Worst support act you've seen?

Jason P

dustinpardue wrote:

seems from reading this thread Tool has a never ending parade of shit bands opening up for them

It appears so. I'm not even sure Melt-Banana could be classified as music. If so, I'm heading down to the local sawmill with a tape deck so I can get to work on my new album.

So Tool's odd choice of opening bands leads me to believe . . .

1) They are showing support for bands that they think are creative

or

2) They don't want anyone to show them up

veddertown

mbangel10 wrote:

INDIFFERENCE MAKER wrote:

Tomahawk opening for TOOL were horrible but when I saw Sonic Youth opening for PJ, they made my ears hurt.

I love Tomahawk. I would have went to that show just to see them rip into God Hates a Coward and Capt. Midnight. Those songs kick all kinds of ass. Then again, I actually like Sonic Youth too.

I love Sonic Youth!! They're probably one of the best live acts I've seen and though you can be a fan of their recorded works sometimes they probably seem unbearable live and one of my mates thought they were just an expensive piss-break! Tomahawk's two albums I have are superb but anything with Mike Patton can be a bit of a challenge onstage if you're not familiar with him or just a Faith No More fan. Some of the bands on this thread I've never heard but it's funny to hear your opinions.

Other bad ones on my list that spring to mind:
Elbow, Tim Burgess, Paul Samson's Empire, Auf De Maur, Squeeze, The Answer, King Of The Hill and Nuclear Assault! :?

Electric_Delta

Fiction Plane opening for The Police in 2007. Saves The Day opening for Green Day in 2002.

Take your pick.

Gary Carter

mc rut


opened for aic and i don't understand why they did

woulda much rather seen aic play for 3 hours

luke.harvey3

Saw Little Fish mentioned who supported Alice In Chains in the UK last year who I thought were pretty good in Nottingham.

But Tarantula AD, supported Pearl Jam in Prague are definitely the worst. So bad they changed their name after that show and threw spare unsold CD's off the stage. Just for a few to be thrown back as I remember!

demetrios

Wilco opening for Neil Young.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists opening for Pearl Jam.
Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones.

arq

demetrios wrote:

Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones.

mbangel10

veddertown wrote:

mbangel10 wrote:

INDIFFERENCE MAKER wrote:

Tomahawk opening for TOOL were horrible but when I saw Sonic Youth opening for PJ, they made my ears hurt.

I love Tomahawk. I would have went to that show just to see them rip into God Hates a Coward and Capt. Midnight. Those songs kick all kinds of ass. Then again, I actually like Sonic Youth too.

I love Sonic Youth!! They're probably one of the best live acts I've seen and though you can be a fan of their recorded works sometimes they probably seem unbearable live and one of my mates thought they were just an expensive piss-break! Tomahawk's two albums I have are superb but anything with Mike Patton can be a bit of a challenge onstage if you're not familiar with him or just a Faith No More fan. Some of the bands on this thread I've never heard but it's funny to hear your opinions.

Other bad ones on my list that spring to mind:
Elbow, Tim Burgess, Paul Samson's Empire, Auf De Maur, Squeeze, The Answer, King Of The Hill and Nuclear Assault! :?

Yeah, I can understand not enjoying Tomahawk live if you're not familiar with the music. Imagine if it was Fantomas opening, people would have had conniptions in the crowd.

lephty

funny.. i was just trying to remember the name Fantomas whom opened for Tool a few years back.. I was literally just about to search patton until i read the last post!

so yeah.. Fantomas = whales having sex + random guy screaming and spitting

and Flip.. i don't even remember who they opened for.. i know it was at Marist College.. i think it was Everclear that i only went to see because a bunch of friends were going

worst main act?

Vertical Horizon... terrible terrible terrible...

demetrios

arq wrote:

demetrios wrote:

Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones.

Yep! It was Sloan, Alice Cooper, Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones @ the Halifax Commons. Who ever is booking these acts on the same bill should be dragged out into the street and shot!

jets521

Serj Tankian (from System of a Down) opened up for the Foo Fighters when i saw them in Philly at the Spectrum...

it was the worst piece of $hit performance i have ever seen. disgusting lyrics and just a bunch of noise and screaming. honestly seemed like NOBODY was digging it. i even booed it was so horrible

jr19

whoever said Sonic Youth is fucking retarded!

keeponrockin

demetrios wrote:

arq wrote:

demetrios wrote:

Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones.

Yep! It was Sloan, Alice Cooper, Kayne West opening for The Rolling Stones @ the Halifax Commons. Who ever is booking these acts on the same bill should be dragged out into the street and shot!

