Opening acts

[Lord of The Curry]

Having to sit through 2 hours of tripe that was The Noisettes and The Kills at The Docks last night in Toronto was one of the worst music-going expiriences in recent memory. Thank God Bloc Party managed to make us all forget about the shitfest we'd just witnessed.

 

Share your opening act horror stories.

[Red Baron]

Exodus when they opened for Megadeth. The lead singer was just off and ruined bunch of their classic songs such as Toxic Waltz.

[Corey_Lazarus]

Staind opening for Megadeth.

Skrape opening the Extreme Steel Tour.

This Boston emo-ish band, Dirty Water, opening for The Misfits a few years ago.

The Deadites opening for The Misfits last year, and opening for GWAR this year (doesn't happen this year until next month, but they're going to ruin the flow of the show).

[Annabelle]

do you not like the kills? or was their performance just really bad?

[The Czech Republic]

Having to sit through 2 hours of tripe that was The Noisettes and The Kills at The Docks last night in Toronto was one of the worst music-going expiriences in recent memory. Thank God Bloc Party managed to make us all forget about the shitfest we'd just witnessed.

I bet The Kills > The Killers

[Annabelle]

you don't need to even bet. although mr brownside has repeatidely been driven into my skull so often i am tolerating it. even if they are the most boring human beings in the history of mankind. their latest single, on the other hand, is really really shitty.

[Lord of The Curry]

do you not like the kills? or was their performance just really bad?

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They were frontin' like they were Jack and Meg White meets NIN. Uninspired guitars, terrible singing voices, bad feedback and crappy sound overall. I thought it was the system at The Docks until Bloc Party managed to prove the theory wrong by sounding perfectly clear.

[Guest 5.0Fanatic]

For me, Jonny Polonsky opening for Audioslave was pretty bad. I don't know if it was just me, but I could not get into them at all.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, opening for the Blood Brothers

 

Surprisingly dry, anemic spaz act that were only made truly terrible by the ill-advised rock star posing of the band's frontman. He did all tricks that were shocking when Iggy Pop first did them and boring by the time Marilyn Manson came around: fellating the mic, humping the mic stand, treating the mic stand as a surrogate penis—stroking it in what I guess was supposed to be onastic glory, etc. All of which would be tolerable—fine, even—if the music was even slightly dangerous or sexy. It wasn't. On the brightside, the bulk of the crowd saw right through it, too; most of the people at the venue stood with their arms crossed as the band played, with what little applause that fell between songs being a polite conceit to the expected audience behavior at live shows.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

do you not like the kills? or was their performance just really bad?

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They were frontin' like they were Jack and Meg White meets NIN.

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I don't care about the Kills, but this is offbase.

[Mecha Mummy]

So I went to see Rasputina, who are like this gothic cello rock group. Naturally the band opening for them would be somewhat like them in style at the very least, right?

 

Nope. Instead it's Audio Learning Center, who are probably the worst band I have ever seen live. They specialize in coming off like their long, dull songs are finally over... and then they start the damn song up again just to twist the knife even further. If you see them opening a concert you want to go to make sure to get there late unless you really want to be up front for the headliners THAT badly.

[cbacon]

Yeah, they were pretty bad, but Bloc Party more than made up for it with their set. Fuck, that was awesome.

 

I guess the worst opener up until then were The Miniatures opening for Matt Good a couple of times and Serena Ryder opening for Hawksley Workman. Really boring.

[Lord of The Curry]

do you not like the kills? or was their performance just really bad?

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They were frontin' like they were Jack and Meg White meets NIN.

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I don't care about the Kills, but this is offbase.

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Yuh-huh. I must've missed you in the crowd last night.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Stop pretending you can talk about music with the grown ups. It hasn't worked yet.

[Lord of The Curry]

I'll do that when you stop pretending to know about shit you clearly don't. Their posturing, body language and SOUND all added up to the comparison. If you've seen them in a different light, fine. But, like it or not, that's how they were.

 

I must have hit a nerve or something, you're usually pretty indifferent. Ah well.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Oh please, queenie. I haven't once posted on this board in anger; I take pleasure in calling you out on your ignorance. Remember the Broken Social Scene thread? That series of posts over the Geto Boys had me squealing in delight.

[cbacon]

[Lord of The Curry]

Oh please, queenie. I haven't once posted on this board in anger; I take pleasure in calling you out so I can showcase my vast musical knowledge. Remember the Broken Social Scene thread? That series of posts over the Geto Boys had me squealing in delight.

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[snuffbox]

Earlier this summer I saw a local group called Thundersnake opening for 3 Inches Of Blood...it was painful. The singer seemed like he was trying to copy that Jim Breur metalguy bit from SNL, only trying to be 'real'.

