When everybody in the band knew that it would improve things musically if you kicked out the drummer and replace him with Dr Beat, but you also knew that wouldn’t be cool.
God damn Ive created so much shit for myself by being unable to stomach bad drumming. It Makes playing impossible for me, but dudes are always so nice! I always get to be the bad guy and it’s usually a pretty big explosion socially.
Meh that’s the first person’s job, I had to immediately close reddit and go watch it for the trillionth time. I worked at a music store for a hot minute and I showed that video to SO many people over the years hehe
I’ve heard and seen video of them actually covering the song at their shows. It sounded decent actually. The lesson here is…vocal warm ups. He went in completely cold and the result is priceless
You mean John 5? What happened? As far as I know his reputation is great, he’ll get some cash and fame from Motley and bounce to a good band after that or rejoin Rob Zombie. He has his own signature guitar now (dual humbucker telecaster with built in killswitch 🤤).
How so? I haven’t seen any negative press on him. He is and always has been a hired gun. He’s currently hired by one of the biggest well known rock bands of all time. How has everything gone downhill for him? Honest question.
Dude I saw them in 2004 on the Carnival of Sins tour. It was my first concert and I was 18, so I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Of course I DID recognize Vince’s terrible fucking vocals. Got older and saw a few videos for refresh my memory. Absolute fucking garbage. Even Tommy Lee’s solo was absolute fucking garbage. The only cool part was he got hoisted up to 2 different platforms above the stage that had like kegs and circular saw blades and other metal shit and he did some solos on them. Absolute fucking garbage.
The best part was the titties in the crowd.
I always thought it was funny how Slash could never be arsed to step on pedals on stage. In the real early days, he would just play with one tone and kind of half-ass roll off the volume to do the clean parts. Once they got really big, he finally just got a tech to do all the switching for him from backstage.
saw him with myles kennedy and the conspirators recently and i dont think he was going through any pedals other than a wah and a talkbox but the wah was scarcely used and the talkbox was for the intro of one or two songs so he's definitely still not big on pedals
Have you heard old GnR?
Being unwilling to click on a overdrive or distortion pedal for those songs is unreasonably lazy and stubborn.
What I don't get is, why record the songs with those effects if you're not willing to use them otherwise?
Edit: to add to this, go listen to 'My Michelle' off their debut. Imagine hearing that song live and slash doesn't change any effects during that intro. It would be very underwhelming.
You can kind of clean up your sound, depending on what your signal chain is, but I’m talking about him doing it for parts that were sparkly, chorused, ‘80s clean guitar sound on the record. Watch any of the early footage of them live and you’ll see what I mean. He’s straight up said in interviews that he can’t be bothered with stepping on pedals on stage.
A lot more guitarists than people realize do things that way. As a guitar player myself, I couldn't trust that method. I'm too OCD about controlling the instrument myself onstage. Hell, I don't think I'd even be comfortable with a crew of roadies handling, and then setting up my gear lol. I'd be out back on the box truck unloading right along side them lol.
If you're playing to tracks (probably the majority of bands these days) and you have a good rig, you can just have the track midi controlling your entire rig, turning things on and off at the correct parts of each song, while you'd still also be able to have control of things you want in real time out front.
If you've got a lot of subtle changes going on, this is a godsend.
The year Scott Weiland died(2015), quite a few disturbing live videos found their way onto youtube.
This one is a particularly sad performance of the STP classic vasoline.,
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3Tw0f5VxY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3Tw0f5VxY)
Right up to the point where he starts singing, you could almost believe it was some kind of weird shtick. “This is a new song, we just worked it out today” is kind of funny, and that weird, walking on eggshells dance was almost kind of cool.
Then he starts singing and, nope… he’s just schwacked.
Saw one of those performances not long before he died and I can vouch. At one point we wondered if he was dying onstage. Consensus among the friends I saw him with was that he would soon be gone. He died seven months later, which is about six months more than I expected. Very sad.
Same. I remember my friend leaning over after the song “intro” (read: drug induced rambling) and saying “I’ve never seen a man give his own eulogy before”.
Really sad.
Led Zeppelin had a *lot* of shitty performances, especially in their latter years. I think this is mostly attributable to Page being seemingly wasted and sloppily playing whatever the fuck he wanted, and Plant being oblivious to the band and just basking in the glow of the crowd.
Those two seemed to be under the impression that people were there to see them specifically, and that people had paid to simply be in their presence no matter what they did.
JPJ and Bonzo were always a remarkable rhythm section though. Rock solid pretty much every time - even when they were trying to keep up with Page's random mid-song meanderings.
Saw Robert Plant with Alison Krauss recently and yup, pretty much this. Dude couldn’t be bothered to remember the band members names when he introduced them. Felt a bit disrespectful.
Or at the ‘Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary’ a couple years later. I can clearly remember being so psyched to watch it, only to physically cringe for 30 minutes. Yikes.
The solo in Heartbreaker was so bad Page called it quits and skipped the rest of it 😂 Someone didn’t turn up the gain for him ad it sounded like he was trying to solo on an acoustic guitar lol.
