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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: miss pretentious on August 15, 2007, 02:12:00 pm
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What is the worst concert line-up you've endured... not as in shitty or bad bands, but actual bands you were wanting to see, but played terribly off each other or were really random and didn't work?
One that stands out in my head is the MACRoCk from 2002 or 2003 when Pedro the Lion followed Mates of State. I adore both, but that back-to-back made me feel really bipolar. After the happy, cute MOS, I was really to slit my wrists.
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Valient Thorr opening for Gogol Bordello was super odd.
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I once saw the Promise Ring open for Jimmy Eat World at the height of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" mania. It was very surreal and even Davey Von Bohlen remarked that it was odd to open for a band that opened for them for years.
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Recently, the one that first comes to mind is Junior Boys/Youth Group/Aqueduct a few months back at Black Cat. I like Youth Group and Junior Boys alot, but none of those 3 bands should be playing together. Weird combo.
Looking back, I remember seeing Dismemberment Plan and Quiruli play together, which was an OK combo, but then in between was John Vanderslice -- who is fantastic -- but he sucked all the energy out of Alley Katz.
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Show hasn't happened yet, but I have more than a creeping suspicion that some crucial chronic was responsible for The Hives opening for Maroon 5.
How the fuck[/i] do you start with porn & end with a soap opera???
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So you're saying Maroon 5 aint shitty?
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Show hasn't happened yet, but I have more than a creeping suspicion that some crucial chronic was responsible for The Hives opening for Maroon 5.
How the fuck[/i] do you start with porn & end with a soap opera???
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this isn't really examples of bands i both wanted to see, but just kind of odd pairings that didn't really go together that i did see:
autechre / men's recovery project ?
explosions in the sky / coheed & cambria ?
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promise ring and bad religion
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Violent Femmes/Grateful Dead
Beastie Boys/PiL - Just before Licensed To Ill came out. Nobody knew what to make of the Beasties. Most people just sat and occasionally booed them, while the Boys were jumping around, spilling beer everywhere and falling all over each other.
Trouble Funk/Nina Hagen - Not a bad pairing, in retrospect, but at the time it just seemed totally bizarre.
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I saw Hole at 9:30 Club play a 15 minute set opening for 2 local bands. Courtney had a shitty attitude the whole time, made a bunch of smartass remarks between songs and went off verbally on a couple ditzes dancing cluelessly in front of the stage, pretty funny.
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Screaming Blue Messiahs and Jazz Butcher in '86(?). Actually, that worked in a weird way.
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I would've liked to seen Nirvana and Loop on the same bill at 9:30 but missed it due to still being out of town for college exams.
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Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.
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Tracy Bonham opening for Everclear in 1996. It was at the Captial Ballroom (now Nation). She was not great.
The bill consisted of Everclear, Spacehog, Tracy Bonham, and 7 year Bitch.
Cool lineup minus Bonham.
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Originally posted by econo:
Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.
HAHA I was at that show, hell it was pretty beat crowd-wise even for Andrew WK but yeah it was even worse for Lost Prophets. I was pretty surprised when a couple years later I stopped by the 9:30 Club one evening to buy tickets for a future show at the club and realized that the crowd that was lined up all the way down the street were there to see the Lost Prophets, apparently a lot more people had got into their shitty third-rate Incubus ripoff schtick within that couple of years.
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Dave Matthews Band / Smashing Pumpkins (with Marilyn Manson guesting on a song) / Rolling Stones [Bridges to Babylon Tour - Miami 97]
Third Eye Blind / U2 [PopMart Tour - Tampa 97]
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I was pretty drunk so my memory of the evening's a bit off. Though that was the evening I met some of the other board members?
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
HAHA I was at that show, hell it was pretty beat crowd-wise even for Andrew WK but yeah it was even worse for Lost Prophets.
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Originally posted by econo:
Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.
I remember that show! The other funny thing is that Andrew WK was scheduled to play Saturday Night Live 3-4 days later, so it was odd having him be (if I remember it right) the third band on the bill.
The Clientele opening for the Dino Jr reunion show was kind of odd in terms of disparate music styles and volumes.
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Wasn't that some type of MTV2 tour? I seem to remember there being a headliner than canceled for that night as well.
That was the night we met Markie & Lulu, right? And GGW I think also.
Originally posted by econo:
I was pretty drunk so my memory of the evening's a bit off. Though that was the evening I met some of the other board members?
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Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Dave Matthews Band / Smashing Pumpkins (with Marilyn Manson guesting on a song) / Rolling Stones [Bridges to Babylon Tour - Miami 97]
Third Eye Blind / U2 [PopMart Tour - Tampa 97]
I don't see anything weird about those pairings at all.
