I just saw Amy Winehouse’s little show she had in 2007 on cable. I was a bit disappointed that she just seemed not so into it. She was good but I expected her to be much more energetic. The half of her band also were also lethargic, I thought.
I’m old enough to remember when they were a new band. I was never impressed with them. Especially Tommy Lee, who struck me as a pesty kid brother who only got to play because mom made that a condition for letting Nikki have a band.
That impression was reinforced when I took two of my nephews to see them on the Dr. Feelgood tour. His “piano solo” intro for Home Sweet Home magically kept playing while he was walking back to the drums. Then there was his drum “solo”. He climbed into a cage above the audience that spun around and moved back and forth on a rail, while they played what sounded like a pom squad mix tape and he kind of banged along on the bass drum and cymbals.
Mick Mars’ idea of a guitar solo was ten minutes of random noodling on a rack of about 3 or 4 steel guitars. Nikki Sixx, who seemed to spend most of the evening just hammering on the big string, didn’t even attempt a solo.
I might go so far as to call Vince’s singing mediocre, but even that was only achieved with the help of two (probably underpaid) female backup singers.
I saw them 1998 on the 9 Lives tour, whose songs contributed to the horrible show.
I’ll also nominate Pearl Jam as being crap on a live stage. I came to hear the songs I like sung the way I like them. Come on, Eddie.
I would have to say MF DOOM for among other reasons (3 hours late, terrible sound, extremely short show) wasn’t even him on stage.
Not a group, but Taylor Swift. Definitely awful live.
Smashing Pumpkins… I really like some of their studio work, but that concert was the worst thing I have ever heard. Billy can’t actually sing (it appears) and the band was awful. Lots of long, pointless, boring feedback ‘solos’ after songs didn’t help either.
I’ve not seen them personally, but I think every DLR-Van Halen clip I’ve seen on youtube is next to appalling. Dave misses lines, preens to the point of being embarrassing for even a woman, doesn’t stretch to the real notes, and generally acts like he’s doing the crowd a favor by being on stage.
Was that before or after she died?
Since I said “I just saw” it, ** A F T E R !** Geeesh… :rolleyes:
IMO, when an artist gets to the point that he feels the material which made him famous is a “chain around his neck” then it’s time to call it quits.
Did Amy play her hit “Whoosh”?
I’m pretty positive about who’s exactly being serenaded with that “Whooosh” song. 
Yes, but Dio always hated “Rainbow In The Dark”. I heard a discussion of him shortly after he died, and after he recorded the song, his whole band had to convince him not to erase the master tape and that the song was actually good.
There’s a YouTube video of the Beatles in Japan during one of their last tours (early 1966, I think). You’d swear it was four guys who had never met each other before.