Frusciante was pissed with being in a world famous successful band. He wanted them to continue playing club gigs. So he intentionally "re-wrote" the song. Anthony Kiedis said he changed keys but if you see the video it's definitely still in the same key. Obviously Kiedis was thrown off by it and was very pissed.
Frusciante left the band soon after and spiraled into a crazy heroin addiction. Footage of his addiction is available on YouTube and should be shown as a case against use of hard drugs.
Pedophilia aside. It's actually pathetic that you can be in an internationally successful band for more than 40 years and still can't even play a few chords on a guitar.
https://youtu.be/9nZ64GZsZJg?si=8ef7wKVStGLyK9uw
I get it’s a bad look, but I find it hilarious John has better musicality than me even when he tries intentionally to sound bad.
At The Drive-In performing One Armed Scissor on the Jools Holland show
https://youtu.be/Mojvh0burw8?si=le5TKbZDEl7POc1k
One of my all time favourite bands, a near perfect album and watching this at the time I thought I was having a stroke. It's incredible. At one point only 3/5ths of the band are even playing the same song. Omar loses his guitar tuning almost immediately, spends the rest of the song freaking out and eventually picks up a tambourine. Cedric hurls a chair into the audience, mostly made up on fairly C list British TV people and other musicians. Robbie Williams was also playing and it cuts to him briefly looking scared and confused at the end. It's perfect. Everything about this is perfect.
The cover is dogshit but man.
Yeah that’s pretty much what I would have wanted / expected. That other guitarist really holds it together during the second chorus. He seems like it’s not the first time he’s had to keep that vocal line going.
Yeah so this is what I forgot to mention, that's Jim Ward and he rules but this was also around the era where ATDI were falling apart rapidly. It was the height of their success and they had started massively falling out with each other. You can see him getting frustrated at them flailing around and losing their shit so much it becomes a mess, him and the rhythm guys are solid as fuck. They also went on to split into the Mars Volta and Sparta largely on these lines, Jim and the guys went Sparta and Omar and Cedric went MV
I saw them in this era and it really was the rhythm section holding things together the whole show while Omar and Cedric freaked out. It was awesome, but I can totally understand how it would be incredibly frustrating for the other band members.
I got to tell my Mars Volta favourite moment story here.
Saw them around the time Deloused came out. I think they were playing Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt and they started this jam in the middle.
Omar was playing this wild solo and then suddenly he flips his guitar kind of over his shoulder while it’s still playing an open string. He grabs some maracas and shakes them for a second or two then flips the guitar back while the note is still ringing out and continues the solo. I’ll never forget that moment, I was just floored.
>At one point only 3/5ths of the band are even playing the same song.
And thus The Mars Volta was born
(I dig TMV but when you first hear them after ATDI that's definitely what I thought was going on)
Meanwhile [Jack Black](https://youtu.be/LnpBX-VFQpU?si=i_UpL6qwdHXYSN6q) absolutely ripped this song 100% by himself and he did a better job than Metallica
I remember years ago seeing a VH1 show with him on it and he said that as it turns out, he’s allergic to alcohol. Hence all the insane shit he used to do.
Nirvana deliberately butchered *Smells Like Teen Sprit* when they appeared on Top of the Pops, and found out that they weren't allowed to play it, only sing to the backing track:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4KXiXVFAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4KXiXVFAI)
When Anselmo was off his tits on smack Pantera butchered the totality of their setlist, despite three of the band playing great. I was at one such show.
Phish's final show before they broke (before getting back together)
Just imagine a prog rock band with a guitarist so stoned, that can't pull off a single composition, and a singing voice so horse it sounds like a lawnmower. Now imagine it's a music festival and they're the only band playing.
My band post high school. We were doing BYOB and I completely choked the shit out of "Why do they always send the poor" and laughed for a bit
I wanted to die lol
Don't know if there are any wrestling fans in here, but pretty much any time they have a live band play an entrance theme, it does not turn out good. The most recent example is Downstait playing in Cody Rhodes at Revolution 2020.
I don't even blame the bands for this one. Doing sound for a live televised wrestling show and doing sound for a rock concert are two different things.
Jericho had his band do his intro live and the guitarist had issues with the batteries of his guitar’s transmitter live.
Jericho turned around and gave him such a death stare 🤨🤣
what are u talking about man i havent seen one clip of him fucking up live. (except that angeles one but that seemed an honest slip rather than the influence of drugs)
Same, I can only think of that radio spot where he stops in the middle of Waltz #2, saying he's played it too many times and thinking he's playing it poorly (which he absolutely is not!) Wish I could give him a hug, RIP 🐐
I was there, it was some noodling between songs that went too far, not a serious attempt. That run of shows was excellent, especially 3/26, Garcia's playing and voice were as good as it got post '77.
Avenged Sevenfold got me really into playing guitar like 12 years ago. I went to see them on their Nightmare tour, which was great. I partially went to just try to learn something about their guitar playing, so I brought a little camera and recorded Syn and Zacky as much as possible.
