Strange opening bands for main act...

[n2tattoos.lol]

Went to see Cat Power the other night and a "dj+female singer" called Appaloosa opened. now, at first i thought it must be a joke...she's a horrible singer...but then they kinda grew on me. :confused:

Appaloosa on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/intimate)

anyone else run into funny/horrible/strange opening acts?

[JerryN]

I went to see Aerosmith, Ciara was one of the opening acts. She wasn't good...

[r_t_q_p_02658]

Serj Tankian opened for Foo Fighters recently

[K-Man]

One of the acts opening for Gwen Steffani was a white British wannabe rapper named Lady Sovereign. In my opinion, she was terrible! Bad teeth, bad hair and she reminded me of a white girl who wishes she could rap like a black girl. At least Akon was there as well so he made experiencing her a bit more bearable.

[Rabelais]

Went to U2 on their last tour and Kanye West opened for them... Longest hour of my life.

[jeanyes]

one of the times i saw beastie boys, a dog show opened. they jumped through hoops, and whatnot. the whole time i yelled stuff like, "yeah, dog" and "that's my dog." it was pretty sweet.

[Albofett]

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I saw Aerosmith with Megadeath opening.... not a good mix.

[Choppie]

Three local emo darkwave bands opening for the Misfits/Gwar tour in '99.

That was an experience...to say the least.

[ronhonda]

Fem to Fem with Marilyn Manson opened up for Nine Inch Nails back in '94 at the roseland ballroom in NYC.
they came onstage wearing knee high boots, g-strings and black electrical tape across their nipples.
needless to say the next day i went out and bought their cd.
here is a link to one of their songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCzHHGnirQ&feature=related
also they were featured in a issue of playboy

[Choppie]

MM opening for NIN wasn't surprising, Trent came up with everything that people found interesting about Mr. Warner's band and side show.

Though I was confused that Hole opened....wtf. Who told Ms. Cobain that she could/should/even remotely resembles someone capable of singing.

[ronhonda]

MM was not surprising to have open up.
it was fem to fem.
being a fan of NIN i knew what to expect, but when fem to fem came out, i had no idea what was going on other than there naked chicks on stage. awesome!

[beastley]

Fantasia opening for Kanye West was really fucking annoying.

[nineball]

I saw Lenny Kravitz open for The Cult back in '93 or so. That was a weird mix.

I once went to a Crash Test Dummies concert just to see the opening act in person: Milla Jovovich. She was pretty good, actually.

Best opening act I ever saw? I went to see Love and Rockets in late '87, I think. Hadn't ever heard of the opening act...Jane's Addiction. They were AWESOME. Went and bought the Nothing's Shocking cassette the next day!

[Rabelais]

The BEST opening act I every saw was (don't laugh) Wang Chung. They opened for The Cars in '85 (?) The Cars SUCKED, Wang Chung was really great for a synth-pop band.

ok, they were 2nd best... Tina Turner opened a show I'm embarassed to say I paid money for. If you never saw Tina Turner you really missed a stage show. She brought the goods that night.

[DSF Guest 3]

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How about Aerosmith with Monster Magnet? While I enjoyed both bands, not many people got Monster Magnet.

Jerry Cantrell opening for Metallica was one of the best openers though.

[mhump23]

Some years back I saw Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and Social Distortion and Sonic Youth opened for them. That was the oddest combination that worked the best.

The funniest I recall was when I was in college my school got B.B. King to play and a local Atlanta band Thermos Greenwood and the Colored People opened. They were a weird Zappaesque group where the drummer was the blue guy.... Greenwood was the green guy.... guitarest was the orange guy....you get the picture. A very strange choice I must say that didn't work too well.

[Beatrix Kiddo]

Last year some crazy japanese screamy band, Melt Banana opened for Tool. Tool was incredible! Melt Banana, on the other hand....I wasn't crazy for. I got super lucky. We got floor tickets to three different shows in florida. It was soooooo awesome!

[beastley]

i saw the liars at the radiohead concert.

just a lot of screeching, and really unnecessary.

[Mojo Len]

Hey
I once went to see The Cult and they had a new band open for them called Guns and Roses.

I was impressed with Jim Carroll when he kicked off a J Geils show.

I cought a stripped down Foo Fighter show recently when they opened for Bob Dylan.

I couldn't believe the opening acts for a Police show back in the day in a stadium...Peter Tosh, Talking Heads and Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV opened the show with such bad sound I felt sorry for the great player.

[n00batron]

In 2004 I saw A Perfect Circle in MA. A band called Burning Brides opened for them. I didn't really care for them very much (nor did the crowd, which started chanting "A-P-C;" pretty rude), but APC invited the Brides' guitarist to play with them at the end of the song "Thomas." It was great with the extra guitar.

[EZE123]

I'm pretty friggin' old, but back in the 80s, I saw .38 Special open for Iron Maiden.

of course, that was in the south, so maybe it only seemed strange to me.....

[Beatrix Kiddo]

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I just saw Radiohead too. Did you see them in Tampa? It was on the 6th.. I think. hehe..
Liars didn't seem like such a strange pairing to me, I guess. I'm not a fan of liars, but it seems like a lot of fans of radiohead could also be liars fans. anyway.. that was a really good show! :D

[muffmuffmuff]

about 2 years ago dizzie rascal opened for the chili peppers in germany. horrible.

[rockdude82]

I saw The Hives (horrible swedish retro-garage rock band) open for Rolling Stones in Copenhagen. Longest hour of my life.
Maximo Park opened for....Rolling Stones a few years later, completely redundant band, especially seeing as AC/DC had opened for RS in other parts of Europe.

A slightly weirder combination, though not a tour package, but on Roskilde Festival 2000 (the year a bunch of people died during a Pearl Jam concert)
I saw NIN followed by Iron Maiden. " entirely different crowds for those shows.

[georgemandingo]

I saw Tenacious D back in '98 open for Tool and The Melvins...awesome show...but needless to say, the crowd was not too keen on the D...Maynard had to step in between Tenacious D an The Melvins to calm the crowd down, becuase they got to the point of throwing things onstage, I was quite entertained, but I knew abot the D, and had seen Mr. Show...but the crowd was brutal...Tool played 'Stranglehold' with King Buzzo and that was awesome...

[danieldamone]

The first time I saw squeeze, Fountains of Wayne opened for them, and the second time, Fastball opened up. I guess promoters seem to thing washed up 90's bands go well with post-punk and new wave. weird.

[beastley]

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hey ash, dont think u post anymore, but i saw them in wpb, where they opened the tour...

another wack opener was rig 1 for conor oberst...its this interesting rap "band" with a guy from omaha. must have gone to school with conor or something

[troup]

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I love Tenacious D, how did they handle a bad crowd? I love their music but I got the complete masterworks and they don't seem that great live. They need a band behind them to give it the extra blast a live crowd for that kind of gig needs. I find Tenacious D to be good to listen to when I need to relax for 5 minutes if I am writing a paper or something. I could imagine them being a bit irritating at a show if I wasn't really wasted.

[Nickc]

I saw Rage Against The Machine open for U2.I had seen Rage a few times B4 and the crowd was crazy but at this show.Everyone was sitting nicely in their seats watch Zac jump up and down.It was fuckin strange...as you would think both bands were great so i was happy...

[thenobody]

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Rage with U2, eh? Wow, I'll bet some of the Boomers who went to that show for "With or Without you" had no fucking clue what was going on.

Just thinking about Tom Morello and the Edge being on the same stage is pretty fuckin ridiculous though...