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| From | "Michael Curry" <mikecurry@hotmail.co.uk> |
| Subject | Re: Live double bills |
| Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:47:32 +0100 |
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A few that spring to mind are:
Dada / Crowded House
Teenage Fanclub / REM
Buffalo Tom / The Wedding Present - I was deaf in one ear for a week.
Silver Sun / James
Joe Strummer / The Who
>From: TOVJim@aol.com
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: Audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: Live double bills
>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:46:42 EDT
>
>
>
>Let's Active Opening for REM at U. Penn's Irvine auditorium in 1983 - I was
>a Freshman - It changed my life.
>
>The Replacements at Penn's Houston Hall with Philly Hometown heroes The
>Johnsons (one great album on Restless) - 1985.
>
>
>In a message dated 10/20/2006 12:23:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>rob@splitsville.com writes:
>
>saw that same tour, Lee. Elvis was supporting 'Mighty Like A Rose'.
>On paper, a dream double bill, but the 'Mats were close to calling it a
>day
>and were uninspired and uninspiring playing in a 'summer shed' (Great
>Woods
>outside of Boston).
>
>And Rose was a mediocre album, and EC looked ridiculous with beard. Also
>felt like he was going thru the motions. And I forgot about the fact that
>it
>wasn't the Attractions.
>
> >----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
> >From: :audities@smoe.org
> >To: audities@smoe.org
> >Sent: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:35:31
> >
> >The Replacements opening for Elvis Costello in
> >Toronto should have
> >been my favorite concert of all time. But so few
> >people showed for
> >The Mats' opening set, they just screwed around for
> >half an hour. And
> >Elvis was a giant bear with a big beard - short two
> >Attractions - not
> >the same.
> >
> >My favorite two-few of all-time - which I got to
> >see a few times - was
> >the Mono Men opening for The Nomads. The Nomads
> >are the best band
> >I've ever seen that don't have a 'show' - they just
> >stand there and
> >rock like hell. And the Mono Men along with Estrus
> >Records is the
> >only thing from the grunge days I still listen to.
> >I noticed the new
> >Sadies album of surf tunes bookends the album with
> >'3B' and
> >'Doublewide' - the two names of the legendary home
> >of the Garage Shock
> >festival in Bellingham - which closed a few months
> >ago.
> >
> >--
> >Lee Elliott
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