[Phoenix Fury Legdrop]

Ben Kweller opened up for Ben Folds at Wabash College back in February. I only paid $5 to get in, but Kweller wasn't even worth that. I really dig his studio work, but he was the SHITS that night. He seemed completely drunk and not in condition to be on stage and he was big into playing 1/4th of a song, then stopping and screaming something inaudiable about partying.

 

 

Example: "Here's a little ditty I really enjoy. (plays five notes of cover of "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana)...nah, I don't wanna play that anymore. Who here's going out and getting wasted after the show?! (morons cheer)"

 

By the way, the five notes he played during "Heart-Shaped Box" were the only ones he played the whole night. The rest of the time, he'd strum as hard as he can instead of playing any actual notes/chords on his acoustic guitar, and the songs only seemed recognizable by the lyrics. Thankfully, Ben Folds is an awesome live act, or else it would have been a shitty night.

 

I heard Kweller from a-far at Lollapalooza this year; he actually sounded decent. Then again, it was 4 PM and he had a full band behind him.

[Guest JebusNassedar]

Oddlhy enough, this has never happened to me.

 

I only get openers that make the headlining bands look bad.

 

I.E. The Mars Volta making fools of A Perfect Circle, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum making dredg seem kinda dull.

[Epic Reine]

Linkin Park opening for Cradle of Filth, Type O Negative, and In Flames. I wanted to kill someone that night.

[2GOLD]

Melee kicking off the Take Action Tour show at the Electric Factory earlier this year. It wasn't Melee was bad, they were just in WAY over their fucking heads that night.

 

Plus the guy opening the show with "Hey everybody! We're Melee" and then basically breaking into a lounge song didn't help their case.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Linkin Park opening for Cradle of Filth, Type O Negative, and In Flames. I wanted to kill someone that night.

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Who the fuck booked Linkin Park at THAT gig?

[Annabelle]

how did c-bacon manage to make the bloc party seem so much less cool? matthew good band fratboys listening to hipster rock is ironic. since hipsters are try so hard to be different, but eventually, even the lamos they hate start coming to their shows.

 

the kills are white stripes meet nin? really. have YOU listened to their album? or are you judging a band by how they looked then by what they actually play? clearly their "posturing" and so forth clearly made you biased from this band in the first place. but did you actually pay attention? opening bands have it so hard. they get strapped with so many musical wannabe elitists so see the new "it" band who immedietly dismiss anything that isn't on their radar.

 

unfortunately bloc party doesn't try to shed their mainstream image by putting their music in the oc. now american eagle wearing fags can sell out their shows. american eagle wearing fags who foolishly compare any boy-girl band as comparable to the white stripes. but they use drum machines - uh oh - NINE INCH NAILS influence, too.

 

criticise them for doing too much coke. or whatever. but inc is right. the musical equation that you formulate was incorrect. stick to your THE GAME hype'n. he's so legit. no fake "posturing" there at all.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Che v just might be meaner than Incandenza.

[Annabelle]

Che v just might be meaner than Incandenza.

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i was quite nice about it all.

[snuffbox]

Mars Volta made fools of APC?

[Lord of The Curry]

I managed to point out reasons why The Kills suck earlier but that curiously gets ignored whereas my immediate bias against them is attacked. Bottom line: They sounded like shit. Their on stage antics certainly didn't endear me to them. They sucked. Did not impress at all. Can't really make it any clearer then that.

 

Don't make the mistake of thinking that I don't know that artists like Game have an image to uphold. I do. That has nothing to do with why I like him.

 

I'd like to know why Bloc Party trying to downplay their mainstream appeal should have anything to do with the music they play? I don't believe a band should be faulted for becoming popular amongst certain social circles but......but wait. You seem to be hating on Bloc Party for different (but fundamentally the same) reasons why I didn't like The Kills. You don't believe that they should appeal to the "American Eagle" set. And why? Because you don't like those people? Weak as fuck. You calling me a wannabe-elitist is a fucking joke. I don't wear American Eagle but it's cute that you think of me as a frat-boy.

[Annabelle]

i never once said i hated bloc party. did i? i just resent beefcakes like you who go their shows. it kinda ruins my fun. sorry.

 

i misfired on the american eagle comment. ok here's another one. skateboarding shoes. baggy jeans. and a DC t-shirt. maybe a backwards ball cap or a snowboard toque in the winter. talk about weak as fuck.

 

image has nothing to do with how you judge artists? how did you primarily judge the kills? how they acted.

 

anyway this conversation is dead to me. i better leave before c-bacon "debases" everything i say by posting a witty picture in an attempt to prove how big of an idiot he really is.