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As an argentinian, I agree. It's not frecuent to happen but it did, rock and metal crowd can be very intolerant and closed with opening bands. Happened something similar with Meredith Brooks at the Rolling Stones concert.
But they actually rewarded the crowd. They got to hear stuff that possibly noone else on earth ever got to hear, some of their experimental/prototype works... I can see how they thought they were punishing them but they actually were giving them something that is like a special reward for a make a wish kid or something, the chance to hear music from your favorite band that noone else has ever heard! And good especially for the 100s and 1000s in the crowd who werent throwing shit. Bands shouldnt try and punish 0.1% of the crowd by punishing all of them.... just kick those people out. I dont consider it trolling lol
@@kendallevans4079 bruh yes he used drugs but so what just cause someone uses drugs that does't make them a bad person and also he was a amazing musician
In March 1986, Dire Straits was performing in Western Springs Stadium in Auckland New Zealand. Someone threw a water bottle and it actually hit Mark Knopfler in the head. He immediately stopped playing and demanded to know who it was. The crowd pointed him out and the technicians turned the spotlights on him. Mark ordered him out and said the concert wouldn't continue until he was gone. Eventually, with 30,000 angry fans screaming at him, the thrower had to walk out with the spotlight following him all the way. Only after that did the music start again.
I understand where you're coming from but nobody intentionally burned those people. Key word: intentionally. The Fyre Festival was the work of a con artist. People like that are very very dangerous. Especially if they get away with it the first time they try.
you can't do much living if you lose everything, which is what happened to the people of the island, you see they didn't just scam rich kids, the innocent people who were promised a paycheck for their effort at salvaging the event were the most affected ones
@@chrisgraham2327 i’ll take being bankrupt over burning alive at the age of 23 anytime of the day. putting fyre festival over the 100 lives lost at the great white concert is a huge L.
@@chrisgraham2327 but justice was served with a 100 million dollar lawsuit against billy, and then another lawsuit and then 7 more lawsuits then he was charged with fraud and given 6 years in federal prison
But that's the thing that Watchmojo didn't care to explain, or didn't know: it wasn't a Nickelback concert, it a very heavy metal fest where some idiot organizing the event thought it was a good idea to put Nickelback playing between Slipknot and Dimmu Borgir. Yes, you read that right. Poor planning at its worst. Of course it doesn't excuse the audience for being dumbasses, but I assure you there were no Nickelback fans on the crowd that day. Ilha do Ermal Festival was always a very heavy fest, and to even think of Nickelback in the middle of all the other names playing there that night was just insane. That crowd wasn't there for rock, they were there for metal. Still, no excuse :\
One that wasn't mentioned; Aerosmith's two concerts in Philadelphia PA . I was at both concerts. I forget the particulars of the first concert, someone threw a firecracker 🧨on stage and it exploded about 6 inches from Perry's guitar hand. Angry, Aerosmith walked off and the rest of the show was canceled and Aerosmith didn't return to Philadelphia for a few years over it. Then after deciding to give us another chance, some idiot throws a bottle 🍼on the stage and again, Aerosmith angrily walks off, ending the show and vowing never to return to Philadelphia. Although I was pissed due to missing the rest of the show, I fully understood their decision and couldn't blame them. A side note, I was with a group of 10 of my friends for the second show and we were seated about 5 rows behind the 3 jack asses who threw the bottle. They did get an ass kicking outside the venue ( The Spectrum ). So Aerosmith, if any of you see this, I just wanted to let you know, they got what was coming to them.
Well, Philadelphia does have a very bad reputation of being a Hooligans Nest. And situations like this are not helping to clean it at all. Jeez, the City should start putting the Hooligan Law there and start putting drinking fountains on the venues instead of letting water bottles in It seems that the only artists (that I know that did concerts there, comment me if there's another one) that can come to Philadelphia and not get harassed or attacked by these Hooligans are Elton John and Billy Joel
The Nickelback one is apparently because of a booking mistake. They were booked on a lineup for a Portuguese heavy metal festival In front of fans who were not really there to see them nor would be receptive to them. Chad Kroeger has said something like this in interviews that talked about the incident.
Yup, they put Nickelback on a black and deathmetal gig, ofc things went to shit quite fast, nevertheless no band deserves that treatment and was shitty and disrespectful thing to do to the band.
One incident worth mentioning was the Altamont Speedway Free Festival in 1969, where The Rolling Stones was performing, and the one mistake made was hiring a motorcycle gang as security, we all know how that happened.
As someone from houston, the astroworld festival was an absolute disgrace. Travis continuing to perform while ambulances in the crowd are being jumped on, people being trampled on and killed, people trying to tell stage workers to stop him, and his just total lack of compassion afterwards is sickening. There were thousands of people squished on the floor, many of them not even teenagers yet. Livenation is also to blame. Travis should never come back here. Ten people ended up dying, on his hands, and hundreds more injured. I know he's being sued, but all the parents who had kids die, should take him for all his money. Watching #8 brings back horrible memories, and makes me angry and sad for the innocent concert goers.
"Exactly who is responsible is hard to say" Travis. It was Travis Scott's fault. Playing stupid doesn't absolve him of guilt. He kept performing when he could have shut that shit down at literally any point.
@@bobthedopeman7327 while he was the headliner and he reacted poorly, the manager hires sn event coordinator who then hires a security detail. They hired some cheap ass security crew that hired workers for a day rate. Security was way understaffed so they could pocket the money.
He might get away with the "I didn't know what was going on because of the lights and noise" BS, but when he saw the ambulances trying to get through, he should've known something was going on and he should've immediately told the audience to let the medical personnel through. Instead, he flipped off the ambulances and watched as they were swarmed and attacked by the crowd.
Let's not forget the time Tom Araya asked the crowd at a Slayer concert for a moment of silence in memory of Jeff Hanneman, only for the crowd to adamantly refuse to quiet down, making Tom and the rest of the band increasingly upset, until they just walked off the stage and cancelled the rest of the show.
@@paulmcgrath6118 More than a few. Yeah? Then why is it, at a concert I went to right after 9/11 happened, the singer asked for a moment of silence, and an entire arena full of once screaming people had no problem shutting the fuck up? Turns out, if you can't hear the singer say it, someone else in the crowd can transliterate. It took about 15 seconds to achieve total silence, but we got there. No excuses.
No mention of the 1971 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Montreux concert where some idiot in the audience shot off a flare gun, burning down the Casino (which wasn't fully rebuilt until 1975), destroying all of FZ's gear, and inspiring Deep Purple's hit Smoke on the Water? I couldn't find any statistics but I'm sure there had to be injuries and possibly fatalities as well.
@@dougerrohmer That's the song lyric. I read about the event as it was reported to the Police at the scene. Deep Purple wasn't at the concert, they were in town to record their first album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio across an inlet of the lake. Smoke on the water was written by Deep Purple's bass player, and the title was based on the view of the smoke from the casino drifting across the lake.
An even worse one was FZ's next concert at The Rainbow Theatre in London ruined by another moron; the person in question pushed him off the stage into an orchestra pit, causing horrific injuries that left him wheelchair-bound and unable to tour for almost a year. Apart from a broken leg that left his leg slightly shorter than the other the fall also crushed his voice-box permanently lowering the pitch of his voice by a third of an octave. A terrible tour for Frank in general.
Nice. - Pantera's Far Beyond Driven tour was my first concert. Still got the guitar pick Darryl tossed, too. All white in red lettering of Pantera on one side, then Far Beyond Drunken along with his signature on the other. Been keepin it in a dime baggie for around 20 years now. - 👍
Columbus OH, December 9, 2004....Damage Plan was playing a concert in a nightclub when a "fan", clearly not well, opened fire, wounding 3 and killing 4, including Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darryl Abbot. Definitely changed how security was handled afterwards.
