As Browns fans are also music fans With that comes concert going. And with concerts there are great to not so great Who was the most boring headline act you saw live I didn't include opening acts because most Have 45 mins to play 8 songs on condensed stage For me it has to be Dire Straits in 1985 or 86 No personality from them. They stood in one Place all night A bar band that couldn't make it happen live
2nd band is Aerosmith. Saw them at Blossom with KISS. I walked out after 4 songs like others did
Tom Petty. Love his music, fell asleep at his concert. They had a two hour Tom Petty cover band open for him. Then he came out and played the same music for two more hours...
I have mentioned this elsewhere .... but I went to see Hall and Oates, with Donnie Iris and the Cruisers opening. at Blossom. (many, many years ago)
Donny Iris had that whole p[lace rockin' from the seats near the stage ... all the way out to the back edge of the lawn. People were on their feet from the 1st song on.
Hall and Oates came out, and they played superbly. With the exception of a few flourishes, they sounded very much like their albums.
They also stood still ..... and were boring by comparison. Iris was all energy, and was all over the stage. Hall and Oates stood still and played.
It is the biggest example of the lead picking one of the worst possible opening acts I can recall.
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Other than fine women everywhere, the performance itself was lackluster.
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James Taylor at the Pima County Fairgrounds in '91.
I like much of his music and was looking forward to the show, but something was off that night.
Trust me- it wasn't an off night. I did a James Taylor joint about 4 years ago... snoozefest. I have a theory about that.
James Taylor had an incredible string of hits, well-deserved. Those 'Adult Contemporary' hits were found on easy listening and pop stations, surrounded by Carole King, Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Stevie Wonder, etc. As hits, JT's tunes always held up, BUT... they are all very much the same in nature. Same tempo, same feel, same- everything. They work very well on a radio station, but a concert? The sonic equivalent of Sominex.
His hits work because they are part of a radio variety pack. There is no variety in his output, so concerts have a monotonous quality that is inescapable.
I damn near fell asleep... onstage in front of 1500 witnesses.
In the mid 70's, my wife-to-be and I saw Deep Purple at the Coliseum in Richfield. I wouldn't necessarily say it was boring, just really bad. It turned out that lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore had a broken hand and could barely play, while lead singer Ian Gillen must have blown out his voice somewhere along the way on their tour because his voice was so raw it was unrecognizable. Disappointing, but their opening act was Electric Light Orchestra, and they just stole the show. They were playing from their current album at the time, El Dorado, and they blew the crowd away. Just awesome.
[quote] James Taylor had an incredible string of hits, well-deserved. Those 'Adult Contemporary' hits were found on easy listening and pop stations, surrounded by Carole King, Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Stevie Wonder, etc. As hits, JT's tunes always held up, BUT... they are all very much the same in nature. Same tempo, same feel, same- everything. They work very well on a radio station, but a concert? The sonic equivalent of Sominex.
His hits work because they are part of a radio variety pack. There is no variety in his output, so concerts have a monotonous quality that is inescapable.
Thinking about it now, this makes sense. I've always liked the album "Mud Slide Slim......", but - for the life of me - I can't remember the opener or closer from his set that night.
REO Speedwagon, 1978. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (with Dio) opened up for them and the crowd didn't want them to stop. When REO came out and played the first few notes of "Roll with the Changes", we got up and left with what seemed like most of the others.
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Tom Petty. Love his music, fell asleep at his concert. They had a two hour Tom Petty cover band open for him. Then he came out and played the same music for two more hours...
That's very funny!
P.S. Why have a cover band play your music before you play? Odd.
And don't get me wrong, Dio has a lot of talent. But the mixture just wasn't right. There didn't seem to be any chemistry within the group. I don't know what went wrong there, but I agree with you, it was bad.
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I was there..was that the concert that when it was over there was like 6-8 inches of snow leaving or was that the black sabbath blue oyster cult show..
I cant remember.. That's when the Coliseum would fill up with smoke and snow lol and no security would say a thing..
I was there..was that the concert that when it was over there was like 6-8 inches of snow leaving or was that the black sabbath blue oyster cult show..
I cant remember.. That's when the Coliseum would fill up with smoke and snow lol and no security would say a thing..
Damn the good old Daze ...
I *think* there was a lot of snow after the concert, but its over 40 years ago, so I'm not sure. Richfield was always a major pain in the ass to get into and out of, just like Blossom.
Ozfest was a blast - every time... Which brings me to my choice of most boring, although I would say bizarre, and sad, are more fitting words.
DOWN (Phil Anselmo's band after Pantera) at Ozfest. Dude was ridiculously drunk on stage. Forgetting the words to songs - when not slurring them. Not that they did many songs, he seemed more enamored with pacing back and forth talking ish and picking fights with people in the audience. Dude is straight trash. Oh well, at least there were 15-20 other bands that day.
