# Which performers have disappointed you the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522 "2008-02-28T16:50:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/41 "2008-03-03T01:17:34Z")
The Flaming Lips I thought there experimentation with electronic music was a cool diversion. I thought thay by now they would be banging out more guitar rock. I am no longer interested in what they do. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/42 "2008-03-03T02:08:12Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] No and no. This actress was actually critically praised when she first came to prominence and won at least one award. However, I think a lot of people who initially praised her now probably wish they could subject their past opinions to some sort of Stalinist revisions. [/QUOTE] Mira Sorvino? Susan ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/43 "2008-03-03T02:49:22Z")
[QUOTE=susan\_foster] Mira Sorvino? Susan [/QUOTE] Nope. This actress has really fall off the radar when compared with where she was doing her peak. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/44 "2008-03-03T11:17:08Z")
Al Pacino. His films in the '70s are some of the best ever, IMO. Since about 1990 or so, however, he’s gone from good acting to big acting. Every role is “Glare at someone and shout, ‘I’M AL FUCKING PACINO! HOO-YEAH!’” The disappointing part is that his name in a film still gets my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/45 "2008-03-03T18:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Nope. This actress has really fall off the radar when compared with where she was doing her peak. [/QUOTE] Marisa Tomei? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/46 "2008-03-03T19:15:26Z")
As a broke college student I struggled to come up with $70 to see the PETER GABRIEL!!!(womad) concert. I expected it to be a Peter Gabriel concert with a fantastic light/sound special f/x stage show like a U2 Popmart/Zoo TV tour. Instead it was a crappy day long world music concert with general admission (meaning to get a good seat you had to sit through 10 hours of crap bands) and he ended up coming out at the end to sing 3-4 songs with a couple people playing instruments. Lame. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/47 "2008-03-03T19:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Nope. This actress has really fall off the radar when compared with where she was doing her peak. [/QUOTE] This is getting irritating. Tell us please! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/48 "2008-03-03T19:37:16Z")
The Ramones. They were part of a multi-band concert tour. Halfway through the tour it was announced that they had decided to break up the band and retire\*. So I went to the last show of the tour and assumed that in what was their final performance after a couple of decades as a band, they would kick out all the stops and put on a great show. But instead, their performance was mediocre at best. They basically walked through the playlist. \*A few months later they did a farewell tour so this show was not in fact their final performance. But nobody knew this at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/49 "2008-03-03T19:39:57Z")
> [@](#): > > As for other performers who initially seemed promising but ultimately proved disappointing, I was going to mention a certain actress who I was rather fond of years ago. However, due to a number of poor professional choices and the fact she apparently forgot how to act, this person is generally regarded (if she’s recalled at all) as such an annoying talentless joke that I dare not mention her name lest people doubt my intelligence and sanity. Halle Berry? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/50 "2008-03-03T19:43:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Nope. This actress has really fall off the radar when compared with where she was doing her peak. I’m thinking Lindsay Lohan. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/51 "2008-03-03T19:50:31Z")
I like the Grateful Dead, but the only time I saw them live was around 1993 at Madison Square Gardens. The sound was terrible and they sounded tired. Additionally, I had not realized how much time they spent on free form jazz jam in lives shows. This was the 19th night in a 22 straight night performance for the Dead at MSG. It showed. I understand from a friend that was a Dead Head that it was a poor show and probably the worst of the 22. Lucky me. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/52 "2008-03-03T19:54:43Z")
I’m still disappointed that The Eagles fired their best guitarist, Don Felder (and hired a no-name Felder soundalike to replace him) but they still keep Joe Walsh around, even though he’s only a shadow of his former self. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/53 "2008-03-03T20:31:26Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] When I was a kid, KRS-ONE was a member of the hip-hop group Boogie Down Productions. He wrote a song (a whole album, really) that basically ended the career of a lesser M.C., and I loved him for it. He became my hero. I loved his message, his skill, he was hip-hop for me. Then one day I saw him in a Sprite commercial with M.C. Shan…the rapper whose career he had ended. My lil’ tender teenaged heart sank as I watched him sell out, shilling Sprite. I was crushed. … [/QUOTE] :eek: ☹ Well. I knew I shoulda stayed out of this thread. I’ll add pretty much all of the hip-hop artists I loved in the mid nineties - the Wu-Tang collective, Nas, Busta Rhymes, etc. They all used to have something - a creative energy, maybe - but that’s all gone now, and they’re just in it for the money. Sigh. But still: KRS-1. Really? That sucks. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/54 "2008-03-03T21:13:36Z")