If I recollect accurately the fire that happened at the single-story club venue, it was discovered that management chained the door at the back of the club to keep people from coming in the back without paying the cover fee at the front door.
There was also the stage door for the act to get out, but they wouldn't let anyone out except the band. I am from RI and this is one of the worst disaster I'd seen.
Besides, the concert wasn't ruined by morons, it was a scam perpetrated by someone smart enough to pull off something like that. Well, that's Watchmojo for you.
Including one of the band, if I'm remembering right. Seriously, the only thing that the Great White fire has over Fire festival (aside from being spelt right) is that their manager took responsibility for his actions and expressed genuine regret.
I went to a concert where stage drapes caught fire in the corner somehow. The fire was still small when audience began noticing it. Though the band realized it was there, they continued playing as if it was part of the show while stagehands tried putting it out. They finally stopped when one of the amps caught fire.
Selena Quintanilla had her own incident where the crowd was pushing back against the stage at a Monterrey concert, where the stage itself was about to break.
Sorry no, there's tons of cellphone footage of Travis Scott encouraging that behaviour and bemoaning the ambulance that showed up. He's the idiot that ruined his own show, end of story.
Yup. I feel like the narrator is an idiot. "eXaCtLy wHo iS rEsPoNsIbLe iS hArD tO sAy" Travis. Travis Scott is responsible for those deaths. That should be a career ender.
@@keidrinwilliam3085 I wouldn't defend Travis Scott if I were you. Not only was he the man to blame for the AstroWorld incident. But in a past concert he encouraged the crowd to beat up the person in said crowd that stole his shoes.
Technically the concert didn't even started yet when the tragedy occurred. But it is messed up how nobody bothered to the tell the band that people had actually died until after the show.
Yes, this should have been on the list. Changes in how tickets are sold came from this. This ended "General admission" at least for indoor shows. Been a long time since I've been to a concert, so don't know if that's still the case
There is a book called Only a Moment Away that was written by a survivor or the station concert fire. The title is in reference to his friend who was standing next to him when the fire started and didn't survive the fire, he describes the whole start of the fire and it is chilling how quickly the venue went from clear to pitch black .
How is the Fyre festival number 1 when 100 people died at the Great White show? Obviously 100 deaths is worse than people getting ripped off, don't you think?
I heard the Britney Spears weed issue was due to fear the people controlling her may take away her visitation with her boys if weed somehow got into her system.
Perhaps. Makes sense. But that only shows another dumb side of the way society thinks... A mother with weed in her system is a BAD MOTHER because (?)...
I can think of 2 concerts that end tragically that should have been in the honorable mentions. The Who concert of 1979 that left 11 dead. And the Rolling Stones concert of 1969 at Altamont Speedway.
Roger Daltrey actually visited friends and relatives of the people killed in that 1979 concert recently. There's video of a recent Who concert in the same city, where the band gave their condolences and dedicated a long version of Love Reign O'er Me to the concert victims and showed photos of the victims during the song.
@WillieManga right. For all we know, half of the attendees may have dipped into their hard earned savings just to get the basic packages they offered. Rich or poor, it's the thievery people should be upset about.
I'm from New England, and I tell you, the Station fire still affects our concerts. It was a decade before I could even get into the 18+ clubs, but I still know what happened and I still find myself checking to make sure they've got the systems in place to prevent that from happening again (sprinklers, no pyro allowed, etc.). Earlier this month I saw Aerosmith at Fenway Park, and they used pyro, which went perfectly fine, but that's because it's a huge outdoor stadium, and even that made me a little nervous. At the House of Blues in Boston, they don't allow pyro, but they'll make a pre-show announcement to look around for exits, just so we don't forget.
You should’ve seen Phil anselmo on the last few shows of pantera. He was so wasted that he was sitting on stage leaning up to monitors screaming, he wouldn’t even look at the crow. Dime and vinnie didn’t look impressed. I knew that they were gonna breakup soon after, and they did. It was like watching a plane crash
@@miracleNwonder Except there are people who provided services and were not paid for said services. They even state it in the video, pretty douche move to think people shouldn't be paid for their work.
but justice was served with a 100M lawsuit against billy, and then another lawsuit and then another lawsuit and then 7 more lawsuits then billy was convicted of fraud (and lying to investors) and given 6 years of prison
How did Limp Bizkit at Woodstock 99 make the list but not Red Hot Chili Peppers Woodstock 99 for playing Fire by Jimi Hendrix when people started burning the place down lol
Bloodstock 2009. Cradle of Filth played and a member of the audience threw gobstoppers at then. The huge, cricket ball sized ones that weigh about a pound each. One hit the guitarist hit square in the back, leading to a hospital visit and the set ending there and then. One just missed hitting another member in the face. Another almost hit a disabled fan sitting in a wheelchair on the side of the stage. Cradle of Filth refused to play bloodstock for a decade after the incident.
There was a very notorious incident that happened in Brasil and it's very haunting even today: "The Kiss nightclub fire" where 240 people died and 630 were left injured because of the stupidity of a single person. Mid show in a night club, the band vocalist (of a very obscure band) lighted up a sinalizer that set the ceiling foam isolation on fire and burned the whole club. People desperately tried to escape through the front door or back door but security tought it was because of a fight happening inside and that people were trying to get out without paying, so they locked the doors with everyone inside... 240 people died from suffocation, burned or even stomped to death, desperately trying to escape the house they were trapped, most of their bodies were found on the bathroom because people were hopeful that it was an emergency escape. The band survived. It's extremely heartbreaking watching the story or the trial that happened.
yea when another guy mentioned in comments i was thinking that, i think they didn't cos it would trivialise the event in a video called "concerts ruined by morons" yes they talked about shows where people in the audience died but DD was som1 loved by millions
It depends on who they are really. People have mixed reactions about Justin Bieber. Most of his songs are not bad, Boyfriend is a good song, but there are some downers. Baby anyone??
As someone who grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island the Great White concert fire sight is still a sad place to drive by. It basically just turned into a grave sight with the 100 white crosses just standing there.
In Slovakia 2019 Nicky Minaj ruined concert because power is not good as she want. So she came to stage and said "I cancel this concert because power is not great" and leave stage
Break Stuff was LB's big hit of the summer. Should they have not played it. Hey Fred, we wanna hire your band for Woodstock 99. Just don't play any of your songs and don't do your show. lol If it were Fred and company's fault, why hasn't every other LB show ended in riot?
sad to say, but in Argentina we got our own Great White Concert Fire, it happend in a place called Cromañon during a Callejeros concert, 194 people died that night, and leaves countless ppl with several traumas for the rest of their lives
look i gotta give it to nickle back. managing to hold out for aslong as they did under that kind of treatment and then still giving that horrible audience one last chance to behave is something most musicians would not do.
What angers me is the kid who was killed at Travis Scott's festival. I'm a grown man and even I am uneasy at crowded festivals. I can't imagine being a CHILD and then your father brings you into a huge crowd. His father should've been charged with negligence.
You had the Station fire in Rhode Island, how do you ignore the Who tragedy in Cincinnati? On December 3, 1979, one door at Riverfront Coleseum were opened early leading to trampling of fans. Eleven people were killed, but the Who knew nothing about it until after the show. This incident changed Cincinnati ordinance about certain styles of tickets, and was featured on an episode if WKRP In Cincinnati
I can’t believe you think that the Fyre festival ranks higher than The Station Night Club fire, Astroworld concert or even Limp Bizkit at Woodstock! Also that the fires set by us fans during RHCP at Woodstock or Dimebag Darryl being shot in the face don’t even rank in this list at all!!!
