to good concerts I guess, but like in 99? 2000? I saw The Smashing Pumpkins during the Machines of God tour and man it was bad. Sped through every song in a listless fashion, also some lady from Hole was there instead of D'arcy you could really tell they were just hella breaking up. These two super gross ladies in front of me spent the whole time making out. I mean at least they were having a good time but man was that offputting. Plus the venue, the Bronco Bowl, made me take all my jewelry off. It wasn't like insanely pointy dogcollars or nothin' just normal necklace. But at least I can look at photos of Billy Corgan being sad on train rides and laugh and laugh. When I was a tiny kid my parents dragged me to a Garth Brooks concert. I hated country as a kid. I managed to petulantly sleep through the whole concert, but I do remember Garth entered the venue from above like on wires and he flew around above the audience hamming it up for like 15 minutes like some kinda pop country angel. Now I think kid me is stupid and that actually owned.
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I saw Eddie Money play in the parking lot of a local franchise ripoff of Applebees. The man moves and shambles like a zombie and now he has his daughter with him to sing backup and has altered the words of "Take me Home Tonight" to mention her instead. He had to take a break mid-set, went into a little trailer and came back out re-energized after undoubtedly snorting a few lines He rocked that loving parking lot! No complaints
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Tato posted:I saw Eddie Money play in the parking lot of a local franchise ripoff of Applebees. The man moves and shambles like a zombie and now he has his daughter with him to sing backup and has altered the words of "Take me Home Tonight" to mention her instead. He had to take a break mid-set, went into a little trailer and came back out re-energized after undoubtedly snorting a few lines My aunt saw him a few years ago in some lovely club and "won" backstage passes (the backstage area was basically the space immediately next to the stage).
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Thurston Moore headlined a festival at my school one year. I knew a few Sonic Youth songs but wasn't familiar with his solo stuff. Dude got on stage and made nasty guitar feedback noise nonstop for an hour.
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Tato posted:I saw Eddie Money play in the parking lot of a local franchise ripoff of Applebees. The man moves and shambles like a zombie and now he has his daughter with him to sing backup and has altered the words of "Take me Home Tonight" to mention her instead. He had to take a break mid-set, went into a little trailer and came back out re-energized after undoubtedly snorting a few lines I've worked with Eddie Money before. He's one of the nicest people I've met in the industry but he's so burnt out (this was about 4-5 years ago). Most of what I remember was him walking around aimlessly by himself trying to find catering. Oh, also, Robert DeLeo (of STP) is a super chill and cool dude and also James Taylor. They'll both just hang out before or after soundcheck and shoot the poo poo with the crew. i am kiss u now fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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I had never been to Treasure Island Music Festival even though it's just across the Oakland Bridge. I'd seen flyers for it for the past 8 years but never felt compelled to go. This year though, the lineup was insane! Duke Dumont, Sigur Ros, Glass Animals, Mac Demarco, Sylvan Esso, Sofi Tukker, Flight Facilities, James Blake. If you're into semi-electronic hipster bullshit, this was going to be Mecca. Besides that, it was announced it would be their last year on the island before the start of a multibillion dollar real estate development. As soon as this lineup is announced, I jump on tickets months in advance, excited as I've ever been for any show. The week approaches, (I should mention it's a 2 day show) and the forecast is as follows: Thu: 75 and sunny Fri: 75 and sunny Sat: 40 and rain Sun: 40 and rain Mon: 75 and sunny So right off the bat, foreboding. But with a lineup like that, I have to go, no question. The day comes and we wake up late, take longer than expected to get ready, and catch a suspiciously cheap Uber. It's already pouring rain, but we dress for the occasion, though most people were left stranded looking wet and miserable. We breeze through security and already the vibe is... odd. There are only two stages, with one stage going at a time. The grounds, particularly the singular bathroom area, are flooded. There were supposed to be three stages, counting a silent disco on a pier with a million dollar view of the Oakland bridge, but of course that was closed due to wind. Oh, also there was supposed to be a ferris wheel on the pier. I should mention that at this point. So, we get in, go to the flooded bathrooms, and then head to the stages. Already, things are askew. A random artist (Polish Ambassador maybe) is on the wrong stage, free of the posted schedule. We later learned that, due to weather delays, the schedule was pushed back an hour. At no point was this mentioned to the audience at large, but this was hardly the worst oversight of the weekend. Then that artist ended and, probably a half hour later, Young Thug comes on the main stage. During his set, it starts raining hard, and a lot of complaining is overheard. A notable amount of people just leave at this point. We stay and