I have always known Iron & Wine, Sam Beam’s name for his one-man band,  for a gorgeous acoustic sound  focused on intellectual lyrics and brilliant vocal melodies. For eight years Sam Beam has been producing simple, well-focused music.

So yes, I was incredibly surprised when each and every one of his songs were transformed into trance-like, psychedelic sounding music at his show.

For anyone who wasn’t expecting Sam Beam  to change his entire sound, the concert was a waste of time and money.

I am blown away by his selfishness. If you are so bored by your own music that you have to literally change the tempo, the instrumentation and the entire feel of each and every one of your songs, than you need to create a side project if you want to continue making and performing music.

It also doesn’t help that the opener band, White Mystery, was literally the worst professionally done music I have ever heard. Between the out of tune guitar, both singers being practically tone deaf and the moronic lyrics, I feel as though I should have been paid to see them as opposed to the other way around.

It was really easy to see that a majority of the concert attenders were disappointed. The tickets were sold out, yet the applause after his songs was maybe half as loud as a show three times smaller. I saw numerous texts from friends of mine at the show and over the shoulders of people around me of anger and annoyance.

Beyond that, a ton of people left before the encore, myself included.

This was by far the worst concert I have been to. I have advice for all of you future musicians. If you are lucky enough to gain a large fan-base, when you go on tour make sure to please your fans. It’s really the least you could do for the time and money they’ve spent on your music.