Feel that there could be an interesting adjunct thread for folks that have shared a bill alongside asshole musicians with the same outcome.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
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"
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
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― 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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 October 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Thursday, 24 October 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
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
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 October 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
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
― living in the heart of the beat (Matt #2), Friday, 25 October 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― Chris L, Friday, 25 October 2019 11:08 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 25 October 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
90-120 minutes? Most bands I've seen haven't played that long, it certainly would be the exception rather than the rule.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Friday, 25 October 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 25 October 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
Bands you stopped licking
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 October 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
In my experience 90 mins is the norm.
― Duke, Friday, 25 October 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Yeah 90 minutes of licking, tops
― omar little, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Siegbran, Friday, 25 October 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Lol omar
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link