Were you in Columbus at Ozzfest the night of the riot when they tore down the walls at Polaris? Chunks of sod 16"x12" flying through the air... so much crap being thrown you couldn't see more than a few square feet of sky without a chunk of something flying through it... Crazy.
I saw Ozzy in ‘92 at the Toledo Sports Arena. Great show! The band that opened for them, Prong, was awful. Just noise on noise. Lack of skills buried in distortion. Much of the crowd filed out into the halls to retreat away from it.
As to the most boring, I don’t really want to call them boring as they played the music I went to see, it just wasn’t high energy or wherever, Toad the Wet Sprocket. Tight band. Good 90’s melancholy alternative pop. But...
No, saw the 'fest in Cleveland (Blossom) every year. Ironically enough, the same thing happened here, it was a crazy scene lol. Voodoo by Godsmack started and the sod started flying.
The Marilyn Manson mosh pit started getting rough and throwing things on stage when he came out. He walked off stage and refused to return. All hell broke loose. Then Ozzy refused to perform too and cancelled the rest of the event, the walls came down 1/2 an hour later. Place looked like a level 5 tornado hit it. We got out about the time the paddy wagons started loading people up. I guess it went on for another hour or two. I was glad to get home in one piece that night.
Ozzy made good on the tickets and held a second concert a month or two later. I gave my replacements away because I wasn't looking for the repeat. The friends I gave them to had the time of their lives at a relatively chilled concert. fml
For country, John Anderson, hands down. He started and ended his show singing Swingin', every other song he sang was also Swingin'. By the end of that show, I hated that song.
I had no idea. You guys got screwed, Manson killed it. The sod thing at Blossom was just people throwing it straight up into the air. Although stupid, from the pavilion it looked pretty cool.
The Marilyn Manson mosh pit started getting rough and throwing things on stage when he came out. He walked off stage and refused to return. All hell broke loose. Then Ozzy refused to perform too and cancelled the rest of the event, the walls came down 1/2 an hour later. Place looked like a level 5 tornado hit it. We got out about the time the paddy wagons started loading people up. I guess it went on for another hour or two. I was glad to get home in one piece that night.
Ozzy made good on the tickets and held a second concert a month or two later. I gave my replacements away because I wasn't looking for the repeat. The friends I gave them to had the time of their lives at a relatively chilled concert. fml
I was in a situation like that at the World Series of Rock at the muni in '79. I think it was the last WSR. It was the night before the concert, and there were many thousands of people around the stadium. It started getting really rowdy. I saw someone get stabbed, I saw another person get hit by a pipe thrown at them and numerous fights. A couple police cruisers drove up to the stadium and were immediately pelted with rocks, beer bottles, bricks and other debris. The windshields were cracked in no time. They got the hell out of there and we didn't see any law enforcement after that. We just sat on the ground with our backs against the stadium and watched. The concert actually went off without much of a problem as far as I know, and it was pretty good. ACDC, The Scorpions, Thin Lizzy, Journey, Aerosmith and Ted Nugent.
Here's an actual video of ACDC's opening number that day, which put the crowd in frenzy. At 3:07, you get a good look at just how many people were crammed into that stadium. Angus Young climbed onto Bonn Scott's shoulders and the crowd actually parted as they walked through. It was amazing. I imagine if I looked hard enough, I could find us in that video. We were about 20 rows back from the stage, near that big white sign.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
The wild and deadly story behind the 1979 World Series of Rock By Joe Daly (Classic Rock) October 17, 2019
With Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Journey, Thin Lizzy and AC/DC lined up to play, chaos reigned in the streets and backstage... and five people were shot
World Series Of Rock 1979 poster (Image credit: World Series Of Rock) Not since Woodstock had the United States witnessed such a wild, momentous and ultimately deadly showcase of pure rock'n'roll excess.
July 28, 1979 began as a glorious summer day, with some of the biggest bands on the planet assembling for a day-long rock festival in Cleveland, Ohio. By the day’s end however, the stadium grounds lay in shambles, the headliners ripped at each others’ throats and two people lay dead.
Hatched in Cleveland in 1974, the World Series of Rock (“WSOR”) was a series of day-long festivals spread throughout the summer. Talent-wise, it was a very big deal. Held in Cleveland Stadium — home to the Cleveland Indians — the event adopted a baseball theme, with each festival day representing one inning.
1978 featured three innings, with headliners Rolling Stones, E.L.O. and Fleetwood Mac, respectively. The 1979 season kicked off on July 28, boasting an absolutely mouthwatering feast of powerhouse bands, all of whom were enjoying considerable radio play at the time: Boston’s legendary Aerosmith would headline, supported by Ted Nugent, Journey, Thin Lizzy and a heatseeking act from Australia called AC/DC.