I was armed and ready when I went to Hellfest this year and they had Guns and Roses playing one night, and Metallica the next. Also, funny how often Axel Rose has had "throat problems". But we are talking about a guy who made Canadians riot, TWICE. That's a talent right there.
I read somewhere Britney's walk off had to do with not wanting to test positive for marijuana and lose seeing her kids because she was drug tested as part of her cconservatorship. Not sure how true that is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
Are we really gonna just glaze over how much influence Travis Scott actually had over what happened? He was telling the crowd noone told him to stop. But sure "noone knows why" watchmojo, trash move.
November 8th, 2004 in Cincinnati. Headbanger's Ball Tour. A stabbing takes place, leading to two being stabbed, including lead singer of Suffocate Faster. The remainder of the show, a performance by Cradle of Filth, was canceled.
It wasn't just limp Bizkit, Korn had a lot to contribute to all the bullsh*t that happened in Woodstock '99. The blame was shifted to limp Bizkit because things started to escalate from that point on and korn pulled themselves out of the matter and blamed them. Also, red hot chilli peppers were responsible (atleast partly) because they decided to do a cover of Jimi Hendrix's fire, after which the crowd started burning the stage.
@@ProcyonDei The ones who do have the blame for Woodstock 99 are those who organized the event. Seriously! Who had the real stupid idea of doing it in an abandoned military airfield? Where there's no real instalations to speak for to support such a high number of people! There's a reason Festivals grounds do have a capacity limit just like any event venue! And if they exceeded the capacity of the venue, book another night! But don't ever go to abandoned open places to do Festivals
That's pretty clever Kurt. Hopefully the crowd learned their lesson. also kinda feel like Altamont should have gotten an honorable mention, the morons being hell's angel being hired as security.
To be fair, that is true. Didn't exactly help matters further when the CEO himself was charged with wire fraud with prison time to boot. So, yeah, total scam.
@iNfam0usColors Apparently he and Ja Rule were sued for $100 million for this crap, then he got arrested but got bailed out for $300,000. Pleaded guilty a year later for to 2 counts of wire fraud in federal court in Manhattan and admitted to using fake documents to attract investors to put more than $26 million into his company, forfeited that money, then was charged with selling fraudulent tickets to events such as the Met Gala, Burning Man, and Coachella while out on bail. So, yeah, he never learned his lesson and is still out there being an ass.
I’ve seen Bon Jovi, Passion Pitt, Heart, Katy Perry, Chicago, Eddie Money, P!NK, Creedence Clearwater Revisted, Patt Benatar, Marie Osmond & Donny Osmond, (Marc Almond, Berlin, Blondie, Thomas Dolby & Adam Ant together), Elle King, Heart & Joan Jett concerts but I’ve never seen anyone do that
I remember the idiots who rushed the stage at a concert in Detroit given by Rage Against the Machine, that concert 3 people died,37 injured (including me,I got hit on the head by someone throwing a full cup of beer, which I ended up getting stitches for),it got so bad, the local cops shut the show down.
The Altamont Free festival of 1969 should be top 5 on this list, surprised it wasn't here at all. Several bands got together to do a west-coast Woodstock with 300k attendees and it was horribly executed. the Hells Angels were hired as security, and paid only in beer, so they were drunk all day, beating up any audience members that were out of line, but even beating up the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane after he tried to get people to calm down. worst part of the night was how people were pushed to the front of the stage (just like Astroworld), so everyone was jumping out and onto the stage, and one concertgoer was stabbed to death by the Hells Angels when he jumped towards Mick Jagger.
At the Beastie Boys "Free Tibet" concert in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco), The Fugees played the most disappointing set I've ever heard. They were so high, they couldn't even get a song off. It was pathetic. I'm surprised it's not talked about more. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were next up, and completely rocked, redeeming the concert and lifting the vibe.
We had The Kinks fly out to Australia from England, the first set was by an unknown group Daddycool who sang the opening number Eagle Rock, they sang a few more songs and left the stage, then the Kinks came on, STONED DRUNK, tried to sing, ha, what a joke they were booed off-stage, then everybody started shouting Daddycool Daddycool in unison, they walked back on and the rest was history in the making
I don't know if it counts but the Arianna Grande concert in Manchester, becoming known as the Manchester Arena Bombing when a suicide bomber detonated, killing 23 and injuring 1017. It took place 22nd May, 2017 as people left the arena after the concert. VL
I still think it's funny that the guy who danced on the ambulance claimed the reason people were pissed at him was because he was "Being cancelled by the woke mob"
i attended a "ruined" concert, for the 2019's knotfest in mexico city, on the main stage Evanescence was gonna play just before slipknot would close the night. I arrived 20mins before evanescence was scheduled to play. just after finishing watching BFMV on another stage. there i waited. 30mins, nothing.... 1 hour.... nothing, then there was talks about some problem that needed to be fixed.... 90mins, still nothing. apparently the problem was some people had toppled down the barrier separating "general" from "preferente" and a bunch of people stormed to the "preferente" zone. the organizers took so much time to take action, giving no information. 3 hours after evanescence was supposed to play they finally cancelled the show and told us to go to the exit (in the most formal way possible). well some people were furious and stayed at the stage area. they jump the fences and started destroying gear. ripping cables, and stuff. they started a fire with chairs and stuff at the espectating area. and threw cables and stuff into the fire. at the end they even threw evanescence drumset into the fire. this was just the first day of a 2-day event. on the 2nd day. they opened access to the festival grounds 4 hours after the initial schedule (they did announce it on social media). all of the early bands were cancelled because of this, some of the later ones too.
The Travis Scott and the Astroworld tragedy wasn’t just ruined by morons. It was an a poorly planned out, unmanaged, disaster that was made worse by Travis Scott’s irresponsible behavior and his choice of how he performs. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this ends his career
Travis Scott isn’t at fault. If you’ve ever heard of a crush before then you will know why. Crushes have happened throughout history because of bad management and security and this is more then likely what happened. If anything we should be blaming the people at the back who kept pushing. (Also about him not stopping the consent it’s possible that he just wasn’t informed about the seriousness of the injury. With the amount of lights and stuff during that show I wouldn’t be surprised if Travis wasn’t even able to see the crowd properly)
Travis Scott SHOULD be on this list. He could have stopped the concert at any point. "Exactly who is responsible for this tragedy is hard to say". It's Travis Scott's fault. Not hard to say.
Crowd crushes are my worst fear, whether it be during a concert, or when people are leaving, that's why I stay in my seat as long as possible until the crowd thins out.
I saw Elton John back in April and he was telling us the first time he played at that arena someone had thrown a bong a good distance away and hit him in the temple and blood was pouring. He said he was wearing the giant chicken suit from the Muppets and he went backstage long enough to get cleaned in then went back out and finished the concert without needing a stitch
Why they do Nickelback like that. Someone hit dude dead in the back of the head with that water. Probably would have left too. Was a good throw though. Was fun to watch. Great video
Ahh, Woodstock '99. Seems like you left something out there, as there indeed died 1 person. Not on the sight itself, but later on. A 24 year old wanted to see RATM and Metallica and collapsed during the set of the latter. He died on July, 26th shortly after 12 PM. It was all caused by the organisation neglecting shit.