Sloan is kind of fun, but definitely not the venue for them.

HesCalledDyer

As far as PJ support:
1. Surprised to see some Ted Leo votes, but to each his/her own.
2. I can't really form an opinion on Sonic Youth. By the time I saw them in '00, they only had one original band member left on the tour. It was a lot of noise and not much music or vocals. But then again, it wasn't 100% Sonic Youth.
3. Sparta. They just bored me.

As far as other bands' support:
1. Sugar Ray opening for 311 circa 1998. They were booed off the stage by the entire arena because Mark McGrath a) abruptly stopped during the middle of a song and announced he was going back stage to take a shit, b) stage dove then bitched and moaned about someone taking his shoe & refused to play music til he got it back, and c) requested someone from the upper level shine a laser pointer on his forehead, then proceed to call that person a redneck because he "had good aim from being a hunter."
2. G. Love opening for 311 in '03. According to the set list, they played 11 songs. I only head two, which lasted about 24 minutes each.
3. De la Soul opening for 311 in 1997. Spent the better part of an hour just asking "Where da party at? Party over here? Or party over here?" while pointing to various sections of the crowd.

Moral of the story: 311 pretty much sucks it up with openers.

RYEzupSF

This summer Lauryn Hill was the opening headliner at Rock the Bells. She was terrible!! One of the worst performances I have ever seen and she kept the crowd waiting for over an hour. I was so disappointed. I actually can't think of a worse performance I have ever seen.

he.who.forgets

Dyer wrote:

As far as PJ support:
1. Surprised to see some Ted Leo votes, but to each his/her own.
2. I can't really form an opinion on Sonic Youth. By the time I saw them in '00, they only had one original band member left on the tour. It was a lot of noise and not much music or vocals. But then again, it wasn't 100% Sonic Youth.
3. Sparta. They just bored me.

As far as other bands' support:
1. Sugar Ray opening for 311 circa 1998. They were booed off the stage by the entire arena because Mark McGrath a) abruptly stopped during the middle of a song and announced he was going back stage to take a shit, b) stage dove then bitched and moaned about someone taking his shoe & refused to play music til he got it back, and c) requested someone from the upper level shine a laser pointer on his forehead, then proceed to call that person a redneck because he "had good aim from being a hunter."
2. G. Love opening for 311 in '03. According to the set list, they played 11 songs. I only head two, which lasted about 24 minutes each.
3. De la Soul opening for 311 in 1997. Spent the better part of an hour just asking "Where da party at? Party over here? Or party over here?" while pointing to various sections of the crowd.

Moral of the story: 311 pretty much sucks it up with openers.

WOW, I've seen G-Love probably 5 or 6 times and always have a kickass time. Then again, he's always headlining, but have never experienced long dragged out songs.

eeriepadave

Dyer wrote:

As far as PJ support:
1. Surprised to see some Ted Leo votes, but to each his/her own.
2. I can't really form an opinion on Sonic Youth. By the time I saw them in '00, they only had one original band member left on the tour. It was a lot of noise and not much music or vocals. But then again, it wasn't 100% Sonic Youth.
3. Sparta. They just bored me.

As far as other bands' support:
1. Sugar Ray opening for 311 circa 1998. They were booed off the stage by the entire arena because Mark McGrath a) abruptly stopped during the middle of a song and announced he was going back stage to take a shit, b) stage dove then bitched and moaned about someone taking his shoe & refused to play music til he got it back, and c) requested someone from the upper level shine a laser pointer on his forehead, then proceed to call that person a redneck because he "had good aim from being a hunter."
2. G. Love opening for 311 in '03. According to the set list, they played 11 songs. I only head two, which lasted about 24 minutes each.
3. De la Soul opening for 311 in 1997. Spent the better part of an hour just asking "Where da party at? Party over here? Or party over here?" while pointing to various sections of the crowd.

Moral of the story: 311 pretty much sucks it up with openers.

I remember seeing Papa Roach opening up for 311 about 5 years ago. Didn't care for them. Also saw The Roots too opening for 311 so that was pretty cool.

catefrances

back in 06 i saw kanye west open for U2. i remember thinking wtf! and let me tell you brisvegas is not exactly a hiphop nation. they were extremely unappreciative of him. and he was smarting after touch the sky didnt win best video. he had a whinge about it but no one cared. when they tour in december U2 have decided jay z is a good bet.

JOEJOEJOE

Dolly Parton's bra

helplessdancer

JP Incorporated opening for devo

i just didn't get it...