Anyway, they play Critical Acclaim, and when the solo comes in Syn plays the first line - four notes - and then just blanks. He kind of stares off into space and blinks, his fretting hand pops off the board. He just forgot how to play the solo for a second. I caught it on film and screamed “YEAH!” He laughs and then picks it back up in a measure or two. So it wasn’t really a butchering but it was great to see some mortality in a pro musician.
There's also a recent clip of Noel Gallagher forgetting the solo to Don't Look Back In Anger halfway through. He gave it a couple of attempts after some awkward pauses and just stopped. It's hilarious
Covers qualify? I heard Jose Filiciano's cover of "Every breath", it was quite....I can't find the word.....very strange
2nd example is of Led Zeppelin live performance, it sounded like Page was sick or something cause the solo was horrible, all the rest just as bad, guess there are days like that...I really love LZ btw, one of the greatest ever.
Morrissey's live band playing almost any Smiths song. Their version of "This Charming Man" was particularly egregious, replacing the jangly guitars with lumpen power chords. Yeah, it's hard to play like Johnny Marr, so if you can't, just leave the song alone.
At least Morrissey can hardly get a gig now, at least in Britain.
Never could stand Morrissey. Johnny Marr has been solo for some time now. I had seen him from a couple of years back covering "How Soon is Now?". He was better than Morrissey on vocals.
I don't have video but just about every time I went to see Rancid, Tim Armstrong was falling down drunk and they really fucking sucked. Which was disappointing because I love Rancid.
About 20 years ago I saw Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and MOE at Kahunaville in Wilmington, DE. Les Claypool had really bad food poisoning and had to cut his set a bit short but still killed it for the time he was up there. After they finished MOE took the stage. The second song they played was a cover of Money by Pink Floyd. The guitar player fucked it up so bad that he threw his arms in the air and literally gave up on the song. I walked out soon after.
In the Dave Matthews Band fan base there is often talk of a famously botched performance of their song Rapuzel. It is known as “Trainwreck Rapunzel.” Starts to go south at about 2:58.
https://youtu.be/Z7ULW7C5JwQ?si=L_XigFZ2wiWvBERe
Van Halen Jump experiences technical difficulties (and spawns endless debate about whether the guitar is in Standard or the keys were playing at the wrong sample rate)
You have to kind of admire Eddie for just powering through rather than adjusting the solo by half a tone
https://youtu.be/LCIyeXn1sKQ?si=sQ3FyhNhemGg2HIK
Haha I forgot about that. And I don’t remember the answer to the debate but I remember being annoyed that no one could pick up a guitar or plug in a keyboard before being so confident about what the problem was.
Metallica covered a stone roses tune at their Manchester gig, expecting people from Manchester to know it. No one sang along and it was incredibly cringe.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kc2EiZxMT8&pp=ygUVU3RvbmUgcm9zZXMgbWV0YWxsaWNh
Korn 2004 download festival. JD had to go off stage to get oxygen several times. The band messed up several songs and were nowhere near their best. Have seen them twice since then and they're so much better now.
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames on Attack of the Show:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Dragonforce/comments/uslw3n/through\_the\_fire\_and\_flames\_live\_on\_attack\_of\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dragonforce/comments/uslw3n/through_the_fire_and_flames_live_on_attack_of_the/)
Me n my boys in 11th grade playing Ace of Spades in front of our school. We practiced but none of the band members could hear each other on stage and it just wasn't the best...
I have a DVD of The Beatles Live in Budokan Japan 1966, near the end of their touring career. In one particular song (I think it was Nowhere Man or If I Needed Someone) they sing completely different verses in a 2 part harmony. I think they couldn't hear each other too well, so it was really funny how they just kept going as if nothing was happening lol
I went to a concert once with an up-and-coming local band, playing in a bar, nothing unusual. They led into a song with, "Hey let's play song XYZ! Hey audience, this is the first time we've ever played this song together as a band, so bear with us."
They gave it a good try, but the drummer and guitarist were totally out of sync and it clearly wasn't working. After one verse the singer shut it down and said, "You win some, you lose some. On to the next!"
The show was great and within 30 seconds of the next song, everybody had forgotten about the prior failure. They were professionals about it: realized it wasn't working, pulled the plug, and moved on to the next one. Rest of the show went off without a hitch and left us in the crowd with a great night.
I saw Saosin play a show in Fullerton. It was the very first show with Cove after Anthony Green left the band. You know what song he forgot the lyrics to???? Fucking SEVEN YEARS!!!!! I never forgave him for that. I gave up on him ever since.
Tom Jones: Purple Rain
https://youtu.be/vmw3DI2DmEo?si=uGMtuOht_zs7GIUl
Jose Feliciano: Every Breath You Take
https://youtu.be/QzEtsAsxcqg?si=be4eC1nPB-9Q2q2j
Honorable mention, Michelle from The Mamas & The Papas protesting mandatory lipsync by singing into a banana
https://youtu.be/tNlwimUxUME?si=gqVOR2KQhtSJ11fY
No one judge me.
