I'm just holding these Bieber tickets for a 'friend'...

Kenny Chesney, it probably sucked because it was a combination of pop and country. It was a blind date that was pretty damn boring, back in 2001. I was still impressed with the fashion choices, no way I'd wear jeans with a seam so deep up my ass it could double as a fucking thong.

 

Hole. A hot girl gave me a ticket on the condition that I stand behind her in the mosh pit. I took ear plugs, they didn't help. I could still hear the crap that was playing, and they did NOTHING to filter my eyes from looking up at stage and seeing straight up Courtney Love's skirt to see a the bruised and scabbed meat curtains around an abyssal pit of loathing and despair that I can only assume was her vagina.

You can't drink that kind of visual away.

 

Does No Doubt count if it was the Tragic Kingdom tour? I enjoyed that album a lot when I was 11, and I don't want to listen to it now to see if I had horrible taste.

If not them, then I will have to second NSYNC. Brittany Spears opened for them. I had my mom's minivan decorated with window paint to announce to the world that we were going to see NSYNC and seats so close I got to touch Justin Timberlake's hand during "Drive Myself Crazy." While I will admit this is an embarrassing concert to have gone to, I will not apologize for being obsessed with NSYNC when I was 13.

 

T-Pain, when he came to my school, because my friends were going. I even bought a T-shirt. I was young(er) and stupid(er).

 

Amy Grant. It was 1994. Worst. Concert. Ever.

 

Elton John, with the ex-fiance.

It was terrible too. His voice was all hoarse, like he had a sore throat, or something . . . .hmmmmm. Just sounding worse and worse, isn't it?

 

Year: 2000
My age: 23
Location: Tampa
Performers: Destiny's Child opened for Christina Aguilera.

I had just moved from small town Canada. This was my first big concert. 98% of the crowd were 14 year and younger girls. Why they had the bar open I dont know, but the guy working it liked hockey and gave us free beer all night, as long as we talked about how shitty the Lightning were.

 

I went to a Ratt/Poison concert in 2007 to look out for my little sister and her friends. Why the hell a group of 16 year olds wanted to see shitty 80's bands is beyond me. I really didn't think it could get any worse until the fat rednecks who were standing next to me started fucking. I didn't realize what was happening until her saggy tit started pressing into my arm everytime Billy Ray thrust into her. Ugh.

I'm pretty sure that was the worst moment of my life.

 

Enrique Iglesias

 

Were you hanging out with Gaddafi's sons?

Focus-

I had some shitty tastes in music when I was 13-14 years old. While I can still tolerate bands like Adema and Korn to this day, I also listened to concerts featuring Pennywise and (shudder) Linkin Park.

I had a really good time, but at that concert, I came to the sudden realization that all their songs sound the exact same...

 

I have actually now seen Willie Nelson twice, the most recent being at Farm Aid last year (I was there for Neil Young). I am not opposed to Willie Nelson, but just not my typical kind of music. I just never thought that the closest I would ever come to being trampled in a crowd would be at Willie Nelson.

And I love Elton John, the fact that this is a humiliating concert breaks my heart a little bit, I am not going to lie.

 

My parents dragged me to Michael Bolton with them when I was younger. Except we never made it in because I was playing on the car, fell off and re-broke my collarbone. I was still in a sling from the previous one.

Hands down - Warped Tour 2006. Featuring such groundbreaking bands as Anti-Flag, NOFX, Yellowcard, and a bunch of other shitty pop punk bands whose names I can't remember. Oh, and there was the Linkin Park Live CD/DVD set I was thrilled to get for my 14th birthday, which was in all honesty terrible. Fuck what anyone says though, Chester Bennington had vocal talent and as formulaic and emo as they were (are?) their first two albums are alright to listen to on rare occasion.


Then again, when I was 12 years old my favorite CDs were the Backstreet Boys' eponymous album and Shania Twain's Come On Over. Fuck that hurts to even type. This is still a badass song though.

 

A lot of these are breaking my heart that they're considered embarrassing. Yeah, maybe for any male poster it would be shameful, but if I had gotten to see NYSNC in concert I would still be bragging about that every day.

I'm not embarrassed of any of the concerts I've been to either. It's a pretty good list. The only one that's kind of the odd one out is I saw Train because they were playing at a nearby college and the tickets were, like $10 and my dad bought them first and asked me if I wanted to go after the fact. Whatever. No shame. "Drops of Jupiter" 4ever.

But, not that the concert itself was too shameful, but for me personally I was a little bit out of place at the Ghostface Killah concert I went to with dubyu tee eff a few weeks ago.

 

Back in 2000 I saw Sevendust with Dope and Chevelle as opening acts in Kitchener. Because Sevendust was so little-known in Canada, it was a 250-person bar as the venue. Sevendust was a great live show, Chevelle I remember was good for a band with no label yet, but Dope....FUCK I wanted them to die, these Korn/Marilym Manson wannabe fucks. I was the first person in line for the show so I was front and centre against the barrier of the stage (where you get kicked in the back of the head A LOT), and the fucking lead singer of Dope was thrashing me with his rancid whiteguy dreadlocks every five seconds during their set. This guy looks like he's dying of AIDS and Jenna Haze used to beg to fuck HIM!?!?!??!?! I wanted to punch him in the face SO BAD but I didn't want to get tossed before the headliner who I drove 60 miles to see. Dope did this rendition of "Fuck tha Police" that made baby Jesus cry tears thick, black blood. Abortions galore.

 

I went to see the Hoodoo Gurus. Since none of you know who that is, that's not too bad. But, they opened for the Bangels. I was with two other dudes - after two songs we were like, "Okay, I've seen Susanna Hoffs. Not impressed. We can leave." So, yeah . . . the Bangels. I was 17 or 18.

I also saw Justin Timberlake live, but he was sandwiched in amongst The Guess Who, Rush, AC/DC and The Rolling Stones, so I think that's okay. <cough, cough> He was good. <cough, cough>

 

I've seen Elton John 4 times and every time was great. He puts on a great show.

I just remembered seeing Culture Club. The mushrooms though made it seem like I was in a cartoon.

 

My first concert was Black Eyed Peas - the Elephunk tour. It was very disappointing to my 14 year old self and continues to disappoint me today because of my lapse in judgement.

I agree with Audrey, I would be overwhelmingly proud if I'd ever had the chance to see N*SYNC. Angel, it's nothing to be embarrassed about at all.

 

One time I watched Coolio sing Gangsta's Paradise on top of a lunch table inside a college cafeteria to a bunch of white kids who probably went to prep school. That made me feel embarrassed on his behalf.

 

Back in 2005 I saw Papa Roach, who were completely overshadowed by one of their openers: Skindred. Oh, you've never heard of Skindred before? Exactly.