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19th December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: May 2006 Location: phallicdelphia
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Thread Starter |  strangest mix of bands at a concert
a few larry coreyll, leslie west and focus john mclaughlin, mark almond band and t rex kinks and king crimson
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19th December 2010
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jimi hendrix opening for... The Monkees |
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19th December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Feb 2003 Location: Atascadero, CA
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Janis Ian opening for the Doors. Huge mistake.
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19th December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2002 Location: LA
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I would go to all of those shows!
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20th December 2010
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| Gear Guru Joined: Jun 2004 Location: NYC
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Blue Oyster Cult and David Bromberg.
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20th December 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2010 Location: Oxfordshire
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Male Bonding opening for the dirty Projectors. I found that pretty odd, don't know about the rest of the audience...........
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20th December 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Dec 2009 Location: Seattle
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Hackensaw Boys. Charlie Louvin. Cheap Trick. Cake.
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20th December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: May 2005 Location: Basel, Switzerland
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Van Halen opening for Bon Jovi.
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20th December 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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20th December 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2005 Location: Basel, Switzerland
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__________________ André ___________________________________________ "Recording exactly what a musician hears turns out to be a really big deal." Bob Olhsson "Who cares about efficiency, when we're talking about music?" Rupert Neve "it'll sound different through a microphone, anyway" Keith Carlock "no room, no boom!" Michael Wagener | |
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20th December 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Mar 2010 Location: Tokyo
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Mahavishnu Orchestra supporting Aerosmith. Do festivals count? These combos appeared at the 2010 Summer Sonic The Offspring - Jay Z SUM 41- Stevie Wonder A-Ha - Orbital |
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20th December 2010
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Al Di Meola opening for Renaissance in 1978 was a mismatch - high energy fusion preceding progressive folk. ZZ Top opening for Alice Cooper in the early 70s was strange but still it worked. Sky |
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21st December 2010
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Oct 2009 Location: Tarzana, CA
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Very first concert I ever saw: Yes, opening for Black Sabbath.  |
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21st December 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Dec 2006 Location: NYCish
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I passed on seeing King's X a couple months ago because they were opening for.... Accept!
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21st December 2010
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21st December 2010
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jul 2008
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Erasure opening for David bowie.
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21st December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jun 2007 Location: somewhere in Tasmania
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I think Jay-Z has been playing support for U2 at recent shows.
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21st December 2010
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By FAR the weirdest one I ever saw was The Cult opening for The Pretenders. Originally The Alarm were supposed to open, but for some reason they couldn't make the show, and the Cult were substituted. I actually went to see The Alarm... most of the people were there to see The Pretenders... you could tell by the tepid response NOBODY appreciated The Cult at all Another kinda weird one I saw was Joan Jett opening for The Police. It was at the very height of Joan's brief "glory"... it was Market Square Arena in Indy, seats about 15,000... after Joan was done, I swear HALF the arena emptied out... I assume it was mainly teenagers who wanted to hear Joan but didn't care for the Police  Come to think of it, another weird one also involved The Police... Comiskey Park Chicago... Flock of Seagulls, Ministry, and I believe Simple Minds opened for The Police. What was strange about this is this was EARLY Ministry, when they were a synth-pop band -- before they transformed into an ugly industrial metal band. I only mention this because they crowd ADORED Ministry -- much more than the Police. Frankly, I saw The Police 3 or 4 times in concert and they were never really very good live. Great band on record, however |
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21st December 2010
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I saw The Donnas open up for Busta Rhymes.... .....not joking. |
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21st December 2010
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The Good Rats opening for Meatloaf....After 5 minutes of Meatloaf the audience was screaming for the Good Rats to come back and play...
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21st December 2010
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Montreux, July 4th 2009: Steely Dan, Dave Matthews Band & Chickenfoot. May seem a strange billing, but it was a GREAT night. |
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21st December 2010
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I didn't go but I thought that M83 supporting Kings Of Leon was very odd.
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21st December 2010
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| Allons-y  Joined: Dec 2008 Location: Belgium
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I just wonder why they have Snoop Dog performing at the 'North Sea JAZZ Festival.'
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21st December 2010
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1969, first concert I ever went to comedian  and the headliner  |
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21st December 2010
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My parents told me once about seeing Cheech & Chong opening for Black Sabbath in a mid 70's cross-Canada tour... | |
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21st December 2010
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| Lives for gear Joined: May 2006 Location: phallicdelphia
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21st December 2010
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First concert I ever saw. UB40 opened for Van Halen on their "1984" tour. that's just beyond wrong |
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21st December 2010
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21st December 2010
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jun 2010 Location: Cheshire
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How about Puff Daddy opening for Tupac?
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21st December 2010
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Thanksgiving day, 1977-Houston,TX. ZZ Top -back in their home town and just released hugely successful Fandango album. (get hi, everybody, get hi) The unfortunate opening act was an relatively unknown, Mexican conjunto band complete with trumpets, acoustic guitar bass, girls in big skirts --, you get the picture. And they were fine.... but the rowdy, drunk crowd was having no part of it. Within minutes the boos rang out and not long after the beers and cokes began pelting the stage. The band literally ran for their lives before they finished the first song. It was horrible. I've often wondered what they were thinking sending that band out there in that situation. |
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