Nobody will ever forget the 2021 AstroWorld incident. RIP to all the victims and my condolences to the families of the deceased. I’m surprise Travis didn’t get arrested and sent to prison(for manslaughter charges, resulting in the mosh pits) isn’t that like 25 to life in h town or something? How Travis got away without any arrest whatsoever is surprising(despite getting called out on social media, and on the news) Edit: and don’t even get me started on his fake apology, my five-year-old niece could make a better apology to Travis
I remember what happened with Nickelback, it was supposed be Foo Fighters at the concert. In the moment of truth it shows Nickelback and Portuguese did not now much about these band, they get outrage.
I think the station fire should be rated as the worst concert of all time. completely senseless and preventable. the road manager was jailed and the owners. and the worst thing of all was when a member of the band went back to get his guitar. it cost him his life. people don't understand that when you have a buildup of carbon monoxide it knocks you out cold. and then you die because you keep inhaling toxic smoke. beware of carbon monoxide. it will knock you out before you even hit the ground.
I think loss of life at the AstroWorld fiasco and the metal concert inside that people died are more tragic and important than the loss of money because of a fiasco on a beach
For those who say that this list should be filled with concerts where a terrorist attacked, "morons" would be a light way of putting those people. This lists is about accidents, and while in some cases, yes, they were preventable, (for example, Christina Grimmie's security failing to notice the gun) they aren't so much controversies as they are complete tragedies, and while some tragedies are on this list, terrorist attacks are too much for this list.
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I’m a little surprised that none of GG Allin’s concerts made this list, though to be fair, all of them together would probably take the #1 spot.
What about the Fyre Festival?
Make a video the SpongeBob Squarepants the end series from February 25th please i was a child and I loved it 😭😭😢
One conert was forgotten if you ask me, "Loveparade" 2010 in Germany.
21 people dead and over 600 injured.
Chad Kroger, not Kruger
I'm glad Nirvana did that. There was no excuse for the crowd to be horrible to the opening act.
Their Top Of The Pops performance was also legendary.
I would HIGHLY recommend finding that.
Nah, they shouldn't played a single note. Those assholes are not even worth it.
They don’t make em like a nirvana anymore
Thats one that im glad he did but seem like it was actually a pretty dope show lol
As an argentinian, I agree. It's not frecuent to happen but it did, rock and metal crowd can be very intolerant and closed with opening bands. Happened something similar with Meredith Brooks at the Rolling Stones concert.
The Nirvana incident was frickin amazing. Rest in peace, Kurt, your trolling of the rude audience will remain legendary!
I agree sexism is wrong and glad that does people got what they deserved
But they actually rewarded the crowd. They got to hear stuff that possibly noone else on earth ever got to hear, some of their experimental/prototype works... I can see how they thought they were punishing them but they actually were giving them something that is like a special reward for a make a wish kid or something, the chance to hear music from your favorite band that noone else has ever heard! And good especially for the 100s and 1000s in the crowd who werent throwing shit. Bands shouldnt try and punish 0.1% of the crowd by punishing all of them.... just kick those people out. I dont consider it trolling lol
Why do people love that guy? He was a drug addict!....I;m so glad he turned his skull into a ash tray
@@kendallevans4079 bruh yes he used drugs but so what just cause someone uses drugs that does't make them a bad person and also he was a amazing musician
@@lukecohen9833 Please don't call me "bruh or bro", OK? I am NOT your BROTHER
In March 1986, Dire Straits was performing in Western Springs Stadium in Auckland New Zealand. Someone threw a water bottle and it actually hit Mark Knopfler in the head. He immediately stopped playing and demanded to know who it was. The crowd pointed him out and the technicians turned the spotlights on him. Mark ordered him out and said the concert wouldn't continue until he was gone. Eventually, with 30,000 angry fans screaming at him, the thrower had to walk out with the spotlight following him all the way. Only after that did the music start again.
Dang.
I wonder how many were waiting outside. :[
Johnny Rotten got a bottle to the face on stage . I think in South America . It's here on TH-cam somewhere .
I wish i could see that lol!
Why is Fyre Festival higher than the Great White Concert Fire? People losing their lives is far worse than people just losing money.
I understand where you're coming from but nobody intentionally burned those people. Key word: intentionally. The Fyre Festival was the work of a con artist. People like that are very very dangerous. Especially if they get away with it the first time they try.
you can't do much living if you lose everything, which is what happened to the people of the island, you see they didn't just scam rich kids, the innocent people who were promised a paycheck for their effort at salvaging the event were the most affected ones
@@mikecustoms Plus as an added consequence, the bands reputation was never even close to the same and they were essentially ruined
@@chrisgraham2327 i’ll take being bankrupt over burning alive at the age of 23 anytime of the day. putting fyre festival over the 100 lives lost at the great white concert is a huge L.
@@chrisgraham2327 but justice was served with a 100 million dollar lawsuit against billy, and then another lawsuit and then 7 more lawsuits then he was charged with fraud and given 6 years in federal prison
Regarding the Nickelback concert, why would you buy tickets to see a band you hate in the first place?
Probably so they could do what they did
to hit the singer's head with your bottle of water, sounds reasonable to me
@@mikecustoms and then go home
Exactly! Nickelback had every right to leave the stage! People hate on that band way too much I feel bad for them. :(
But that's the thing that Watchmojo didn't care to explain, or didn't know: it wasn't a Nickelback concert, it a very heavy metal fest where some idiot organizing the event thought it was a good idea to put Nickelback playing between Slipknot and Dimmu Borgir. Yes, you read that right. Poor planning at its worst.
Of course it doesn't excuse the audience for being dumbasses, but I assure you there were no Nickelback fans on the crowd that day. Ilha do Ermal Festival was always a very heavy fest, and to even think of Nickelback in the middle of all the other names playing there that night was just insane. That crowd wasn't there for rock, they were there for metal. Still, no excuse :\
One that wasn't mentioned;
Aerosmith's two concerts in Philadelphia PA . I was at both concerts. I forget the particulars of the first concert, someone threw a firecracker 🧨on stage and it exploded about 6 inches from Perry's guitar hand. Angry, Aerosmith walked off and the rest of the show was canceled and Aerosmith didn't return to Philadelphia for a few years over it.
Then after deciding to give us another chance, some idiot throws a bottle 🍼on the stage and again, Aerosmith angrily walks off, ending the show and vowing never to return to Philadelphia.
Although I was pissed due to missing the rest of the show, I fully understood their decision and couldn't blame them.
A side note, I was with a group of 10 of my friends for the second show and we were seated about 5 rows behind the 3 jack asses who threw the bottle. They did get an ass kicking outside the venue ( The Spectrum ). So Aerosmith, if any of you see this, I just wanted to let you know, they got what was coming to them.
I'm almost never in favor of violence, but some guys just ask for it!!!
This comment made my day, and I'm sure that Aerosmith would fully condone it as well.
@@affliction1979 I'm not. They can speak for themselves. They strike me as a bunch of nice guys.
Well, Philadelphia does have a very bad reputation of being a Hooligans Nest. And situations like this are not helping to clean it at all. Jeez, the City should start putting the Hooligan Law there and start putting drinking fountains on the venues instead of letting water bottles in
It seems that the only artists (that I know that did concerts there, comment me if there's another one) that can come to Philadelphia and not get harassed or attacked by these Hooligans are Elton John and Billy Joel
The Nickelback one is apparently because of a booking mistake. They were booked on a lineup for a Portuguese heavy metal festival In front of fans who were not really there to see them nor would be receptive to them. Chad Kroeger has said something like this in interviews that talked about the incident.
Yup, they put Nickelback on a black and deathmetal gig, ofc things went to shit quite fast, nevertheless no band deserves that treatment and was shitty and disrespectful thing to do to the band.
