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Worst Opener????

crazycrazy Posts: 174
edited September 2011 in The Porch
ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
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  • StillHereStillHere Posts: 7,795
    haven't heard a bad one yet ;)
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,781
    Corduroy for me. I like it as the second or third song, so hearing it as an opener just knocks a true opener off the setlist.

    Edit: I think Unthought Known is a very poor opener too, but I haven't actually heard it live.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,141
    crazy wrote:
    ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
    wrong answer...
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  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    I'm not a huge fan of them playing anything but a traditional opener.

    Unless however it is some other rare type of song.

    But any of the staples just take away another rare/unique song that could be played in that spot.

    With that said, Why Go as an opener really gets things going. But they get going no matter what.... so.
  • WhyNotSwedenWhyNotSweden Sweden Posts: 4,251
    crazy wrote:
    ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
    Why go was a opener in Berlin 2009 and what a start of the show, all the energy at the beginning is f'''king great.
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    Although its not standard opener and I have never not liked an opening song..I thought wash was a poor choice for alpine 2. I know they dont play it..blah blah blah...but it just didnt do it for me. Aside from realease, long road, and sometimes, I would have preferered something a little faster and louder!!!
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  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,358
    Small Town as an opener doesn't do much for me... but those shows have proven to usually have pretty good setlists.
  • WhyNotSwedenWhyNotSweden Sweden Posts: 4,251
    edited September 2011
    Wma31394 wrote:
    Although its not standard opener and I have never not liked an opening song..I thought wash was a poor choice for alpine 2. I know they dont play it..blah blah blah...but it just didnt do it for me. Aside from realease, long road, and sometimes, I would have preferered the somethink a little faster and louder!!!
    Ohh, I was one of those who LOVED Wash as an opener at Alpine 2 and I was one of the once bumping the Wash thread here to get it, so blame it on me ;)

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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    Travelar wrote:
    Small Town as an opener doesn't do much for me... but those shows have proven to usually have pretty good setlists.

    I like it...Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeloooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,141
    Wma31394 wrote:
    ..I thought wash was a poor choice for alpine 2!
    :shock: :shock: :shock:
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,141
    btw the song i dont get crazy to get as opener is sometimes..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    WhynotSweden wrote:
    Wma31394 wrote:
    Although its not standard opener and I have never not liked an opening song..I thought wash was a poor choice for alpine 2. I know they dont play it..blah blah blah...but it just didnt do it for me. Aside from realease, long road, and sometimes, I would have preferered the somethink a little faster and louder!!!
    Ohh, I was one of those who LOVED Wash as an opener at Alpine 2 and I was one of the once bumping the Wash thread here to get it, so blame it on me ;)

    http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic ... 4&t=159585

    Not looking to blame..I dont mind the song (well its just ok) thought it would have been better in encore. The opening song should set a mood..wash makes me picture dirty puddles!! hahahahh
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  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 18,867
    The openers I have seen are Release, Hard To Imagine, Of The Girl, Unthought Known and Small Town. Of those, Unthought Known was by far the worst. Disappointing because it is a song you know you will get later in the set and it did not really fire up the crowd. If I was to rank them:

    Release
    Of The Girl
    Small Town (Blew the Montreal crowd UP!)
    Hard To Imagine
    Unthought Known
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  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    crazy wrote:
    ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
    wrong answer...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOcE9OYBy8
    EXACTLY what I was gonna say! :twisted:
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  • BeerBaronBeerBaron Toronto-ish Posts: 4,089
    Unthought Known and Small Town didn't work for me at all.

    Given To Fly was also an odd choice in Hamilton that didn't translate all that well as an opener but was better than Unthought and Small Town...

    I really wish that they would stick to the typical openers. Release, Oceans, Wash, Of The Girl, Hard To Imagine.

    All or None was an AMAZING opener at the Vic. They should do that one more.

