I was at an Aerosmith concert where Jean Dixon had reportedly predicted that the roof would cave in while they played Dream On. That didn't happen because Steven Tyler passed out cold about 30 seconds into the song. Concert canceled.

/now in the correct thread.

We telling bad concert stories here? How about Dave Mustaine announcing election results half-way through the show four years ago.

/what a bummer

I saw Blue Oyster Cult in 1976 in Spokane, Washington.

Let's just say that this was a spectacular laser light show that was done before there were regulations on laser light shows.

It was either extremely awesome, or the weed back then was extremely potent ;)

SpinStopper: I saw Blue Oyster Cult in 1976 in Spokane, Washington.

Let's just say that this was a spectacular laser light show that was done before there were regulations on laser light shows.

It was either extremely awesome, or the weed back then was extremely potent ;)

I've seen BOC about 3 or 4 times. Awesome fricken show.

I saw Blue Oyster Cult in 1976 in Spokane, Washington.

I saw BOC in Germany in 1980 - The Cultosaurus Erectus tour - not a great album...but then again, they were without producer Sandy Pearlman - Still Those boys could rock! Great Show

Hetfield hocked a loogie that landed on my chest. I was wearing a Testament t-shirt. Coincidence? You decide.

THE CULT, Vanderbilt gym, Nashville, circa 1990.

Wooden bench style gym stands aren't built to hold crowded standing fans. (To think about it, they are not called "sits".) It was like a springboard. The first couple of rows gave away. The people in the middle collasped onto the floor. The people, like me, standing on the far ends got catapolted in the air. Good times.

Awesome show.

Saw Blue Oyster Cult in 1974 (New York Dolls was the opener). This was basically the same show as presented on their 1st live album "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees".

/ME 262 was awesome.

I have a family friend who is in her late 50s and is a long-sober recovering junky. There's a legendary story about her, which is apparently true. Jimi Hendrix peed on her backstage at his Cincinnati show.

My first concert was Van Halen at SuperEx in Ottawa. Went on rides all day, taking breaks to sneak into the stadium. The last time we snuck in, we got to see the soundcheck. Awesome.

AC/DC in 2000 in Ottawa was pretty cool - went with my dad and a bunch of his friends. Turns out drunken middle-aged teachers really know how to party. Who knew?

I was at a System of a Down show and this giant (6'5") was tripping out on acid. He turned to me right before the band came on and said "Are you ready for the Apocalypse?" Needless to say I wasnt. When the band came on (Soldiers Side opener) he tossed me across the floor like Uncle Phil tosses Jazz on Fresh Prince. Awesome show though.

A long time ago in Los Angeles (1986? 1987?), I went to see X at the Palace in Hollywood. Things got pretty rough on the floor with the mosh pit, and a guy in the crowd got his hand cut open with a broken beer bottle. I remember there was blood everywhere and it got splattered on me and my friend - totally freaking us out. I also remember that the guy was really drunk and didn't seem to care much. Nor did most of the....

I wonder if they were playing 'I See Red' at the time.

One time at a Jonas Bros show, Miley Cyrus totally walked out on stage. OMFG, I never saw it coming!

I got my glasses broken by a crowd-surfer's boot at a Butthole Surfers concert in 1996. I found six pairs of glasses in the rubble on the floor after the show, and mine were the least broken. Had to wear them for a couple months with a hole in one lens.

Motörhead and Ozzy Osbourne in 1981... during Motörhead's set I saw a pipe bomb go off over the crowd. Didn't hear it though.

I once got an old man stoned at an April Wine concert, who clearly thought it was just a rolled cigarette. Must've been about 80-85 and asked for a puff.

After taking a huge draw and coughing for like 5 minutes, he said to his wife "That's the strangest tasting tobacco I've ever smoked!!!"

I walked away lollin'.

'07 Warped Tour - Frank Carter of Gallows jumped off stage in the middle of a song, kicked some guy's ass, then got back on stage and started the next song.

After being in the music business for about 7 years, I have had the opportunity to hang with a lot of rockstars (and literally thousands of wannabes). My favorite story though, was the time I went into the studio with the Wu Tang Clan. After getting my ass handed to me in a game of ping pong by Raekwon, I went onto the back porch and smoked the most powerful blunt I have ever touched.I am a regular smoker and live in LA, so I am used to super-primo dank, but this shiat knocked me on my ass. We all went back into the studio and I parked on a big leather couch. The engineer played back a loop while GZA sat at the board with a pen and pad. The Chef bobbed his head to the track, but was fixated on a huge plasma screen as the end of Reservoir Dogs played out. As the final shootout ended, Rae says, "yo rewind that shiat?" The engineer stopped the music. Rae says, "No, the movie." For the next 45 minutes, the dozen or so people in the room, all high as kites, tried to figure out who shot whom at the end of the film. Trying not to look like an idiot, I finally cracked. Tears streamed down my aching cheeks, weary with laughter like I had eaten a bunch of mushrooms. I had to sit there for another several hours before I was safe to get in the car. Good times.

My only regret was that I couldn't get on the chess board with the Genius. In a surreal twist,he was busy playing with the valet parking guy from Ferris Bueller.

Pesky_Humans: Good times.

That is an awesome story indeed.

