bands you stopped liking after you saw them live

My nomination is actually the same as the very first band mentioned on this thread. I was a big Bright Eyes fan around 2002-4. Even though I didn't quite love I'm Wide Awake as much as everyone else seemed to, I still went to see them headline the John Peel stage at Glastonbury 05. Conor Oberst was in a terrible mood sulking all the way through it. Seemed like he was definitely on something too. He played nothing but songs from Digital Ash (no-one in that tent was there for that) and ranted in between songs which included him slagging off John Peel several times. That went down about as well as you'd expect. I sold all my CDs not long after that. I could never enjoy his voice again without thinking of that embarrassing performance that really was like witnessing teenager having a massive strop.

took me a very long time to be able to listen to anything by sisters of mercy after i saw them back in the 00s.
after an hour of seeing absolutely nothing but smoke i gave up and went home.
could have been a cd player via the PA system, we genuinely could not see anything the whole time.

Its interesting to me how many of these stories dont involve the band playing an awful show or saying/doing something bad, but just being boring enough that it provides a moment to hit pause and closely reexamine your fandom

kinda depends where you live I guess - if you're away from the major hubs like LA, Chicago, and NY then you don't usually get to see the stuff you're currently into. a lot of the shows I see are bands I was heavily into years ago and haven't really listened to since.

Frankie Rose

Suicide opening for Grinderman, Kentish Town Forum. I enjoyed the occasional spin of their albums before the concert, but never wanted to go near them after that. They were just incredibly dull and played way too loud.

Jesus and Mary Chain, the first time they reformed at Brixton was terrible as well and put me off listening to them for a good while. Just boring, with none of the energy or vibe of their albums coming across at all.

Sebadoh w/ a ranting Lou Barlow storming off after 1.5 song to never come back

Where/when was this??

Doornroosje, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), probably in '97/'98/'99? I can't remember the exact year. Tried to google it to find it and see that he's playing there in just three days from now! :)

_hip as I tried to feel the rest of the night, I felt like Colonel Sanders attending a high school dance.

― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal_

Me at the bar

I could never enjoy his voice again without thinking of that embarrassing performance that really was like witnessing teenager having a massive strop.

― kitchen person, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:13 AM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

How awful that something could cause you to associate Conor Oberst's vocal delivery with that of a whiny teenager. How unthinkable.

_ I'm not sure this has ever actually happened to me._

Same. Records are documents, shows are a different animal. Sure some bands have no presence, are less skilled than you would assume, storm off stage...who cares. Maybe it’s just being in their presence for awhile that is what I expect and not a lot more

Feel that there could be an interesting adjunct thread for folks that have shared a bill alongside asshole musicians with the same outcome.

How awful that something could cause you to associate Conor Oberst's vocal delivery with that of a whiny teenager. How unthinkable.

― Evan,

Haha, true. I guess when I got into them I was still heavily in my teen angst phase (leading into my remarkably different early 20s angsty phase) and I thought his voice was raw, emotional and spoke to me in some way. Seeing him on stage behaving like that really made see how embarrassing his whole shtick was. I still wasn't out of that phase in 2005 and had some rough years ahead, but I often thought to myself as long as I'm coming across better than Conor Oberst at Glastonbury I must be doing ok.

Remember sitting down to watch Bright Eyes pre-Wilco at Glastonbury 2004, the first band of the day in the glorious sun at first ever visit to the festival. This is going to be amazing, I thought, being full of youthful excitement for simply being there, despite having never heard a note of his music. Very quickly formed the opinion that CO was the worst person in music at that moment in time.

Needless to say I wasn't at his set the following year, but I was told he referred to John Peel as being "a cokehead, just like myself"

Garcia Peoples

― alpine static, Sunday, October 20, 2019 10:05 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gotta say I wasn't expecting to see that answer. I've never seen them live myself, but I've heard a lot of very, very good sets they've played. Usually I hear the opposite, folks weren't into them at all until they saw them live.

took me a very long time to be able to listen to anything by sisters of mercy after i saw them back in the 00s.
after an hour of seeing absolutely nothing but smoke i gave up and went home.
could have been a cd player via the PA system, we genuinely could not see anything the whole time.

You’d think I would give Ariel Pink another chance after a decade or so has passed since I saw him perform but nope, he was that bad

The Mars Volta in 2003. Incredibly boring, I never got to appreciate their albums since.

Nothing to add to this, probably the most tedious attempts at jamming I've ever witnessed and I've seen Phish

The Roots were booked to play the state university I went to in 2000. When I went, there was no Questlove or Black Thought; just Dice Raw, some hype men and replacement players.

Nearly all bands I've ever seen live, I pretty much stop listening to. Something to do with being subjected to music in that way for 90-120 minutes feels like it's absolutely my fill of that noise for a long long time

90-120 minutes? Most bands I've seen haven't played that long, it certainly would be the exception rather than the rule.

Yeah, most bands I see play 60-75 minutes. 90-120 if the band's headlining an arena, but club shows are substantially shorter than that.

Bands you stopped licking

In my experience 90 mins is the norm.

Yeah 90 minutes of licking, tops

re: Sisters Of Mercy, I don’t think the point ever was that you’d be able see ‘real’ artists playing ‘real’ music. I’ve been to two of those ‘let’s pump the room full of smoke and turn everything up to eleven’ shows and absolutely loved the experience, esp the flashes of Eldridge weaving in and out of the fog, hollering away.

Lol omar