What is the most unique opening song that you've seen?

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  • on2legson2legs Standing in the Jersey rain… Posts: 14,338
    Oceans... East Rutherford 9/8/98
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore


  • KICK7071KICK7071 In My Tree, ON Posts: 712
    London 2013 - Prestent Tense
    Toronto 10-05-2000 / Toronto 06-28-2003 / Toronto 09-19-2005 / Toronto 05-09-2006 / Buffalo 05-10-2010 / Toronto 09-11-2011 /
    Hamilton 09-15-2011 / London - Canada 07-16-2013 / Buffalo 10-12-2013 / Ottawa 05-08-2016 / Toronto 05-10-2016 / Toronto 05-12-2016
    Amsterdam 06-12-2018 / Amsterdam 06-13-2018 / Chicago 08-18-2018 / Boston 09-02-2018 / Boston 09-04-2018 / Quebec City 09-01-2022 / Ottawa 09-03-2022 / Hamilton 09-06-2022 / Toronto 09-08-2022 / New York City 09-11-2022 / Chicago 09-05-2023 / Chicago 09-07-2023 / Austin 09-18-2023 / Austin 09-19-2023
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,722
    on2legs said:
    Oceans... East Rutherford 9/8/98
    that was one hell of a show!!!  that would be a great a vault.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • on2legson2legs Standing in the Jersey rain… Posts: 14,338
    mcgruff10 said:
    on2legs said:
    Oceans... East Rutherford 9/8/98
    that was one hell of a show!!!  that would be a great a vault.
    Indeed =)
    1996: Randall's Island 2  1998: East Rutherford | MSG 1 & 2  2000: Cincinnati | Columbus | Jones Beach 1, 2, & 3 | Boston 1 | Camden 1 & 2 2003: Philadelphia | Uniondale | MSG 1 & 2 | Holmdel  2005: Atlantic City 1  2006: Camden 1 | East Rutherford 1 & 2 2008: Camden 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Newark (EV)  2009: Philadelphia 1, 2 & 4  2010: Newark | MSG 1 & 2  2011: Toronto 1  2013: Wrigley Field | Brooklyn 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore  2015: Central Park  2016: Philadelphia 1 & 2 | MSG 1 & 2 | Fenway Park 2 | MSG (TOTD)  2017: Brooklyn (RnR HOF)  2020: MSG | Asbury Park  2021: Asbury Park  2022: MSG | Camden | Nashville  2024: MSG 1 & 2 | Philadelphia 1 & 2 | Baltimore


  • mrk2mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,020
    Gimme Some Truth
    225xxx - 6/28/00, 10/20/01, 10/22/01, 9/11/06, 9/22/06, 9/23/06, 6/18/07, 6/26/07, 8/15/09, 6/25/10, 6/30/10, 7/4/12, 7/5/12, 7/7/12, 7/10/12, 6/26/14, 6/28/14, 7/3/18, 7/5/18
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,722
    mrk2 said:
    Gimme Some Truth
    What show was that?
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • stuckinlinestuckinline Posts: 3,357
    RiotAct10 said:
    Betterman in Cleveland, 2006, was a surprise out of the gate.
    Yes! Especially with the crowd singing the first verse.
  • seanwonseanwon Posts: 264
    I Am Mine -(opened 2x), Crazy Mary (2x), Wasted Reprise (5x), Unthought Known (6x), Breakerfall (7x)
    1996: 9/29 Randall's Island 2,  10/1 Buffalo                  2000: 8/27 Saratoga Springs
    2003: 4/29 Albany,  5/2 Buffalo,  7/9 MSG 2                   2006: 5/12 Albany,  6/3 East Rutherford 2
    2008: 6/27 Hartford                 2009: 10/27 Philadelphia 1              2010: 5/15 Hartford,   5/21 MSG 2
    2013: 10/15 Worcester 1,  10/25 Hartford                       2014: 10/1 Cincinnati
    2016: 5/2 MSG 2,   8/5 Fenway 1,  11/7 Temple of the Dog MSG
    2018: 9/2 Fenway 1
    2020: 3/30 MSG             2022: 9/11 MSG            2023: 9/10 Noblesville
  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,459
    edited January 2018

    1 time - Cropduster, Do the Evolution, Crazy Mary, Breakerfall, Better Man, Wasted Reprise, All or None, Animal, Gonna See my Friend, Why Go, Present Tense, Lightning Bolt, Sirens, Mind Your Manners, Nothingman, Lowlight

    2 times - Hard to Imagine, Interstellar Overdrive, Go

    3 times - Severed Hand, Of the Girl

    4 times - Can't Keep, Sometimes, Corduroy

    6 times - Elderly Woman, Wash, Oceans

    10 times - Long Road

    11 times - Release

    23 times - Pendulum

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  • darthvedderdarthvedder Posts: 2,461
    mcgruff10 said:
    mrk2 said:
    Gimme Some Truth
    What show was that?
    Groundwork 2001?
  • Wasted Reprise into Life Wasted - Milwaukee 2006

