Worst support act you've seen?

Kevbwoy

Starsailor opening for the Rolling Stones. And Feeder opening for the Rolling Stones... Boring as hell.

Some cool opening acts were The Cranberries opening for the Stones (been to a lot of Stones shows xD ), Har Mar Superstar opening for The Strokes and a really awesome opening act were Village People for the german punk band "Die Ärzte" (kinda like a joke to mess with the fans) xD

MK1980

Prima Donna opening for Green Day, crowd basically ignored them through the whole set.

scottstappsucks

I was let down by Sonic Youth opening for Pearl Jam at the LA Forum in 2006. The sound was really bad, so that might have been the reason.

RABartell

Going way back, Testament was doing a small club tour and had Green Jello opening for them. Words cant describe it...

Lamb Of God opened for Metallica on the Death Magnetic tour. Its was just this... RARRRRRR!! WHATS UP NEW YORK!! RARRRRRRRRR!!!! lol 2 nights in a row of that. Atleast they provided a nice pee break. lol

mookeywrench

Dyer wrote:

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.

Sonic Youth has always had Lee Renaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordan as members of the band (touring and recording) since their inception.

HesCalledDyer

mookeywrench wrote:

Dyer wrote:

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.

Sonic Youth has always had Lee Renaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordan as members of the band (touring and recording) since their inception.

Right, I should've worded that a little differently... When I finally saw them (on the last night of the 2000 tour), Lee was the only member still traveling at the time. All the other members had abandoned the tour for various reasons.

veddertown

Dyer wrote:

mookeywrench wrote:

Dyer wrote:

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.

Sonic Youth has always had Lee Renaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordan as members of the band (touring and recording) since their inception.

Right, I should've worded that a little differently... When I finally saw them (on the last night of the 2000 tour), Lee was the only member still traveling at the time. All the other members had abandoned the tour for various reasons.

Although Sonic Youth never played another gig on the tour after the NJ shows when Kim Gordon had to rush off for personal reasons Jim, Steve and Lee did stay around and do a few pre-set songs with Ed on a few dates. Don't think there was any attempt at an actual SY show without Kim though?

Sharon_Hearts_PJ

uninnocent- wrote:

also: danko jones opening for gnr

So glad to see this band mentioned in this thread! Saw them open for OLP and we couldn't get over how awful they were!

dcfaithful

Worst support act? Ummm. Nelson. Yeah, that's easy.

JLF78

metsfan wrote:

mc rut


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

woulda much rather seen aic play for 3 hours

I completely agree with you. Ugh, they were just terrible.

tallman72

The meanies in 1995......and kings of Leon in 2006 both supporting pearljam also wolfmother supporting Ac/dc this year

iluvcats

In 2000, the Unband opened for Def Leppard. They were not good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unband

don't blast me for seeing DL. I was surprised at how good they were...

RD171825

Sleater-Kinney

Brain_Of_JFK

I'm usually in the pub when the support band is playing.

mtade17

Lamb of God opening for Metallica last year. The 5 minutes I heard them were enough to qualify them as the worst opening act I have ever seen.

I saw Turbo Negro open for Queens of the Stone Age a few years ago. That wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but definitely the most unique. I had a total "WTF?" moment while watching them, as did everyone else at the 40 Watt Club that night. Definately entertaining.

Gary Carter

JLF78 wrote:

metsfan wrote:

mc rut


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

woulda much rather seen aic play for 3 hours

I completely agree with you. Ugh, they were just terrible.

i don't know if it's cause i was right on the rail or they just flat out sucked. i love punk music to death but least make it be so i can fucking hear it and understand lyrics.

SENROCK

sleater kinney

gob roberts

and by far the worst.......x japan. i have never wanted to puke so much in my life. having to endure them before soundgarden was definitely......dedication.

jadakid

Alan Vega, opening for BIlly Idol back in '84 or '85. He was literally booed off the stage and gave a nice, angry "FU" to the crowd at Nassau Coliseum. At the time I was laughing but thinking about it, I feel bad for the guy.

idvedder

Moby opening for Bush. Bush was pretty bad, too. But not as bad as Moby...he just jumped around and pretended to be doing things with his keyboard, while he had a very obvious back track playing. It was just awful. Then he proceeded to tell the booing crowd that we just "didn't get it". :roll: I guess he was right. I don't get it, nor do I want to.

Lone Drawn Meteor

Jann Arden opening for Bob Dylan. Ugh.