Weirdest lineup matchup?????

[Snakepit72]

Late next month, my band will be performing at the Gathering of the Vibes festival in Bridgeport, CT. This festival is something of a Grateful Dead party, and while none of us are big Dead-heads, its a good exposure gig. Anyway, we're playing on a side stage on Saturday afternoon of the festival. On checking out the festival website, we were struck by the eclectic main-stage headlining acts (in order from earliest to latest):

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Elvis Costello & the Impostors
Jane's Addiction



Aside from all 3 of these bands being bands I enjoy and am interested to see, they've not really got much in common. This got me wondering if any of you TB'ers have any interested mismatched lineup stories. Any metal bands opening for country acts? Reggae sets in the middle of an electronic festival??? Let's hear em! Thanks!

[aaronhutson]

I played a show with a praise and worship band that was opening for a heavy rock band. The guys after us were surf/ acoustic. Im friends with the heavy rock band but the acoustic guys sucked it up.. That booking agent isnt getting too much business nowadays..

[jlane72t]

This year's Memphis In May / Beale Street Music festival lineup included
John Mellencamp, Ke$ha, Stone Temple Pilots, The Flaming Lips, Cee Lo Green, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ludacris, Ziggy Marley, Everclear, and Hubert Sumlin.

[southgabass]

Last my band opened up for 40 oz to Freedom (National Sublime tribute).... while we fit the bill the other bands were hardcore bands... we have the party and laid back feeling... we opened the whole thing... it was akward to know that it was booked like that lol...

[bassgod0dmw]

What kind of music do you guys play?

Vibes is your standard music festival with tons of hippies walking around, and tons of people doing drugs. Think of it almost as a mini Woodstock or Lemon Wheel. People don't generally care what the music being played actually is, as long as it's good! It's a fun time for sure, and a really good gig. Congrats!

I didn't know Janes Addiction was playing. i might have to make the trip up to CT to check em' out.

[kho]

Nice! That sounds like a cool gig!

In a show we're doing next week, which is a company picnic for my place of work, my band (a hard rock band) is following a mariachi band, and they are following a jazz band, and the jazz band is following a Highland bagpipe band.

[southgabass]

...... do you work on the "its a small world ride" at disney?... lol.. that is a crazy line up

[JumboJack]

In 1982 I saw Iron Maiden,The Scorpions,Loverboy and Foreigner at Anaheim Stadium.

[JBuckley]

The weirdest lineup I ever saw was Fishbone, Violent Femmes and Blue Oyster Cult.

[IbanezBass69]

A local festival my band is playing next month is calling itself a metal festival, but the opening band is some kind of reggae jam band. All the other acts are metal of a pretty heavy variety.

[bassbobh]

ZZ Topp, Earth, Wind and Fire, Uriah Heep

[Stick_Player]

Hendrix opening for the Monkees?

[steveksux]

My old band (classic rock) opened for Alex Zonjic (smooth jazz) at Campus Martius a couple of years ago.

Randy

[oldrocker]

In the early '70s I saw Billy Joel open for Captain Beefheart and the J Geils Band. That was an interesting line up.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by Snakepit72

This got me wondering if any of you TB'ers have any interested mismatched lineup stories. Any metal bands opening for country acts? Reggae sets in the middle of an electronic festival??? Let's hear em! Thanks!

I saw the original Mahavishnu Orchestra lineup open for T-Rex, for one. The middle band was the Mark-Almond Band, a nearly-acoustic jazzy blues band.

My brother saw J. Geils open for Yes (most people left when Yes came on), I saw them open for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

[rob_appo]

Last years sonisphere was on the saturday headlined by rammstein, who were supported by placebo (unfortunatly my theory of rammstein wanting to sacrifice them on stage did not come true :/).

[mottshoople]

Around '84 I went to a college party at some frat house in South Jersey. The line-up was Beru Revue (local party band with some success in the Philly area), followed by a new group no one had heard of called Run DMC, followed by The Hooters(80's new wave type).

[fishtx]

- Jimmy Buffet open for Frank Zappa
- Joe Walsh open for Mahavisnu Orchestra

[The Owl]

Gentle Giant opening for Black Sabbath

[nvd]

I recently played at an event entirely populated by local acts, and it was all kinds. A rap act followed by some punk band, followed by an alt rock band, then another rap act, so on and so forth for 20+ groups. Was definitely an interesting crowd to say the least.