Brian
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Stone Temple Pilots opening for Butthole Surfers.
Try sitting through the Stone Temple Pilots' grunge-derived radio hits followed by Independent Worm Saloon-era songs sung by a fat and drunk (yet glorious) Gibby Haynes.
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I always though the Surfers opened for STP?
Originally posted by PigIron:
Stone Temple Pilots opening for Butthole Surfers.
Try sitting through the Stone Temple Pilots' grunge-derived radio hits followed by Independent Worm Saloon-era songs sung by a fat and drunk (yet glorious) Gibby Haynes.
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Dashboard Confessional (solo) opening for Face to Face, Snapcase and H2O.
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Yeh, then we met Andrew WK as well! GGW bought us beer. Thank you GGW.
Originally posted by nkotb:
Wasn't that some type of MTV2 tour? I seem to remember there being a headliner than canceled for that night as well.
That was the night we met Markie & Lulu, right? And GGW I think also.
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Right...and all he was drinking was mineral water. YUPPIE!
Originally posted by econo:
Yeh, then we met Andrew WK as well! GGW bought us beer. Thank you GGW.
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In a BLUE bottle! Of all things!
Originally posted by nkotb:
Right...and all he was drinking was mineral water. YUPPIE!
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Speaking of Andrew WK... when his show was cancelled in Baltimore at The Thunderdome, or wherever, and they included him in as the headliner with Adam Franklin (ex-Swervedriver) at The Ottobar. Totally different crowds and styles of music especially when you consider Adam's much more mellowed down sound compared to his Swerving days.
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Not sure if this is totally applicable to the thread, but one of my HUGE pet peeeeves is when a solid to incredible veteran act has to "open" for a new kid on the block with a hot single, ie.
Ash opening for The Bravery (when it was an ASH show no less), Sonic Youth opening/co-headlining for/with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pretty Girls Make Graves opening for She Wants Revenge, Muse opening for whoever the fuck it was they opened for a few months ago, Placebo NOT headlining whatever the phuck Linkin Park's tour is called AND co-headlining with She Wants Revenge, Dresden Dolls on that silly emo/boy band tour last year, Stereophonics opening for some douchebags I can't remember, ANYONE opening for the Killers, etc....
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Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees.
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Originally posted by bnyced0:
Not sure if this is totally applicable to the thread, but one of my HUGE pet peeeeves is when a solid to incredible veteran act has to "open" for a new kid on the block with a hot single, ie.
Ash opening for The Bravery (when it was an ASH show no less),
yeah - but remember there was a reason that Ash opened on that night. Something about the guys in the Bravery's families being around for the show. I dont remember the story, but I know it had something to do with that. I dont know about the rest of the tour. But yes - I generally cant stand that.
Stereophonics opened for Howie Day at 9:30. Half the crowd was gone when Stereophonics were done.
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Originally posted by IamHydrogen:
Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees.
PLEASE tell me you're lying. :eek:
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I thought you knew your rock history. :p
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Originally posted by IamHydrogen:
Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees.
PLEASE tell me you're lying. :eek: [/b]
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I thought you knew your rock history. :D
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Originally posted by IamHydrogen:
Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees.
PLEASE tell me you're lying. :eek: [/b]
I believe it was the first Monkees' tour. They outsold the Beatles in '65 or '66. Whenever. The Experience opened only a few dates for them before they were kicked off. Hendrix (less surprisingly) was also in Little Richard's band for a period.
Brian
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Would you sit through Collective Soul, Live, Breaking Benjamin, and Seether to see one of your favorite bands? I'm faced with that dilemma.
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Originally posted by 6949:
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Would you sit through Collective Soul, Live, Breaking Benjamin, and Seether to see one of your favorite bands? I'm faced with that dilemma.
no comment.
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Originally posted by 6949:
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Would you sit through Collective Soul, Live, Breaking Benjamin, and Seether to see one of your favorite bands? I'm faced with that dilemma.
Sitting through shit. So you can see shit.
Lemme know how that works out for you, champ.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I thought you knew your rock history. :D
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Originally posted by 6949:
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Would you sit through Collective Soul, Live, Breaking Benjamin, and Seether to see one of your favorite bands? I'm faced with that dilemma.
I'm not going to snob your music choices 6949. Those are all fine bands. Anyhow, if you're going to see Three Days Grace, I think they're going to be the second to play. I think the line-up will be: Seether, Three Days Grace, Collective Soul, Breaking Bejamin and then headlining, Live.
Brian
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Originally posted by bnyced0:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I thought you knew your rock history. :D
You forgot one, pimpin'. You forgot one.
:cool:
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Aren't Three Days Grace, Seether and Breaking Bejamin pretty much the exact same band?
