what's the worst opening band you've seen at a show?

>>126669461 (OP)
What band was this, anyway?

>>126669461 (OP)
I was about 16-17 at a local "festival" show (extremely small venue with a tons of bands playing one after the other), mostly there for the experience and to see Septicflesh, which is a fairly decent symphonic death metal band. One of the openers was this extremely cringy brutal death metal/slam band and the singer kept trying to make awful jokes that didn't land. I have hated brutal/slam DM since then.

Lostprophets

>>126669555
I saw Rain City Drive as support once. The singer looked like bargain bin Machine Gun Kelly and was clearly lip syncing. Also the music was bad, like Disney Channel pop rock type stuff.

>>126669674
just listened to them for the first time and damn this shit sucks ass. What's awful is that it seems they are connected to the whole DGG-"swancore" scene, and even if you don't like that type of stuff, this scene is known for having extremely talented vocalists.

>>126669521
I think it was Deadsy.

>>126669461 (OP)
Does it count that deathgrips had me standing in a shitty dark/hot venue for almost two hours with no opening act before they played?

I went alone so it was extract fucking lame

Back in highschool me and some bros went to see muse at a festival, was right around black holes release, and the mars volta were playing before them,

Had to listen to those retarded wailing sounds over guitar wank for an hour before muse came on, was worth it though, muse was sick

>>126669761
I saw them with Dance Gavin Dance and Eidola (another "Swancore" band where two of the guys were also in DGD). I don't know how Rain City Drive got lumped in with these bands when they don't really sound like them. The only connection is their original singer was Jonny Craig but he left years ago when they played under a different name.

>>126669762
name already tells everything

>>126669461 (OP)
They're always bad. The only good one I remember was Shabazz Palaces opening for Radiohead

>>126669557
Better than opening for Lostprophets

>>126669461 (OP)
we have to go baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

>>126669461 (OP)
Strokes opening up for RHCP (I got a free ticket so I said fuck it)
>live mixing was atrocious, it was 90% drums and vocals
>julian casablancas absolutely hammered, slurring in between songs
>clearly larping as jim Morrison
>he gets upset when nobody is really feeling the newer songs they’re playing, says YOU ALL WANT THE FUCKING OLD SHIT
>they go into a rendition of Reptilia with way too much autotune (he had it on for every single song and it sounded like T-Pain)

the chili peppers actually killed it even though I don’t like their music really

>>126669762
Deadsy were pretty fucking good though

>>126669461 (OP)
atari teenage riot as opener for nine inch nails.

>>126670672

>>126669461 (OP)
Ion Vein at Powerfest 2008

>>126669461 (OP)
Under A Pierrot Moon, opened for Paramore. Terrible. The singer walked off because the 24 people not at the bar weren't clapping loudly enough.

Ekko Astral, i dont ever use the word pseud but it applies to this lame indie 'punk' band named after a death grips song

and Quannnic sounded like shit opening for Slowdive. maybe just mixed bad but it sounded like high school talent show generic rock/grunge, really was a struggle to get through their blaring power chords and obvious songwriting

>>126669461 (OP)
ive seen Uriah Heep twice
first opening for DP
and second opening for Alice Cooper
the first they blew DP off the stage
the second time they sucked ass
but Alice Cooper sucked ass too, so I dont know if it was the venue or...

first time I saw Alice Cooper there was some local(?) cover band opening for them
average age of the band was higher than Alice Cooper's band
they even covered School's Out, despite it being on AC's setlist

>>126669461 (OP)
Elizabeth Color Wheel opening for Jerome's Dream.

I've seen a lot of forgettable opening acts that I couldn't name and many that I probably wouldn't even remember if you told me their name.
The worst I remember was a guy called Steve Fister (giggity), he opened for Joe Satriani. The guy could really play guitar but it was corny as fuck.