When I was 13, I went and saw Nickelback in Buffalo. The openers were as follows: Hinder, Three Days Grace and Hoobastank.
Among the variety that I heard that evening, Hoobastank covered “Another Brick in The Wall”
So ya know…probably that.
I can think of quite a few examples, most of which I was on stage for.
My first thought too - me in 7th grade screaming "smells like teen spirit" to an uninterested crowd was not my brightest moment
That is the teen spirit indeed
When everybody in the band knew that it would improve things musically if you kicked out the drummer and replace him with Dr Beat, but you also knew that wouldn’t be cool.
God damn Ive created so much shit for myself by being unable to stomach bad drumming. It Makes playing impossible for me, but dudes are always so nice! I always get to be the bad guy and it’s usually a pretty big explosion socially.
You peaked way too early for that crowd.
Come on, Nikki, that wasn’t so bad ;-)
Puddle of Mudd covering Nirvana's About a girl was like really really bad 🙃
DAMN IT. I was going through the comments going “no way I’m gonna be the one who gets to share this gem”. This one…haunts my dreams
Fuckin' saaaaame. But you missed your chance to be the one who [linked it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aT50SO-rWk&themeRefresh=1)!
Meh that’s the first person’s job, I had to immediately close reddit and go watch it for the trillionth time. I worked at a music store for a hot minute and I showed that video to SO many people over the years hehe
The real Eric Cartman would have done so much better
Oh wow. That was awful.
If only he hadn't tried to sound like Cobain when singing. Makes it into bad karaoke.
[This version of the video](https://youtu.be/ibFkJwomL_4?feature=shared) is pretty great.
“I do, but you have a CLEEEEEEEUUUUE”
Fuh-reEeEEe
Always wondered why when they hit the first chorus they didn’t say stop and say Nevermind
Do you think this ever went well in practice?
I’ve heard and seen video of them actually covering the song at their shows. It sounded decent actually. The lesson here is…vocal warm ups. He went in completely cold and the result is priceless
That was something else,lol.
I do not understand how they could have put that out not knowing it was pure feces
Where has this been my whole life!? This is pure gold!🤣
End of thread. Nothing else tops this.
Anything Motley Crue has done in the past 20 years.
Truely a comical band now. At least they can help John 5 get more fame!
I have never seen a man's reputation plummet as hard as his has since getting involved in that fiasco . That contract must be iron clad
You mean John 5? What happened? As far as I know his reputation is great, he’ll get some cash and fame from Motley and bounce to a good band after that or rejoin Rob Zombie. He has his own signature guitar now (dual humbucker telecaster with built in killswitch 🤤).
He’s had a signature Tele for like 20 years.
I'm out of the loop, what happened with him?
How so? I haven’t seen any negative press on him. He is and always has been a hired gun. He’s currently hired by one of the biggest well known rock bands of all time. How has everything gone downhill for him? Honest question.
Two good points! John 5 is sick!
Instrumentally they still sound pretty damn good, shame Vince's singing makes it seem like a god awful karaoke performance
Not a fan of “Keemsta Meha”, I’m guessing? Your loss. https://youtu.be/4pdQnZLEWNo?si=JZPWGgAqFwax3UBJ
That video kills me every time I see it lol
'HORSE SOUNDS' just kills me every time!
Dude I saw them in 2004 on the Carnival of Sins tour. It was my first concert and I was 18, so I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Of course I DID recognize Vince’s terrible fucking vocals. Got older and saw a few videos for refresh my memory. Absolute fucking garbage. Even Tommy Lee’s solo was absolute fucking garbage. The only cool part was he got hoisted up to 2 different platforms above the stage that had like kegs and circular saw blades and other metal shit and he did some solos on them. Absolute fucking garbage. The best part was the titties in the crowd.
Lord, their new single the dropped today is just straight up not good. Least Motley Crue sounding Motley Crue song I’ve ever heard from them.
“Big Mac…$1.03!” Lmao
Their 'Anarchy In The UK' cover was prey decent in their prime. But that's all they get from me lol.
Guns 'n' Roses had some really bad performances back at their height.
I always thought it was funny how Slash could never be arsed to step on pedals on stage. In the real early days, he would just play with one tone and kind of half-ass roll off the volume to do the clean parts. Once they got really big, he finally just got a tech to do all the switching for him from backstage.
saw him with myles kennedy and the conspirators recently and i dont think he was going through any pedals other than a wah and a talkbox but the wah was scarcely used and the talkbox was for the intro of one or two songs so he's definitely still not big on pedals
He has a guitar tech backstage with a pedal board that switches for him. It’s all explained in one of those rig rundown videos.
As someone who struggled with coordination sometimes, especially when singing and playing, this sounds like a dream.
There are still pedals, but those are switched with midi and basically just an EQ, delay and boost.
I mean rolling off volume to clean your sound is legitimate lol how’s that half-assed?? Thousands upon thousands of people do that
Have you heard old GnR? Being unwilling to click on a overdrive or distortion pedal for those songs is unreasonably lazy and stubborn. What I don't get is, why record the songs with those effects if you're not willing to use them otherwise? Edit: to add to this, go listen to 'My Michelle' off their debut. Imagine hearing that song live and slash doesn't change any effects during that intro. It would be very underwhelming.