Red Hot Chili Peppers in the late 80's in front of about 200 people at the former Celebrity Theater in Anaheim, CA. The place held about a thousand, and since it was such a small crowd, the theater owners decided to cordon off the round theater with plywood sheets. Red Hots' shows of that era were far more well suited for a wide open space like the Palladium, but I get the feeling that the theater owners at this venue had never even heard of the band. Otherwise they probably would not have booked them.

Needless to say, by the time Faith No More (with the original singer) finished the opening set, the crowd was going bananas. By the end of the first Red Hots' song, the plywood and most of the seat cushions had been liberated and sent flying across the room. As the encore concluded and the house lights went up, the owners of theater filed in past the sweaty crowd to find their establishment more or less destroyed. 3 extraordinarily dapper black gentlemen in Steve Harvey-esque purple suits, hats, and gators, the owners stared slack-jawed at the ruins.

/it was my first of over 3 dozen RHCP shows
//and one of Hillel's last -dude was an amazing player RIP

Black Sabbath Reunion Show in England maybe '98(?) - I lost the plot, my mind and everything holy in the front of the crowd as I had waited for this moment since about 1980 - attempted to get up on stage to fornicate with Ozzy's leg like a horny poodle to show him my appreciation, intercepted by several large men, removed AND physically beaten with fist and foot, thrown in a large puddle. Jumped back up laughing and manic, danced and sang my ass off with some Hell's Angels and various loose women - sore next day.

Hawkwind at Stonehenge Free Festival '84, or was it the Enid? - Band stopped playing to regale crowd with five minute tale of many intimate details of my life and then announced sternly they wouldn't play until I stood up and got out of the way of the traffic which somehow was in the crowd. Friend I was with strangely enough became embroidered on the sky.

Royal Trux - somewhere in London - support act was tv playing a world cup football match. saw Jennifer next day on the street and between asking her to come back to mine asked 'what was the tv about?' - to which she said 'uuuuuuhhhhhh you guys uuuuuuuuuhhhhh like that stuff uh? yeah..' - Then Neil came back and whisked her away.

Many others, memory compromised.

I got my nose broken by some random dude after he was hurled through the air by some other dudes into my face in the harshest mosh pit ever when Hirax opened with "Bombs of Death" at a Venom headliner in like 1986.

/Pits have gotten lame these days, I've noticed. Just a buncha pussies skipping in a circle.

shpritz: Hetfield hocked a loogie that landed on my chest. I was wearing a Testament t-shirt. Coincidence? You decide.

Tell us about the time you were teabagged at an Elton John concert.

i had to camp in a foot of mud at phish once... ughhhh

Back in the mid eighties, me and four of my buddies went to an ACDC show (fly on the wall??). We rolled a 10 inch dube for the occasion. About half way through the hot end breaks off and drops into this girls hair that was sitting in the row in front of us. It was a good sized chunk and was burning quite hot. We sat there looking at each other wondering what we were going to do and who was going to do it. Finally on of my friends starts whacking this girl on the head trying to put it out and/or brush it off. The look on her and her boyfriends face was priceless and the laugh I got out of it was worth the price of admission.

/oh the days...

My friends and I decided to go to a Pantera/Sepultura show in the mid '90's. We were right on the edge of the mosh pit, watching various headbangers beat each other up like it was Christmas and they each got a gift of kick-your-ass that they just adored.

Phil, Pantera's lead singer, brought a keg out on stage and began hurling cups of beer into the audience. It was very cool; he'd grab the cup by the lip and hurl it out so, if one was quick, one could snag a whole cup o' beer out the air.

Then Phil got very drunk and was gagging and retching on stage. That sucked.

What sucked worse was the guy that got shivved. My friends and I were enjoying the show when we saw this guy running across the mosh pit. He was like a man possessed, running across the grain so he caught our attention. He yanked something out of his pocket and then, deftly--like he'd done it a thousand times before--starting stabbing a guy in the kidney. Quick-like...like "stick-stick-stick." Then he dashed away into the crowd before the guy he stabbed hit the ground.

All in all, it was a cool show. Traffic sucked on the way out, though.

Lollapalooza 1993 Alpine Valley - Best time ever. Soundgarden, Chili Pepers, Pearl Jam, Ministry. So much sod being thowwn during Soundgarden it was unbelievable....especially when trippin balls.

FeedTheCollapse: One time at a Jonas Bros show, Miley Cyrus totally walked out on stage. OMFG, I never saw it coming!

So jealous.

I was at this Styx show and all of the sudden these right wingers appeared and dragged the band off stage. The whole crowd was screaming for the fundies' blood.

Dr. Righteous was the leader's name, I think.

Dylan and I made eye contact as he began to sing the second verse of "It Takes a Lot Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" for the second time. We both just smiled and he continued on and I was so stoked.

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Yanked a t-shirt out of some chicks hand that I should have caught anyway when thrown by the lead singer of Phunk Junkees

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Caught G Love's guitar pick

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My wife punched a guy trying to get the drum cover at an RHCP concert...everybody was throwing punches so I was proud of her for throwing some back...she didn't get the cover though

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Got SA Martinez, Nick Hexum, Billy Joe and Tre Cool's autographs. Waited for the Beastie Boys autograph and to say hey, but they just ran by and got on the bus.

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Got on stage and jammed with some band at Schwagstock

Ummm...Warped Tour 08, Pittsburgh, Alesana

Halfway through the set right up front, a section of the barrier fell down from the crowd pushing so hard and people started falling under the crowd and getting trampled. I dont even remember getting out of there...