>>126671920
While I'm complaining, the worst headliner by far was Extince, a Dutch rapper from the 90s.
The show started more than an hour late. That's not unforgivable, shit happens, but this cunt did not have a flat tire or something like that. The entire time he was just sitting in a corner of the room with his entourage. I mean everybody could see him, while we're just waiting. There wasn't a DJ or anything to keep us entertained. So by the time he finally decides the time is ready, everybody is obviously annoyed. He starts performing, it's okay but not great so people aren't responding that well. This he cannot handle. He starts insulting our town, says that we don't knwo how to party and that the next town over people are so much cooler, etc. Apparently he felt like we somehow owed it to him to cheer despite making us wait forever. This douche tries to be a hype man for a minute... literal crickets. Finally, he just goes "ah fuck you guys" and walks off stage after three songs.

Wolfmother opening for AC/DC on the Black Ice tour in Australia, the entire crowd was pic related standing with their arms crossed over their beer guts for the whole set.

>>126669461 (OP)
I saw /mu/'s favorite: Jacob Collier because my little brother's gf is obsessed with him but my parents also wanted me to go with them.
What could possibly be a worse opener than him? Some horrible music youtuber who did like Prog-Weird Al with just his synthesizers, guitar, and a drummer.
He motor-mouthed away a third of his set being PAINFULLY unfunny. He pointed to me specifically and made a comment and I just shrugged at him because I couldn't hear it.
And then Jacob played and the crowd was Beatlemania every time he picked up a percussion instrument or whatever and that wasn't much better but at least I was expecting him to be... that.

>Coheed and Cambria in 2004
>opening band is some shitty emo/screamo band I'd never heard of
>in the middle of their set, the singer says "okay, on the count of 3, everyone yell your favorite color!"
>a couple people mutter something
>"did you hear that? you just made a rainbow"
I swear to god this happened and it was the gayest thing I've ever seen

>>126672298
Based if he was tripping on shrooms, but he probably wasn't so it's just horrible.

>>126672313
yeah I don't know if they were straight-edge but they gave off that vibe

Culture Abuse. They had quite a bit of hype back then for some reason. I thought they were absolute shit. The singer kept throwing fruit in the audience and got pissed because no one cared kek. I‘m glad they faded back into obscurity.

The Fever 333 opening for Bring Me the Horizon. I actually like the singer's previous band but holy shit they were like the worst RATM tribute act in the world. If RATM asked for crowd participation in every damn song.

don't look them up don't give them any views....but it was some uncle wigger duo named Project Wyze. opened up on the mainstage of this festival but were literal who's pushed overnight by the record companies and even though being a cringe wigger was in that year these guys put an end to it after their short boo filled piss bottle receiving set.
they had the audacity to stop their 'hit' song and sneer and say we didn't deserve it and the beats to fresh for our stale asses.

>>126671562
>they even covered School's Out, despite it being on AC's setlist
LMAO

Probably when I saw Iron Maiden

The opener was the lead singers daughter's band lol
They tried I guess

>>126673724
the bassist's daughter but yeah. i saw them on that tour, they were fucking horrible. thankfully maiden more than made up for it

>>126673743
Ah I knew it was one of their daughters. Misremembered. But yeah Maiden really put on a hell of a show after. Lot of energy especially for how old they were even then. Loved it.

>>126669783
If you saw Deathgrips open a show, then you win. That's it. That's the worst opening band ever. Give this anon his prize.

>>126670732
When julian was with the strokes he was drunk at every concert and now he's doing other stuff and his other stuff is autotuned to hell and back lol you got a glimpse of the future

>>126669783
death grips show i went to in 2013ish was probably the cringiest fanbase i ever saw. literal fat incel 4chan type kids spouting out memes in real life. and fantano was literally one of those cringelords there

>>126671750
theyre good tho? better than jeromes dream

>>126674084
No they are fucking not lol. Yoko tier garbage

>>126674084
nta but sometimes the opening acts can be horribly mismatched with the headliner.
I also like Elizabeth Color Wheel but even with how noisy they can get seeing them open for Jerome's Dream would be bizarre

>>126674111
ooo so youre just a racist misogynist who doesnt like creative music is see....

saw Poppy a couple months ago and the opener was two Japs, one behind a computer playing tranny "digicore" or whatever the fuck that sounded borderline like noise music and then some bitch just looking at the ground yelling into the microphone every so often

>>126669461 (OP)
Imagine your band was opening and you saw that picture though. Deadsy are amazing but not for a Deftones crowd. They simped way too hard for nu metal bands back in the day.