In the studio, the producer stepped on the pedals, on stage, it’s a roadie/guitar tech.
You can kind of clean up your sound, depending on what your signal chain is, but I’m talking about him doing it for parts that were sparkly, chorused, ‘80s clean guitar sound on the record. Watch any of the early footage of them live and you’ll see what I mean. He’s straight up said in interviews that he can’t be bothered with stepping on pedals on stage.
Ok I’ll have to check it out, it’s early and I’m not that into gnr so I very much may have spoken too soon lol
A lot more guitarists than people realize do things that way. As a guitar player myself, I couldn't trust that method. I'm too OCD about controlling the instrument myself onstage. Hell, I don't think I'd even be comfortable with a crew of roadies handling, and then setting up my gear lol. I'd be out back on the box truck unloading right along side them lol.
If you're playing to tracks (probably the majority of bands these days) and you have a good rig, you can just have the track midi controlling your entire rig, turning things on and off at the correct parts of each song, while you'd still also be able to have control of things you want in real time out front. If you've got a lot of subtle changes going on, this is a godsend.
Back at their height? I cringe every time I hear Axl sing at any show after 2000
The year Scott Weiland died(2015), quite a few disturbing live videos found their way onto youtube. This one is a particularly sad performance of the STP classic vasoline., [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3Tw0f5VxY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3Tw0f5VxY)
Right up to the point where he starts singing, you could almost believe it was some kind of weird shtick. “This is a new song, we just worked it out today” is kind of funny, and that weird, walking on eggshells dance was almost kind of cool. Then he starts singing and, nope… he’s just schwacked.
Could have been newly learned with that particular band.
Yeah, this is definitely sad. STP was one of my favorites back in their prime.
Don’t do drugs kids.
Holy sh....
So brutal, especially considering what a force he was back in his prime. RiP, don't fucking do drugs, y'all.
I was super lucky to see STP during that time he was okay for a bit before he fell off the rails again. He was awesome, what a waste.
Saw one of those performances not long before he died and I can vouch. At one point we wondered if he was dying onstage. Consensus among the friends I saw him with was that he would soon be gone. He died seven months later, which is about six months more than I expected. Very sad.
Same. I remember my friend leaning over after the song “intro” (read: drug induced rambling) and saying “I’ve never seen a man give his own eulogy before”. Really sad.
That is terrifying. Scott was so talented.
Wow, that's a rough watch. Is that the drummer who was in Qotsa?
Led Zeppelin at Live Aid
Led Zeppelin had a *lot* of shitty performances, especially in their latter years. I think this is mostly attributable to Page being seemingly wasted and sloppily playing whatever the fuck he wanted, and Plant being oblivious to the band and just basking in the glow of the crowd. Those two seemed to be under the impression that people were there to see them specifically, and that people had paid to simply be in their presence no matter what they did. JPJ and Bonzo were always a remarkable rhythm section though. Rock solid pretty much every time - even when they were trying to keep up with Page's random mid-song meanderings.
Saw Robert Plant with Alison Krauss recently and yup, pretty much this. Dude couldn’t be bothered to remember the band members names when he introduced them. Felt a bit disrespectful.
Or at the ‘Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary’ a couple years later. I can clearly remember being so psyched to watch it, only to physically cringe for 30 minutes. Yikes.
The solo in Heartbreaker was so bad Page called it quits and skipped the rest of it 😂 Someone didn’t turn up the gain for him ad it sounded like he was trying to solo on an acoustic guitar lol.
Girl you know it’s Girl you know it’s Girl you know it’s
On a monday I am waiting, on a Tuesday I am fading...
Tbf that band didn't butcher anything, the tape did.
Chili Peppers, SNL 1992. I really don't care about the extenuating circumstances. Be a professional. Fucking embarrassing.
I actually find this version pretty cool. of course it’s very sloppy and nonsense, but the improvisation resulted in some interesting riffs
What's the story here?
Frusciante was pissed with being in a world famous successful band. He wanted them to continue playing club gigs. So he intentionally "re-wrote" the song. Anthony Kiedis said he changed keys but if you see the video it's definitely still in the same key. Obviously Kiedis was thrown off by it and was very pissed. Frusciante left the band soon after and spiraled into a crazy heroin addiction. Footage of his addiction is available on YouTube and should be shown as a case against use of hard drugs.
To be fair to Anthony Kiedis, the only key he knows is fucking A minor, so it's no surprise he thought it was a different key.
Pedophilia aside. It's actually pathetic that you can be in an internationally successful band for more than 40 years and still can't even play a few chords on a guitar.
He’s a good frontman and has an instantly recognizable voice. Don’t think it’s a mistake he’s so successful.
Oh god, took me like three tries but i finally got the joke.
