Poorly Planned Line-ups

What is the worst concert line-up you've endured… not as in shitty or bad bands, but actual bands you were wanting to see, but played terribly off each other or were really random and didn't work?

One that stands out in my head is the MACRoCk from 2002 or 2003 when Pedro the Lion followed Mates of State. I adore both, but that back-to-back made me feel really bipolar. After the happy, cute MOS, I was really to slit my wrists.

Valient Thorr opening for Gogol Bordello was super odd.

I once saw the Promise Ring open for Jimmy Eat World at the height of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" mania. It was very surreal and even Davey Von Bohlen remarked that it was odd to open for a band that opened for them for years.

Recently, the one that first comes to mind is Junior Boys/Youth Group/Aqueduct a few months back at Black Cat. I like Youth Group and Junior Boys alot, but none of those 3 bands should be playing together. Weird combo.

Looking back, I remember seeing Dismemberment Plan and Quiruli play together, which was an OK combo, but then in between was John Vanderslice – who is fantastic – but he sucked all the energy out of Alley Katz.

Show hasn't happened yet, but I have more than a creeping suspicion that some crucial chronic was responsible for The Hives opening for Maroon 5.

How the fuck do you start with porn & end with a soap opera???

So you're saying Maroon 5 aint shitty?

Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Show hasn't happened yet, but I have more than a creeping suspicion that some crucial chronic was responsible for The Hives opening for Maroon 5.

How the fuck do you start with porn & end with a soap opera???

this isn't really examples of bands i both wanted to see, but just kind of odd pairings that didn't really go together that i did see:

autechre / men's recovery project ?

explosions in the sky / coheed & cambria ?

promise ring and bad religion

Violent Femmes/Grateful Dead

Beastie Boys/PiL - Just before Licensed To Ill came out. Nobody knew what to make of the Beasties. Most people just sat and occasionally booed them, while the Boys were jumping around, spilling beer everywhere and falling all over each other.

Trouble Funk/Nina Hagen - Not a bad pairing, in retrospect, but at the time it just seemed totally bizarre.

I saw Hole at 9:30 Club play a 15 minute set opening for 2 local bands. Courtney had a shitty attitude the whole time, made a bunch of smartass remarks between songs and went off verbally on a couple ditzes dancing cluelessly in front of the stage, pretty funny.

Screaming Blue Messiahs and Jazz Butcher in '86(?). Actually, that worked in a weird way.

I would've liked to seen Nirvana and Loop on the same bill at 9:30 but missed it due to still being out of town for college exams.

Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.

Tracy Bonham opening for Everclear in 1996. It was at the Captial Ballroom (now Nation). She was not great.
The bill consisted of Everclear, Spacehog, Tracy Bonham, and 7 year Bitch.

Cool lineup minus Bonham.

Originally posted by econo:
Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.

HAHA I was at that show, hell it was pretty beat crowd-wise even for Andrew WK but yeah it was even worse for Lost Prophets. I was pretty surprised when a couple years later I stopped by the 9:30 Club one evening to buy tickets for a future show at the club and realized that the crowd that was lined up all the way down the street were there to see the Lost Prophets, apparently a lot more people had got into their shitty third-rate Incubus ripoff schtick within that couple of years.

Dave Matthews Band / Smashing Pumpkins (with Marilyn Manson guesting on a song) / Rolling Stones [Bridges to Babylon Tour - Miami 97]

Third Eye Blind / U2 [PopMart Tour - Tampa 97]

I was pretty drunk so my memory of the evening's a bit off. Though that was the evening I met some of the other board members?

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
HAHA I was at that show, hell it was pretty beat crowd-wise even for Andrew WK but yeah it was even worse for Lost Prophets.

Originally posted by econo:
Andrew WK opening up for The Lost Prophets at the Black Cat. Everyone was really into Andrew WK and then everyone left when The Lost Prophets came on.

I remember that show! The other funny thing is that Andrew WK was scheduled to play Saturday Night Live 3-4 days later, so it was odd having him be (if I remember it right) the third band on the bill.

The Clientele opening for the Dino Jr reunion show was kind of odd in terms of disparate music styles and volumes.

Wasn't that some type of MTV2 tour? I seem to remember there being a headliner than canceled for that night as well.

That was the night we met Markie & Lulu, right? And GGW I think also.

Originally posted by econo:
I was pretty drunk so my memory of the evening's a bit off. Though that was the evening I met some of the other board members?

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
Dave Matthews Band / Smashing Pumpkins (with Marilyn Manson guesting on a song) / Rolling Stones [Bridges to Babylon Tour - Miami 97]

Third Eye Blind / U2 [PopMart Tour - Tampa 97]

I don't see anything weird about those pairings at all.

Brian