>>126669461 (OP)
MDC opening for English Beat

>>126672298
Was this a band with two lead singers yelping over each other for their whole set? That might have been the Blood Brothers because I think they were touring with C&C sonetime around 2003/2004.

>>126674990
That sounds absolutely bizarre, but Inlike both bands so I'd totally have gone to that. Was this at a featival?

>>126669805
Album
>cedric sounds angelic
Live
>cedric sounds like a goat getting strangled to death

>>126675210
nope, it was a fairly small bar show in Ohio

>>126669762
Has anyone after all this time been able to figure out if it there might have been a local band opening the ahow before Deady hit the stage?

>>126669461 (OP)
Aldo Nova opened for Blue Oyster Cult in their tune-up tour before going on the worldwide "Black and Blue" tour with Sabbath. They had a hit the year before with "Fantasy" and did a 20 minute set. It was competent but really nothing special.

In '77 I saw Elvin Bishop in Marin County and he was nothing special save for a couple of minor hits. Bt he was the star. The openers weer Sasha and Yuri who were on tour for one reason: they had escaped the USSR. The only English words they knew were "Rock and roll", so they repeated them. A lot. Otherwise, they were a generic lame rock duo. It reminds me of the scene in Moscow on the Hudson where Robin Williams breaks out his sax at a local jazz club and is awful. But the crowd was polite because he had just defected at a major NY department store.

Teen Girl Fantasy probably
Also delete my exgfs OP

monster magnate opening for anthrax

that armenian 2000's metal singer's solo band opening for I forget...maybe foo fighters (foos are a good band live, they just have mediocre songs)

Zack Wild's band opening for thin lizzy and judas Priest (i do like zack sabbath though)

Faster Pussycat opening for Motley Crue

I was a bouncer at a few venues and the worst headliners I saw (for free) were Moby and Maná

Deftones, ironically enough.

>>126672256
dumb boomers didn't appreciate good rock

Mastadon

>>126673724
>>126673743
was at that show too. they were pretty bad.
Maiden had some emo band open for them one time too and the crowd actually booed them lol

>>126671508
Really? I seen Alice Cooper 5 years ago and he was great.

>>126673724
I was there too. I don't remember it being terrible but it was not good.

>>126674122
shut up tranny

>>126675473
They invented it, dumbass

>>126669461 (OP)
>2006
Wonder who it was

>>126669762
Literally who

>>126669557
The only opening Lost Prophets is interested in is between a toddlers legs.

>>126669557
I forgot about Lostprophets
>looks them up
>Ian Watkins
Oh yeah that's why we don't talk about this band
>29 years in prison, with eligibility to apply for parole in 2031
>Additional sentenced to a further ten months in prison for having a phone in prison
>5 August 2023, Watkins was taken hostage by three other inmates at HM Prison Wakefield and stabbed, and was freed by prison officers six hours later. Police later confirmed his injuries were not life-threatening. It was later claimed that the motive for the attack was an unsettled £900 drugs debt with another prisoner whilst in custody

Dunno. The only show I've ever been to was one where POWER SKELETON played and I can't remember anything because they were so fucking loud.

I saw Chelsea Wolfe at the Berghain in Berlin and she had like 3 opening acts. Two were just kind of mediocre doom metal bands and in between there was this tranny (?) playing acoustic songs for 30 minutes. It was so boring and also since the Berghain has a strict no photos policy, every few minutes security guards would elbow their way through the crowd to reprimand people for taking pictures.
Chelsea and her band absolutely killed it though, just wish it had been one opening band only and a normal venue.

baby metal opening for the red hot chili peppers

>>126676327
christ...