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Regarding Sting films, how could you let out "The Bride" with Jennifer Beals?
Actually, he was in a film called "Brimstone and Treacle" which was pretty good.
Brian
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
A wise man once said if you're gonna do it, do it right. :D
So as we can plainly see, Rock History pales in comparison to Police-o-cology :roll:
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Originally posted by bnyced0:
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
A wise man once said if you're gonna do it, do it right. :D
So as we can plainly see, Rock History pales in comparison to Police-o-cology :D :cool:
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I saw Loretta Lynn open for the White Stripes at Hammerstein Ballroom in April 2003, which was cool in theory, but didn't mesh with our states of mind.
I saw the Corrs open for the Stones at MCI in 99 . . .which was odd but harmless, and they were fun to look at.
Sonic Youth opening for Beastie Boys at Michael's Eighth Ave. in 92 seemed odd at the time but of course was great.
Sting opening for the Dead in 93, when Sting was in his adult contemporary prime, also seemed odd but he was great - played 'jammy' versions of King of Pain etc., but it rocked.
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Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
Regarding Sting films, how could you let out "The Bride" with Jennifer Beals?
Actually, he was in a film called "Brimstone and Treacle" which was pretty good.
Brian
so was "lock, stock and two smoking barrels"
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Originally posted by Mobius:
I saw Loretta Lynn open for the White Stripes at Hammerstein Ballroom in April 2003, which was cool in theory, but didn't mesh with our states of mind.
the loretta lynn album that jack worked on remains the only country album i own. and i really dig it.
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Originally posted by nkotb:
I always though the Surfers opened for STP?
Originally posted by PigIron:
Stone Temple Pilots opening for Butthole Surfers.
Try sitting through the Stone Temple Pilots' grunge-derived radio hits followed by Independent Worm Saloon-era songs sung by a fat and drunk (yet glorious) Gibby Haynes.
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Other way around when I saw it in some Poconos town in PA.
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The Jam opening for Blue Oyster Cult
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I saw Trouble open up for the Ramones in Spring of '90, possibly two of the greatest bands in their respective genres but Ramones fans did NOT take well to Trouble at all. It was pretty funny watching their drummer (the late Barry Stern) flipping off the crowd between beats haha
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Originally posted by Brandon Brendall, the thief:
Aren't Three Days Grace, Seether and Breaking Bejamin pretty much the exact same band?
Are we recycling comments now? Didn't you use that before for Nickelback/Daughtry or something similar? If you're going to insult about a band for not being unique please at least come up with a unique comment.
And to the Director's shit before shit comment...hey we all can't have the same taste in music. Not every band can be like Tay Zonday who has universal appeal.
And to Brian who said he won't snob my music choice....thanks. I knew there was a reason why I didn't respond on your hey there delilah thread. good karma.
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Man, that's awkward.
Originally posted by Dr. Anton Phibes:
The Jam opening for Blue Oyster Cult
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That's just uncomfortable.
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
I saw Trouble open up for the Ramones in Spring of '90
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Originally posted by econo:
That's just uncomfortable.
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
I saw Trouble open up for the Ramones in Spring of '90
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Personally I thought it was great getting to seeing two legendary bands for the first time.
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Originally posted by econo:
Man, that's awkward.
Originally posted by Dr. Anton Phibes:
The Jam opening for Blue Oyster Cult
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MORE COWBELL!
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so dax riggs opens uo for QOTSA at Rams Head? I find that a little awkward. If i didnt dislike QOTSA so much i might go check it out. I am a fan of all dax riggs projects, acid bath, agents, deadboy, and his solo stuff, but i cant picture them touring together. good for dax, maybe get more fans.
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Originally posted by Mobius:
[QB] I saw Loretta Lynn open for the White Stripes at Hammerstein Ballroom in April 2003, which was cool in theory, but didn't mesh with our states of mind.
aw wow that was ages ago it seems. i actually thought it was fun it did make sense in a round about way and blanche kind of tied it all together.
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Originally posted by xneverwherex:
Stereophonics opened for Howie Day at 9:30. Half the crowd was gone when Stereophonics were done.
Ha! I was at that show, too. I came with a friend who was in love with Howie Day (pre-attempted rape on the tour bus or whatever he was accused of). Stereophonics killed and we stayed for only a couple of songs in Howie's set before she was ready to leave. :(
I'll add...
Having to endure PJ Olsson as he opened for the Twilight Singers on their first tour back in 2000.
Year of the Rabbit (Ken Andrews' band at the time) opening for Pete Yorn in 2003 (I know Ken worked on Pete's Day I Forgot, but just a strange line-up)
The Damnwells opening for the Twilight Singers in 2004