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Worst opening band (Decemberists @ Pearl St.)

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ayakoholic:
Sunday night was my first time seeing them live, and I had an excellent time.  I gotta say, though, Cass McCombs may have been saccharine and lifeless, but they certainly weren't the worst opening act I've ever been subjected to.  That dubious honor goes to Triumph of Lethargy, who opened for Modest Mouse this summer at The Pines in Look Park, Northampton.

Ten or twenty years ago, ToL would have been a performance art piece about testing audience tolerance for atonal singing and guitar feedback.

Amusingly enough, Of Montreal's opening act was also pretty disappointing, considering that it consisted of everyone from Of Montreal except Kevin Barnes.  As I wrote in a review of the concert elsewhere, "It's like they had no idea where our collective musical clitoris was; they seemed to be enjoying themselves, though, so we just sat back and let them do their thing, and when they were done, we made appreciative noises, and we're just not going to call them again. They also seemed to be going with the "well, we can't engage them musically, so let's just play really loud" approach."

mizaktik:
The worst opening act I've ever seen was at a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy show.  They had a couple open acts of local Jazz muscians, and the sax player felt that the only way to play any solo or song was fit as many notes into each second as possible.  The best description would be it sound as if the sax had the runs and was just constantly leaking out notes....

Thrillho:
Elbow.

Put all the effort into their show that a tortoise puts into lifting its head. Pretty disgraceful really, especially when they were supporting Muse.

iamtheaznman:
Huh. I thought that Cass McCombs wasn't that bad of an opener. Sure, it was boring, but still some nice background music. That girl did look like she didn't want to be there though...

Also Jeph, word on the Decemberists forums is that the Northampton show sucked because of the crowd. It was supposedly very very...unactive. I went to the Avalon show last night, damn was it good. People were jumping, dancing, singing, screaming. And they played "The Tain". Holy shit, can the Decemberists get heavy. Only problem was, they didn't play Legionnaire's Lament. If they did that, that would've made the show. Oh, and I think Colin pulled his neck muscle the previous night of the Northampton concert because of a "Dance party in the trailer", so that might have explained the tiredness.

StrikeThePostman:

--- Quote from: iamtheaznman ---And they played "The Tain".
--- End quote ---


WHAT

If they had played that in Providence, it could've made up for Cass McCombs.  Not only did he and his band start a half-hour late, they were boring as hell.  However, we got commended for being the most "respectful" audience they'd had so far.

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