>>126676174
yeah, and in that moment they didn't appreciate it

>>126669461 (OP)
I bet you they give ok head at best

Not a band, but Prof opening for Atmosphere in 2014 was probably the worst opening act I've seen. He was obviously drunk, slurring his words and stumbling, and holding out the mic for two thirds of the show to a nearly totally silent crowd. The fact that he had dancers and confetti cannons and stuff just highlighted how ridiculous it was.

Some literal who Nine Inch Nails knockoff band opening for Gary Numan a couple of years ago. Just all around awful.

>>126676762
if you're a zoomer you literally can't imagine how soulful getting head from a 20yo pre-idpol millennial girl was

>>126677165
As a millennial prefer to get head from zoomers.

Black Country, New Road last year opening for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (who was great).

I went in not knowing much about them. I’ve never felt such visceral cringe and revulsion as I did hearing their cacophony. Thinking back I can almost smell their farts which they clearly love huffing to produce such absolutely awful, pretentious music. I absolutely fucking hate them, there is no band I despise more, that they dare exist annoys me on many levels.

The song with five oversized recorders was the worst by the way, that was the moment I left to go get a chicken burger and wait for Cave.

>>126669805
I was going to say Mars Volta too. Saw them before Red Hot Chili Peppers for the Stadium Arcadium tour and the sound was mixed so terribly. Just awful all around.

>>126677277
zoomer chicks are so dumb. i love them

Probably Trauma Ray, not offensively bad just boring

>>126675180
No, I was at least a little familiar with The Blood Brothers at the time, definitely wasn't them, just some shitty emo band

>>126669461 (OP)
I saw Dir En Grey open up for Deftones and it was awful.
>>126672298
I think Underoath toured with Coheed in '04.

The Jesus and Mary Chain. Only band I've ever seen too scared to come out. They played behind the fucking curtain.

>>126678456
Did they sound any good at least? They had some superb albums in the 80s.

>>126678472
Really loud. Personally it didn't sound good but it was probably the shitty club acoustics.

>>126678487
First time I saw Bob Dylan the sound was garbage, I couldn’t make out a single lyric. I mistakenly thought he was a shite performer but the following six times he was excellent, so it can happen. I’m probably still in the minority for thinking he’s well worth seeing beyond reasons of nostalgia though.

>>126677277
yeah, now, millennial girls are roasties now

If festivals count then Bell X1. They were like an even shittier version of Coldplay.

>>126675336
Scars on Broadway?

>>126678406
Dir en grey is awesome lmao, much better than Deftones.

None of you are getting head from anyone.

>>126679862
Rude.

>>126679965
But true.

Some weird picks here.Don't you guys go to any smaller shows? I guess you can count yourselves lucky that you don't have to regulary suffer through awful local support acts. I can't decide between these two being the worst I have seen
"Das letzte Lager" opening for Profanatica
>last minute replacement for another band that was supposed to co-headline
>one drummer, one guitarist band
>guitarist looks straight out of Blade 2, with shades, tribals sleeves and a bald head
>they sucked so hard that the audience refused to applaud until they literally asked for them to do so
"Bird's View" opening for Soulfly
>show was scheduled to start at 9pm
>on a weekday
>there wasn't any info about any support
>they just appear on stage and play the blandest fucking indie rock, the audience did not like it one bit
>frontman is absolutely insufferable and gets visibly angry at people for not digging his landfill indie rock at a metal concert
>calls for a wall of death
>people form a circle but no one actually runs into each other
>he proceeds to end the set by calling the audience fuckers and throws his guitar pick towards the back so that no one can catch it (not that anyone would have bothered)

>>126676210
>>126676236
I've talked about it before but it was when they were touring for their first album. I'd never heard of them and Ian was swinging the mic around like people did back then and this dumbass hits himself in the head with it. Literally knocked himself out in this shitty little venue and spent the rest of the set writhing on the stage bleeding and moaning. They cut the set early and that was that. It's a shame it didn't kill him. He's an absolute monster and deserves hell.

