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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: mankie on October 29, 2003, 01:47:00 pm
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Mank's on a roll today with his topic starting. (just thought of another one so watch out!)
Primal Scream opened for Waterboys at DAR. Oh my fucking god! I honestly thought it was a piss-take, until I realised the idiots on stage were actually taking themselves seriously.
Manic Street Preachers opened for Oasis at Nissan...never did understand what all the hype was about with that shite.
The poor girls last night, Slumber Party, are up there too, and I'm not just saying that because it's still fresh in my mind.
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I'm in agreement about Slumber Party. I don't know what B&S sees in them.
My pick for Worst support band/act ever goes to: The poor anonymous girl who opened for The Strokes/Kings Of Leon show at UMBC a few weeks ago. Talk about a bad call--this poor girl with a Casio keyboard singing these perplexingly disjointed songs and telling the audience to go 'UGH, America!, UGH, America!' :(
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Mindless Self Indulgence opening for Punk Rock Karaoke at the old Black Cat.
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Peaches and Gonzalez opening for Elastica.
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The guy who opened for Sigur Ros at the Lincoln Theater
The guy who opened for Cat Power at 9:30
The two bands that opened for BJM and The High Strung at the Mojo
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the woman who opened for Paul Weller at the theater (Lincoln?) on U St in 97/98
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The Pleased, who opened for Arthur Lee and Love just last week. The memory of their set only gets uglier as the days go by.
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Originally posted by Guiny:
Peaches and Gonzalez opening for Elastica.
Guiny, you got the wrong thread. Surely you meant to put that in the best support bands ever thread. They were a hoot. I hated elastica.
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Originally posted by chaz:
The Pleased, who opened for Arthur Lee and Love just last week. The memory of their set only gets uglier as the days go by.
they werent that bad. The Canada song was pretty dire, but I bet if they played blackcat they would be ok. not that I would go, of course.
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I saw Butt Trumpet open for someone at the old club. I forget who. God they were terrible.
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
I saw Butt Trumpet open for someone at the old club. I forget who. God they were terrible.
"Butt Trumpet"!!! Come on....with a name like that what were you expecting?
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planet rockers opening for morrissey in 1991
us maple opening for pavement in 1999 (or thereabouts).
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The Demolition Doll Rods opening for the Blues Explosion. The first band I see at my first show at the 9:30 Club. Terrible.
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Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by Skeeter:
I saw Butt Trumpet open for someone at the old club. I forget who. God they were terrible.
"Butt Trumpet"!!! Come on....with a name like that what were you expecting? [/b]
We were expecting very little. We got even less.
Second place goes to Wrathchild opening for the Ramones at the Wax Museum in '84. Big-hair lite-metal band. First time I ever saw a band have beer thrown at them. They certainly deserved it.
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Citizen Bird opening for Luna at the Black Cat last year. Every person in the crowd had his/her ears plugged.
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I have seen tons of bad support bands, mostly I dont remember their names. One band that can always get me to leave the area instantly though is Dead Meadow.
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
One band that can always get me to leave the area instantly though is Dead Meadow.
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
I have seen tons of bad support bands, mostly I dont remember their names. One band that can always get me to leave the area instantly though is Dead Meadow.
completely agree. . .
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i saw the julliana theory a bunch of times. never in the area, though.
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
I have seen tons of bad support bands, mostly I dont remember their names. One band that can always get me to leave the area instantly though is Dead Meadow.
Put down the crack pipe and step away from the computer.
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Wheat & Bleu at 9:30 this February.
There's a couple from back in '97 at the 9:30, but I don't remember their names.
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Immortal Lee County Killers opening for, I think, Drive By Truckers
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Oh look, its Jadetree and GGW: <img src="http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/9d/2a/176676-resized200.jpg" alt=" - " />
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
I saw Butt Trumpet open for someone at the old club. I forget who. God they were terrible.
Did they play i'm ugly and i don't know why? i heard that on a cmj album in like '93. i was hoping someone would say "and if you thought THAT song was great"...oh well.
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Citizen Bird opening for Luna at the Black Cat last year. Every person in the crowd had his/her ears plugged.
no, some of us were cupping our hands to boo louder. a few more minutes, there would have been shit flying at the stage.
btw, citizen bird followed among the best openers, The Reputation.