Young Thug actually puts on a amazing show, having a blast in the crazy weather, even when the equipment above the stage is failing and starts smoking. His set ends and everybody goes to the second stage to wait for How To Dress Well. And wait... and waaaaait. Half an hour after they were scheduled, HTDW comes on and sings, liberal estimate, 5 and a half songs. Before they started, they mention a mixer blew, so they are on 6 out of 24 channels, meaning they're making a quarter of the sounds there should be. The attempt is endearing but sad, equivalent to Daft Punk on a casio. Also, note that I said 5 and a 'half'. That's because about 20 minutes into their set, mid song, Glass Animals starts on the main stage and everybody, and I mean the entire audience, runs over there, leaving HTDW to keep trying for about a minute before giving up and quitting. It was maybe the saddest I have ever felt for a musician. Glass Animals was alright, but not really notable. We probably went to the bathroom and to get drinks during them. Anyway, they end and everybody flocks back to the second stage for Flight Facilities. We all waited for about an hour before a rapper from earlier in the day comes on the main stage, because apparently Flight Facilities canceled and NOBODY BOTHERED TO TELL US! So that happens for a while on the main stage, nobody knows what's going on, then after it ends, everybody goes to the second stage for Duke Dumont. This was his year, we'd been listening to his stuff for months leading up to this, and if anything could salvage this wreck, it's him. As usual, we wait well past the scheduled start point. Eventually, a random festival employee comes on and announces, "Duke Dumont isn't coming on. He doesn't want to get wet." in the snarkiest way possible. This actually prompted DD to tweet how bullshit this was, citing that the festival had no precautions for rain and the whole thing was a huge electrocution hazard and the festival just didn't want to have to give refunds, to which the festival tweeted that it was fine according to their people. So then it's a lot of nothing for a while. Like, literally nothing. No music. At a music festival. After probably an hour of silence, Zhu comes on, and personally, I really like his music and think his album is an intriguing guitar-infused take on modern electronic. What we didn't realize was that his live guitarist wears a cape, and the whole thing came off as trying way too hard to the point of silliness. We concur there's no reason to stick around for this or Ice Cube, if he even shows (he eventually did), so we left and caught a decently priced Uber home, probably since most people left way earlier. Sunday! We get up late, because we're done trying. We Uber out again for crazy cheap, and arrive around 4. Mac Demarco is just starting and I'm actually pretty excited to hear him. Well, fate had other plans, because we get in the one security line which, despite more or less waving everybody through, takes a half hour to clear 30 feet. His set was the highlight of the weekend, or at least the half we managed to see of it. Then came Neon Indian, who was okay but also just meh, especially since the crowd was entirely miserable due to continued cold, rain, and mud. On the plus side, the pier was open that day, and we ran into a friend who said they just went on the ferris wheel and it was great. We decide to head over, enticed by the brightly lit, spinning, last hope for a fun time. Literally as we walk up, we hear the ticket booth tell a person, "Sorry, this is the last ride. We have to close due to wind." Missed it by maybe a minute. With no other options, since the Silent Disco had also closed down, we head back to main stage to see the rest of Tycho, who is best defined as musical wallpaper. I've seen them twice now, and both times I just ended up talking to whoever I was with. They end and, after the mandatory waiting period, Sylvan Esso comes on, and they're pretty good. No complaints. Before they even end, though, everybody starts heading to the main stage for James Blake. I don't even need to say it at this point, but yep, he cancelled. This festival is supposed to accommodate 20,000 people, and I'd say about half of them stuck around for James Blake. Following the announcement of his cancellation, I'd estimate half the stragglers took off. Mind you, people considered the decency of an official announcement to be an improvement at this point. So a couple thousand stuck around to see Purity Ring give their best effort. Again, no complaints, but it just didn't cut it given the circumstances. Then it's time for Sigur Ros, who I've had multiple occasions to see and happened to miss each time, only to have everyone tell me they're one of the best live acts they've seen. There's an official announcement that, yes, they will actually be playing, trust us. There's even a ray of hope when a droning noise starts playing over the speakers. And keeps playing for a half hour. We start debate whether to take off and decide to hit the still flooded bathrooms first. Just as we come back, the band comes on stage, and I can finally confirm they are great. Mind blowing, even, if only I was at all into the right headspace for it. We stuck around for a long time as people filed out until there were just a couple hundred left. Very intimate and should have been special, but at this point, all I could think was that we need to get the hell out of there because Ubers just jumped to 10x cost, so we limped away, broken and defeated by the last Treasure Island Music Festival. It will not be missed.