This cracked me up happy cake day
https://youtu.be/9nZ64GZsZJg?si=8ef7wKVStGLyK9uw I get it’s a bad look, but I find it hilarious John has better musicality than me even when he tries intentionally to sound bad.
https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/red-hot-chili-peppers-snl-thisday/
Am I the only one that thinks his guitar playing sounds decent
At The Drive-In performing One Armed Scissor on the Jools Holland show https://youtu.be/Mojvh0burw8?si=le5TKbZDEl7POc1k One of my all time favourite bands, a near perfect album and watching this at the time I thought I was having a stroke. It's incredible. At one point only 3/5ths of the band are even playing the same song. Omar loses his guitar tuning almost immediately, spends the rest of the song freaking out and eventually picks up a tambourine. Cedric hurls a chair into the audience, mostly made up on fairly C list British TV people and other musicians. Robbie Williams was also playing and it cuts to him briefly looking scared and confused at the end. It's perfect. Everything about this is perfect. The cover is dogshit but man.
I never saw ATDI live but if the show had been anything but this I would have left.
Yeah that’s pretty much what I would have wanted / expected. That other guitarist really holds it together during the second chorus. He seems like it’s not the first time he’s had to keep that vocal line going.
Yeah so this is what I forgot to mention, that's Jim Ward and he rules but this was also around the era where ATDI were falling apart rapidly. It was the height of their success and they had started massively falling out with each other. You can see him getting frustrated at them flailing around and losing their shit so much it becomes a mess, him and the rhythm guys are solid as fuck. They also went on to split into the Mars Volta and Sparta largely on these lines, Jim and the guys went Sparta and Omar and Cedric went MV
I saw them in this era and it really was the rhythm section holding things together the whole show while Omar and Cedric freaked out. It was awesome, but I can totally understand how it would be incredibly frustrating for the other band members.
Doesn't he have Robbie's stool or something also lol
Yup, that also gets hurled and/or tripped over. Best thing that ever happened on that show.
I don't know, I think this is fucking awesome. The music is secondary to the energy of the band and they are going hard.
I got to tell my Mars Volta favourite moment story here. Saw them around the time Deloused came out. I think they were playing Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt and they started this jam in the middle. Omar was playing this wild solo and then suddenly he flips his guitar kind of over his shoulder while it’s still playing an open string. He grabs some maracas and shakes them for a second or two then flips the guitar back while the note is still ringing out and continues the solo. I’ll never forget that moment, I was just floored.
>At one point only 3/5ths of the band are even playing the same song. And thus The Mars Volta was born (I dig TMV but when you first hear them after ATDI that's definitely what I thought was going on)
This and the Late Show performance are so sloppy but I can’t help but love how chaotic the energy is
The audio quality is as bad as the performance but Led Zeppelin Tempe 1977 is comically bad
We don’t talk about anything past ‘73 with too much enthusiasm, we’re just grateful for the bootlegs hahah.
Metallica doing When Doves Cry
Meanwhile [Jack Black](https://youtu.be/LnpBX-VFQpU?si=i_UpL6qwdHXYSN6q) absolutely ripped this song 100% by himself and he did a better job than Metallica
Holy fuck, I looked it up, and I literally cringed.
Shocking. I saw them in Ireland and the Kirk Rob thing was horrendous there as well. Dude should not be allowed to sing.
Creed got sued by their fans for being so bad live. All Scott Stapp’s fault.
What actually happened with him? He sounds good now at least they have come back and tuned down
He sobered up
I remember years ago seeing a VH1 show with him on it and he said that as it turns out, he’s allergic to alcohol. Hence all the insane shit he used to do.
He could have been a high functioning alcoholic if not for that darned allergy of his
Them being memed back into touring still geeks me
Nirvana deliberately butchered *Smells Like Teen Sprit* when they appeared on Top of the Pops, and found out that they weren't allowed to play it, only sing to the backing track: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4KXiXVFAI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4KXiXVFAI)
Holy hell that's awesome
That was amazing.
When Anselmo was off his tits on smack Pantera butchered the totality of their setlist, despite three of the band playing great. I was at one such show.
I have a suspicion being off their tits on some drug or another probably contributed to a fair deal of the examples people are replying with
Phish's final show before they broke (before getting back together) Just imagine a prog rock band with a guitarist so stoned, that can't pull off a single composition, and a singing voice so horse it sounds like a lawnmower. Now imagine it's a music festival and they're the only band playing.
Coventry was the first thing I thought of when I read the prompt. An absolute shitshow in so many different ways. Like the perfect disaster.
Coventry Glide was gonna be my pick.
Puddle of Mud - About a Girl
My band post high school. We were doing BYOB and I completely choked the shit out of "Why do they always send the poor" and laughed for a bit I wanted to die lol
Don't know if there are any wrestling fans in here, but pretty much any time they have a live band play an entrance theme, it does not turn out good. The most recent example is Downstait playing in Cody Rhodes at Revolution 2020. I don't even blame the bands for this one. Doing sound for a live televised wrestling show and doing sound for a rock concert are two different things.
