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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | Re: openers > closers |
| Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:25:49 -0400 |
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Holmes Online wrote:
>> here's a thread-any opening bands that totally blew away the
>> headliners? I remember seeing the True Beleivers from Austin open for
>> Guadalcanal Diary at the Paradise here in Boston 'round 1986 and
>> completely destroyed.....enough so that the singer from GD said
>> something to the effect of "how do we follow that?"
>
> I recall The Dictators routinely making it impossible for the
> headliner to follow them (a few times, early-mid 70s). But the vivid
> wipe-the-stage-clean show was Split Enz nuking a VERY stoned Tom Petty
> (1982 or 3).
One of the worst cases I ever saw:
Opener: Superdrag
Second act: Semisonic
Headliner: The Refreshments
I gave the Refreshments two songs before leaving.
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