how many times have you seen a band upstage another band?
 

just thinking about what toilet was saying in the fugazi thread, who have you seen do it

me personally:
Erase Errata upstaging The Ex in DC

The Battys upstaging two really crappy bands before French Toast and Saccharine Trust played
(jennthebenn, Toilet, Nefeli can confirm this, Naomi would but she was so bored she fell asleep then went back to the hotel, and i mean they really really sucked)

ATP 04
Mission of Burma upstaging The Shins
Le Tigre upstaging Vincent Gallo (who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Thurston certainly lamented about it later in a blog post)

Les Georges Leningrad upstaging Trans Am in DC

Les Georges Leningrad upstaging Sonic Youth in Montreal (it's true)

Mirror-Dash upstaging Nautical Almanac at NAF
(I CERTAINLY know !@#$%! will attest to that one)

Sleater-Kinney upstaging Sonic Youth at Arturfest

Green Milk From The Planet Orange majorly upstaged Vietnam and the Black Angels last week, and they did so even with a technical issue mid-set.

erase errata upstaging bardo pond when both bands opened for sy in boston,
8/13/02...jenny hoysten will be glad to hear that

co-sign Sleater Kinney over SY at Arthurfest

and i can't believe you left off Brad Laner over Earth at Arthurfest. oy.

Stereolab, 1993 or 94, two nights in a row opening for Unrest.

erase errata over adult, just a few weeks ago in balto

mary timony over q and not u, a couple years ago at the black cat in dc

LGL over the Locust at the Black Cat in '04 (i think)

i was a little far during the s-k set @ arthurfest because i was starved & had to stand on a long line to get a chunk of food. i joined in later so i dont know.

at NAF unfortunately nautical almanac tanked horribly and i don't know why. true story.

and les georges leningrad DEFINITELY upstaged trans am in dc. they should have headlined that show. they were awesome.

erase errata slipped my mind

and i had think about the other two, but i thought Q and not U did hold their own (if barely so)

and the Locust could certainly stand up on their own, if you disagree ask the huge bald guy in the red shirt that was moshing behind us

i forgot about that, Earth had one of the worst sets i have ever seen by anyone, that was utter shit

melt banana upstaged le tigre in tokyo
OOIOO nearly upstaging SY, also in tokyo
bardo pond upstaged mogwai
bardo pond upstaged quickspace

Dead Meadow completely pissing over a very dull Black Mountain last year, and ditto Celtic Frost with Kreator very recently in London.

*paradise lost upstaging ozzy in 1995
*puya upstaging rhcp even when half the speakers in the house were shorting.
*slayer almost upstaging priest at ozzfest '04...on second thought make that "slayer enhacing priest at ozzfest"
*kiss getting their asses handed to them by pantera in '96
*whitesnake upstaging priest in '05 (true story, it was like seeing spinal tap!!)

i think that's all i've seen.

now if we are bringing up metal........

Linkin Park upstaging Papa Roach (not even the metalheads back in 01 would give them any love)
Slipknot upstaging Marilyn Manson (unless you ask any goth girls with cut marks on their arms)

ohh yeah, also static-x upstaging linkin park in '02 (lp even covered the deftones my own summer to kinda save their asses), they almost also upstaged korn but i can't lie, korn were pretty good.

Yeah, exactly, saw the same thing happen at the Capitol Theater in Oly. I'd only just barely heard of either, but Stereolab for fucking awesome, and Unrest was just boring.

Green Milk would upstage just about anybody at this point. Anyone who goes on after them is just nuts.

I went to see Skin Yard play at this hole in the wall in Seattle in '89 called Squid Row, and there was this opening act called Nirvana. I don't actually know how good Skin Yard's set was, because I walked out after the opening act was done fully satisfied in the rock department for months.

There had been like three other people in the audience, and I honestly remember saying to myself out loud as I walked out the door, "That's the best band in the world, and no one will ever know!"

Dildo Pickle Parade upstaging Roach Bubbles

Grand Fun Razorbasin upstaging Brushburn Bandana Dance

racebannon upstaging q and not u
puppy vs dyslexia upstaging yellow swans and xiu xiu

that's about it...

haha, what exactly did he say? that was a truly awful performance. i watched the start of Le Tigre, pretty sweet but then nashed off downstairs for my first ever Wolf Eyes gig and glad I did too...

my memory is a little rusty, but i think the term "bore fest" was used for gallo, Jenn might remember

sleater kinney upstaged the blues explosion
mary timony upstaged sleater kinney

she does tend to do that, more often then not she is the opening band even here in DC, odd she plays second fiddle with her talents and song-writting

"snooze-o-rama", said our mister moore.

I do that every time, just in case.

I've never seen it happen, actually.

I actually felt that way at that moment though. I never would have dreamt what would happen later, or wish it for that matter.

There were other times I saw Nirvana that I wasn't nearly so blown away. One time opening for the Butthole Surfers in Seattle at Union Station, they were actually upstaged by Blood Circus who were overall one of the lamest of the Sub Pop bands of the day.

I went to a shindig organised by Psychick TV many moons ago. It was called 'The Fabulous Feast of the Flowering Light'. 6 or 7 bands played with PTV headlining.
Highlight of the show was a previously unheard of little band from Iceland called KUKL, fronted by a half woman/half pixie named Bjork. By far the best band of the event.
Kudos to PTV for bringing them over to the UK tho.

Yes that's true. She put on an amazing show when I saw her live.

that band absolutely fucking wails... I saw them for the second time at SXSW and they ripped the place to shreds. awesome awesome awesome show.

System of a Down where wiped off the face of the earth by the supporting act,
The Dillinger Escape Plan, on the 16th of March 2002, at the Heineken Music Hall, A'dam.

Hood upstaged Mogwai at la Nef, Angouleme in 2003