>>126680068
Talk about megalolz :)

>>126678406
>I think Underoath toured with Coheed in '04.
guys, I was pretty familiar with the more well-known bands in that genre, as well as a lot of b-tier ones, it wasn't any of them, it was some random local band, they were the first of two openers

>>126680382
I saw Underoath back in the day and they put on a great show and no gay stage banter either. I think the only time they really talked to us was saying they hoped we all made it home safely and thanked us for being there.

>>126680005
>das letzte lager
kek, for some reason there is like a million mediocre metal bands with a bald guy wearing sunglasses. And the music sounds appropriately mid too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7-bklix0hk
There are certain traits to these kinds of bands that I can't quite articulate but that always peg them as eternal opening acts that no one really feels passionate about. The moment I started listening to that song I could immediately visualize myself standing in some half-filled venue, with most people either standing still or nodding their head a bit and everyone just being bored waiting for the main act.

Sharon Van Etten opening up for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

or this DJ who opened for El Ten Eleven. He played parts of the Room on a projection screen while DJing. it was cringy.

>>126676206
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjgS4O1Aes

>>126680553
They somehow sounded even more boring live.

>>126674122
That doesn't work anymore

>>126680005
I love me some local band slop. I take it you're german based on those bands? I love going on backstagepro and just looking through the bands that advertise themselves there. Funny how each of these bands will promote themselves like they're the next Slayer.

How do you avoid being the cringe opening band?

>>126676900
Combichrist?

>>126682145
no-show

>>126682145
you recognize that 90percent of people are total homo normies at best and what they have to say about your act is irrelevant and just be excited to have a band that is playing shows in the first place. honestly battling the clueless soundmen were always the worst part. the goal really is to have fun and be funny and just put on your own shows in fish and chip diners and backyards with your own gear anyway.

>>126682569
Inspirational words...

>>126678406
Dir en grey blows Deftones out the fucking water, kid.

>>126681139
She's right, they're really bad

>>126673811
I saw a Death Grips one time, Savages opened for them and made them look like children. Just blew them completely out of the water, Death Grips sucked

>>126682611
now at some point 'fun' should take a back seat to the arrangements and notes of your songs being executed to near perfection. this is when you have to be the asshole and let inessential members go who can't hack it and screw up and make excuses like 'oh i'm just having fun.. derp derp' because as an old fuck i can't listen to some old era shows and albums i have been apart of when i knew it could have been so much better even then. when the desire to not want to rehearse becoems teh norm and eye rolling takes over from smiling is time to take a break from it all and work in a factory or something outdoors for a few months. but your options may be limited in this regard finding dedicated and capable driven members especially small town bands and so it is best to not do what i did/do and point out their errors loudly and obnoxiously on stage but the thing i say is i expect the same out of myself so get your fucking head in the game or go back to your basement this isn't about impressing the mundane audience of 8 people how loud you can play the fucking cymbal this is about being able to put forth into the air your sound and follow the inspiration of the greats so you and your kids can listen back and be proud.

>>126683350
>this is about being able to put forth into the air your sound and follow the inspiration of the greats so you and your kids can listen back and be proud.
But you can't do that either cause you have no talent.

>>126683429

Opposite but Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson were on tour together when I was younger and Gwar was opening for them. Didn't know who they were, but they ended up being better than both headliners

>>126669783
They were being subversive punks bro it's fucking punk to be a piece of shit primadonna bro

>>126683429
ah but i have willpower and hardwork. so i have earned my craft. all the wasted talent i have used and who tried to use me are fat bloated dead or dying carcasses complete shells with nothing to look back on other than who they lied to and thieved the less so they can show up randomly and bum a beer or 9..

>>126669461 (OP)
Best was Dizzeee Rascal opening for Prodigy in Brighton.
Nigger knew exactly his place and the place was fucking hype. Never been so tired.

