Grandaddy and Pete Yorn: There's a moron to be found at the bottom of this.

The BBQ Pit
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This Pete Yorn guy - he’s ok… but I’m not really interested in seeing him (AGAIN, because I already saw him opening for another band). Now Grandaddy, a band that I’d really like to see, is opening for HIM! This makes no sense whatsoever because of the disparity of their musical styles, and the result is that if I want to see Grandaddy, I have to pay twice as much and go to a much larger venue than I would have to were they on their own tour.

Can’t you find some suitable mediocre folk wank to open for him? Who the fuck came up with this pairing?!

Eheu. :smack:

Anyone else come across this unbelievably annoying phenomenon of bands you’d really like to see opening for bands you have no interest in whatsoever?

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Maybe I shouldn’t be posting this – I never actually got a chance to see this tour, I only heard people across the Atlantic rant about what a bad pairing it was – but Bad Religion opening for Blink-182 has to be the dumbest fucking thing EVER.

Not only do all self-respecting BR fans hate Blink 182 with all their guts, you won’t find a single Blink 182 fan who’s even heard of Bad Religion either. What the hell were they thinking?

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You get to see Grandaddy. Quit complaining and count your lucky stars. He/they are worth it. Have fun.

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Don’t even ask how much I paid for Hootie and the Blowfish tickets so I could see They Might Be Giants open for them. Just don’t.

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You mean like Easyworld opening for Toploader :frowning: :frowning: :rolleyes: :frowning:

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Don’t know those two, canary… I feel for the Bad Religion fans, though… but not as much as I feel for Bad Religion! Oh for things to come to this.

I think they kinda suck, but Blink 182?

A rant about them would just be out of date… and too easy… but they make me so mad, what with the sucking so badly and the completely cannned record label irony…

I think their record label should have had ALL of their lips pierced and pinned down for extra-downtrodden-teenager poutiness…

Even though they’re probably pushing 30.

http://www.absolutenow.com/music/bands/blink182/bandbios.html

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Nothing’s as bad as Neil Young opening for Dave Matthews a couple years ago. That’s just not right.