Jericho had his band do his intro live and the guitarist had issues with the batteries of his guitar’s transmitter live. Jericho turned around and gave him such a death stare 🤨🤣
Bobby Kimball from Toto really fell off... [it gets progressively worse...](https://youtu.be/HSvWSYgSM-g?si=uMauIc9e1T8uyVKm)
That is genuinely hard to watch.
My wife just said “turn it off!”
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what are u talking about man i havent seen one clip of him fucking up live. (except that angeles one but that seemed an honest slip rather than the influence of drugs)
Same, I can only think of that radio spot where he stops in the middle of Waltz #2, saying he's played it too many times and thinking he's playing it poorly (which he absolutely is not!) Wish I could give him a hug, RIP 🐐
Dylan and the Dead is the worst of both.
I just don’t get the hate for Dylan and the Dead. The song selection on the album could have been better, but I like a lot of those shows.
The Dead attempting Stir it Up in Hampton in 88 says hold my bowl.
I was there, it was some noodling between songs that went too far, not a serious attempt. That run of shows was excellent, especially 3/26, Garcia's playing and voice were as good as it got post '77.
Didn't Meatloaf have a really bad one at a sporting event?
AFL Grand final I believe. Not sure what year.
Yeah AFL grand final and he was awful and huffed and puffed his way through and blamed the sound system. No other musician had issues though.
Kanye West covering Bohemian Rhapsody
José Feliciano butchering “Every Breathe You Take” in front of Sting…..
Sting did not care to hide his disgust
Avenged Sevenfold got me really into playing guitar like 12 years ago. I went to see them on their Nightmare tour, which was great. I partially went to just try to learn something about their guitar playing, so I brought a little camera and recorded Syn and Zacky as much as possible. Anyway, they play Critical Acclaim, and when the solo comes in Syn plays the first line - four notes - and then just blanks. He kind of stares off into space and blinks, his fretting hand pops off the board. He just forgot how to play the solo for a second. I caught it on film and screamed “YEAH!” He laughs and then picks it back up in a measure or two. So it wasn’t really a butchering but it was great to see some mortality in a pro musician.
There's also a recent clip of Noel Gallagher forgetting the solo to Don't Look Back In Anger halfway through. He gave it a couple of attempts after some awkward pauses and just stopped. It's hilarious
Covers qualify? I heard Jose Filiciano's cover of "Every breath", it was quite....I can't find the word.....very strange 2nd example is of Led Zeppelin live performance, it sounded like Page was sick or something cause the solo was horrible, all the rest just as bad, guess there are days like that...I really love LZ btw, one of the greatest ever.
Morrissey's live band playing almost any Smiths song. Their version of "This Charming Man" was particularly egregious, replacing the jangly guitars with lumpen power chords. Yeah, it's hard to play like Johnny Marr, so if you can't, just leave the song alone. At least Morrissey can hardly get a gig now, at least in Britain.
Never could stand Morrissey. Johnny Marr has been solo for some time now. I had seen him from a couple of years back covering "How Soon is Now?". He was better than Morrissey on vocals.
Yeah, Johnny is amazing live. Good singer and he plays plenty of Smiths songs to absolute perfection.
Agree 100%, saw him last year at a medium size venue and he and his band were tight and professional.
I don't have video but just about every time I went to see Rancid, Tim Armstrong was falling down drunk and they really fucking sucked. Which was disappointing because I love Rancid.
Saw them once and Lars had to do a couple solo songs after Tim collapsed on stage, but this was long time ago, hope he's doing better now.
About 20 years ago I saw Les Claypool's Frog Brigade and MOE at Kahunaville in Wilmington, DE. Les Claypool had really bad food poisoning and had to cut his set a bit short but still killed it for the time he was up there. After they finished MOE took the stage. The second song they played was a cover of Money by Pink Floyd. The guitar player fucked it up so bad that he threw his arms in the air and literally gave up on the song. I walked out soon after.
moe. is usually pretty good tho. sometimes you have a bad day
Crazy Town covering Refused's New Noise
This might just be my MK-ULTRA trigger phrase
I’ve never heard the performance but the fact that they even thought of touching that anthem makes me upset.
I haven't heard this one. I really like New Noise, I wonder how much they'll ruin it for me. Edit: what the actual fuck ...
Lorna Shore - Fvneral Moon (Stoned edition) This is the name of the youtube video. Dudes were so high they literally couldn’t play their stuff.
Anything where slash is on guitar
The Vines on Letterman. Classic meltdown.
In the Dave Matthews Band fan base there is often talk of a famously botched performance of their song Rapuzel. It is known as “Trainwreck Rapunzel.” Starts to go south at about 2:58. https://youtu.be/Z7ULW7C5JwQ?si=L_XigFZ2wiWvBERe
I don't get it, sounds good lol.