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:I had never been to Treasure Island Music Festival even though it's just across the Oakland Bridge. I'd seen flyers for it for the past 8 years but never felt compelled to go. This year though, the lineup was insane! Duke Dumont, Sigur Ros, Glass Animals, Mac Demarco, Sylvan Esso, Sofi Tukker, Flight Facilities, James Blake. If you're into semi-electronic hipster bullshit, this was going to be Mecca. Besides that, it was announced it would be their last year on the island before the start of a multibillion dollar real estate development. As soon as this lineup is announced, I jump on tickets months in advance, excited as I've ever been for any show. The week approaches, (I should mention it's a 2 day show) and the forecast is as follows: tldr but it's called the Bay Bridge hoss
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I think we can all agree Eddie $$$ is a giant boss
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I remember playing a small, but rammed, show and the condensation that formed on my bass kept shocking the hell out of me. The idea of playing an outdoor festival in a proper storm is terrifying.
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Camoes posted:I once went to a Motorhead concert and I was bored to death. The band had no energy, they played a bunch of indistinguishable songs until they reached Ace of Spades and that was it. But after them came Megadeth and Rammstein and that was pretty cool. That was my experience of Motorhead live, too. Lemmy never interacted with the crowd and a cardboard cut-out would have had more charisma. It was also at a festival which, being British summertime, was freezing cold with sporadic torrential downpours that did not improve the experience. The worst performance I've seen was probably Soil doing an acoustic support set. Acoustic versions of rock songs can be fantastic, but you really need to work out the arrangements in advance. Maybe if they'd have been playing their usual set they could have winged it, but it just fell apart. They seemed to be making up the set list as they went along and occasionally the singer would forget the lyrics. At one point he even said something like "I guess we should have practiced ". Yeah, mate, you probably should have before going in front of a paying crowd. Rammstein are always excellent live. I suppose it's a lot harder to phone it in when you're wiedling a flamethrower and explosives at your bandmates.
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Monday_ posted:Thurston Moore headlined a festival at my school one year. I knew a few Sonic Youth songs but wasn't familiar with his solo stuff. Dude got on stage and made nasty guitar feedback noise nonstop for an hour. How could you be familiar with SY and be surprised that Thurston got on stage and made noises like cats fighting? That's what he does.
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I was pretty disappointed that Mike Watt didn't play any old Minute Men songs but it was still a badass show. I guess the worst thing I ever saw was Blonde Redhead. This was before everywhere in the USA had banned smoking indoors but they had some rear end in a top hat come out on stage and say "The band would like to announce that this is going to be a non-smoking show." I was talking to a waitress at the venue who was loving pissed because noone had told them anything and now they had to enforce the rule. I know smoking is incredibly bad and is worse than killing disabled kittens but it just came off as incredibly pretentious.
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AARO posted:I was pretty disappointed that Mike Watt didn't play any old Minute Men songs but it was still a badass show. even though I agree with them about smoking a performer shouldnt get to dictate how a venue operates, thats some morrissey poo poo
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Sten Freak posted:Someone mentioned My Bloody Valentine. I saw them open up for Dinosaur Jr way back when. I guess they were known for being loud. You could feel it in your chest, like messing with your heartbeat. I have bad hearing loss today. I'm sure part of it was that concert. They just played an open chord for the last 10 minutes, noise and sound and terribleness. this is cool though?
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1. Motorhead, Cro-Mags, ???don't remember. Sometime during the 90's at the Ritz in NYC. Lemmy stood rooted to the ground & just grunted from song to song. I could make out a few different songs from each other but if he didn't announce what song they played beforehand I had no clue. Apparently, Lemmy had a standing order that nobody was to stagedive during Motorhead, so security went super republican nazi & pushed everybody back into the audience. It got so bad, Lemmy had to make an announcement not to even try. Sucked all the energy out of the room after that. During the Cro-Mags set there was a nice mix of skins, punks & metal heads flying, crashing off the stage like airborne, attack monkeys. The pit was in full effect with no problems. But Motorhead? Meh. 2. The Ramones, at The Ritz, Fordham University, CBGB, Osaka 1-2-3-4 Go! That was the Ramones. They stood their ground & went with song to song with just seconds in between for Joey to catch his breath. Maybe it's because I've seen them like so many times that their "act" seemed so familiar? I can't say The Ramones ever played a bad show, but seeing the same set year after years just seems...dunno. I wish I remembered those shows more fondly considering they were living legends.
