Have you ever gone to a concert of one of your favorite band or artist and was disappointed then thought the album was better?

Yeah, I hate that. To me, it’s a mark of a poor musician because obviously they do a lot of work on the studio recording to make it so good. I can’t name any artists I’ve found this true of simply because I can’t think of any, but it’s happened to me a bunch of times over the years.

me too, but the small venues are always best.

Ever heard of one “Amy Winehouse”?

Although I was never a big fan, I recently saw Blink 182 at a music festival and they were terrible. I mean s.u.c.k.e.d. They not only sucked, but they were all cocky and stuff. Disappointing after hearing their hits on the radio.

Although her music is good, her performance at a concert is composed mainly by 3 elements: 1 – a drunk girl singing. 2 – a drunk girl sniffing you know what. and 3. a drunk girl falling repeatedly on stage.

Saw a Paul Simon and Bob Dylan concert about 8 years ago. Paul Simon was all flash and dazzle, and Bob Dylan’s tuneless singing made it impossible to recognize what song he was singing. A big disappointment.

@janbb Bob Dylan? Ouch…that would really disappoint me too

If a musical act is better in the studio than they are live, it makes me like both less.

Although I haven’t seen Coldplay in concert, I know I like their live recordings much less than their studio recordings.

However, Death Cab for Cutie is amazing live and sound just as good in concert as on the recording. (They are against auto tune, a rarity in the industry.)

Amanda Palmer is also amazing live and recorded.

I heard a performance of linkin park ‘shadow of the day’ just awesome, and live.

Some artists are just not as good live as they are in the studio. I love jacks albums and have also seen him live outdoors and in Theaters but he just doesn’t really have a great stage presence and solo accoustic just isn’t that great live. I was also very dissapoonted when I saw Citizen Cope live and had a similar experience.

This doesn’t count as a favorite artist by any means, but when I was little I got dragged to a Monkees concert with a babysitter. This was the 80’s and they were playing at run-down place called the Starlight that had been big in the early 60’s. It was slightly worse than playing at a casino.

It was depressing. Really, really depressing, and that even struck me as a young kid. There were aging fans, Davy Jones still trying to act foxy and spry, the lighting was off and the die-hards who had dragged a lot of their paraphernelia with them were talking manically about the good ol’ days. The show was canned, tried too hard and no one sounded good. There had been some sort of horror movie night there a few nights previous, and you could still smell the stale popcorn.

I could have left my Monkees experience at just a few memories from albums heard occasionally and not had this dumped into my collection of formative impressions. Ugh. I’m shuddering just thinking about it . . .

It was an older group. I saw the Black Crowes (for free) at a venue here in town. Back in the early 90’s, I like rather enjoyed the albums put out by Chris Robinson et al. When I saw them play live, Chris didn’t interact with the crowd, they had these long, boring, instrumental periods going on, and they played, maybe, a couple of their older songs (that people loved). The rest was new stuff off of their recent album. I hadn’t heard any of the new stuff, and was disappointed (as were a lot of people).

I’m a huge Meat Loaf fan and have seen him many times in concert. However, the last time I saw him he was a mess and I went awy quite dissapointed. Thankfully the album he was promoting on that tour (Bat out of Hell 3: The Monster is Loose) is, in my opinion, one of his best and I have seen him enough times to have some great concert memories!

It’s not my favorite band, but I saw Fall Out Boy at a music festival a few years ago, and it was terrible. I thought they were okay before that, but this was just depressing. Their singer was trying way too hard to sound tough. The obscure bands who opened the festival earlier in the day were a million times better.

@evegrimm, Coldplay are actually pretty good live (musically). But they’re kind of awkward, visually. Chris Martin kind of jumps around while the others just stand there.