Worst concert experience
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:17 pm
I just had to share this story, unlikely that 99.9% have ever heard it.
The worst/most unforgetable concert experience I ever had.
1982-83 I payed 10.50 to see Mountain and the newly reformed Aerosmith.
Mountain rocked.
Aerosmith lasted six songs.
The first song(train kepta rollin), steven dropped his harmonica down his spandex, twice. he sang the song standing next to the speakers while a roadie(lying on his stomache) undid the thousand bandanna's from his leg to retrieve the harmonica, before the somg was over, he did it again.
He half assed the second song, the next two he dissapeared and perry did a couple tunes one hendrix and some other cover.
Then steven comes out, hair all wet, walks up to the mike, takes a big inhail through his nose into the mike and says, "thats better"
Through the first two songs and the last two, he's been purposely backing in to Tom Hamilton(bass player) with his mike stand. Odviously there's something happening between them.
He's singing wrong lyrics and,well, completely wasted.
Finally Tom snaps and starts Full-On beating steven with the headstock of his bass, easily dominated the fight, all on stage, in front of nearly 10,000 people, Brad whitford, and two roadies have to come out and pull hamilton off the top of tyler, who is now on his back, Getting full on pummeled by Hamilton, while perry and the drummer keep playing.
They start the sixth and last song and 60 second in, tyler literally stumbles and good 20 feet straight off the front of the stage, into the crowd,
The band plays on for a few more seconds, then walks off in disgust.
we can see them carrying tyler off through the back.
2 minutes later the lights come up, where told the concert is over and people go nuts, bikers tearing the seats from there mounting, and general GNR level, chaos.
I get outside and there's a large group of people shaking aerosmiths(long gone) bus back and forth.
The next day, mtv news anounces, " Aerosmith cancels concert in Springfield Illinois due to a slight illness"
A week later we where offered a copy of aerosmith's greatest hits for our ticket stub(at that time well established in the 1.00 bin at any record store) I think less than 300 people went to claim there album.
They owed us a free concert, not an album we all likely already owned.
Myself and ten thousand others looked forward to that show for months,
I never forgave Aerosmith, the most dissapointing, insulting concert experience Ive ever witnessed. Havent listened to them since.
Even if I had not had this experience, the power pop theve been spewing out since they reformed, interests me in no way shape or form.
Funny how they managed to hush the whole thing.
Also funny how I remember more details from this concert, than any other.
The worst/most unforgetable concert experience I ever had.
1982-83 I payed 10.50 to see Mountain and the newly reformed Aerosmith.
Mountain rocked.
Aerosmith lasted six songs.
The first song(train kepta rollin), steven dropped his harmonica down his spandex, twice. he sang the song standing next to the speakers while a roadie(lying on his stomache) undid the thousand bandanna's from his leg to retrieve the harmonica, before the somg was over, he did it again.
He half assed the second song, the next two he dissapeared and perry did a couple tunes one hendrix and some other cover.
Then steven comes out, hair all wet, walks up to the mike, takes a big inhail through his nose into the mike and says, "thats better"
Through the first two songs and the last two, he's been purposely backing in to Tom Hamilton(bass player) with his mike stand. Odviously there's something happening between them.
He's singing wrong lyrics and,well, completely wasted.
Finally Tom snaps and starts Full-On beating steven with the headstock of his bass, easily dominated the fight, all on stage, in front of nearly 10,000 people, Brad whitford, and two roadies have to come out and pull hamilton off the top of tyler, who is now on his back, Getting full on pummeled by Hamilton, while perry and the drummer keep playing.
They start the sixth and last song and 60 second in, tyler literally stumbles and good 20 feet straight off the front of the stage, into the crowd,
The band plays on for a few more seconds, then walks off in disgust.
we can see them carrying tyler off through the back.
2 minutes later the lights come up, where told the concert is over and people go nuts, bikers tearing the seats from there mounting, and general GNR level, chaos.
I get outside and there's a large group of people shaking aerosmiths(long gone) bus back and forth.
The next day, mtv news anounces, " Aerosmith cancels concert in Springfield Illinois due to a slight illness"
A week later we where offered a copy of aerosmith's greatest hits for our ticket stub(at that time well established in the 1.00 bin at any record store) I think less than 300 people went to claim there album.
They owed us a free concert, not an album we all likely already owned.
Myself and ten thousand others looked forward to that show for months,
I never forgave Aerosmith, the most dissapointing, insulting concert experience Ive ever witnessed. Havent listened to them since.
Even if I had not had this experience, the power pop theve been spewing out since they reformed, interests me in no way shape or form.
Funny how they managed to hush the whole thing.
Also funny how I remember more details from this concert, than any other.
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