Best/Favorite Opening Band for SY you saw

pantophobia · 03.08.2015, 05:54 PM

was just kinda reminiscing over things after finishing the book

first ever show started wit Erase Errata and Mary Timony so that was a heavy way to start

the only time actually went out of the way to see an opening band was Les Georges Leningrad when they were announced opening for SY in Montreal, as a bonus Sunburned Hand Of The Man started out

and with the last Brooklyn show, Wild Flag was such a big deal I remember nearly every member of SY on the side of the stage watching in awe of the performance

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Rob Instigator · 03.08.2015, 06:05 PM

Slanted Era Pavement

jennthebenn · 03.08.2015, 06:24 PM

Stereolab. I would have loved to have the means to follow SY around
in 2000 just to see Stereolab more times.

Les Georges...easily the biggest stage I ever saw them on, and they were
fantastic. Wild Flag, likewise.

whorefrost · 03.08.2015, 06:57 PM

Hmmm, always a bit too excited at the prospect of seeing SY to take in much of the opening act. Having said that, Liars at Manchester Academy in 2002 was pretty cool. Also saw The Pop Group opening for them at the same venue several years later.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 03.08.2015, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by pantophobia

and with the last Brooklyn show, Wild Flag was such a big deal I remember nearly every member of SY on the side of the stage watching in awe of the performance

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You saw Wild Flag AND Sonic Youth????

Well that trumps my Mary Timony opening at the 2006 Filter party show..

whorefrost · 03.08.2015, 07:06 PM

Goddamn this thread has sent me to the concert chronology to refresh me memory. Forgot about Decaer Pinga (AKA Prick Decay with Dylan Nyoukis) opening for them in Glasgow in 2004 which was pretty cool.

Also reading about them playing at clubs in Edinburgh in the 80s is making me ache with longing that I hadn't been a few years old at the time!

whorefrost · 03.08.2015, 07:09 PM

Shit guys, sorry, how could I fucking forget Shellac opening for them on New Year's Eve in 2010! Probably because I was out my nut on MDMA hehe..

Skip Tracer · 03.08.2015, 07:11 PM

Last show in Brooklyn had WF and Kurt Vile.
The Slits opening the Daydream Nation show at McCarren Pool.
I saw Dinosaur Jr. open for them multiple times.

Magic Wheel Memory · 03.08.2015, 07:32 PM

It probably would have been Helium, if I had gotten there on time to see it. I'll always remember the Breeders starting their set with Aerosmith's Lord of the Thighs. So unexpected! David S. Ware was cool, and so were The Warmers, which was Ian MacKaye's brother's band. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous · 03.08.2015, 07:46 PM

I love how no matter how we slice the cake, Mary Timony is involved in like ALL of our favorite openers, from Helium to Solo to Wild Flag..

By the way, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN EX-HEX LIVE YOU'RE MISSING THE FUCK OUT!!

Toilet & Bowels · 03.09.2015, 06:10 AM

TOKYO 2001: First opener was some guy called Tamio playing solo guitar psych. Never been able to find any info on him since. He was followed by OOIOO who I thought might upstage SY they were that good.

_slavo_ · 03.09.2015, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by pantophobia

first ever show started wit Erase Errata and Mary Timony so that was a heavy way to start

Same here. I thing we'd spoken about this before - it was the August 2002 Washington, DC gig, right? With "Anxious Rats" performing too with Kim on vocals, right? I was there too and it was my first ever SY show too.

Other than that I loved when Flower/Corsano opened for SY in London in 2007 and when the Chinese postpunk band Carsick Cars opened for them a few days earlier in Vienna.

confusion is next · 03.09.2015, 08:50 AM

Lisbon 1993
Lulu Blind and Tina and the Top Ten...great portugese acts.

ann ashtray · 03.09.2015, 09:11 AM

Magik Markers + Double Leopards

pantophobia · 03.09.2015, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

Same here. I thing we'd spoken about this before - it was the August 2002 Washington, DC gig, right? With "Anxious Rats" performing too with Kim on vocals, right? I was there too and it was my first ever SY show too.

it was yes, it was my first small club show as well

krischanski · 03.09.2015, 01:43 PM

I really liked Unwound (Sonic Youth & Stereolab & Unwound @ Huxley’s, Berlin ’96)

greenlight · 03.09.2015, 03:45 PM

Afrirampo @ Brixton, London '04

_tunic_ · 03.09.2015, 04:29 PM

Beck solo during the Washing Machine tour
Chris Corsano was great as well, but didn't like the two other guys he was playing with (Spencer Yeh & Flahery)
all I remember from some other support was a singing saw ... and the guy nexdt to me with a big Scottish accent complaining about it (this was in LA

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h8kurdt · 03.09.2015, 05:19 PM

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Afrirampo @ Brixton, London '04

This. Man they were good at that gig.

hirsute_biped · 03.10.2015, 01:33 AM

If memory serves me right, Destroy All Nels Cline and Helium in LA in '98 (1000 Leaves tour).

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pantophobia expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,349	was just kinda reminiscing over things after finishing the book first ever show started wit Erase Errata and Mary Timony so that was a heavy way to start the only time actually went out of the way to see an opening band was Les Georges Leningrad when they were announced opening for SY in Montreal, as a bonus Sunburned Hand Of The Man started out and with the last Brooklyn show, Wild Flag was such a big deal I remember nearly every member of SY on the side of the stage watching in awe of the performance share away...
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jennthebenn expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 2,261	Stereolab. I would have loved to have the means to follow SY around in 2000 just to see Stereolab more times. Les Georges...easily the biggest stage I ever saw them on, and they were fantastic. Wild Flag, likewise. __________________ http://jennthebenn.tumblr.com/
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whorefrost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arrived in Smoke, Arrived in Gold Posts: 2,569	Hmmm, always a bit too excited at the prospect of seeing SY to take in much of the opening act. Having said that, Liars at Manchester Academy in 2002 was pretty cool. Also saw The Pop Group opening for them at the same venue several years later. __________________ hehehe
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whorefrost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arrived in Smoke, Arrived in Gold Posts: 2,569	Goddamn this thread has sent me to the concert chronology to refresh me memory. Forgot about Decaer Pinga (AKA Prick Decay with Dylan Nyoukis) opening for them in Glasgow in 2004 which was pretty cool. Also reading about them playing at clubs in Edinburgh in the 80s is making me ache with longing that I hadn't been a few years old at the time! __________________ hehehe
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Magic Wheel Memory the end of the ugly Join Date: May 2006 Location: Nowhere, NJ Posts: 836	It probably would have been Helium, if I had gotten there on time to see it. I'll always remember the Breeders starting their set with Aerosmith's Lord of the Thighs. So unexpected! David S. Ware was cool, and so were The Warmers, which was Ian MacKaye's brother's band. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. __________________ www.myspace.com/infinityad
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Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,268	TOKYO 2001: First opener was some guy called Tamio playing solo guitar psych. Never been able to find any info on him since. He was followed by OOIOO who I thought might upstage SY they were that good.
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