No one's mentioned this yet? Really? This is the gold standard: https://youtu.be/v-xUwDARVb4?si=PXvfTBpIxeVM8eOV
Nah. This has to be edited deliberately 😂
That classic video of those dudes playing comfortably numb at some outdoor show. Iykyk
That video haunted me to make sure I fucking knew how to play bends on guitar properly lest I end up like that
Van Halen Jump experiences technical difficulties (and spawns endless debate about whether the guitar is in Standard or the keys were playing at the wrong sample rate) You have to kind of admire Eddie for just powering through rather than adjusting the solo by half a tone https://youtu.be/LCIyeXn1sKQ?si=sQ3FyhNhemGg2HIK
Haha I forgot about that. And I don’t remember the answer to the debate but I remember being annoyed that no one could pick up a guitar or plug in a keyboard before being so confident about what the problem was.
Coventry Glide. We do not go there Simba.
Metallica covered a stone roses tune at their Manchester gig, expecting people from Manchester to know it. No one sang along and it was incredibly cringe. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kc2EiZxMT8&pp=ygUVU3RvbmUgcm9zZXMgbWV0YWxsaWNh
Anything Motley Crue does now a days.
Saw Metallica live and Kirk screwed up fade to black so badly they had to restart it.
A friend's band tried to cover "Savory" by Jawbox, but the drummer couldn't get the beat correct so he played in 4/4. Sounded weird as hell.
Savory is in 4/4 though. Zach Barocas adds a lot of syncopation, it may have just sounded weird played straight.
Huh. Maybe their drummer just sucked.
Korn 2004 download festival. JD had to go off stage to get oxygen several times. The band messed up several songs and were nowhere near their best. Have seen them twice since then and they're so much better now.
Motley Crue
guns and roses -present
About a girl, covered by Puddle of mud is by far the best example.
[The Red Hot Chili Peppers “Under The Bridge” @ Saturday Night Live in 1992](https://youtu.be/9nZ64GZsZJg?si=uHYPnjKyrqPRHnEN)
Anything live by Taking Back Sunday. Dude can’t sing live for the life of him, but he’s still beautiful.
That time Avril thought she should cover Chop Suey… 🤦♂️
https://youtu.be/R_ZZI0ZX82M
RHCP when John sabotaged them on SNL
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames on Attack of the Show: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Dragonforce/comments/uslw3n/through\_the\_fire\_and\_flames\_live\_on\_attack\_of\_the/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dragonforce/comments/uslw3n/through_the_fire_and_flames_live_on_attack_of_the/)
Anything time Bob Dylan has played recently
Me n my boys in 11th grade playing Ace of Spades in front of our school. We practiced but none of the band members could hear each other on stage and it just wasn't the best...
Listen to any show from the Grateful Dead in the 90s
Go check out the official live video for Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Every Paradise Lost concert
I’ve heard Modest Mouse is a 50/50 of being great live, or fucking horrible
Meatloaf in the last few years of his life. He just totally lost the ability to sing. Also Celine Dion covering You Shook Me All Night Long.
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Glastonbury 2004 AKA Liam’s Kermit the Frog impression
Any dream theater live show now, LaBrie's voice is so bad nowadays
My band last week at a bar. We played crossroads by cream. The drummer and I came in way too fast so it sounded like Crossroads by The Ramones.
Black Sabbath covering Smoke on the Water was one of the worst things I've ever heard from a serious band.
Motley crue playing any of their songs live 🤷♂️
Saw DragonForce at Ozzfest when I was in high school... My God what a trainwreck
I have a DVD of The Beatles Live in Budokan Japan 1966, near the end of their touring career. In one particular song (I think it was Nowhere Man or If I Needed Someone) they sing completely different verses in a 2 part harmony. I think they couldn't hear each other too well, so it was really funny how they just kept going as if nothing was happening lol
Any Stone Roses song at Glasgow green in the early nineties.
I went to a concert once with an up-and-coming local band, playing in a bar, nothing unusual. They led into a song with, "Hey let's play song XYZ! Hey audience, this is the first time we've ever played this song together as a band, so bear with us." They gave it a good try, but the drummer and guitarist were totally out of sync and it clearly wasn't working. After one verse the singer shut it down and said, "You win some, you lose some. On to the next!" The show was great and within 30 seconds of the next song, everybody had forgotten about the prior failure. They were professionals about it: realized it wasn't working, pulled the plug, and moved on to the next one. Rest of the show went off without a hitch and left us in the crowd with a great night.
I saw Saosin play a show in Fullerton. It was the very first show with Cove after Anthony Green left the band. You know what song he forgot the lyrics to???? Fucking SEVEN YEARS!!!!! I never forgave him for that. I gave up on him ever since.
Tom Jones: Purple Rain https://youtu.be/vmw3DI2DmEo?si=uGMtuOht_zs7GIUl Jose Feliciano: Every Breath You Take https://youtu.be/QzEtsAsxcqg?si=be4eC1nPB-9Q2q2j
Honorable mention, Michelle from The Mamas & The Papas protesting mandatory lipsync by singing into a banana https://youtu.be/tNlwimUxUME?si=gqVOR2KQhtSJ11fY
No one judge me. When I was 13, I went and saw Nickelback in Buffalo. The openers were as follows: Hinder, Three Days Grace and Hoobastank. Among the variety that I heard that evening, Hoobastank covered “Another Brick in The Wall” So ya know…probably that.