10 Most Embarrassing Onstage Moments In Rock

10. Queens of the Stone Age at Rock Am Ring

You ever have one of those really off days at your day job? The kind of regular work day where every single thing seems to go wrong no matter what you might do to try and stop it? Well, it turns out that those days are not exclusive to musicians either, especially when playing on a major festival.

At this point in Queens of the Stone Age's tenure, Joshua Homme and co. had just started to gain some real traction off of their album Rated R before going in to the festival Rock Am Ring. Once they started to plug in though, every technical foul up that you can imagine happening to a live band unfolded as they played. While it started with a few hiccups in the performance like coming in on the wrong beat, things quickly escalated to a smoke machine blowing for no apparent reason and more than a few instances where both Homme and Mark Lanegan's mics weren't even plugged in, leading to awkward bits of silence where singing would normally be.

Since that historic date, both Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri got tattoos of the day etched into their skin to commemorate their failure and remind themselves to never give that lackluster a performance ever again. Seeing how they were about to blow up with Songs for the Deaf though, the musical gods have definitely come around for QOTSA.