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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: mankie on October 29, 2003, 01:54:00 pm
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You all knew it was coming didn't you! :D
Cranberries opened for The The at Lisner....this was quite a while before they became big, I said to my mate, "I bet we see a lot of these in the future"...having said that I don't care for them much, but they were a great support band.
The Beat (English Beat) Opened for Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl...had the whole stadium dancing away, yes, even ME!
Corner Shop opened for Oasis at Patriot Center...I probably enjoyed them more than Oasis actually, because the crowd was boring for Liam and the lads so they couldn't get into the mood.
Julia Darling opened for Crash Test Dummies (I think) Writes her own stuff - good musician - total babalicous...what's not to like?
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Originally posted by mankie:
You all knew it was coming didn't you! :D
Corner Shop opened for Oasis at Patriot Center...I probably enjoyed them more than Oasis actually, because the crowd was boring for Liam and the lads so they couldn't get into the mood.
When was that?
So oasis have played there three times then?
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Mother Superior opening for Rollins Band.
Essentially, the band was opening for itself.
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I have seen Superdrag open for several people they are much better than
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
Originally posted by mankie:
You all knew it was coming didn't you! :D
Corner Shop opened for Oasis at Patriot Center...I probably enjoyed them more than Oasis actually, because the crowd was boring for Liam and the lads so they couldn't get into the mood.
When was that?
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March 7th 1996
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
I have seen Superdrag open for several people they are much better than
they were not as good as phantom planet......
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I'd have to save the Burning Brides opening for Division of Laura Lee. Of course, I was there for them over DoLL anyway, but still...
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Originally posted by mankie:
Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
March 7th 1996 [/b]
Oh ok a few years before I got here. It just sounded like the same oasis routine for every show.
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Beastie Boys opening for PiL - Warner Theater sometime in 86 or 87. Just before "Licensed To Ill" came out. The crowd had no idea what to make of them. The closest thing they had to a hit at the time was "She's On it" and they didn't even play that.
Camper Van Beethoven opening for REM - 10/24/86 Pittsburgh.
Billy Bragg and Velvet Monkeys opening for Echo and the Bunnymen - Ontario Theater 8/16/86. I think this was one of the very first shows BB played in the states. He was in the lobby afterwards handing out buttons promoting the "Life's a Riot..." EP. The Fleshtones were supposed to play too, but they cancelled.
Iggy Pop opening for the Pretenders - 1/18/87 Penn State.
Midnight Oil opening for UB40 - Yowza.
geez - i'm not even in the 90's yet.
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
they were not as good as phantom planet......
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The Smithereens opened for Squeeze, that was a good one.
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Originally posted by nkotbie:
I'd have to save the Burning Brides opening for Division of Laura Lee. Of course, I was there for them over DoLL anyway, but still...
Burning Brides were great that night, DoLL were extremely bad
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Beasties was 86, that was a great one. The bud bottle into the crotch (a good kick) was the highlight of the show. We were floored by rap with a Zep or Sabbath beat.
Mercury Rev opening for MBV @ Hammerjacks. Was Yerself Is Steam era, and they were crazy.
Von Bondies, they rocked! Their second guitarist was in Slumberparty, wonder if she took out the rock?
Spiritualized, opening for Siouxie in DC. They were great, left 1/2 way through Siouxie's bland set.
Skid Roper and Mojo Nixon opening for Violent Femmes/Pogues at Wolftrap. Just the two of them. Mojo was great, going into the audience with a big water cooler bottle doing Mushroom Maniac.
Weezer opening for Lush (WUST). Before Undone became big, River was out front handing out band stickers after the show.
9353 opening for the Jesus and Mary Chain circa 1986. They were funny, brilliant, and rocked.
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The Beautiful South came on before Bare Naked Ladies at Merriweather...but we considered BNL to be support for TBS but just came on after...details, details.
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dinosaur jr (w/ murph sans barlow) for neil young
elliot smith and ben folds five for beck
shins for gbv
tenatious d for weezer
the roots for beck
les savy fav for the faint
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alex chilton opening for robyn hitchcock and the egyptians in 1992 in california
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dang, forgot about alex chilton opening for the jon spenser blooooooz explosion
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
alex chilton opening for robyn hitchcock and the egyptians in 1992 in california
Robyn Hitchcock opening for Billy Bragg at the 930. A nice double header.
Also. The disposal heroes of hip-hocracy opening for Billy Bragg at that place that was just off 16th street NW...quite entertaining I must admit.
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Old 97's opening for Wilco
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jj72 opening for Stereophonics. (approx 2 yrs ago at 930)
The 20-year-olds blew the old men away!
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Originally posted by BlueEyedAndDangerous:
jj72 opening for Stereophonics. (approx 2 yrs ago at 930)
The 20-year-olds blew the old men away!
wasnt that a triple bill? JJ72 stereophonics charlatans.