    I also think that Sleight of Hand would make a great opener.
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,141
    Kloddz wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    crazy wrote:
    ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
    wrong answer...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOcE9OYBy8
    EXACTLY what I was gonna say! :twisted:
    when Eddie start to wave the hands and do dance moves like that,i said to the guy next to me..Why go,or Go..pick one :D
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam NINUNINOPRO Posts: 139,141
    BeerBaron wrote:

    I also think that Sleight of Hand would make a great opener.
    this is maybe the best idea ever!!!!! :)
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    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    WhynotSweden wrote:
    crazy wrote:
    ILL go with why go,because they will play it in the set anyway...love the song,but not as an opener.
    Why go was a opener in Berlin 2009 and what a start of the show, all the energy at the beginning is f'''king great.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zR0H4Zs ... 6E3BDD1BD4

    Look at me and all the other fu''ers in the front, jumping like maniacs!!!!

    Wow..I have seen clips from this show but never the opener..now thats an opening jam!!! Fucking European crowds are hands down the most energetic..I have to experience that!
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
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    I think it's only been done once, New Orleans 2010. To me a mid-tempo Byrds cover is not the way to start a show, or get the crowd going.
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  • Wma31394Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    SatansFuton wrote:
    So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

    I think it's only been done once, New Orleans 2010. To me a mid-tempo Byrds cover is not the way to start a show, or get the crowd going.

    hahahah yea I think your the winner for the worst..
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    Alive... Dallas 03. Was very weird to hear that first.
  • drsluggodrsluggo Posts: 4,742
    Any song thats a 'staple' later in the show is a bummer for me, but its not because the song is bad but just because you're giving up any chance of the 'normal' openers since they don't do those later on.

    That said Go @ Toronto 2 was one of the best openers I've ever seen - it just felt awesome to have that open. Of course Go has become a 'rarer' song so maybe that helped.

    I definitely think Small Town is the worst opener I've seen though just because its not fast so it doesnt get the crowd pumped, and its not a traditional opener and just felt out of place. It wasn't BAD... just my least favorite.
  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 18,867
    drsluggo wrote:
    It wasn't BAD... just my least favorite.

    I think this is a great way to think about this question.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,412
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Wma31394 wrote:
    ..I thought wash was a poor choice for alpine 2!
    :shock: :shock: :shock:

    +1

    It was a great choice and I'd already seen it before so I my greediness was hopin for something else. Love the mellow opener into the super rocker. I thought The Fixer was a little weak for the #2 slot.

    I've never caught Corduroy as an opener without Interstellar, but I love the way it kicks of Lo2L, especially the harmonics before the actual tune.
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 NYC Posts: 25,781
    Wma31394 wrote:
    SatansFuton wrote:
    So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

    I think it's only been done once, New Orleans 2010. To me a mid-tempo Byrds cover is not the way to start a show, or get the crowd going.

    hahahah yea I think your the winner for the worst..

    Yea I remember seeing that set and thinking that would be a major bummer.
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  • Yellow BedwetterYellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    wow...i understand that cordoruy and why go arent the openers we expect but they still get us raring to go - i heard those open in Hartford 2010 and one of the spectrum shows i think

    i personally dont think ive disliked any opener...except when i heard severed hand open 3 out of the 4 shows i saw in 2006 - i did get wash tho at camden II :D
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    Daughter, Auckland 09....
  • HailRoad24HailRoad24 Posts: 133
    Love Boat Captain. Hands down. Saw it twice in 2003.

    I think a great opener would be NAIS. They did it once in 2000 and have yet to do it again. To me, it worked really well for that show. Also, Who You Are is a great way to open a show IMO. My personal list is as follows for openers (mind you, they are all very close in ranking):

    Long Road
    Oceans
    Release
    Hard to Imagine
    Can't Keep
    Who You Are
    Of the Girl
    Sometimes
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  • JTHJTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    Get the torches and pitchforks ready...

    Release.

    But only because I know I'm going to be picking up the bootleg and I already have a lot of bootlegs with it as the opener.
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