Totally love discovering a new favorite band.
Last night was Klash of the Titans: Testament–a long-time favorite–along with Kreator, German thrash since 1982.
Kreator just crushed it: the aggression of Slayer with the hooks of Maiden.
JG, how come we haven’t seen them before?
Not from last night, but it sounded a bit like this.
I have found a lot of my favorite bands from going to concerts to see another act and them happening to be on the same tour or an opener. That reminds me that I need to go see more live music, I haven't gone to a show in the last 4 years that I can remember.
Oh, totally. I have seen a bunch of marginal, forgettable openers, but I have also discovered several faves.
An example: The Sword.
We saw them open for Clutch.
The Sword killed it. After their set, I headed over to the merch table: Sell me all of your CDs, please.
We saw them headline later–once while leaning on a stage monitor–but, sadly, they’re no longer together.
And then getting even more meta: We once saw Ume open for The Sword.
Bam, another new favorite band. :)
I found Ballyhoo! when I went to see Pepper and Sublime with Rome a long time ago and they have been in my summer playlist rotation for a wile now.
We saw Sapphire Bullets, a TMBG tribute band, opening for TMBG.
Turns out they were just the two Johns in different outfits.
On another note, yeah, I've discovered some great bands as openers for other bands!
In reply to Duke :
That’d be awesome, and I remember hearing about that. (We saw the two-Johns version of TMBG several times back in the day.)
Also related: RAWG opening for GWAR.
David S. Wallens said:In reply to Duke :
That’d be awesome, and I remember hearing about that. (We saw the two-Johns version of TMBG several times back in the day.)
Also related: RAWG opening for GWAR.
(Scary how much they sound like GWAR.)
The best music you'll ever hear, you'll never hear. The music industry is, like all industries, profit driven. It's not art, it's a product.
That is how Taylor Swift rose to be the queen of all music. Not through talent but through being aggressively average. She's simple, inoffensive and writes the same song over and over again. She's easily packaged, 3 minutes at a time.
If you want music as an art you're going to have to look for it. Metal, by virtue of not being popular is a good place to look, sure there are the bland poppy bands like Slipknot and sleep token... blegh... but out there there are bands that will really blow you away.
korpiklaani will be in Tampa this March. Don't miss them.
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