The stereophonics are not that old
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Originally posted by I am Markie. Annoy Mattie:
Originally posted by BlueEyedAndDangerous:
jj72 opening for Stereophonics. (approx 2 yrs ago at 930)
The 20-year-olds blew the old men away!
wasnt that a triple bill? JJ72 stereophonics charlatans.
The stereophonics are not that old [/b]
Not that show. I was there, JJ72 and Stereophonics were the only ones playing. Sad thing is I heard the bassist left the group.
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Elbow opening for Doves
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Originally posted by helicon1:
Elbow opening for Doves
agreed, far better than Doves
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Warlocks opening for BRMC at Fletchers
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When Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees :eek: . No, I wasn't there but just imagine....
But I did see Jazz Butcher open for the Screaming Blue Messiahs back in '86 on F St. SBM drew so much juice that an outlet burned up, forcing a short break (hey, I made a pun).
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Aden for Luna, Reputation for Luna, Camper Van for 10k Maniacs, and Blue Aeroplanes for the Church.
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and Blue Aeroplanes for the Church
what a great band the Blue Aeroplanes are / were - saw them play a storming gig at the Rock Garden years ago - the dancer bloke going mad, guitarists jumping into the crowd, Langley off his rocker
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I'll go with Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins opening for the Chili Peppers in 91 at State Theater in Detroit.
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ida for pedro the lion or
the super furries for grandaddy (does that count as support or was that just a double-bill? i dunno) or
promise ring for jets to brazil (when they were touring like the only good album they ever had)
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..and you will know us by the trail of dead for QOTSA a year or so ago. or was it the other way around?
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mercury rev and gumball opening for dino jr.
david kilgour opening for pavement
wilco opening for the jayhawks
archers of loaf opening for weezer
meat puppets opening for blind melon
soul coughing and railroad jerk opening for jsbx
railroad jerk and cat power opening for gbv
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the replacements (i will dare tour) w/ x
the velvet crush w/ oasis (i startled tommy keene who was playing guitar with them, when i yelled out his name)
the replacements with r.e.m... they came on after the three' o' clock as a suprise guest. paul played drums for a drunken cover of "if i only had a brain"
the mighthy lemon drops with chameleons uk.... the chameleon took their sweet arse time getting on stage and i left before they even came on.
iggy pop with the pretenders
janes addition with iggy pop
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
Originally posted by helicon1:
Elbow opening for Doves
agreed, far better than Doves [/b]
Are you kidding....Doves were amazing at that show, totally made me re-listen to Last Broadcast and realize just how great an album it was.
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Originally posted by redsock:
Are you kidding....Doves were amazing at that show, totally made me re-listen to Last Broadcast and realize just how great an album it was.
i would like to agree with you, but you are wrong, about both the show and the album
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
Originally posted by redsock:
Are you kidding....Doves were amazing at that show, totally made me re-listen to Last Broadcast and realize just how great an album it was.
i would like to agree with you, but you are wrong, about both the show and the album [/b]
I'm curious to hear your reason why you think I am wrong. Elbow was dull, honestly....and almost put me to sleep. Doves rocked...I wish I saw them again later last summer....
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Originally posted by redsock:
I'm curious to hear your reason why you think I am wrong. Elbow was dull, honestly....and almost put me to sleep. Doves rocked...I wish I saw them again later last summer....
you just are wrong, it's that simple ;)
actually, you can reverse what you said, Doves are dull to me, very dull, Elbow was fantastic, the song newborn is one of the best live songs i have seen in the last couple of years, I can't tell one doves song from the next, kind of like the new radiohead album, it is meaningless to me
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I think elbows first album is better than the 2 doves albums. And I think Guy from elbow can be really dis-arming live. Doves are much more stand-offish and it was noticeable how far back on the stage they were.....
But really I think they were both pretty decent live.
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i forgot to add brendan benson and the welfeed boys!!!
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If I had to choose one, I would go for Ballboy for Cincerama.
Other ones were
Portastatic (or something like this) for Yo La Tengo at the 9:30.
Someone will have to help me to remember the name of that band from Boston that opened for the singer of the Lemonheads at the Blackcat in 2002.
Burning Brides for Division of Laura Lee at the Blackcat.
Grandaddy for Elliot Smith at the 9:30 (I think they opened for him in 2000 or 2001?)
The Pogues opening for UB40 in the late eighties in Barcelona.
I remember I liked the Posies (but I never became a follower of their music) when they opened for Teenage Fanclub in Barcelona around 1991.
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Originally posted by who am i, why am i here:
Originally posted by redsock:
I'm curious to hear your reason why you think I am wrong. Elbow was dull, honestly....and almost put me to sleep. Doves rocked...I wish I saw them again later last summer....
you just are wrong, it's that simple ;)
actually, you can reverse what you said, Doves are dull to me, very dull, Elbow was fantastic, the song newborn is one of the best live songs i have seen in the last couple of years, I can't tell one doves song from the next, kind of like the new radiohead album, it is meaningless to me [/b]
See, at first listen, Last Broadcast was crap...but seeing them live, so much more energy than on the Cd. Since then, I really think it is one of the best albums I own, I keep going back to it. Radiohead is much much different, but they both take chances with their music, I'll agree. And you never know what you'll get.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
i forgot to add brendan benson and the welfeed boys!!!