Yeah, but no band deserves to have rocks and bottles thrown at them...fuck mobs...
Rip
Someone here likes Nickelback?
Who the hell buys tickets for a band they hate?
One incident worth mentioning was the Altamont Speedway Free Festival in 1969, where The Rolling Stones was performing, and the one mistake made was hiring a motorcycle gang as security, we all know how that happened.
The hells angels stopped a guy armed with a gun who was making his way towards the stage. So where’s the mistake?
@@stlpaulie beating people with pool cues and stabbing a concert goer to death. Did that answer the question?
@@Cokedlr the guy they stabbed had a gun. The hells Angel was found not guilty. Know all the facts.
@@stlpaulie stabbed a man with a gun and beat people with pool cues.
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From Britney objecting to smoke to Travis Scott letting people die in front of him... That escalated quickly.
He didn't know!
@@mepe6809 how would he have known?
@@lyrijames2369 by seeing people getting killed in front of him
@@troywilton6578 cause he can see that from his view of 60000 people
He literally called out when he saw an ambulance. He knew people were hurt.
As someone from houston, the astroworld festival was an absolute disgrace.
Travis continuing to perform while ambulances in the crowd are being jumped on, people being trampled on and killed, people trying to tell stage workers to stop him, and his just total lack of compassion afterwards is sickening. There were thousands of people squished on the floor, many of them not even teenagers yet. Livenation is also to blame. Travis should never come back here. Ten people ended up dying, on his hands, and hundreds more injured. I know he's being sued, but all the parents who had kids die, should take him for all his money.
Watching #8 brings back horrible memories, and makes me angry and sad for the innocent concert goers.
"Exactly who is responsible is hard to say" Travis. It was Travis Scott's fault. Playing stupid doesn't absolve him of guilt. He kept performing when he could have shut that shit down at literally any point.
Sounds like u mad u couldn't get tickets
@@vibetillthrive you didn't have to have tickets to get in obviously
@@bobthedopeman7327 while he was the headliner and he reacted poorly, the manager hires sn event coordinator who then hires a security detail. They hired some cheap ass security crew that hired workers for a day rate. Security was way understaffed so they could pocket the money.
He might get away with the "I didn't know what was going on because of the lights and noise" BS, but when he saw the ambulances trying to get through, he should've known something was going on and he should've immediately told the audience to let the medical personnel through. Instead, he flipped off the ambulances and watched as they were swarmed and attacked by the crowd.
Let's not forget the time Tom Araya asked the crowd at a Slayer concert for a moment of silence in memory of Jeff Hanneman, only for the crowd to adamantly refuse to quiet down, making Tom and the rest of the band increasingly upset, until they just walked off the stage and cancelled the rest of the show.
@@paulmcgrath6118 it’s not hard to shut the hell up for a minute, when asked.
@@paulmcgrath6118 More than a few.
Yeah? Then why is it, at a concert I went to right after 9/11 happened, the singer asked for a moment of silence, and an entire arena full of once screaming people had no problem shutting the fuck up?
Turns out, if you can't hear the singer say it, someone else in the crowd can transliterate. It took about 15 seconds to achieve total silence, but we got there. No excuses.
No mention of the 1971 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Montreux concert where some idiot in the audience shot off a flare gun, burning down the Casino (which wasn't fully rebuilt until 1975), destroying all of FZ's gear, and inspiring Deep Purple's hit Smoke on the Water? I couldn't find any statistics but I'm sure there had to be injuries and possibly fatalities as well.
It wasn't some idiot in the audience, it was "some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground" :-)
@@dougerrohmer That's the song lyric. I read about the event as it was reported to the Police at the scene. Deep Purple wasn't at the concert, they were in town to record their first album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio across an inlet of the lake. Smoke on the water was written by Deep Purple's bass player, and the title was based on the view of the smoke from the casino drifting across the lake.
There were only a few injuries and no fatalities thankfully.
An even worse one was FZ's next concert at The Rainbow Theatre in London ruined by another moron; the person in question pushed him off the stage into an orchestra pit, causing horrific injuries that left him wheelchair-bound and unable to tour for almost a year. Apart from a broken leg that left his leg slightly shorter than the other the fall also crushed his voice-box permanently lowering the pitch of his voice by a third of an octave. A terrible tour for Frank in general.
I would have paid double what I make in a year to see that Nirvana concert live.
shut up.
yeah shut up
girlfriend of my father saw them live when they where not famous yet. i am so jealous.
Nice.
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Pantera's Far Beyond Driven tour was my first concert.
Still got the guitar pick Darryl tossed, too.
All white in red lettering of Pantera on one side, then Far Beyond Drunken along with his signature on the other.
Been keepin it in a dime baggie for around 20 years now.
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Columbus OH, December 9, 2004....Damage Plan was playing a concert in a nightclub when a "fan", clearly not well, opened fire, wounding 3 and killing 4, including Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darryl Abbot.
Definitely changed how security was handled afterwards.
Didn't change gun laws, though.
@@DepressyDuck Sadly, no. No, it didn't.
If I recollect accurately the fire that happened at the single-story club venue, it was discovered that management chained the door at the back of the club to keep people from coming in the back without paying the cover fee at the front door.
Yes and if I remember correctly, when people tried to get out the back, they were blocked by security.
This was a idiots at the venue and the band for having pyrotechnics in a small space.
There was also the stage door for the act to get out, but they wouldn't let anyone out except the band. I am from RI and this is one of the worst disaster I'd seen.
@@kevin34ct WTF?? One of band members died in the fire!! Why would that happen if they had their own exit?
Still disgusted by Travis Scott's no reaction to people being hurt by his urging...
Love how a concert scam somehow beats out a building on fire where hundreds die
Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one who mentioned it. Yeah apparently they think rich people getting ripped off is worse than 100 deaths
Besides, the concert wasn't ruined by morons, it was a scam perpetrated by someone smart enough to pull off something like that. Well, that's Watchmojo for you.
Including one of the band, if I'm remembering right.
Seriously, the only thing that the Great White fire has over Fire festival (aside from being spelt right) is that their manager took responsibility for his actions and expressed genuine regret.
Good point Josh. How do they not see the hundreds dying as far worse.
I think they might have done that so that "hundreds of lives lost" wasn't the last thing in the video. Maybe.
"Ruined by Morons" are always my favorite WatchMojo videos.
off course, it makes us (watchers) feel we're not the worst out there
I went to a concert where stage drapes caught fire in the corner somehow. The fire was still small when audience began noticing it. Though the band realized it was there, they continued playing as if it was part of the show while stagehands tried putting it out.
They finally stopped when one of the amps caught fire.
Was it the 2003 great white fire
Who's concert wss it i want to know more
@@SaturdayMorno86 I'm pretty sure he would have mentioned if it was l
You could make an entire list of times Five Finger Death Punch stopped concerts to call out idiots in the crowd ruining it for people around them.
I would rather make a list of something that's actually interesting.
Selena Quintanilla had her own incident where the crowd was pushing back against the stage at a Monterrey concert, where the stage itself was about to break.
WHO???
@@squirellmaster1 Tejano singer Selena.
Which Monterrey?
Sorry no, there's tons of cellphone footage of Travis Scott encouraging that behaviour and bemoaning the ambulance that showed up. He's the idiot that ruined his own show, end of story.
Yup. I feel like the narrator is an idiot. "eXaCtLy wHo iS rEsPoNsIbLe iS hArD tO sAy" Travis. Travis Scott is responsible for those deaths. That should be a career ender.
No he didn’t “encourage” it he was oblivious to what was going on and once he did find out, he did whatever he could to save who he could.
