Five bands your band has played with

[jrmy]

All right, because I'm lazy, I'm copying this sucker over from my Facebook. A fellow musician-friend suggested it. Pretty self explanatory - list the relevant bands who played and whatever details you think worth mentioning.

Mine are all pretty obscure. Unless you count the time that my old indie-rock band ellison played with Benny Sizzler (with former Belly & L7-er Gail Greenwood), and Mike Dirnt from Green Day was in the audience. As I recall, he told me that I sounded "pretty good," but that he personally didn't play with effect pedals, because if he needed distortion he'd just get it from digging in a little harder with his fingers.

1) Yo La Tengo (with Jad Fair), at the Met Cafe in Providence, RI - probably the mostest packed-est show my old Providence shoegaze band, Meridian 1520, ever played. I believe that the Met was sold out for that one, or at least close. A skanky couple in the audience tried to pick up a couple of my female friends for some (un)hot swinger action, and at the end of the night, James and Ira from YLT told me that my Rickenbacker + GK combination sounded better than Lemmy. I'm still not sure if they were making fun of me or not.

2) Innocence Mission, at The Iron Horse in Northampton, MA - one of the best-sounding shows that my old band Waif ever played. Unfortunately, as I may have mentioned in another thread, that was the show where the promoter tried to screw us out of the $100 he had promised us over the phone. I pursued him relentlessly for a week, we got the money, and we were never booked there again. Bummer.

3) Buffalo Tom, at the Amherst Frontroom - As I recall, we completely skipped out watching Buffalo Tom, which was (in hindsight) truly unfortunate.

4) Ida, at AS220 in Providence RI - I believe that this was Meridian 1520's last show, though we didn't know it at the time.

5) Small Factory, with Tizzy at the Amherst Frontroom - good times. Such a perfect indie-rock almost-twee bill. Lots of wimpy kids danced that night. I was completely starstruck. Little did I know that in a few years, I'd move to Providence and wouldn't be able to turn around without bumping into Small Factory's guitar player at a show.

Honorable (and SUPER NERDY) mention: the cover band that I used to play in opened for Stan Bush at a Transformers convention, and also played as his backing band. If you don't know Stan, all I can say is click here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764[/youtube]

[the raytownian]

Haha, I think I've ONLY played with something like 4 bands, really... Mostly local.

1). Circuit Pop (Huntsville): A local band featuring two friends. Use to be locally-relevant, but they sort of faded out. They were pretty popular, but never had any turing plans seem to work out... Thy won some local/regional "win a video for your song" type deal and some fans in other states, but they moved on to other stuff.

2). The Group Hug (Huntsville): Another local band... And now friends with them. Still going, and touring all over. They are really wacky, fun guys... Haven't seen them in a long time, which is a shame!

3). Sandia (Huntsville): YET ANOTHER local, touring band featuring the same drummer from TGH... Last time I saw them play, they had a pro. recording/film crew recording them for something. I did a group improv Noise performance with two friends (One being a member of Circuit Pop) and another acquaintance before they played. I bet I was way too loud and all over the place, but i was a lot of fun for me, and it was a good learning experience.

4) THE EMOTRON (Marietta, GA/Philadelphia): I wish I could do a show with him again! I played my very first "real" gig with him (same show with Circuit Pop and Group Hug as well).

5). Misc. unofficial busking gigs before/in-between/after bands/performers such as Yip-Yip, Al Baker, The Emotron (again, haha), Thomas Function, etc. etc... Plus other people I don't remember. Mostly outside the performance areas, but occasionally stage-side.

[ohsojayadeva]

my old band played with...

OURS
the birthday massacre
the last dance
the cruxshadows
bella morte

and a ton of other bands.

[effetebomb]

4) THE EMOTRON (Marietta, GA/Philadelphia): I wish I could do a show with him again! I played my very first "real" gig with him (same show with Circuit Pop and Group Hug as well).

The Emotron is sick. Played a show with this dude last summer (he was on tour with Mose Giganticus, played with them too) Great Show! The Emotron is a stellar performer, and props to any dude who lights himself on fire every night!! (Usually his crotch!)

[Smorfelt]

My band Ask The Dust played with :
- A Place To Bury Strangers (twice)
- Apollo Heights
- A bunch of professional French bands...

Next :
We'll be doing some opening acts for Apollo Height in Europe this Fall

[Ghost Hip]

All the bands that I've played with that were somewhat famous I'm not proud of.

With that said, check out Astral Feedback. Great Indie band and very close friends of mine.

[pablo9000]

My old band (Way Past Tense) played with (among others):

Dread Zeppelin
Everclear
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Wesley Willis
Snowbud
Tartar Gun

[effetebomb]

My favorite non-local bands I've played with are

Matt & Kim - Amazing live show. Kim is my favorite drummer ever.
Captain Ahab - Captain Ahab is my favorite band. They are the BEST live performers ever. Sick show. MUST SEE!!! You WILL dance, and not necessarily by choice!
Grey Daturras - Playing with these guys was really influential on me I think.
Hawnay Troof and High Places- This is a twofer, It was the same show. Vice Cooler is SSSOOOOOOOO good live. Epic Fun. He is sort of getting huge now. High Places were awesome as well, and really cool dudes.
JUICEBOXXX - This one is love/hate. I had a ton of fun but I was with this dude for a grueling two weeks he is definitely a strong personality. Sick Performer though. He will play to anybody, anywhere and give it 110%. There was a show with an audience of something like 6 and 5 of them didn't get it at all, and he was tearing it up.

