My first show in Milwaukee on 7/9/95 opened with "Act of Love". In hindsight, that was insane, but I didn't appreciate it like I do now. My little two show trip I did to Brazil in 15' was awesome for openers. Got The Beatles "Rain" in Belo Horizonte after a day of solid monsoon weather, and then a couple days later got Oceans in Rio on the most gorgeous beach I've seen...that was a sweet back-to-back run of openers given the locale, weather, etc.
On the Lightning Bolt tour stop in Tulsa 2014 they opened with Pendulum (which I kind of expected) but then they went into Hard to Imagine and I thought that was pretty cool.
Love Boat Captain in St. Louis in 2004 was pretty cool and very unexpected.
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Alive, Dallas 2003. Alive usually played towards end of show. Would love to see show open with Yellow Ledbetter, just to fuck with people's minds. Close show with Release, Long Road, or Pendulum. Complete backwards setlist.
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I saw them open with Animal in Va Beach '98. That was crazy, definitely set the tone for the rest of the show.
I love the classic Release or Long Road openers. But after the first song, it is time to get going. These slow 2-3 song openers drag too long. Fine for the start of encores but not for the beginning of shows.
I saw them open with Animal in Va Beach '98. That was crazy, definitely set the tone for the rest of the show.
I love the classic Release or Long Road openers. But after the first song, it is time to get going. These slow 2-3 song openers drag too long. Fine for the start of encores but not for the beginning of shows.
I couldn't agree more. Nothing like a slow opener and then kicking into go.
I've been pretty lucky with openers. Release, Oceans, Long Road, Of the Girl, in My Tree, Small Town, Love Boat Captain. But my favourite was Wash at the stinking hot Gorge.
"Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar. We were but stones, your light made us stars."
All or none at the VIC was the beginning of the magic, the combo of the show, all the ten clubbers, Lolla week, that was as amped a opener not named release I have seen
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Severed Hand in Chicago '06 worked pretty well. They played the recorded intro from the album for a long time while they took the stage.
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Very unique and set the tone for a great show!
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I love the classic Release or Long Road openers. But after the first song, it is time to get going. These slow 2-3 song openers drag too long. Fine for the start of encores but not for the beginning of shows.
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