@@keidrinwilliam3085 I wouldn't defend Travis Scott if I were you. Not only was he the man to blame for the AstroWorld incident. But in a past concert he encouraged the crowd to beat up the person in said crowd that stole his shoes.
@@The-Assassin-From-Hell I am so glad someone said it!
@@keidrinwilliam3085 yeah he was so sad about the whole situation that right after the show he went to a party. Lol
Not including The Who concert in Cincinnati? That's a miss...
Technically the concert didn't even started yet when the tragedy occurred. But it is messed up how nobody bothered to the tell the band that people had actually died until after the show.
You mean the concert crush? I saw a video about that
Yes, this should have been on the list. Changes in how tickets are sold came from this. This ended "General admission" at least for indoor shows. Been a long time since I've been to a concert, so don't know if that's still the case
Glad to see some old Behind the scenes from VH1. Underrated series
I loved that show growing up!
Behind the music not behind the scenes
@@smurfitoo1585 definitely behind the music
@@smurfitoo1585 Thanks for correcting that mistake.
There is a book called Only a Moment Away that was written by a survivor or the station concert fire. The title is in reference to his friend who was standing next to him when the fire started and didn't survive the fire, he describes the whole start of the fire and it is chilling how quickly the venue went from clear to pitch black .
How is the Fyre festival number 1 when 100 people died at the Great White show? Obviously 100 deaths is worse than people getting ripped off, don't you think?
And don't forget the Who concert in Cincinnati...how was this tragedy not on the list?????
Possibly as it affected a whole island and it's people, and screwing thousands of fans
How was the damage plan concert not on here
I mean
it's watchmojo they only care for relevancy
Honestly they should be tied.
I heard the Britney Spears weed issue was due to fear the people controlling her may take away her visitation with her boys if weed somehow got into her system.
And because she was protecting her sons
Yes she was so scared because she would get drugged tested. I can’t for her tell all.
That is understandable.
Perhaps. Makes sense. But that only shows another dumb side of the way society thinks... A mother with weed in her system is a BAD MOTHER because (?)...
@@humbertojimmy the same reason why you shouldn't be drunk around your kids. Being impaired is not a good thing if there is an emergency
I can think of 2 concerts that end tragically that should have been in the honorable mentions. The Who concert of 1979 that left 11 dead. And the Rolling Stones concert of 1969 at Altamont Speedway.
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@@charliejoson9145 Ok. 👍
Roger Daltrey actually visited friends and relatives of the people killed in that 1979 concert recently. There's video of a recent Who concert in the same city, where the band gave their condolences and dedicated a long version of Love Reign O'er Me to the concert victims and showed photos of the victims during the song.
@@mikeshaffer4912 Damn, thanks really cool.
There's also the Roskilde Festival disaster where 9 people died in a crowd crush while Pearl Jam was performing.
100 people dead is worse than 5000 rich kids getting ripped off...
I agree. Rich kids getting ripped off is a good thing.
Hundreds of local workers who promised paycheck to feed their families are also got ripped off at that festival.
I am honestly tired of richshaming. It is corruption I hate, not simply someone being rich.
@WillieManga right. For all we know, half of the attendees may have dipped into their hard earned savings just to get the basic packages they offered. Rich or poor, it's the thievery people should be upset about.
Imagine wasting thousands of dollars to travel to an island for a concert, only to end up stuck in a tent with a cheese sandwich.
Imagine going to a concert at a club and being trapped in a burning building with 100 other people
Imagine listening to nirvana for over an hour
A bunch of spoiled rich kids had a day or two of discomfort. Boo hoo 😢
Lol
I'd want blood!
I'm from New England, and I tell you, the Station fire still affects our concerts. It was a decade before I could even get into the 18+ clubs, but I still know what happened and I still find myself checking to make sure they've got the systems in place to prevent that from happening again (sprinklers, no pyro allowed, etc.). Earlier this month I saw Aerosmith at Fenway Park, and they used pyro, which went perfectly fine, but that's because it's a huge outdoor stadium, and even that made me a little nervous. At the House of Blues in Boston, they don't allow pyro, but they'll make a pre-show announcement to look around for exits, just so we don't forget.
You should do a Redux or a Top 20 list of Concert Tragedies and Mishaps (including Astroworld, the Paris attacks, and Colectiv, etc.)
Good list
The Who in Cincinnati qualified for a 'Fascinating Horror' video.
Add the riverport amphitheater riots
You should’ve seen Phil anselmo on the last few shows of pantera. He was so wasted that he was sitting on stage leaning up to monitors screaming, he wouldn’t even look at the crow. Dime and vinnie didn’t look impressed. I knew that they were gonna breakup soon after, and they did. It was like watching a plane crash
Seeing the Fyre Festival documentary made me feel even worse for the people who didn’t get what they were promised
Every time a rich kid gets scammed an angel gets it's wings.
@@miracleNwonder Except there are people who provided services and were not paid for said services. They even state it in the video, pretty douche move to think people shouldn't be paid for their work.
but justice was served with a 100M lawsuit against billy, and then another lawsuit and then another lawsuit and then 7 more lawsuits then billy was convicted of fraud (and lying to investors) and given 6 years of prison
@@MsLucia4179 yes but they weren't the rich kids. I think we're saying the same thing here
@@miracleNwonder these tickets costed like $500 bucks in reality
Big ups to Nirvana for that one….
@Christopher Bingham True. If they really wanted to punish the audience they should've played Hey Mickey over and over again
I always liked and respected Nirvana. Now I respect them a little more.
@@LilySayyy some Rick astley would’ve done just fine lmao
How did Limp Bizkit at Woodstock 99 make the list but not Red Hot Chili Peppers Woodstock 99 for playing Fire by Jimi Hendrix when people started burning the place down lol
Korn too, they did a lot of crowd provoking themselves.
Bizkit didn’t even perform that night. They performed the day before all the mayhem started.
The security breach in 2021 was Travis Scott’s fault
Edit: it’s not hard to say he gave a fake apology, he promoted people to forcibly come in
Smath Mouth vs. Bread really piqued my interest - who put those two bands on the same bill? Genius! Then reality set in.
🤣🤣For a second, I thought the same thing!🤣🤣
I thought that too at first lol.
Bloodstock 2009. Cradle of Filth played and a member of the audience threw gobstoppers at then. The huge, cricket ball sized ones that weigh about a pound each. One hit the guitarist hit square in the back, leading to a hospital visit and the set ending there and then. One just missed hitting another member in the face. Another almost hit a disabled fan sitting in a wheelchair on the side of the stage. Cradle of Filth refused to play bloodstock for a decade after the incident.
I don't blame them.
@@nerdicwarrior Same! If you don't like a band, don't watch them. It's that simple.
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Thank god now we have twitter
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Thank god now we have twitter
There was a very notorious incident that happened in Brasil and it's very haunting even today: "The Kiss nightclub fire" where 240 people died and 630 were left injured because of the stupidity of a single person.
Mid show in a night club, the band vocalist (of a very obscure band) lighted up a sinalizer that set the ceiling foam isolation on fire and burned the whole club. People desperately tried to escape through the front door or back door but security tought it was because of a fight happening inside and that people were trying to get out without paying, so they locked the doors with everyone inside...
240 people died from suffocation, burned or even stomped to death, desperately trying to escape the house they were trapped, most of their bodies were found on the bathroom because people were hopeful that it was an emergency escape. The band survived.
It's extremely heartbreaking watching the story or the trial that happened.
