What band/musician are awful live?

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Anonymous wrote:Chris Stapleton live isn't 'awful,' at all, but sitting through a live show is -exactly- like playing one of his albums at home with good speakers. There's no riffing, no commentary, no extended songs, no surprise covers, no dancing, no deviation whatsoever from the recording you have on Spotify.

The best way to describe a Chris Stapleton concert is that it sounds exactly like a quality studio recording. Which is fine, but if $200 a ticket is a stretch, and sitting in parking lot for 40 minutes waiting to exit is a drag, you can skip this experience. You've already heard it.

Literally have no idea who Chris Stapleton is. Good on him for getting $200 a ticket to hear him.

Based on this thread, it's amazing how little about current music a bunch of middle aged moms seem to know.

To be fair, the question is who was awful in concert. People aren’t going to come on here to brag about all the cool and impressive shows they’ve seen recently. Kind of makes sense that the bad performers aren’t wowing you.

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The Black Keys. They were horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:Dave

Not when they first started in the early 90s. Back then they were amazing. Now we’re all old.

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Anonymous wrote:Madonna. Just don't go.

I saw her 20+ years ago, I think many are going to see what she could possibly do now and not seem like a Grandma acting foolish.
But then again, Cher is still rocking her Bob Mackie dresses in her 70s to an adoring following

Cher was the original!

Madonna was great, but she is holding onto "it" the wrong way. No suggestions here.

I heard Madonna made fans wait for 2.5 hours at her last DC area show and throughout that tour, for her to arrive onstage. NOT cool.

She did. And they had to make announcements re the metro closing. 2.5 hours AFTER the opening act had finished, I kid you not. NEVER AGAIN!

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Anonymous wrote:The Black Keys. They were horrible.

Really? I saw them like 7 years ago and they were great!

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Blink 182
I think they’re such good songwriters. But they can’t sing live. At all.

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Anonymous wrote:Greenday. That dudes such a narcissist

Im going to disagree if you meant Billie Joe Armstrong. I would rate Green Day as one of my favorite concerts, very interactive with the audience, I’d see them again (saw them recently).

Green Day is very good live.

He is a narcissist. That’s also true.

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted to love Bob Dylan, but couldn’t get past his mumblings so we left.
I’m debating about going to Train as heard he can’t reach his notes, any feedback?

Ha, I saw Train back in their heyday at a big DC Theater and he messed up and/or forgot the words to Meet Virginia. Their biggest hit at that time. They had to restart it. Not sure what was going on there (drinking? drugs? just spaced out?)

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I disagree about Coldplay. I am by no means a major fan, and I still consider their concert (about 12 years ago) one of my favorites!

I don’t think I’ve been to an awful concert, but DH took his dad to The Beach Boys a few years ago and said it was pretty hard not to get up and leave.

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Anonymous wrote:Blink 182
I think they’re such good songwriters. But they can’t sing live. At all.

Agree. Even worse back in the days of the Vans festivals, but during their break Angels and Airwaves were pretty good. The band carried him for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chris Stapleton live isn't 'awful,' at all, but sitting through a live show is -exactly- like playing one of his albums at home with good speakers. There's no riffing, no commentary, no extended songs, no surprise covers, no dancing, no deviation whatsoever from the recording you have on Spotify.

The best way to describe a Chris Stapleton concert is that it sounds exactly like a quality studio recording. Which is fine, but if $200 a ticket is a stretch, and sitting in parking lot for 40 minutes waiting to exit is a drag, you can skip this experience. You've already heard it.

Literally have no idea who Chris Stapleton is. Good on him for getting $200 a ticket to hear him.

Based on this thread, it's amazing how little about current music a bunch of middle aged moms seem to know.

Meh, depends on which middle-aged mom you ask. Love Chris Stapleton. His cover of Nothing Compares to U. *chef's kiss*

[Anonymous]

NERD and Pharrell were terrible

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The Pixies were pretty bad

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chris Stapleton live isn't 'awful,' at all, but sitting through a live show is -exactly- like playing one of his albums at home with good speakers. There's no riffing, no commentary, no extended songs, no surprise covers, no dancing, no deviation whatsoever from the recording you have on Spotify.

The best way to describe a Chris Stapleton concert is that it sounds exactly like a quality studio recording. Which is fine, but if $200 a ticket is a stretch, and sitting in parking lot for 40 minutes waiting to exit is a drag, you can skip this experience. You've already heard it.

Literally have no idea who Chris Stapleton is. Good on him for getting $200 a ticket to hear him.

Based on this thread, it's amazing how little about current music a bunch of middle aged moms seem to know.

Meh, depends on which middle-aged mom you ask. Love Chris Stapleton. His cover of Nothing Compares to U. *chef's kiss*

but apparently we can enjoy CS just as much at home with good speakers. no need to treck to an arena.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pixies were pretty bad

Disappointed, I really wanted to see them if I could be so lucky