    Low Light - Chicago 2016
    you're god and you've got big hands
  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    Let me take a trip down setlist memory lane and report back
  • stratmadstratmad Posts: 208
    edited January 2018
    Better Man, Melbourne 2003
    Wash, Memphis 2014. Ok technically they opened with Pendulum but if you were to take Pendulum as the default intro for many 2014 shows, getting Wash as their “first” song was special. 
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  • BrainofBGABrainofBGA Australia Posts: 3,827
    mcgruff10 said:
    Some others that haven't been mentioned: wasted reprise, gonna see my friend , mym 
    I got Wasted reprise in Melbourne 06 before slamming into Life Wasted and then Animal. 
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • BrainofBGABrainofBGA Australia Posts: 3,827
    Nothing beats the band coming out, Eddie saying, "Cold enough for you? Let's warm it up!" and the band tearing straight into Whipping.
    Sacramento 2000.
    Hell yeah! 
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • BrainofBGABrainofBGA Australia Posts: 3,827
    Cropduster - Lexington 2003
    Now that is a strange opener! 
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • BrainofBGABrainofBGA Australia Posts: 3,827
    edited January 2018
    I’d like to see them go back to RVM and Whipping opening a show circa 94. 

    I know MFC has opened before and just saw that the opening show of 94 was opened with Indifference!!
    Post edited by BrainofBGA on
    Melbourne #1 '98
    Melbourne #2 '03
    Melbourne #3 '03
    Melbourne #1 '06
    Melbourne #3 '06
    Melbourne '09
    Melbourne '14
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,808

    1 time - Cropduster, Do the Evolution, Crazy Mary, Breakerfall, Better Man, Wasted Reprise, All or None, Animal, Gonna See my Friend, Why Go, Present Tense, Lightning Bolt, Sirens, Mind Your Manners, Nothingman, Lowlight

    2 times - Hard to Imagine, Interstellar Overdrive, Go

    3 times - Severed Hand, Of the Girl

    4 times - Can't Keep, Sometimes, Corduroy

    6 times - Elderly Woman, Wash, Oceans

    10 times - Long Road

    11 times - Release

    23 times - Pendulum

    hmmm. looks like you've been to a couple shows. not bad. 
    Darwinspeed, all. 

    Cheers,

    HFD




  • 1 time - Cropduster, Do the Evolution, Crazy Mary, Breakerfall, Better Man, Wasted Reprise, All or None, Animal, Gonna See my Friend, Why Go, Present Tense, Lightning Bolt, Sirens, Mind Your Manners, Nothingman, Lowlight

    2 times - Hard to Imagine, Interstellar Overdrive, Go

    3 times - Severed Hand, Of the Girl

    4 times - Can't Keep, Sometimes, Corduroy

    6 times - Elderly Woman, Wash, Oceans

    10 times - Long Road

    11 times - Release

    23 times - Pendulum

    That's 102 shows.  It looks like you have seen them every time they've toured since 2013? 
  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,459

    1 time - Cropduster, Do the Evolution, Crazy Mary, Breakerfall, Better Man, Wasted Reprise, All or None, Animal, Gonna See my Friend, Why Go, Present Tense, Lightning Bolt, Sirens, Mind Your Manners, Nothingman, Lowlight

    2 times - Hard to Imagine, Interstellar Overdrive, Go

    3 times - Severed Hand, Of the Girl

    4 times - Can't Keep, Sometimes, Corduroy

    6 times - Elderly Woman, Wash, Oceans

    10 times - Long Road

    11 times - Release

    23 times - Pendulum

    That's 102 shows.  It looks like you have seen them every time they've toured since 2013? 

    Ha.  It is actually 103 shows but I spent the first set of Philly IV 2009 in the hotel room with the Philly Flu until I saw Out of My Mind was played and I drugged up (with Tylenol) and got to the show.  Missing Bugs would have made me jump in the Delaware River. 

    Saw one show in 1998, and one show in 2000.  Then in 2003 the traveling began and saw them every year until 2017 broke the streak. 

  • KG1450KG1450 Posts: 11
    Daughter - Nachodoches TX '93
  • JL19851JL19851 Posts: 209
    Last Exit (Randall’s Island 1 ‘96), Hard to Imagine (MSG 1 ‘08), Crazy Mary (MSG 2 ‘03), I Am Mine (Albany ‘03), and Wasted Reprise (Albany ‘06).

    I may be old school but my favorite openers are still Release and Long Road. I still yearn to one day see Oceans open a show.
  • Peasant TentsPeasant Tents UK Posts: 827
    MFC - Prague 2006 was quite unique..
  • blindmuleblindmule Albany, NY Posts: 138
    I saw them open with ARC in Council Bluffs back in 03. The only time I ever saw PJ perform it live and a very cool way to kick off the show!
  • KP_McMinnKP_McMinn West Philadelphia born and raised Posts: 748
    PB11041 said:

    On the very unusual all things considered front, catching Once, which has been played 14 times as an opener but only twice since 1992, one being the night before 4.28.16, was unusual get at the Ten show.

    I always thought it was strange that Once opened both shows. And then heard that before the 2nd show they were given a '10' banner for their tenth show at the venue, so they decided to play the album. I was also surprised they went straight into '10' instead of doing the usual 2 or 3 song lead in...

