Best/Favorite Opening Band for SY you saw
 

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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Slanted Era Pavement

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.

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.

You saw Wild Flag AND Sonic Youth????

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

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!

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..

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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

Magik Markers + Double Leopards

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

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

Afrirampo @ Brixton, London '04

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 :) )

This. Man they were good at that gig.

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

glad to see someone from here was at that gig.

Saw Afriramp open for em in Amsterdam and, apparently Glasgow (according to the concert chronology though don't really recall seeing them, I guess I did though). idk, not a huge fan, maybe I should go back and re-listen.

Alabama kids from Holland!

Utrecht, 29th of june 1993, Tivoli, my first SY show...

That is an absolutely amazing setlist, actually. Very jealous.


Mine was:
The Fatal Flying Guilloteens
Thursday, July 8th, 1999
Austin, Texas, USA

Just fun, sloppy energy

Edit: And while not actually SY, True Widow opening for Chelsea Light Moving has been my overall fav "SY related" opener. Just some good ol' sludgy stoner metal from Dallas. Knew nothing about them upon seeing them, but was very pleasantly surprised.

Movietone when I saw SY in London in 96 were very good too.

Most entertaining was probably Rapeman.

i am pretty sure i saw them at the 930 in dc in 2004 but for the fuck of me i can't remember white magic or magik markers as opening acts as the mustang site lists them.

i wonder what the fuck i was drinking or if i took some weird pills. my recollections of that night are *extremely* vague.

Black Dice + Lightning Bolt.

Pavement.

Franky Goes to Hollywood


just kiddin. relax. loosen up.:p

....Stereolab. still a fan today. they were so perfect. in volume and tunes.

Manchester '96 - LungLeg and Makeup
London '02 - Liars

Same for me!

Yeah man. It was my first time seeing them and that pretty much took my love for them to the next level. Worst thing was that I didn't recognise Brother James as I hadn't heard that album yet. I never got to see them play that song again and I'm still gutted about.

first time for me as well! what a coincidence, hehe. fought my way from balcony maybe to the 3rd. row in the main pit during Stones song!

*hi-five* I was the front too. I stood at the front door from about 12 waiting to get in (I was young and keen). At least I got to meet the band as they were going in, so that's something.

Great thread topic!

Saw the Dirty Three open for SY in '95 at the Academy in NYC. The matinee show. Made quite an impression on me.

Sean Lennon and Nod were a great pairing in '98 at Irving Plaza.

Sean Lennon is shit.

Ditto. Although Stefan Jarowyck and co at The Forum on the Washing Machine tour was fun just for the hugely negative reaction on the part of a lot of the audience.