I bet the concert where Dimebag Darryl was shot onstage could've been on this list. The band was reportedly unable to continue the gig after that.
yea when another guy mentioned in comments i was thinking that, i think they didn't cos it would trivialise the event in a video called "concerts ruined by morons" yes they talked about shows where people in the audience died but DD was som1 loved by millions
Well no shit darrel literally died
Anyone who ruins a Justin Bieber concert is a hero, not a moron
you must be like 70 years old
It depends on who they are really.
People have mixed reactions about Justin Bieber.
Most of his songs are not bad, Boyfriend is a good song, but there are some downers. Baby anyone??
I'd rather listen to screaming than anything by Bieber.
i`m still pissed off for the fact that that he`s still alive
@@greenweeaboo8924 that’s too far
As someone who grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island the Great White concert fire sight is still a sad place to drive by. It basically just turned into a grave sight with the 100 white crosses just standing there.
In Slovakia 2019 Nicky Minaj ruined concert because power is not good as she want. So she came to stage and said "I cancel this concert because power is not great" and leave stage
Minaj is a non entity
thats your own fault for liking nicky minaj
@@emilyturner3249 I don't listening Nicky Minaj, I know about this, because czech and slovak youtubers talking about this
When you are introducing the song "Break Stuff", and the crowd literally followed by destroying everything in sight...
Break Stuff was LB's big hit of the summer. Should they have not played it. Hey Fred, we wanna hire your band for Woodstock 99. Just don't play any of your songs and don't do your show. lol If it were Fred and company's fault, why hasn't every other LB show ended in riot?
sad to say, but in Argentina we got our own Great White Concert Fire, it happend in a place called Cromañon during a Callejeros concert, 194 people died that night, and leaves countless ppl with several traumas for the rest of their lives
Todos fueron culpables de esa tragedia.
(Excepto menores que no debían entrar)
look i gotta give it to nickle back. managing to hold out for aslong as they did under that kind of treatment and then still giving that horrible audience one last chance to behave is something most musicians would not do.
What angers me is the kid who was killed at Travis Scott's festival. I'm a grown man and even I am uneasy at crowded festivals. I can't imagine being a CHILD and then your father brings you into a huge crowd. His father should've been charged with negligence.
no, scott should have been charged
I agree! That was no place for a child
You had the Station fire in Rhode Island, how do you ignore the Who tragedy in Cincinnati? On December 3, 1979, one door at Riverfront Coleseum were opened early leading to trampling of fans. Eleven people were killed, but the Who knew nothing about it until after the show. This incident changed Cincinnati ordinance about certain styles of tickets, and was featured on an episode if WKRP In Cincinnati
You can't fit them all in a Top 20, let alone a Top 10
@@alpha34098 I get it, was just mentioning two more.
I can’t believe you think that the Fyre festival ranks higher than The Station Night Club fire, Astroworld concert or even Limp Bizkit at Woodstock! Also that the fires set by us fans during RHCP at Woodstock or Dimebag Darryl being shot in the face don’t even rank in this list at all!!!
This.
it’s watchmojo what did you think
Dimebag is in another episode
Kurt Cobian was a badass.
Never forget....
Travis Scott knew what was happening. He made sure his pregnant girlfriend (one of the Jenners) got out.
I was armed and ready when I went to Hellfest this year and they had Guns and Roses playing one night, and Metallica the next.
Also, funny how often Axel Rose has had "throat problems". But we are talking about a guy who made Canadians riot, TWICE. That's a talent right there.
So, you have Fyre Festival at #1 -a concert that, basically, never happened -, but you don't include the Altamont Music Festival of 1969???
And my friends wonder why I don't go to concerts
The most overrated experience in the world.
@@soloscriptura7451 I thought I was crazy lmfao
I read somewhere Britney's walk off had to do with not wanting to test positive for marijuana and lose seeing her kids because she was drug tested as part of her cconservatorship. Not sure how true that is, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.
Are we really gonna just glaze over how much influence Travis Scott actually had over what happened? He was telling the crowd noone told him to stop. But sure "noone knows why" watchmojo, trash move.
#5 was just genius and a perfect example of "KARMA" to the rude crowd! LOL
@Christopher Bingham punishment? that would be torture for me
November 8th, 2004 in Cincinnati. Headbanger's Ball Tour. A stabbing takes place, leading to two being stabbed, including lead singer of Suffocate Faster. The remainder of the show, a performance by Cradle of Filth, was canceled.
Number 1 should have been when Dimebag Darrell of Damage Plan and Pantera was shot on stage. I would say that ruined a concert.
It wasn't just limp Bizkit, Korn had a lot to contribute to all the bullsh*t that happened in Woodstock '99. The blame was shifted to limp Bizkit because things started to escalate from that point on and korn pulled themselves out of the matter and blamed them. Also, red hot chilli peppers were responsible (atleast partly) because they decided to do a cover of Jimi Hendrix's fire, after which the crowd started burning the stage.
TBF, the whole blame really goes to the smooth-brained crowd...
@@ProcyonDei The ones who do have the blame for Woodstock 99 are those who organized the event. Seriously! Who had the real stupid idea of doing it in an abandoned military airfield? Where there's no real instalations to speak for to support such a high number of people! There's a reason Festivals grounds do have a capacity limit just like any event venue! And if they exceeded the capacity of the venue, book another night! But don't ever go to abandoned open places to do Festivals
So many bands egged shit on and this video downplayed things a lot
That's pretty clever Kurt. Hopefully the crowd learned their lesson. also kinda feel like Altamont should have gotten an honorable mention, the morons being hell's angel being hired as security.
Fred Durst didn't tell the crowd to break things. I was 15 at the show and he never said "hey! Break things and tear down the wall!"
In his defense, he claimed to not know what was going on.
#10 -- They REALLY wanted that song to be a sports anthem for All-Star games didn't they?
Nirvana was reasonable, a bunch of us would definitely not take kindly to that type of behavior. It’s completely uncalled for.
The last one wasn't ruined by a moron.
If anything, he was actually really smart being able to scam so many people and companies.
To be fair, that is true. Didn't exactly help matters further when the CEO himself was charged with wire fraud with prison time to boot. So, yeah, total scam.
What even happened to Billy? Last I heard he went back to his parents after being sued.
I remember that “Fyre Festival.” What a total ripoff. I’m curious now if the law ever got to Billy?
@@twist58 he's doing his time in prison. Scheduled for 2023 release
@iNfam0usColors Apparently he and Ja Rule were sued for $100 million for this crap, then he got arrested but got bailed out for $300,000. Pleaded guilty a year later for to 2 counts of wire fraud in federal court in Manhattan and admitted to using fake documents to attract investors to put more than $26 million into his company, forfeited that money, then was charged with selling fraudulent tickets to events such as the Met Gala, Burning Man, and Coachella while out on bail.
So, yeah, he never learned his lesson and is still out there being an ass.
I’ve seen Bon Jovi, Passion Pitt, Heart, Katy Perry, Chicago, Eddie Money, P!NK, Creedence Clearwater Revisted, Patt Benatar, Marie Osmond & Donny Osmond, (Marc Almond, Berlin, Blondie, Thomas Dolby & Adam Ant together),
Elle King, Heart & Joan Jett concerts but I’ve never seen anyone do that
I remember the idiots who rushed the stage at a concert in Detroit given by Rage Against the Machine, that concert 3 people died,37 injured (including me,I got hit on the head by someone throwing a full cup of beer, which I ended up getting stitches for),it got so bad, the local cops shut the show down.
You forgot the "Well, thanks to your lame ass security, I'm going home!"
Sorry, but I don't feel the Frye festival should be ranked "worse" then 100 people at a concert dying in a fire.
