Worst support act you've seen?

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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Portugal. The Man
  • Eraserhead
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    Blanck Mass opening for Sigur Ros two nights ago.

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    Halford.

    Just awful.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
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    Whomever opened for Band of Horses here in Columbia a few years ago. Small venue show. Very small. Horrible opener. Yikes!
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  • jwhjr17
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    Another vote for Sonic Youth, my wife still swears that their set before the 06 Vegas show is the reason she now wears earplugs to all shows :lol: Oh and Thundercat opening for RHCP this past year. Awful!!
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  • Yefa
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    Henry Barbe opening for the Drive-By Truckers at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA.

    Henry is David Barbe (Sugar bassist and DBT producer)'s son. Boo to musical nepotism!
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  • shortstack
    shortstack Posts: 2,339
    Luder and Black Cobra opening for Kyuss were probably the worst ever. But also playing was The Sword and to my surprise, were awesome.

    The Cobbs warming up for BRMC were torture. Dead Combo just kind of scared me.

    Also the Antlers and Deep Sea Diver with the Shins....again torture.
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  • Spoony C
    Spoony C Posts: 278
    Buckcherry opening for Kid Rock back in 2002. I think it was at the height of singer Josh Todd's substance abuse issues, and well before the band launched a comeback with "Crazy Bitch" a few years ago. After the Kid Rock show, my friends and I hit a local club where a bar band did a better version of Buckcherry's "Lit Up" than Buckcherry had at the concert.

    I also saw a (presumably local/regional) opening act in Cincinnati at a Better Than Ezra show in 1999 that was horribly mismatched with the headliner--the opener was a heavier rock band with a darker sound, badly put with the lighter alt-pop of BTE. At the end of the opener's set, the singer said "Goodnight! Enjoy your pussy rock!" I'm sure they had a beef with the promoter that booked them for the show, but there was no need to take it out on an audience that hadn't been hostile to them or anything.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Oh and this Japanese hardcore punk band that opened for A Perfect Circle
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    I've seen some real shitty support bands in my time, but I think the band Minny Pops supporting Slash took the biscuit - new wave/art rock from Amsterdam based pensioners.

    Check out their song 'Dolphin's Spurt' - I fucking dare you!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEVwZdmraQ
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Oh and this Japanese hardcore punk band that opened for A Perfect Circle
    I saw those sacks of shit before a Tool show. Chainsaws make better "music" then those assholes.

    Still ... I'd rate them even or better then Mars Volta.
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    jr19 wrote:
    whoever said Sonic Youth is fucking retarded!

    Or likes actual music more than an hour of noise.
  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    X opening for Pearl Jam last summer. Ugh! Not my cup of tea at all.
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  • jamburger
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    Jason P wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Oh and this Japanese hardcore punk band that opened for A Perfect Circle
    I saw those sacks of shit before a Tool show. Chainsaws make better "music" then those assholes.

    Melt Banana?
  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    jamburger wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Oh and this Japanese hardcore punk band that opened for A Perfect Circle
    I saw those sacks of shit before a Tool show. Chainsaws make better "music" then those assholes.

    Melt Banana?
    has to be...see page 2 :)
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  • he.who.forgets
    he.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Portugal. The Man
    Seriously??? I LOVE them
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  • kwdaley
    kwdaley Posts: 499
    Someone mentioned Fiction Plane opening for the Police... How true!!

    ...another one: Peeping Tom (Mike Patton's band) opening for the Who in 2006. Sounded like someone throwing kitchen utensils down some stairs. Went back to the beer garden during this set.
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  • Eraserhead
    Eraserhead Stoke-on-Trent Posts: 2,981
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    jamburger wrote:
    Melt Banana?
    has to be...see page 2 :)

    Now I paid to see Melt Banana at one of their own shows AND I really enjoyed them! :shock:
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    :lol::lol::lol: Lots of shitty acts for Tool
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    Pitchfork has given three reviews of Melt Banana's albums ... 8.2 ... 7.5 ... and 7.1

    Pitchfork gave Mark Lanegan's Blues Funeral a 5.9

    :fp: :fp: :fp:
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