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Some band called Zoothead, who opening for Sleeper @ the Black Cat in 96.
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Vendetta Red, opening for Andrew WK last fall. It was just trainwreck bad, because the band became confrontational when the crowd didn't respond. They also didn't appreciate the heckles of "Go back to New Jersey." (The band is from Seattle I believe, but their sound resides in New Brunswick, NJ).
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I feckin' hated REDD CROSS. Saw them open for Sonic Youth in 90 at Ritchie and they really rubbed me the wrong way. Then those bastards came back and opened for Jane's Addiction at Smith Center that Spring. Two all-time great shows for me, that opened with Redd Cross just killing me.
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the recover. i said that one in the other one...my bad
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Originally posted by brennser:
the woman who opened for Paul Weller at the theater (Lincoln?) on U St in 97/98
that was Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde and I'll agree her attempt at doing the billy bragg thing didn't work. Concrete Blonde produced some great singles but Johnette overall catalog is more miss than hit...
that whole show was a bit or disappoint... weller was out promoting "heavy soul" not one of his better efforts. plus he was sticking pretty close to the solo stuff for material. he hated touring the states then and it showed.
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book of love with depeche mode
and the ramones must have a habit of taking crap warm ups act... once in detroit it was the heartthrobs(?) a spandex clad 80's pop act. that was bad
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Erase Errata who opened for Sonic Youth. Those bitches wouldn't stop playing. Then they stopped and came out again with Kim Gordon to play some more. I just about died and was ready to go up onstage and shove them all off. Sadly, for my sake, a lot of others liked them. I have no fucking clue why! They were God-awful.
Before I read anyone mention Dead Meadow, I myself was going to list them. UGH!!!!! It's bad enough that they can't play anything that resembles music but they turn it up so loud that your ears are burned out for the good stuff to follow.
Dead Meadow just opened for Super Furry Animals in Manchester about a week ago. Everyone absolutely hated them. You have no idea how embarrased that I was to have to admit that they are from DC. Someone told me that SFA requested them to support them. I'm assuming it's because SFA are guaranteed to sound great after that mess.
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Went to see the Kinks at Merriweather way way back (1984 maybe?). Well Translator was scheduled to open for them. Get there early to see them and whoops change of opener to some horrid three piece hair band. Not only were they a hair band but they sucked. The solos required the guy to lift his guitar neck up to the heavens and do stupid runs down the neck. Oh, and they were all in spandex. Biggest let down in years.
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Needs New Body, opening for Arlo and Rilo Kiley at Velvet Lounge.
Tuneless, melody free, pretension wanking and random playing of notes. Most people would have thought they were a joke rather than a real band.
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Over the years i saw The Cult twice as openers. Once when touring for Electric opening for Billy Idol and once touring for Sonic Temple opening for Metallica. They weren't horrible shows, but definatley among the most forgettable live acts I've ever seen.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Went to see the Kinks at Merriweather way way back (1984 maybe?). Well Translator was scheduled to open for them. Get there early to see them and whoops change of opener to some horrid three piece hair band. Not only were they a hair band but they sucked. The solos required the guy to lift his guitar neck up to the heavens and do stupid runs down the neck. Oh, and they were all in spandex. Biggest let down in years.
I believe this was 9/11/86. I was there too. Drove about 4 hours from PSU and Translator cancelled. Talk about disappointed.
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Europe opening for Def Leppard on Hysteria tour.
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oh also, badly drawn boy closing for Leona Naess is going to suck. Leona fans, don't bother sticking around.
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Retardobot 2000 or 3000, I can't remember. Opened for the Genetorturers I believe. They were just God awful. They were wearing these cardboard and tinfoil robot suits, then they set the stage on fire. Terrible.
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Originally posted by Shadrach:
Retardobot 2000 or 3000, I can't remember. Opened for the Genetorturers I believe. They were just God awful. They were wearing these cardboard and tinfoil robot suits, then they set the stage on fire. Terrible.
2000. Yep, opened for the Genitorturers, yeah as it wasn't for My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult. They set off the fire alarm too. Can still see the melted carpet on that side of the stage...