Bad Brains Tickets

The show over all was enjoyable. The venue is gorgeous - very upscale classy feel to it. The [sold out] crowd was enthusiastic but mellow - no real bad apples (depsite a handful of tough guys that confused dancing with pushing people with all their lonely might) in the slippery wet wood floor dance pit. The GzA rocked the crowd. Not the best HR performance... it would have been nice if he had either invited the rest of us to the world he was in or stayed here on earth for the [short] barely 40 minute set.... He chose? to not sing a couple or few tracks as well...

On a trip somewhere. Show left me feeling disconnected. Big ups to: Darryl, Dr Know, and Earl who still rock & jam. HR, please come back to us.

When I noticed Bad Brains were in Washington DC for a sold out show, I felt bad, but when they announced a second show, I quickly got the tickets. I'm glad I did, because the show was amazing! The restored Howard Theatre was impressive, and the sound system gave Bad Brains an added sonic luster that drove the crowd wild, along with a thrieving mosh pit! Overall, Bad Brains(Dr. Know,Gtr, Earl Hudson Drums, Darrly Jennifer bass, and HR vocals) provided the songs,energy, and their solid hardcore base a great Saturday night of music and reflection!

Good to see them again!! Can never go wrong with the Bad Brains.

So at this points it's obvious that HR doesn't want to do this punk rock thing anymore. The rest of the band should charging people to hear him mumble the lyrics and look condescendingly at the audience.

What they played was fantastic, but only a half hour? come on! I suppose i can't wish for the show they would have played 20 years earlier, but no encore? I go back and forth between being psyched that I was able to finally see one of the greatest bands out there live, and being annoyed that they had such a lackluster showing.

Except for all my friends that I havent seen in years, I want my money back! They played for 50 minutes and HR forgot alot of the words. I new this might have been the case with HR, but I thought since it was DC he would have put on a good show.

Two words - Train wreck. Unfortunately, this review site is forcing me to write more words. I can't write anymore about the show since it was only worth those two.

I was also at this show on Friday night. I always wanted to see Bad Brains live, but having lived in south Florida most of my life it never happened. I am huge GZA fan and would have paid to see him regardless. He was the only reason I walked out of the Howard Theatre content and feeling like my money for the ticket, parking, beer and gas was worthwhile. There comes a point in everyone's career whether it be sports, music, etc where it is time to sail off into the sunset and call it a day. It is that time for Bad Brains...at least as a band. I knew how this was going to play out as I watched a lot of recent live show footage on youtube. I still wanted to see this band live. It was quite disappointing to see HR even attempting to perform any Bad Brains songs. I mean, kudos to him for sort of trying, but it is over. Their legacy will forever live on in their catalogue and documentaries to capture the true essence of who Bad Brains was. It might as well been a Bad Brains karaoke night for that show and it was all the fans on almost every tune.

You knew it would happen. It was just when? You could see HR was having monitor problems. So like he has done before he quite. I also saw shoe in Irving Plaza that show was HR at his best . 2 days later HR at his worst. Too bad it had theakings of a memorable night.

I give this 3 stars because Lionize (opening band) and the GZA, gave a decent performance each. And for 5 or 6 songs, HR mumbled just enough to give the song some feeling. But for the couple of songs he simply didn't sing, 'sang' a solo song with an unplugged/inaudible guitar, or left the stage while the rest of the band went through the motions, it ruined what could easily have been a momentous show. The crowd was well and truly up for it. HR wasn't. And if you thought his abroad were so funny Daryl (laughing heartily at every one of his miscues) you wouldn't mind refunding the $29 bucks would ya? Thought not. Anyway, you could claim that HR epitomized punk rock with his antics. Unfortunately he simply just came across as self-absorbed.

Bad Brains in DC is a show my friends and I have been aniticpating for quite some time. The newly renovated Howard Theater was absolutley stellar in every way. It was beautifully finished, full of state of the art lighting, sound, and video, and very well staffed with friendly, well-trained people. The band sounded fantastic - but sadly, HR was a major disappointment. He was disoriented. He mumbled everything quietly, annunciated nothing, and seemed to lose track of who he was and what he was doing. We watched the sound board operator desperately trying to boost HR's mic signal - but that wasn't the problem...it was that HR wasn't projecting at all. He sat down frequently during songs, sometimes not getting up to finish. They played no encore, and we came to find out after seeing phone pics of the set list that they cut half the set list out. It hardly seemed like a good way to treat a sold out home crowd....very disappointing.

Great to see Bad Brains back together (i.e., all together on the same same stage). However, the sound was horrible. Couldn't hear a word H.R. was saying, and it seems like the amp to his guitar was turned off. Also, no encore? C'mon BB...that's not fair.

It was amazing and so much fun. The band did a great job and the crowd was even allowed to mosh.n really reminded me of a show from the 90's. My only problem was with the venue that you had to spend $20 to use a credit card.

GZA was unbelieveabe....way better than I expected Bad Brains was legendary....what would you expect?

More stage dives!!! Parents in the pit!!! Don't forget your roots!!!

These guys rocked, hard. I expected to see some old men trying to resurrect the energy of 25 years ago but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the band has lost nothing over the ages. Loud, fast and a whole lot of crowd movement. See them if you can!

Did all the songs I consider my favorites...and they put on a damn good performance!

I appreciate the band playing a lot of the classics. This show is for the audience. Punk rock was always a mess and I wasn't expecting pretty music but earl darryl and gary are probably at the top of their game. HR is strange. When he rolls his eyes to the heavens he seems to be praying for the show to end. BUT... at the very end after the last encore I saw him grin a sly grin to darryl and earl and it was Paul he was home and the lights were on. HR is a brilliant performer! It must be hard to play these songs at all after playing them with so much intensity for so long. Bravo and thank you for playing out these old songs once more for the people for whom it is important!

Amazing hands down!!!! H20 was a solid opener with no problems from the FSU crew. Bouncers did not allow stage dives and were flipping out on kids crowd surfing. Bad Brains killed it about 75% punk 25% reggae. HR didn't move much but did actually sing.