    Maybe this was the only time they have opened with the same song during a 2 night stand... ?

    well they opened with back to back Pendulums in 2013 in Philly and that chapped a lot of asses when that happened. 
    However, about your comment about back to back Once in 2016 (ten album show) i am convinced, that the 10 album show was supposed to be night one (not night 2).  They walked our to Master/Slave and opened with Once, then Evenflow....then they didnt play Alive, like they were supposed to.....not only did they play b2b openers (once) they played b2b second songs (even flow)....the ten show should have been night one.
  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,415
    KP_McMinn said:
    PB11041 said:

    On the very unusual all things considered front, catching Once, which has been played 14 times as an opener but only twice since 1992, one being the night before 4.28.16, was unusual get at the Ten show.

    I always thought it was strange that Once opened both shows. And then heard that before the 2nd show they were given a '10' banner for their tenth show at the venue, so they decided to play the album. I was also surprised they went straight into '10' instead of doing the usual 2 or 3 song lead in...

    Maybe this was the only time they have opened with the same song during a 2 night stand... ?

    well they opened with back to back Pendulums in 2013 in Philly and that chapped a lot of asses when that happened. 
    However, about your comment about back to back Once in 2016 (ten album show) i am convinced, that the 10 album show was supposed to be night one (not night 2).  They walked our to Master/Slave and opened with Once, then Evenflow....then they didnt play Alive, like they were supposed to.....not only did they play b2b openers (once) they played b2b second songs (even flow)....the ten show should have been night one.
    I know someone who went night 1 but not night 2.  Sucks for her. 

    NOT!!! 
    Fuck that bitch!
  • derbydavederbydave Columbus, OH Posts: 11,254
    KP_McMinn said:
    PB11041 said:

    On the very unusual all things considered front, catching Once, which has been played 14 times as an opener but only twice since 1992, one being the night before 4.28.16, was unusual get at the Ten show.

    I always thought it was strange that Once opened both shows. And then heard that before the 2nd show they were given a '10' banner for their tenth show at the venue, so they decided to play the album. I was also surprised they went straight into '10' instead of doing the usual 2 or 3 song lead in...

    Maybe this was the only time they have opened with the same song during a 2 night stand... ?

    well they opened with back to back Pendulums in 2013 in Philly and that chapped a lot of asses when that happened. 
    However, about your comment about back to back Once in 2016 (ten album show) i am convinced, that the 10 album show was supposed to be night one (not night 2).  They walked our to Master/Slave and opened with Once, then Evenflow....then they didnt play Alive, like they were supposed to.....not only did they play b2b openers (once) they played b2b second songs (even flow)....the ten show should have been night one.
    I know someone who went night 1 but not night 2.  Sucks for her. 

    NOT!!! 
    Fuck that bitch!

    That's why you ALWAYS go to both nights!!
    '96: Seattle: Key Arena
    '98: Seattle: Memorial Stadium 1 & 2
    '00: Columbus: Polaris
    '03: Columbus: Germain
    '10: Columbus: Nationwide Arena
    '11: East Troy: Alpine Valley - PJ20 1 & 2 + EV Detroit
    '12: Missoula + EV Jacksonville 1 & 2
    '13: Chicago / Pittsburgh / Buffalo / Seattle
    '14: Cincinnati / St. Louis / Tulsa / Lincoln / Memphis / Detroit / Moline
    '15: New York City - Global Citizen Festival
    '16: Greenville / Hampton / Raleigh / Columbia / Lexington / Ottawa / Toronto 1 & 2 / Wrigley 1 & 2
    '17: Brooklyn - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
    '18: London 1 & 2 / Seattle 1 & 2 / Missoula / Wrigley 1
    '22: Nashville / St. Louis


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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,808
    blindmule said:
    I saw them open with ARC in Council Bluffs back in 03. The only time I ever saw PJ perform it live and a very cool way to kick off the show!
    true. Arc in Fargo 03 for me. only 9 times ever opening a show. 
    Darwinspeed, all. 

    Cheers,

    HFD




  • KP_McMinn said:
    PB11041 said:

    On the very unusual all things considered front, catching Once, which has been played 14 times as an opener but only twice since 1992, one being the night before 4.28.16, was unusual get at the Ten show.

    I always thought it was strange that Once opened both shows. And then heard that before the 2nd show they were given a '10' banner for their tenth show at the venue, so they decided to play the album. I was also surprised they went straight into '10' instead of doing the usual 2 or 3 song lead in...

    Maybe this was the only time they have opened with the same song during a 2 night stand... ?

    well they opened with back to back Pendulums in 2013 in Philly and that chapped a lot of asses when that happened. 
    However, about your comment about back to back Once in 2016 (ten album show) i am convinced, that the 10 album show was supposed to be night one (not night 2).  They walked our to Master/Slave and opened with Once, then Evenflow....then they didnt play Alive, like they were supposed to.....not only did they play b2b openers (once) they played b2b second songs (even flow)....the ten show should have been night one.

    The 2nd song of night 1 was Animal.
  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,072
    Cropduster probably
    hippiemom = goodness
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