Worst support act you've seen?

veddertown
veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
edited March 2013 in Other Music
I was talking to someone at work today about this subject and remembered the Canadian band Killer Dwarfs who I endured supporting Iron Maiden in 1988 and thought they must be the worst band I've ever seen. But then I remembered Dutch legends Zinatra supporting David Lee Roth the same year. Not only were the band completely shit but the singer stepped on his mike lead twice pulling it out of his hand mid song and one of the guitarists threw his guitar around his neck taking out two mike stands in the process. The singer also fell off a monitor ruining his rock god pose and the drummer did that annoying twirly thing with his sticks like Tommy Lee but unfortunately failed to keep hold of them! The singer had the final indignity when an almost full plastic pint of lager hit him in the face. Everything about this band was wrong.... :roll: :D

If you think you've seen worse.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5LBDNbvZ44
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,394
    I have a few but luckily i don't remember the names :lol:
    8/28/98- Camden, NJ
    10/31/09- Philly
    5/21/10- NYC
    9/2/12- Philly, PA
    7/19/13- Wrigley
    10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
    10/21/13- Philly, PA
    10/22/13- Philly, PA
    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
    4/29/16- Philly, PA
    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
    9/4/18- Boston, MA
    9/14/22- Camden, NJ
    9/7/24- Philly, PA
    9/9/24- Philly, PA
    Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
    Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
    RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Modern Day Zero
    Sonic Youth
    Tomahawk


    I've never even seen one that made me wanna track down their music.
  • Benzor
    Benzor Posts: 886
    DewieCox wrote:
    Modern Day Zero
    Sonic Youth
    Tomahawk


    I've never even seen one that made me wanna track down their music.

    Sonic Youth???
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Disturbed opening for Stone Temple Pilots....my buddy and I are still positive that they were lip-synching and their music was canned.

    After the Fire opening for Van Halen....I believe this was the Diver Down tour.....bloody awful

    Took an ex-girlfriend to see the country group, Alabama....Alan Jackson was the opener...if I could have reached him that night, I would have saved the world from his continued awfulness.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Miracle Fortress opening for Liam Finn. The worst thing I have ever seen. Thankfully, Liam Finn put on an AMAZING show!
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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    I took my wife to see The Corrs and some Irish guy was the support. F@%*in' dreadful but he loved himself. I wanted to put him out of our misery.
  • OffHeGoes132
    OffHeGoes132 Posts: 594
    I honestly don't know the name of the band, but whoever opened for Dead Weather on their most recent small club tour....yeah they were terrible.

    Also, 30 Seconds to Mars. Awful band; don't know why the hell they were opening for Audioslave. About 45 mins of my life I wish I could have back. I remember Jared Leto running through the crowd like a dbag hoping to wake up the few people who were watching. We all just stood there and looked at him like he was a fuckin idiot.
  • ArmchairJammer
    ArmchairJammer Posts: 294
    Little Fish supporting AIC were very hard to bear after 3 shows.

    Fleet Foxes bored me to death supporting Neil Young at last years hard rock calling.

    The worst has to be - M - at Arras, after a 6 hour wait for our delayed train and to walk in to the square to that was not good....

    However i generally enjoy the support, Ben Harper supporting Pearl Jam by far the best and I'm looking forward to Caspian and Butterfly Explosion supporting God is an Astronaut!
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  • joberschlake
    joberschlake Columbus, OH Posts: 1,179
    Chairlift opening for The Killers.
    1998: Cleveland
    2000: Cincinnati, Columbus
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    The Hunter Gracchus - opened for Grinderman in London recently.
  • Long Road_WI
    Long Road_WI Posts: 145
    Passion Pit opening for Muse........I am still not sure if it qualifies as music!!!!!

    See for your self, but they almost ruined Muse for me.

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  • weekapaug19
    weekapaug19 Posts: 2,293
    Benzor wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    Modern Day Zero
    Sonic Youth
    Tomahawk


    I've never even seen one that made me wanna track down their music.

    Sonic Youth???


    i agree....sonic youth may be the worst opener I've seen. it was just noise for 45 minutes
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Ben Harper sucked balls before PJ at Hyde Park IMHO. He's not the worst but one of the most boring.
  • Shawn Smith Collective
    Shawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    Atari Teenage Riot opening for Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang Clan in 1997. I'm not one to say "that ain't music," but it was just this abrasive wall of screaming and fuzzy distorted chaos. Brutal.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    nuffingman wrote:
    Ben Harper sucked balls before PJ at Hyde Park IMHO. He's not the worst but one of the most boring.


    i agree. I honestly think Ben Harpers fanbase would be about 6 people if it wasnt for the PJ seal of approval... if members of PJ told their 'fans' that they liked Nigerian trumpeter Kino Von Basske his sales would probably increase by some 179% so that people on here could 'like' the same things as Ed
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    edited October 2010
    Wasn't a fan of Deerhunter opening up for Spoon at Radio City Music Hall. They played for WAY too long and everything was way too drawn out. Found their performance a little bit pretentious. The whole thing was disappointing especially because I'm a fan of their studio work! Just didn't go over well with me live.

    Also when I saw La Roux at Terminal 5, some dude (or girl?) named Atarah Valentine opened. It was the epitome of atrocious.
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Somebody out there has got to remember "Melt-Banana" open for Tool in 07. Japansese Noise Rock is what they call it. Pure awfulness.
    http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... ORM=LKVR11
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  • INDIFFERENCE MAKER
    INDIFFERENCE MAKER Posts: 274
    Tomahawk opening for TOOL were horrible but when I saw Sonic Youth opening for PJ, they made my ears hurt.
  • itsevolution..baby
    itsevolution..baby Posts: 59
    I saw Kraftwerk open for Radiohead in Rio last year. it was easily the longest hour + of my life.
    What ain't a country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in what?
  • MaxGoldenrod
    MaxGoldenrod Posts: 1,341
    Hands down the worst I have had to endure was Wild Colonials back in the mid 90's when they opened for Toad the Wet Sprocket. Horrible...at least I was early enough to get in the front row for Toad.
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