Strange, Incongruous, Nonsensical and/or Inspired Double-Bills

"All the World's a Stage"/"Farewell to Kings" Rush and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. More, more, more...

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It happened.

The Meat Puppets and Exene Cervenka's solo band, the latter of which was one of the most wretched acts I have ever witnessed.

Some Todd Rungren-produced Boston pop group I can't remember the name of right now and the Georgia Satellites. Security and bartenders at the joint commented all night how disgraceful the Rundgren-sponsored act was.

Fun Loving Criminals and Raging Slab.

Flickerstink and Fireball Ministry.

Dick Destiny & the Highway Kings and They Might Be Giants.

The Outlaws and UFO.

EZO (stiff, weird and tuneless Jap metal band in kabuki makeup, underwritten by Gene Simmons) & the Black Crowes.

Gorky Park and whomever had the misfortune to be on the same bill with them.

Iggy & the Stooges and the Doobie Brothers and/or Ten Years After (read it in "I Need More.")

Black Sabbath/Slade/Status Quo in the Spectrum ca. 74-75. The two openers blew Ozzy and Iommi off the stage, a legendary gig for Pennsy soon-to-be metallers like Cinderella and Britny Fox, who were in attendance. People in my party actually nodded off during Sabbath's set. The case of beer didn't help, but c'mon, they were just so damn slow, incoherent and drugged, it was an embarrassment.

Kiss with just about anyone I saw prior to "Destroyer."

Artful Dodger and anyone they opened for in Pennsylvania. Remember Artful Dodger? Didn't think so.

Jack Tempchin and Joe Walsh. Philosophically and singer/songwriterly, they're sort of linked. But in reality? Nawwww.

Gwar and whomever locally had to open for them in the numerous LV gigs they did. I always felt sorry for the poor fools who volunteered for such shows.

The Cycle Sluts from Hell and anyone else on the bill. See: Plasmatics, Zodiac Mindwarp, etc.

Yeah, those were the days. Imagine going to the Fillmore or wherever and seeing Jefferson Airplane, Roland Kirk, Ravi Shankar and Buddy Guy sharing a bill.

Going surprisingly well too, from what I've heard

Also, Albert Brooks opening for Sly and Family Stone!

This show hasn't come to town yet, and I probably won't go to it, and I know that's more than a double bill, but it just seems so odd.

damn, i thought jethro tull were touring with merle haggard's backing band!

holy shit that sounds awesome. i think brooks (like a lot of bluesmen of his generation) was trying to appeal to psychedelia for a while, with his album covers and such--even if his music didn't really make many concessions in that direction.

This may not be as strange as it seems, as Usenet's Über-Stranglers-fan, and also huge prog fan, Zaragon may tell you.

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My alltime favorite, however, was Rage Against The Machine opening for House of Pain at First Avenue. It's hard to make angry socio-political rants seem relevant when the crowd is chanting "House!...of!...Pain!..." over and over during the last 2/3 of your set.

holy shit that sounds awesome. i think brooks (like a lot of bluesmen of his generation) was trying to appeal to psychedelia for a while, with his album covers and such--even if his music didn't really make many concessions in that direction.

there's a bluesman named albert brooks? i thought josh's post was referring to the comedian albert brooks, to which i was going to say: holy shit that sounds awesome.

it was pretty damn cool that jamc was opening that bill. it also made no damn sense. they had no business being in giants stadium, and even less business playing before a band that could blow away a set's worth of collected guitar noise by placing one finger on one keyboard key. though that's probably mostly the fault of whoever was keeping jamc's volume down to opening-band levels.

I don't see anything strange about this bill at all......same demographic.

Blur seemed a bit out of place on the Rollercoaster Tour (Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr, MBV) - this was around the time of Leisure when Blur were more poppy than indie.

REM opening for Bow Wow Wow
Peter Frampton opening for Black Sabbath
the Ramones & Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath
the Only Ones opening for a local Atlanta band called the Restraints
Cornelius opening for Flaming LIps
Blondie, Tom Petty, and the Kinks (in that order)