The Altamont Free festival of 1969 should be top 5 on this list, surprised it wasn't here at all. Several bands got together to do a west-coast Woodstock with 300k attendees and it was horribly executed.
the Hells Angels were hired as security, and paid only in beer, so they were drunk all day, beating up any audience members that were out of line, but even beating up the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane after he tried to get people to calm down. worst part of the night was how people were pushed to the front of the stage (just like Astroworld), so everyone was jumping out and onto the stage, and one concertgoer was stabbed to death by the Hells Angels when he jumped towards Mick Jagger.
At the Beastie Boys "Free Tibet" concert in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco), The Fugees played the most disappointing set I've ever heard. They were so high, they couldn't even get a song off. It was pathetic. I'm surprised it's not talked about more. The Red Hot Chili Peppers were next up, and completely rocked, redeeming the concert and lifting the vibe.
We had The Kinks fly out to Australia from England, the first set was by an unknown group Daddycool who sang the opening number Eagle Rock, they sang a few more songs and left the stage, then the Kinks came on, STONED DRUNK, tried to sing, ha, what a joke they were booed off-stage, then everybody started shouting Daddycool Daddycool in unison,
they walked back on and the rest was history in the making
I don't know if it counts but the Arianna Grande concert in Manchester, becoming known as the Manchester Arena Bombing when a suicide bomber detonated, killing 23 and injuring 1017. It took place 22nd May, 2017 as people left the arena after the concert. VL
Some people hyped up the Astroworld incident as the worst because of social media. Those ppl obviously don’t know the history of concert mishaps
Thank you
I still think it's funny that the guy who danced on the ambulance claimed the reason people were pissed at him was because he was "Being cancelled by the woke mob"
That part
i attended a "ruined" concert, for the 2019's knotfest in mexico city, on the main stage Evanescence was gonna play just before slipknot would close the night. I arrived 20mins before evanescence was scheduled to play. just after finishing watching BFMV on another stage. there i waited. 30mins, nothing.... 1 hour.... nothing, then there was talks about some problem that needed to be fixed.... 90mins, still nothing. apparently the problem was some people had toppled down the barrier separating "general" from "preferente" and a bunch of people stormed to the "preferente" zone. the organizers took so much time to take action, giving no information.
3 hours after evanescence was supposed to play they finally cancelled the show and told us to go to the exit (in the most formal way possible).
well some people were furious and stayed at the stage area. they jump the fences and started destroying gear. ripping cables, and stuff. they started a fire with chairs and stuff at the espectating area. and threw cables and stuff into the fire. at the end they even threw evanescence drumset into the fire.
this was just the first day of a 2-day event. on the 2nd day. they opened access to the festival grounds 4 hours after the initial schedule (they did announce it on social media). all of the early bands were cancelled because of this, some of the later ones too.
The Altamont Stones show & The Who's Cincinnati tragedy could easily have made this list 😞
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what's with these people? do you lose your humanity when you freaking go to concerts?!?!
The Travis Scott and the Astroworld tragedy wasn’t just ruined by morons. It was an a poorly planned out, unmanaged, disaster that was made worse by Travis Scott’s irresponsible behavior and his choice of how he performs.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this ends his career
It won’t
If it doesn't end his career it'll definitely be a dark spot on it.
I won't. As long as he's making someone rich, they'll continue to allow him to perform. If people go see him after this, then they are culpable.
Travis Scott isn’t at fault. If you’ve ever heard of a crush before then you will know why. Crushes have happened throughout history because of bad management and security and this is more then likely what happened. If anything we should be blaming the people at the back who kept pushing. (Also about him not stopping the consent it’s possible that he just wasn’t informed about the seriousness of the injury. With the amount of lights and stuff during that show I wouldn’t be surprised if Travis wasn’t even able to see the crowd properly)
@@freememewhore5359 great excuse making for someone who was no doubt culpable in a tragedy ... but you are an american so, no surprise there
Number one is beyond false advertisement. Just like what Brian Griffin did to Quagmire
Travis Scott SHOULD be on this list. He could have stopped the concert at any point. "Exactly who is responsible for this tragedy is hard to say". It's Travis Scott's fault. Not hard to say.
Yes, definitely agree.
Umm, he was?!!!?
@@tsquaredtim no fucking shit.
Was there, definitely not
Crowd crushes are my worst fear, whether it be during a concert, or when people are leaving, that's why I stay in my seat as long as possible until the crowd thins out.
Imagine being that one group of people or person who ruins it for everyone
that type of person would be proud and brag about it
I saw Elton John back in April and he was telling us the first time he played at that arena someone had thrown a bong a good distance away and hit him in the temple and blood was pouring. He said he was wearing the giant chicken suit from the Muppets and he went backstage long enough to get cleaned in then went back out and finished the concert without needing a stitch
Why they do Nickelback like that. Someone hit dude dead in the back of the head with that water. Probably would have left too. Was a good throw though. Was fun to watch. Great video
Pretty regular thing when it comes to Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), it seems.
totally worth buying tickets to nickelback, so you can throw your shit at them
Ahh, Woodstock '99. Seems like you left something out there, as there indeed died 1 person. Not on the sight itself, but later on. A 24 year old wanted to see RATM and Metallica and collapsed during the set of the latter. He died on July, 26th shortly after 12 PM. It was all caused by the organisation neglecting shit.
Did you forget the Who concert that had people trampled at the entrance?
Nobody will ever forget the 2021 AstroWorld incident. RIP to all the victims and my condolences to the families of the deceased. I’m surprise Travis didn’t get arrested and sent to prison(for manslaughter charges, resulting in the mosh pits) isn’t that like 25 to life in h town or something? How Travis got away without any arrest whatsoever is surprising(despite getting called out on social media, and on the news)
Edit: and don’t even get me started on his fake apology, my five-year-old niece could make a better apology to Travis
I really thought that Great White pyrotechnics would be #1.
I'm so old that when I saw "Smash Mouth vs Bread," I thought, "Yeah, that was a bill bound to provoke disaster."
Did anyone else read the title as “Top 10 concerts ruined by Mormons” at first? I had to give it a second read.
hahahahahahah I almost did
Donny Osmond concert destroyed by milk drinking crazed missionary Mormons.
I remember what happened with Nickelback, it was supposed be Foo Fighters at the concert. In the moment of truth it shows Nickelback and Portuguese did not now much about these band, they get outrage.
Concerts seem too stressful 😅
I think the station fire should be rated as the worst concert of all time. completely senseless and preventable. the road manager was jailed and the owners. and the worst thing of all was when a member of the band went back to get his guitar. it cost him his life. people don't understand that when you have a buildup of carbon monoxide it knocks you out cold. and then you die because you keep inhaling toxic smoke. beware of carbon monoxide. it will knock you out before you even hit the ground.
The Who in Cincinnati? The Stones in Altamont? You guys seriously dropped the ball on this one
The second after brittany mentioned smoking week, I got a commercial about a woman freaking out over smoked salmon
I think loss of life at the AstroWorld fiasco and the metal concert inside that people died are more tragic and important than the loss of money because of a fiasco on a beach
For those who say that this list should be filled with concerts where a terrorist attacked, "morons" would be a light way of putting those people. This lists is about accidents, and while in some cases, yes, they were preventable, (for example, Christina Grimmie's security failing to notice the gun) they aren't so much controversies as they are complete tragedies, and while some tragedies are on this list, terrorist attacks are too much for this list.
Maan people still blame limp Bizkit for that...damn
Just one of those days, yeah!
@@ChaseMC215 🤣🤣🤣🤣 leaving with a fat lip