What Bands Did You See Before They Were More Widely Known?

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  • jwhjr17
    jwhjr17 Posts: 2,079
    Gern Blansten said:
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    Cage The Elephant opened for QOTSA in Winnipeg 2 years before their debut album came out. I called my wife between bands, and she asked how the opener was, I said "they were energetic AF, but I didn't catch the name, something about Elephant". 
    same...saw them open for QOTSA on the anniversary of Q's first album. They played the Vogue in Indpls....1500 capacity venue. Was awesome.
    Saw CTE opening for Stone Temple Pilots in 2010 at Roy Wilkins in St. Paul.  We liked them immediately.
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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,080
    Thought of some more...

    2003 White Stripes with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs opening.

    2003, the Decemberists

    Also in 2003, I saw the final show of Carissa's Weird. Half the band went on to become Band of Horses.
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,961
    I saw obituary and sepultura in the marquee club in 1991 small club absolute carnage 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,914
    lastexitlondon said:
    I saw obituary and sepultura in the marquee club in 1991 small club absolute carnage 

    I only ever got to see Sepultura 2.0 :(   I wish I'd gotten the chance to see the original band.

    I did get to see Soulfly play Nailbomb in it's entirety so that was something (I love the live Nailbomb album).
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,961
    They did back to back nights . I was at school and went to both nights back to school each day. I felt like a complete legend. I got my ticket signed and my hi top boot signed by Paulo. Absolutely magical 


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,768
    edited January 30
    lastexitlondon said:
    They did back to back nights . I was at school and went to both nights back to school each day. I felt like a complete legend. I got my ticket signed and my hi top boot signed by Paulo. Absolutely magical 

    I worked a landscaping job with the road manager for obituary in  94 when I lived in tampa.
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,961
    lastexitlondon said:
    They did back to back nights . I was at school and went to both nights back to school each day. I felt like a complete legend. I got my ticket signed and my hi top boot signed by Paulo. Absolutely magical 
    It was 1990 just found the ticket.


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,961
    mickeyrat said:
    lastexitlondon said:
    They did back to back nights . I was at school and went to both nights back to school each day. I felt like a complete legend. I got my ticket signed and my hi top boot signed by Paulo. Absolutely magical 

    I worked a landscaping job with the road manager for obituary in  94 when I lived in tampa.
    Cool


    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,072
    i'm another that saw limp bizkit early on.  either late '97 or early '98 with sevendust.  i saw deftones right before around the fur came out,  my morning jacket in early 2003. black keys at a club show in 2004.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,671
    Another band I saw early on was the Violent Femmes.  I saw then in a seedy club in San Jose California.  They came on an hour late.  It was a very warn night, a crowed club full of restless punk rock fans.  I'm fairly certain if they had waited to come out much longer, violence would have occurred.  I often wondered if all that was carefully orchestrated?  They put on a killer show (but no one was actually murdered, lol!)
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,164
    Arctic Monkeys November 2005 Mercury Lounge NYC. 500 people. US debut. They were so young full of energy back then.
  • pledgeagrievance
    pledgeagrievance Posts: 2,874
    I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2001ish at the Saint in Asbury.  Maybe 50-75 people there
  • say_hi
    say_hi Posts: 313
    I saw My Chemical Romance play my friends basement, Halloween 2002.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,599
    The Weeks and Matt & Kim.

    Saw the weeks in 09 and Matt and Kim around the same time. They both never really got big.

    The Oh SEES in 2010.  Thats when Floating Coffin came out and theyve grown a lot since then.

    The Clarks.  They would play local bars in Western Pa.  They should have became bigger. This was 2000.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,599
    pledgeagrievance said:
    I saw Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2001ish at the Saint in Asbury.  Maybe 50-75 people there
    I tried listening to them a little before that time.  Didn't care for them.  Wanted a little harder music at that time of my life, lol.
  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,080
    tempo_n_groove said:

    The Oh SEES in 2010.  Thats when Floating Coffin came out and theyve grown a lot since then.

    2013
  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 638
    I saw Sturgill Simpson in a club with maybe 300 people 
  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,068
    mookeywrench said:
    tempo_n_groove said:

    The Oh SEES in 2010.  Thats when Floating Coffin came out and theyve grown a lot since then.

    2013
    Got to meet them at the merch table in 2011!


  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,080
    Bare Wires...haven't listened to them in awhile. Time for a revisit

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