>>126683719
Lots of Museposting.

Remember booing the fuck out of My Chemical Romance at Wembley, kek.Was so drunk can't even remember if Klaxons actually were there, or were rumoured to be there.

>>126681118
sharon van etten is based

>>126669461 (OP)
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck why can't girls still look like this

>>126683761
Like children?

>>126683764
Bandlife in the 90/00 era was based. Why question anything?

>>126683764
the girls in the op look in their early 20s
your zoomer eyes think they look like children because they're not caked in black-women hair and make-up

>>126683801
Whatever you need to tell yourself.

>>126683810
head back to /b/, child.

>>126683810
>mindbroken zoom zoom

>>126683801
>they're not caked in make-up
absolutely clueless kek

>>126681139
still better than deftones honestly

>>126684062
>has to remove multiple words in a sentence and completely change its meaning so he can feel like he owned anon
grim

>>126684106
If you point out something wrong in a statement that depends on that 'something' being right, that isn't 'changing its meaning'. Are you an ESL or a retard?

>>126684106
>grim
zoom zoom

>>126684189
i said "they're not caked in black-women hair and make-up"
you removed the "black-women hair and"
this changed the meaning of the sentence
you fucking retard

>>126684106
>that wall isn't coated in black paint
>"that wall isn't coated in paint" UHHH YES IT IS AHAHAHA IDIOT
NTA but you're an actual moron

>>126669461 (OP)
I saw Faith No More back in like 2010 when they were on their first reiunion tour. the first opening act was some LA-sleaze-core garage-punk act that did a by-the-numbers cover of "livin la vida loca". we ended up booing them off the stage. after that this cheerleading squad took the stage and of course everyone thought "oh, sick, they're going to set up "be aggressive"" but, no, it was literally just a cheerleading squad doing one of their normal cheer routines. literally had nothing to do with the headliner at all. weirdest thing I've ever seen at a concert.

>>126669461 (OP)
God i miss 2006-2008 when I was in high school and scene/emo girls were popular. Those chokers used to make me diamonds.

>>126681139
>>126669461 (OP)
Just learned the lead singer is Cher's son lol

Halestorm before Iron Maiden

>>126669461 (OP)
I saw a college art-school theatre collective open for Fugazi and do some woke nonsense play that was absolutely retarded. They got booed and then Ian came out and scolded everyone.
I don't give a fuck how brave they are Ian, it was dogshit.

>>126683024
I really miss Savages actually damn they actually got a 10 by Fantano too. He has the worst taste in 10s no offense just saying nobody he 10s ever goes on to big things besides Death Grips.

>>126683532
Gwar rules they are older than all those guys have that gritty boomer mentality not the soft boomer, if you ever see a gritty boomer they will have all the secrets of the entire universe, sex advice, car repair or anything, music.

>>126680553
>>126681139
Why do these songs put together kick ass?

>>126684697
Sorry I messed up I was thinking of Daughters not Savages, I checked.

>>126679645
i dont know what you're asking but the Armenian band i was forgetting was Serj Tankian's solo band. It was just all rhythm and no melody. I fucking hate that kind of music and couldn't wait to hear the main act, (which I THINK was foo fighters) again....good band, with mediocre songs.
Does that answer your question?

>>126675212
idk i saw them live a couple years ago after their hiatus and he sounded pretty close to the records

>>126670732
>julian casablancas absolutely hammered, slurring in between songs
I saw him at FYF when he headlined and he was thirty minutes late and so drunk that he just had the audience karaoke "You Only Live Once"

>>126683764
Yes

>>126669461 (OP)
worst headliner i ever saw was Psychic TV in the 2010s sometime... maybe one of their last tours... they were playing like shitty bar dad rock complete with epic trippy visualizer behind them... i dont know how such a creative socially aware band could become that lame

>>126684491
same, bro
the saddest part is what those girls look like and act like now
fucking pod people