Support act blows headliner away?!
Question: Sometimes, it just happens. The supporting act just rips *** and the headliner is left holding the bag.
Maybe more intriguing: A support act is scheduled to do a tour leg (multi shows) with a headliner. After an outing or two, the ambush is sidestepped when the supporting act is mysteriously removed (or replaced) from the billing.
Care to pass on a story (or 2) of your own personal experience with this?
Answers: Sometimes, it just happens. The supporting act just rips *** and the headliner is left holding the bag.
Maybe more intriguing: A support act is scheduled to do a tour leg (multi shows) with a headliner. After an outing or two, the ambush is sidestepped when the supporting act is mysteriously removed (or replaced) from the billing.
Care to pass on a story (or 2) of your own personal experience with this?
Okay. I'm 18 years old, a freshmen at college, and I'm going out my first date with a smoking hot sorostitute who is the self-proclaimed biggest Bad Company fan in the state of Alabama. TSU is sponsoring a concert in Montgomery. The line up:
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bad Company
Brother Cane
The conversation in the car goes something like this:
Me: So, are you looking forward to this?
Her: Oh yeah, Bad Company gets me hot. We might not even stay for Skynyrd.
Me: Okay, whatever you want to do (while thinking YES! SCORE!).
We never saw Bad Company or Skynyrd. Brother Cane was so awesome that she dragged me out of there immediately after their set.
NP: "One Good Lover" - Ratt
I saw House of Pain in 1991. Rage Against The Machine was the opening act. 'Nuff said!
Well, I personally thought that Pearl Jam was better than Tom Petty, but I don't think this is what you mean.
I've never seen an opening act perform better than the headliner, but I have seen a few that rival the headliner. Examples: Ingram Hill opening for Better Than Ezra &Talib Kweli opening for the Beastie Boys. Other than that, I have seen A LOT of **** opening acts.
The SARS concert in Toronto - ACDC's blew away the Rolling Stones show
Not that they are all great but at one time both Nirvana and Pearl Jam were on tour with The Red Hot Chili Peppers. I mean that ALL 3 BANDS were on tour together! The line-up went like this Pearl Jam opened, Nirvana followed and RHCP headlined! Imagine that!
I saw Talk Talk open for Berlin in Santa Cruz.
Talk Talk was far superior to Berlin.
I also went to a show, 3 day show, where the closing act was Switchfoot. The lead singer looked drunk, stoned, or both. He could barely walk around. It was a disaster. It was the second time that I saw them. The first was the same. He looked like he was loaded and acted like it too. I'll never see them again.
I saw Dream Theater and Queensryche tour together a few years back... Awesome!
Neither was billed as opener or headliner... They just rocked!
When both bands took the stage at the same time for encores though, it was like nothing I had ever seen (or heard) before or since!
Okay. The World Championship Tour. Atreyu was headlining, Every Time I Die and Chiodos were supporting. Chiodos was freaking amazing. The crowd went crazy for them. And almost everyone went out by the merch during ETID, and Atreyu just plain sucked.
Radiohead opening for REM in East Lansing MI 1995 or so.
Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers in Kalamazoo around 1992.
Two instances I can remember:
1) Pavement opening up for Sonic Youth. I can't say they blew SY away, but I definitely found Pavement to be more intriguing. That says a lot as I'm a big Sonic Youth fan.
2) The second Lollapalooza. The Chili Peppers headlined but were not as impressive as Ministry who literally destroyed the audience. One of the more impressive sets I've seen, headlining or not.
To take it in a slightly different direction, I saw Zack Galafanackis (Totally spelled that wrong) open for Jeneane Gerafalo (that one too) and he just demolished her. She was ok, but he was hilarious. In a totally different league.
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Yeah Pavement, and you're right. Upstaging Sonic Youth is no easy feat. Sonic Youth puts on one hell of a show.