**George Michael** had talent, looks and critical praise. Then he turned into a creepy drug addict. What a freaking waste. And I still haven’t forgiven \*\*Steve Perry \*\* for retiring. You’re given a voice like that and it’s your duty to share it with the world, buster. As far as the worst live performance? **Chicago.** I’ve heard high school bands who were more in tune. As to the mystery lady, I’m going with **Sharon Stone**. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/55 "2008-03-03T21:31:22Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Nope. This actress has really fall off the radar when compared with where she was doing her peak. [/QUOTE] I’m thinking Hillary Swank. And ditto Morbo on the Scientology crap. I hear Beck is one. I guess I’ll have to burn all his cd’s now…and I don’t mean on the computer. And Leah Remini…I wish I had never found out about her being one; it somewhat taints the King of Queens reruns I love so much. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/56 "2008-03-03T21:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=11811] In concert it would have to have been Tim Curry. He just could not pull off a decent stage show as a rock singer. [/QUOTE] Guh-whaaaa…??? _Goes to Wikipedia_ I’ll be damned. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/57 "2008-03-03T22:22:13Z")
[QUOTE=Guy Incognito] Marisa Tomei? [/QUOTE] Tomei was nominated for an Oscar not long ago and was almost nominated just recently for **Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead** so it’s not her. > [@](#): > > I’m thinking Lindsay Lohan. She was just on the cover of _New York_ trying to pass herself off as Marilyn Monroe. That’s not falling off the radar. It’s also not Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, or Hillary Swank. These women are still quite visible in the public eye and are working regularly. The period when the career of this actress seemed promising predates Berry and Swank but is about the same time Stone arrived on the scene. Anyway, what about promising athletes who eventually proved disappointing? In baseball, the names of Jose Canseco, Darryl Strawberry, and Dwight Gooden immediately come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/58 "2008-03-03T22:41:34Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Tomei was nominated for an Oscar not long ago and was almost nominated just recently for **Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead** so it’s not her. She was just on the cover of _New York_ trying to pass herself off as Marilyn Monroe. That’s not falling off the radar. It’s also not Halle Berry, Sharon Stone, or Hillary Swank. These women are still quite visible in the public eye and are working regularly. The period when the career of this actress seemed promising predates Berry and Swank but is about the same time Stone arrived on the scene. Anyway, what about promising athletes who eventually proved disappointing? In baseball, the names of Jose Canseco, Darryl Strawberry, and Dwight Gooden immediately come to mind. [/QUOTE] In basketball, Grant Hill. He was awesome in college, but his NBA career has been less than stellar. And that guy who was picked ahead of Jordan. What was his name? Sam Bowie? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/59 "2008-03-03T23:18:27Z")
**Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young** in Cleveland, back in 1974, was by far the worst performance I’ve ever seen. This was at some mini-festival at the Cleveland stadium; **The Band** was also there, and **Jesse Collin Young**. All the other groups did well, including The Band, even though one of them (either Danko or Manuel) was sick (or fucked up) and couldn’t go on. But CSNY just sucked. If they’d never met each other, and had never heard any of the songs, they couldn’t have been much worse. Another vote for, or against, **Kate Beckinsale**. One of my all-time favorite movies is “Cold Comfort Farm.” How she could go from that to the monster-movie tripe she’s been doing dumbfounds me. My nomination for the Guess That Actress sweepstakes would be Geena Davis, although I don’t really think she fell as hard or fast as Sean Young. ---
**Author:** ![PharmBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@PharmBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PharmBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522/60 "2008-03-04T00:20:12Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Bill Watterson. _Calvin and Hobbes_ was nothing short of genius. I understand retiring the strip, wanting to go out while it was high-quality, but since then…? [/QUOTE] he doesn’t count, since his disappearance from the public eye is voluntary… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-performers-have-disappointed-you-the-most/439522.md?page=4)