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WILCO opening up for PEARL JAM next tour...your thoughts..

jbadass1980jbadass1980 Posts: 29
edited July 2008 in Other Music
what do you guys as pearl jam fans feel about the thought of wilco opening up for pearl jam next tour? personally i think it would be a great idea...how about you?
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,498
    great idea
    but Id rather see it as a summertime double bill
    starting at 5pm so we get full shows from each
  • emperor penguinemperor penguin Posts: 197
    that would be great.
    I like bands.
  • bettermanofthehourbettermanofthehour Posts: 355
    personally i don't like wilco. so i don't think it would be a good idea. wilco would be better than my morning jacket though.
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  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    I love Wilco, but I don't know if both there music would flow well together. I would rather just go to a Wilco show and a PJ show, but I would never complain if they toured as a unit.
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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    I love opening bands.

    But.....I'd like to see PJ have no opener on the tour. :)
  • hailhail82hailhail82 Posts: 330
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    i don't see it happening. i think wilco is probably a bigger band and a bigger draw at this point.

    Um, not even close.
    They might be more popular with the kids in a general sense, but they are not a bigger draw in any sense. When was the last time Wilco toured arenas? The answer of course is never. They did MSG with the Flaming Lips for New Years one year, but of course that's not a tour. Pearl Jam did it last month and has been doing it consistently for 15 years.

    I love both bands, and it sounds like a cool idea to see them both in one night, but of course we'd be seeing shorter sets. Might be some cool collaborations though.
    Using the word "methinks" in your message board posts doesn't make you look smart.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Unless it's a double-bill kind of thing, I don't see that happening. Over the last few albums Wilco has graduated to headliner status, and they don't really open for anybody these days.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • HatredThrownDownHatredThrownDown Posts: 292
    wilco is too good to open for anyone.
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    My Morning Jacket
    Pearl Jam
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    Wilco
    Tool
    Rush
    Drive By Truckers

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    i would die and go to heanan if they both played for two hours
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    i'v been listening to these guys lately.
    they are the real deal, might be too good to be an opening act at this stage of their careers.
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  • comebackboy10comebackboy10 Posts: 139
    to big of an act to open. headliners at major festivals arent opening acts
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  • Indian SummerIndian Summer Posts: 2,296
    that'll never happen. With the exception of MMJ I have never liked any of PJ's openers enough to go buy an album. Sonic Youth, blah. Sleater Kinney, yuck. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, gag. The Buzzcocks, pretty decent, but still didn't buy an album. Gob Roberts, nasty. Death Cab, boring but tolerable. Sparta, mediocre. I'm probably missing a few that I've seen, but MMJ was the only one that blew me away....and their so big now, that we'll never get them again.
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  • shell bellshell bell Posts: 337
    Interesting show.But it would be a bitch to get tickets too.........
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

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  • MarkerInTheSandMarkerInTheSand Posts: 191
    my top two favorite bands? together? i'd die.

    don't think it'll happen though. while wilco's not as big as pearl jam, they're too big to open for pearl jam
    makes much more sense to live in the present tense

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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Sounds like an awful idea
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  • Joe2TheRevengeJoe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    *snore*
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  • petrocspetrocs Posts: 4,342
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Sounds like an awful idea

    agreed
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    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • LavaLamp_GuitarTrampLavaLamp_GuitarTramp Posts: 143
    Since Wilco sucks & the only good album they have is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, no thanks.
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  • InMyTree4InMyTree4 Posts: 1,239
    HatredThrownDown wrote:
    wilco is too good to open for anyone.

    no one is to good to open for PJ!
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  • LUV2ROCKLUV2ROCK Posts: 140
    I want Thornley to open up some shows!
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  • The Long RoadThe Long Road Posts: 183
    HatredThrownDown wrote:
    wilco is too good to open for anyone.

    Took the words right out of my mouth!
    "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives"--Ed
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    LavaLamp_GuitarTramp wrote:
    Since Wilco sucks & the only good album they have is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, no thanks.

    Really?? Sucks?? I thought you were some sort of a self proclaimed musical genius. Hmm...
  • Gremmie95Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    Sounds great in theory, but I think a "co-headline" would be more appropriate.
  • CityMouseCityMouse Posts: 1,010
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Sounds like an awful idea

    I'm picturing a huge venue littered with comatose pearl jam fans.
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    Wilco? I'd still be in the parking lot.

    Now, if they brought along Blind Melon.... :)
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  • IgottagoIgottago Posts: 483
    Wilco is too good to be opening. And the 2 bands don't really match up well. Most Pearl Jam fans are too apish to like a band like Wilco.
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    i heard that wilco will be opening up for neil young this fall. doesn't get much better than that!

    Don't tease!

    Seriously, I would kill for those tickets.
  • toddiet123toddiet123 Posts: 271
    it would be great..if like someone noted it were to start at 4 or 5pm and give bands the ample set times they deserve. Neither are really a support act....let em rip. I'd be there..
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