2 Bands That You Should Never Watch Live Unless Your Life Depends On It
Motley Crue
Vince Neil sings maybe 30% of most songs. He would just run out of breath after 1-2 words of every verse. It actually feels like watching a really bad SNL skit.
The band takes rotating breaks after every 2-3 songs, so they'd have these weird intermissions with really stupid skits and acts and just garbage. One was a 10 minute long Tommy Lee drum solo, so that wasn't so bad - the rest were just awful.
"Little People" aren't automatically entertaining. Sorry, you can't just throw 10 people with dwarfism on stage and expect everyone to forget they came to see a rock show.
They consistently live up to their unprofessional reputation by delaying the show by an hour or two. Secondly, someone needs to fire the genius organizer at one of their venues who decided to do 45 minutes of "show your tits cam" on the jumbotron. Except no woman under 50 was into it. So there were a whole lot of very saggy, pruny and visibly fake breasts belonging to very haggard looking women that the rest of the audience was subjected to.
MGMT
Basically because they wrote the first album, full of synthy hooks, essentially just to get a record deal. They never intended to sound like that as a band but the album became so popular that now they're stuck playing songs they've always hated. They think everyone who likes "Kids" is an idiot, and they play that way onstage. It's pretty damn unprofessional.
They show up late, smoke cigarettes and bullshit their entire sound check like they couldn't give a single fuck, and then go on to give a performance that makes The Black Eyed Peas performance at the Superbowl look like Michael Jackson’s Superbowl performance.
It would have been better if they just put a CD in a boom-box and walked off the stage. The singer acts like he's half asleep. Everyone seems incredibly disinterested in doing what they are doing. Heck, this attitude was close to the height of their popularity, so I can only imagine things have gotten worse.