The sirens of chaos sounded long before the first band took to the stage. On the eve of the festival, surging throngs of concertgoers amassed outside of the stadium with an eye towards claiming prime real estate when the doors opened in the morning.
Unsurprisingly, Bacchanalian revelry ensued throughout the night and as the hours wore on, local criminal gangs targeted many of the fans who lined the stadium perimeter, unguarded and unprotected. Reports flooded in of gang violence, robberies and theft. In separate incidents, a jaw-dropping five people were shot — one fatally — imbuing the scene with bad vibes and chaotic urgency. It would not be the day’s only fatality.
Over at local station WMMS, Aerosmith turned up for an interview with DJ Denny Sanders. The band were in damage control mode, having cancelled a number of Cleveland gigs in the past (including the cancelation of a make-up gig for a previous cancelation). Aerosmith were badly behind schedule with the release of their forthcoming album, Night In The Ruts and by the tour was plagued with arguments and petty squabbles — troubles which were only amplified by the band’s prodigious appetite for booze and drugs.
Renowned Cleveland DJ John Gorman was in the studio that evening and recalled, “As I walked by the newsroom I heard an unusual commotion. Looking in I found Steven Tyler on top of a table and on all-fours, snorting a line of cocaine that looked long enough to be a mile marker, extending from one end of the table to another.”
From a talent perspective, the WSOR delivered a stunning roster of heavyweights. When the festival opened, perhaps the biggest shock of the day occurred at the very outset, when none other than the Scorpions took the stage as unbilled surprise openers. Supporting Lovedrive — their sixth studio outing and first featuring the now-classic lineup — this historic set marked the Scorpions’ United States debut.
No matter how big the band, at one point in their career, every band plays early, mid-day sets way at the bottom of the bill and in 1979, AC/DC were at that very juncture. At least in the States.
They were, however, in rapid ascent on the back of the Highway To Hell album, and the Aussie rockers followed the Germans with an utterly scorching set that remains one of the WSOR’s all-time highlights. Thin Lizzy also emerged as one of the day’s highlights, unleashing a ferocious set of dual-fretted bangers, peaking with Jailbreak. Despite its rocky start, 1979’s first inning was shaping up to be one for the ages.
Over in the Aerosmith camp however, years of stress, bickering and drug-fuelled resentments had reached a tipping point. Backstage, Tom Hamilton’s wife Terry took a verbal swipe at Joe Perry’s wife Elyssa, who responded by hurling a glass of milk at Terry, launching the two into a fight.
As Tom and Joe attempted to separate the two, Steven railed at the men to reign in their wives. Similar blowouts among band members were not particularly out of the ordinary for Aerosmith. Guitarist Brad Whitford would later describe that period by saying, “Being in Aerosmith was like walking into a dog fight and both dogs bite you.”
Meanwhile, inside the stadium, Journey were finishing up a spectacular set. They had released Evolution in the spring and the single, Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' had infiltrated the US top 20 – a first for the band. This was their second album with Steve Perry and it would go on to sell over three million copies.
Ted Nugent had released State Of Shock earlier that year but he was still riding on the strength of 1978’s sizzling Double Live Gonzo and by all accounts, the Nuge turned in an electric show.
Finally it was time for the headliners. If they had hoped to earn back the goodwill of the people of Cleveland after their previously-cancelled shows, their efforts fell well short, with a set that was widely panned. Many reported that Steven couldn’t seem to remember lyrics and that Joe appeared wholly disinterested in the entire affair. For the band, it was an unqualified disaster.
When they finished, Steven, admittedly very drunk, started back in on Joe. In his biography Walk This Way, Tom recalls, "We came offstage and went right into the trailer and we were freaked at Joe and started yelling at him. And then Joe's answer finally was, 'Well, maybe I should leave the band then.' And Steven said, 'Yeah, well, maybe you [censored]' should.' And the rest of us stood there, basically agreeing with Steven. And then Joe stormed out."
He would not play with Aerosmith again until 1984.
Despite the ragtag performance, fans filing out had little idea that they had just witnessed the end of the classic Aerosmith lineup — for several years, anyway. Adding to the misfortunes, areas of the stadium had been badly vandalised and local news would later report that another fatality had occurred when a fan fell to his death after trying to scale the stadium wall.
The WSOR promoter rescheduled and eventually cancelled the second inning that year, amid concerns for safety. Grimly, on December 3, 1979, eleven people would be trampled to death at a Who concert only a few hours away in Cincinnati. The WSOR held its swan song the next year, with headliner Bob Seger supported by the J. Geils Band, Eddie Money and an up-and-coming outfit from England called Def Leppard.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
I have seen Junior Brown a few times typically great shows the last time I saw him quite a few years ago He sucked. Was an afternoon show outside. They were just going thru the motions. They all looked hung over.
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