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So last year around Christmas I thought it would be fun and oh so original to do a dinner and show featuring an Elvis impersonator. I mean how many times can you drag everyone to A Christmas Carol or The Nutcracker? One mediocre main course later, this guy jumps up on stage:  I thought it was maybe the venue owner or a local car dealer or sports legend having some fun and doing the intro. Nope. I was expecting campy and stupid, but not outright sad. I was forming an exit strategy after about 10 seconds, but it was ironically sort of expensive, so we stuck it out. The angle, and they all have one, is: if Elvis had lived. So the banter includes a big monologue justifying the moustache and thinning hair. And a lot of emphasis on really, really, tenuous six-degrees links to Elvis himself. Go see the goddamn Christmas Carol or Brian Setzer for the 12th time, kids.
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Saw somebody mention going backstage. Reminded me of seeing a band in my college town. (Don't remember the name, just remember getting free tickets from somebody who worked at the venue.) After the show, I bought the guitarist a shot and talked with him for a bit. He seemed like a cool dude. He invited me backstage. Not sure why, but I assumed it would be like a party back there. When we got back there, it was just the four band members and one other dude all complaining that one of their moms was late bringing the trailer to haul all their gear. These were dudes in their mid 30s.
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It's so great that he has an Elvis standee except it was probably a big part of the act. That brings it around to sad again.
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REM, way back when they were still a college radio band. Michael Stipe was the biggest oval office.
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drat horror queefs posted:I was with a crowd of friends on some pretty strong psychedelics to see the Silversun Pickups. They were great, and iirc the first opening band was Wye Oak and they're always fantastic. This is the best description of a poo poo concert I have read so far in my entire life.
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DisgracelandUSA posted:Worst show ever was Tim Hecker in the Asheville Civic Center. Just muddy ambient music in a coliseum. I like Tim Hecker but the idea of seeing him play "live" is so bizarre that I wouldn't have even conceptualized it being a thing
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I saw Tim Hecker live in a tiny church and it was cool. He played all his stuff live, had a ton of pedals and gear. I liked it.
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This is amazing. What was the venue like? It looks less like a dinner theater than a dilapidated office building or someone's living room
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dude I don't give a gently caress I'd go to that elvis party whenever you know them gramma panties be flying for that stan lee looking mother fucker
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best concert I went to as a kid was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Coming Out of Their Shells tour, where a drunk dad was sitting a few rows ahead of me. dude got loving blitzed and drunk drove his kid to see men dressed up as mutant turtles pretend to play keytars, then make horrible lascivious sexist catcalls at the actress playing April O'Neil all night. what an amazing example for his kids. even in first grade I knew that was pretty hosed up. COWABUNGA
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Tato posted:This is amazing. What was the venue like? It looks less like a dinner theater than a dilapidated office building or someone's living room https://canterburyvillage.com/index.php/kcc It's an Olde English themed outdoor mall and event center where you can buy overpriced Celtic crap or drink a beer or get married. That shot probably wasn't taken there, but the standees are apparently part of the stage set. There's a guy hidden away somewhere who presses play on the generic-y Muzak backing tracks. He does come out to the tables to serenade the ladies and generally embarrass people. Hillary Clintons Thong posted:dude I don't give a gently caress I'd go to that elvis party whenever you know them gramma panties be flying for that stan lee looking mother fucker 12/15, Lake Orion MI. Still time to gitchoo some panties.
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Probably everclear and spacehog and seven year bitch not bad at all but just the least best
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:I had never been to Treasure Island Music Festival even though it's just across the Oakland Bridge. I'd seen flyers for it for the past 8 years but never felt compelled to go. This year though, the lineup was insane!
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B.H. Facials posted:I went with a group of friends to go see the Pledge of Allegiance tour... This was one of the best shows I've been to; Rammstein killed it, and SOAD/Slipknot were great too. Mudvayne was supposed to play too, but the rumor was they got in a fight with American Head Charge so didn't 
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Lady Demelza posted:Rammstein are always excellent live. I suppose it's a lot harder to phone it in when you're wiedling a flamethrower and explosives at your bandmates. Even if you don't care about the music, everyone should get to experience Rammstein live at least once.
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Low at Rock The Garden a few years back. Rather than playing any songs. they just droned their way through a solid set as a political protest, "Drone, not drones."
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