blood brothers DO suck. i saw them open for coheed and cambria and they were ****ing awful.

Dating myself here.

Walked out on Styx at the Texxas Jam at the Astrodome in 1983. Following Sammy Hagar, Triumph and Ted Nugent was not good, especially since Hagar, Nugent and Rik Emmett closed Hagar's set with some Zeppelin.

Walked out of a Disturbed show when the singer started *****ing about Bush instead of making monkey noises like we paid him to do. Will never spend any money on anything related to Disturbed again. Their careers are basically over now anyway, though.

Walked out of Black Sabbath w/Ozzy when they did War Pigs and showed film of US soldiers on the screen (mixed with other assorted evil doers) during the song. Ozzy's such a sloppy, clueless d-bag that I'm not sure he had any idea what was going on. Hard to hold a permanent grudge against him, he's such a hapless, drugged out retard.

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Most recently walked out on Bobby Long.

Didnt know he had such a connection to the Twilight craze. But there were tons of cougars in the crowd. But he was a tool so I left.

Before that I cant think of a headliner I walked out on. Maybe Shellac/rapeman.

Snoop Dogg was terrible

I went to see Sinead O'Connor at the Austin City Coliseum back in 1990. She performed 2 songs and walked off the stage never to return.

And the one time I saw RATM, I thought they were pretty damn good.

Ashley...not sure if you read the first post, but I was there too. I'm still pissed.

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I walked out on Tim Reynolds.

I love his work w/Dave, but his anti-war lyrics were just horribly juvenile, and is singing is only slightly worse.

I love live guitar music, but as someone else mentioned, you can only take some many looped space sounds.

A little piece of me died when I walked out on Chris Cornell earlier this year (or maybe last year?). It was his concert tour w/Timbaland to promote his new Timbaland produced album. It was cool to see him in Denver, but we quickly grew tired of every song sounding the exact same as the song before it and tired of seeing him vamp around on stage like he was a model.

Left plenty of shows early just to beat traffic, bad weather, etc., especially if I've seen the band several times before.

I just ordered Dylan's Christmas album.

It's kind of like buying a Hawaiian shirt, the uglier they are, the better. I'm intrigued by the human spectacle that Bob had become. I'm also a firm believer that he perpetuates it to some extent. At a show this summer, he was notably easier to understand on newer songs and sounded worse, and enunciated worse on older songs, almost like he is deciding which ones he wants to be understandable on.

I didn't walk out because I was with friends but Willie Nelson at Red Rocks was the most boring concert I've ever been to and if I had been by myself, I'd have left after Pancho and Lefty. I like Willie but I got talked into going to that concert.

Most other concerts I've seen are my favorite bands so other than opening acts, I would never leave.

Rascall Flatts a couple of summers ago,

Walked out on some opening acts and returned for the main act.
Bob Marley and the Whalers in Philly...must of been about 1976? Opening for the WHO.
Nobody knew them or what their music was about then and they opened with their version of John Denvers "Rockie Mountain High"...it was the worst thing I think I ever heard.
Guess I also walked out on a top act...Steve Wynwood and Traffic. He played the Flute for 1/2 hour and put me to sleep so I went next door to the hotel and went to sleep.

sugar ray some years ago....... that d-bag of a singer made me wanna blow up the stage

Pearl Jam in Dallas (circa 2000ish?) when Dennis Rodman nearly ruined the entire thing was pretty terrible.

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Really? I mean Rodman sucked, but aside from the Murder City Devils sucking the life out of Sonic Reducer that was a pretty damn good show.

Another one for Bob Dylan. He played the Memphis in May musicfest here maybe 8-10 years ago and did every song in "scat" jazz type fashion. Walked to the other end of the venue and took in a couple local bands instead.

Also, back in the early 80s, Van Halen on the Diver Down tour, David Lee Roth was so ****in' plowed that he couldn't even sing and freakin mumbled his way through most of the set...

i dont know. I had just awful seats, and i just remember it being an awful experience.

Another particularly bad show would have to be Bo Diddly at Wolf Pen Creek. That was shortly before he died, though. Can't really bag on the guy for being an old man.

Brand New - my girl made me see it

Let me add a footnote in Dylan's defense, since I earlier posted negative statements about him. He has evolved, and continued to evolve. Track his career over the pretty well half century he's been around, and you'll see that he's constantly changing. His enunciation will go from clear to incoherent and back, his vocal quality from screechy to mellow and everything in between.

I know I'm in a minority in not appreciating his songwriting, but I find his lyrics to be mostly too clever and too self aware. Let me add that I'm crazy about anchovy pizza, so that tells you how much good taste I have.

Randy Rogers Band at Hurricane Harry's circa 2004.

We went to see Wade Bowen, who was the opening act. Didn't really know who RRB was and we were piss drunk by the end of Wade, so we left.

It's funny how big Wade got.

bob dylan in the astrodome for the rodeo one year.

Green Day, Freeman Coliseum (SA)

Some d-bags that opened for Tom Petty at the Erwin Center in 01 or so. It was some kind of strange gypsy music with little singing and had no relation to rock at all.

merle haggard at stubb's around 1999. he was wasted and kept forgetting lines to his own songs.

willie neslon at sxsw in 2002 in order to catch the tail end of me first and the gimme gimmes.

Motley Crue @ cruefest last year at the Toyota Center. Glad I didn't have to pay for that.

I didn't walk out, but should have. Motley Crue at Red Rocks circa 2000-2001. Mick Mars was the only guy who could even come close to being a musician that night. The substitute drummer from Hole was OK. Tommy Lee missed the show because he was in Jail.

Megadeth opened for them and blew Motley Crue away. Megadeth didn't open for them too many more times after that I think. I'm sure it also got blamed on Dave being a D*ck even though the real reason was they were tired of getting blown away by the opening act.

I ended up walking out of a concert by The Sugarcubes that was held in Deep Ellum in the late 1980s. Had heard good things about Bjork and her band but encountered nothing but painful screeches and screaming. The audio feedback was the most pleasing part of the entire performance. So my one and only sampling of Icelandic indie rock was less that positive.

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+1

Thought there was going to be a riot.

The Pocket Fishermen were awesome!

The Metric show in Dallas made my ears bleed.


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Surprised to see Toadies and RATM mentioned on here. I've seen Toadies I don't know how many times and they've always been on.

RATM I saw once a couple years ago, and although I was what seemed like a mile away from the stage (was there with my sister) the energy was still pretty rockin'.

I was there for Martin Short. I dunno if you can consider that a concert but it was definitely the most painful live performance I've ever witnessed. I've never left a show, game, or movie early ... but that was pretty close.

White Zombie.......out of breath and gasping for air singer......

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