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I was lucky enough to see Lou Reed supporting on the Joshua tree tour at wembley, i was unlucky enough to see the stereo mc's for the zooropa tour they were awful every song sounded the same
Desert Dog said:Where are they now? Maria McKee and Lone Justice
Desert Dog said:Where are they now? Maria McKee and Lone Justice
OldTimerU2Fan said:
Last thing I heard from Maria McKee was some solo music (and a track on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack).
I was totally enamored with Lone Justice before the Joshua Tree tour, and was very excited to see them live (opening for U2). But the crowd (Chicago) was awful to them. This was a band that had tons of critical acclaim, but not a lot of exposure..
U2 fans are a pretty rabid bunch - it's either "I want my U2" or "go home" I'd like to think it's just because everyone is so freakin excited to see U2... sort of like having to endure a church service before opening presents on Christmas as a kid.
Dutch Partygirl said:I liked the Stereo MC's though...
Aardvark747 said:Kelis was awful in the UK on the last tour, would've prefered JJ72.
The Dalton Bros. made the best of a bad job I thought during the 80's...
FUIrish said:the best opener ever........ireland v. holland at slane II (just ask the lads!!)
POP-ROMANCER said:
Yeah I agree. Kelis covered Smells like teen spirit, but than in rap & R&B. Ridiculous!
promenade1138 said:The Pretenders also played (and were pretty dull), as did The Alarm. I remember a huge army of Alarm fans walking out in defiance after The Alarm's set had finished. Those were the days...
http://www.furious.com/perfect/pylon.htmlCURTIS: We did a few tours, we played with U2 and Public Image Limited and Talking Heads. Of all the bands to open up for, U2 were probably the hardest. It was like opening for Jesus Christ. Their fans were the singularly most rabid rock and roll fans I've ever seen. There were girls in TEARS out in the crowd. It was like opening for the Beatles. It would have been a fantasic learning experience (ED NOTE: Pylon didn't stay on for the whole tour) and probably gotten us some exposure. At the same time, you would probably be boo'd off the stage four nights out of five doing that (opening for them).
We were actually starting to get out there and be a band. I think that it was one of these things that none of really intended to be in a BAND. It was kind of something that we did while we were in college to entertain ourselves. We never really took it seriously, the whole being-in-a-band business. It started looking too serious for us and we all just decided to bag it. (laughs)
MICHAEL: When I found out about the U2 tour, we were all pissed off and no one wanted to do it. I told him (the booking agent) that and he said 'then what the fuck are you doing? why are you in a band? what are you trying to do?' Being asked those things just proved that we couldn't go on forever saying 'we're just doing this 'cause we wanna have fun.' There were just too many decisions to make and you can't make them all with that kind of statement of purpose. Having those kinds of conversations were driving us crazy. That wasn't the kind of thing we wanted to do. I don't think anyone at the time could care less if that was our living.