I got to hang out with all of these guys except the Daturras and they were all a ton of fun and very nice. the Daturras were very nice, the little I did get to talk to them. There are definite upsides to promoting (playing with any band you want, hanging out with them) but the downsides are pretty big, too. (consistently losing money, hard work)

[Antero]

Three Fucking Awesome Bands I've Played With:

The Loyal Divide - These guys are fucking incredible, and the fact that they haven't blown up yet is criminal. Five guys with a host of synths and samplers on top of the guitar/bass/drums, two singers trading off and harmonizing. Sounds like: The Talking Heads, Radiohead, The Neptunes, Prince, Brian Eno...
Two extra songs that aren't on their myspace:
The Tease <-- Listen to that fucking falsetto are you kidding me?
Lights

IfIHadAHiFi - Starcastic's band! So good. These guys go completely off the chain every time they play. They sound most like Brainiac, I'd say, but instead of the sort of sinister side of that band they've got fast-forward neon celebration. Like the Main Street Electrical Parade, if everything in the area was either on fire or on mushrooms and some cackling bastard with a lead foot driving the floats.

The Names That Spell - Five of the best musicians I've ever met. All jazz trained, making some of the most complex, interesting experimental pop around. Two drummers set up around a single kick drum, pounding the living shit out of the kits. The singer/guitarist and the keyboardist switch off on trumpet and sax, and things get looped and beatboxed and layered.

Also: everyone in these bands is also as nice as pie. Salud!

[sunken.anchor]

Um...

1. We competed in a battle of the bands against an up and coming band called Incubus. Needless to say, they won.

2. We played with a band called Eleventeen and a bunch of their friends' bands. We sounded horrible... possibly our worst show ever. Our bass player had been grounded (this was high school, mind you), so I had to play bass on the songs we wrote during his absence, then he played on the songs he knew, then I played on some more new songs, then he played, etc. On top of that, the amps were way too loud and the guitars were out of tune. All of the bands except us were Green Day-style pop punk, while we did a more 80s british punk thing. We stuck out like a sore thumb. Awful. A year later, we played the same venue, again with Eleventeen, this time with a bunch of bands we knew. Sweet revenge came when our gutter punk friends basically booed Eleventeen off stage.

Eleventeen got signed by RCA the next year and changed their name to Eve 6, so I guess they had the last laugh after all.

3. My other band opened for the Skeletones one time. I don't remember anything about the show unfortunately.

4. Opened for Stretch Arm Strong (S. Carolina punk/hardcore band). It was at this show that I learned that EMGs and Peavey 5150s don't mix well together.

5. Wasn't me, but the keyboard player from the band that opened for the Skeletones got asked to sit in with Jump With Joey, which was huge since we were all big fans of theirs.

Nothing huge, though.

[hatshirt]

we have opened for
1-guttermouth
2-supersuckers
3- us bombs
4- uk subs

when they came trough bend, OR. cant say i am a huge fan of any of them. supersuckers are ok though.

[pablo9000]

we have opened for
1-guttermouth
2-supersuckers
3- us bombs
4- uk subs

when they came trough bend, OR. cant say i am a huge fan of any of them. supersuckers are ok though.

Cool!

I guttermouth!

[Wizard]

Uhmmmmm. I've played a gazillion and 46 shows... let's do some remembering..

Lambchop - In philly at Johnny Brenda's. Good old dudes who drank a bunch of beer and asked some of us to jam on stage with them.. Sadly, the bassist, glock player and i had a second gig to get to not 20 minutes later across town with our other band, so we had to politely decline

Paramore - Before anybody knew or gave a fuck who they were, in a club in North Jersey for like 30 people. They sucked then, and they suck now.

Wheatus

Takka Takka - My old indie rock band opened for these guys like three times at The Khyber in philly.. they ruled and we'd hang out pretty hard. Great dudes.

The Toasters - man i've played in like every scene..... Ska was the longest. I've played with like every ska band ever. Oh Ska....

There was that time that my fake hardcore band was supposed to open for powerman 5000 Our bassist worked in booking at the venue so we did it as a joke.. We had to bail because it was the night of my first ever college class. I fucking hate that band.

Small Factory, with Tizzy at the Amherst Frontroom - good times. Such a perfect indie-rock almost-twee bill. Lots of wimpy kids danced that night. I was completely starstruck. Little did I know that in a few years, I'd move to Providence and wouldn't be able to turn around without bumping into Small Factory's guitar player at a show.

Small Factory is amazing. Wow that must have ruled.

[TheAttackman]

1.Story of the Year
2.105 Fuego
3.Breakfast with the Mayor
4.Foo Fighters (well it got cancelled... gonna rescedual... but almost.)
5. Will be playing a show with avenged sevenfold soon..

2 and 3 are my friends and we pretty much play every show together...

but ya...

[starcastic]

IfIHadAHiFi - Starcastic's band! So good. These guys go completely off the chain every time they play. They sound most like Brainiac, I'd say, but instead of the sort of sinister side of that band they've got fast-forward neon celebration. Like the Main Street Electrical Parade, if everything in the area was either on fire or on mushrooms and some cackling bastard with a lead foot driving the floats.

I just noticed your kind words!! And it was months ago! Super nice of you.

In 9 years my band has played with too many bands. Five of them:

Nomeansno
Enon
The Hold Steady
Rocket From the Tombs
The Paper Chase