Brendan needs to be wellfed, it was hard to look at him last time he was here, surprised he hasnt been in the hospital
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Interpol opening for Clinic @9:30 summer before last
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R.E.M. for the Police
Sloan for Pete Yorn (huh?)
Cheap Trick for Cake (double huh?)
Of late, most enjoyed Detroit Cobras as a previously unknown entity to me.
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bags, you're dating yourself there! wasn't that in 1981? my friend was at that show. hasn't seen rem since!
matt pond for the new pornographers feb 2002 was great. living color for the rolling stones in 1989.
Originally posted by Bagster:
R.E.M. for the Police
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frames for new pornographers
frames for calexico
brmc for spiritualized
ziggy marley for b 52's 1990
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The Shins opening for Wilco. Great band.
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I am dating myself, but I just want to note for the record that it was 1983, and I couldn't drive to the show!!
But later I bought "Murmur" and that started a whole somethin' somethin' with the Bagster....
Originally posted by lily1:
bags, you're dating yourself there! wasn't that in 1981? my friend was at that show. hasn't seen rem since!
matt pond for the new pornographers feb 2002 was great. living color for the rolling stones in 1989.
Originally posted by Bagster:
R.E.M. for the Police
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Originally posted by Bagster:
I am dating myself, but I just want to note for the record that it was 1983, and I couldn't drive to the show!!
But later I bought "Murmur" and that started a whole somethin' somethin' with the Bagster....
Originally posted by lily1:
bags, you're dating yourself there! wasn't that in 1981? my friend was at that show. hasn't seen rem since!
matt pond for the new pornographers feb 2002 was great. living color for the rolling stones in 1989.
Originally posted by Bagster:
R.E.M. for the Police
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I wasn't at the show but REM did an instore at Penguin Feather in Greenbelt the day after the first show. I was still in my vest from my PT job at Bradlee's in the same shopping center. My name badge was still on the vest. Stipe grapped it and asked me if "Bradlee" was Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post. "Ida know" I said. "The chain's from Massachusetts." I asked Buck how the crowd reaction was and he said "Miserable." The instore was hosted by none other than the Greaseman :eek: who was still on DC101 at the time.
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Jeff Buckley for Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
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Originally posted by Baltimore:
Interpol opening for Clinic @9:30 summer before last
How about Interpol opening for Mogwai at Bowery Ballroom in NYC, circa 1999! That was a great show.
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My all-time favorite double-bills @ 9:30 (except where noted):
*Super Furry Animals opening for Grandaddy 10/2/03
*Denison Witmer opening for Trembling Blue Stars (old Metro Cafe) 11/5/01 - birthday cake for the whole tiny audience!
*Idlewild opening for Placebo 5/24/01
*The Strokes (one of those great 'before-they-were-famous' moments) opening for the Doves 2/25/01
*The Stereophonics opening for the Charlatans (in Philly) 4/8/00
*Cibo Matto opening for Luscious Jackson (send off show) 8/10/99
*Esthero opening for Gus Gus 5/2/99
*The Superjesus opening for Jesus & Mary Chain (the old Bohagers) 7/13/98
*The Ghandarvas opening for Catherine Wheel 12/8/97
Glad I'm not the only one that keeps a list of all the shows I've been to in case this sort of occasion arises!
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Originally posted by mankie:
The Smithereens opened for Squeeze, that was a good one.
Mmmm, nice. Saw the Smithereens open for the Pretenders in NJ, 1986
Also (one per decade, must be dozens more, brain damage--see drinkometer thread--prevents total recall):
Big Brother and the Holding Company (w/Janis) for Blood, Sweat & Tears (Al Kooper version, not that top-40 perversion), Psychedelic Supermarket (cap. 400), Boston, 1968
Ry Cooder for Randy Newman, Boston, 1974
Rosanne Cash for Lyle Lovett, Greek Theater, Berkeley, 1994
Steve Earle for Lucinda Williams for John Prine, Nashville, 2001
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Originally posted by Sweetjoy:
My all-time favorite double-bills @ 9:30 (except where noted):
*Denison Witmer opening for Trembling Blue Stars (old Metro Cafe) 11/5/01 - birthday cake for the whole tiny audience!
Was Denison 24 Turned 25?
*Bet that you are the only one to get that one. ;)
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Originally posted by Jaguär:
Was Denison 24 Turned 25?
*Bet that you are the only one to get that one. ;)
Ah yes, the Philadelphia Songs album, quite excellent. Did you see him with Tracy Shedd at Velvet Lounge? Poor baby was sick as a dog!
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No, I've never had the pleasure. I was just listening to that song the other day.
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The Music opening for The Vines and Ima Robot opening for Hot Hot Heat. Both were better than the headlining bands.