Current Events > Have you been able to get into any big bands before everyone else did?

(+) Yeah! (+)

My biggest "cred" concert was getting to see Fall Out Boy in the absolute shittiest of venues durin August of 2004; definitely after they started picking up but before they exploded with From Under The Cork Tree.

They're nowhere near as big, but I got to see Manchester Orchestra in 2007a couple months after their debut launched.

Not really, though I had listened to Chappell Roan a handful of times on Spotify before she exploded in popularity

Not so much his music, but I started following Merkules on social media right before he blew up. It was cool watching the entire process, he went from a broke-ass nobody posting funny videos to being rich af performing to huge crowds and signed to Death Row

I saw Lizzo as the opening act for a show in a couple hundred person venue that was less than half full at the time.

later that year I saw her opening for SZA at a 500-capacity venue for $12

i saw Janelle Monae open for of Montreal in like 2011 or something. Could tell she would be a star from that set

Run the Jewels at some small venues before the blew up but both of those artists had been long established before that

Kendrick Lamar at Pitchfork music festivals side stage before he blew up with GKMC too

I've never really been into music hard enough to be able to do so.

I saw Soul Coughing open for Jeff Buckley for the Grace album in a 175 person club in Austin.

$12. I stood with his left speaker three feet to my left and him 8 feet to my right. Front row.

MC_BatCommander posted...

Not really, though I had listened to Chappell Roan a handful of times on Spotify before she exploded in popularity

I was 4 months ahead of everyone on her *shakes fists*

Otherwise I saw Chance the Rapper at my college with like 150 people right after Acid Rap came out

TheGoldenEel posted...

I saw Lizzo as the opening act for a show in a couple hundred person venue that was less than half full at the time.

later that year I saw her opening for SZA at a 500-capacity venue for $12

i saw Janelle Monae open for of Montreal in like 2011 or something. Could tell she would be a star from that set

Run the Jewels at some small venues before the blew up but both of those artists had been long established before that

Kendrick Lamar at Pitchfork music festivals side stage before he blew up with GKMC too

wut when did Kendrick play Pitchfork? I went like every year for yearssss

Yes I'm a genius ofc

I predicted the upcoming acapella and acoustic wave

My childhood friend was in a local deathcore band back in the day and they played with a band called AngelMaker who are now one of the biggest bands in that scene.

I used to see them in this tiny hole in the wall venue that was basically a converted convention center and their lead vocalist was a garbage man for his day job. Now they tour the world.

A ton. I was a Phoenix kid in the 90s.

I guess the only one that I could think of is seeing The Roots multiple times in 1995ish at little rinky dink clubs before "Illadelph Halflife" hit the Top 40.

I didn't really get into them but I used to go to small country music concerts with my dad and we spoke for a few minutes with the rascal flatts when we were all leaving the same way

BrohammedAli posted...

wut when did Kendrick play Pitchfork? I went like every year for yearssss

2012

this was my view

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b76a7b3.jpg

I think he headlined in like 2014 too

Taylor Swift played at our local county fair in the fall of '07, I believe.

My father got into The Arcade Fire before they starting dominating the indie market.

I saw Skeletonwitch before they made a name for themselves on their Beyond the Permafrost tour.

We had actually gone there to see Arsis headline, however Skeletonwitch was the headliner instead.

Saw mastodon when they were touring on Leviathan in a small local venue two hours from Atlanta.

My dad still talks about seeing some crazy band that opened for Alice Cooper called KISS.

On a totally different note, I saw a video on reddit about a month ago of Katy Perry performing with P.O.D. back when she was still a Christian singer and not famous yet

Death Cab and Postal Service, for sure.
I saw Marilyn Manson open for NIN c.1992, if that counts. But I wouldn't say I was "into" them.

Slipknot, 1999.

I was really into Midnight back in the mid 2000s.

They didn't really start getting popular until Satanic Royalty came out in 2011.

I saw Tool when they were opening for Candlebox in front of a crowd of about 300.
I saw Phish when they were still playing chess with the audience.

Lollapalooza where the first two bands of the day were Rage Against the Machine and Tool

TheGoldenEel posted...

2012

this was my view

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b76a7b3.jpg

I think he headlined in like 2014 too

this makes me incredibly upset.

I last went 2011 and then switched to Riot Fest.

I was into Action Bronson back when he was uploading random songs and being in janky quality cooking videos where it was just him joking around in the kitchen.

TheGoldenEel posted...

I saw Lizzo as the opening act for a show in a couple hundred person venue that was less than half full at the time.

later that year I saw her opening for SZA at a 500-capacity venue for $12

Lizzo's a once-in-a-lifetime example of a musician to finally get their big break relatively late in their career despite almost everything not being in their favor. It's a shame she ended up being a shitty person.

I got into Taylor Swift around 2014 as soon as 1989 was released.

I know she was still big even then but I don't think many people my age saw her as a serious artist then.

In general, I was listening to synthwave when there were only a handful of acts. Com Truise. Tesla Boy. The Midnight. Kristine. Timecop. FM-84.

A was listening to Kate Bush's Running Up the Hill before it was ever on the radio or in Stranger Things, or anything like that.

CRON posted...

I was into Action Bronson back when he was uploading random songs and being in janky quality cooking videos where it was just him joking around in the kitchen.

Lizzo's a once-in-a-lifetime example of a musician to finally get their big break relatively late in their career despite almost everything not being in their favor. It's a shame she ended up being a shitty person.

I actually think thats probably why Lizzo had the incidents she did. Like she spent so much of her career being basically peers with all the people she toured with that she eventually took things too far with people who were now her employees. Not to defend her too hard but I can see how from her perspective maybe she though she was just clowning around with her buddies or something

also its interesting you say this in the same post you bring up action Bronson whos not without his controversies

idk how big she's considered but I started listening to Tove Lo back when she only had 3 songs out

my friends made fun of me for being obsessed with Habits but as soon as it started getting radio play they all knew the words and were singing along

Luke Bryan just by chance. He was supposed to play at the Montana state fair but didn't play the night we went for whatever reason.
We went to a local bar after the fair and the bar owner had ended up getting him booked since he was available

I also did the lighting for Band of Horses on their second tour (are they "big"?)

Not anyone really big, no. But a friend of mine was like a superfan of Ludo in their early days, before they got some decent popularity in like the late 2000s. Was pretty neat seeing them play on Jay Leno after I'd seen my friend getting pics with them at a bunch of their shows years before.

Euripides posted...

I also did the lighting for Band of Horses on their second tour (are they "big"?)

they were massive, yes.

I was super way into the Tipping Fedoras and the Hipster Sisters before everyone else even knew who they were

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Oh man I forgot about Fun, I listened to that guy's previous band The Format when I was in highschool, so I guess that kinda counts as listening to them before they got big lol

BrohammedAli posted...

they were massive, yes.

This was a club tour, and they came to the venue where I worked. "Funeral" was the only song anyone knew

Saw Kings of Leon open for Pearl Jam in 2006 if that counts

For reference sex on fire came out a year or so later

Probably the biggest was Bowling For Soup. Was listening to them before 1985 and caught them at Warped Tour once playing to a small crowd. Met them later in the day and told them they were one of my highlights of the day. They were so appreciative

Could have seen Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1991. They had two unknown opening bands: Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins.

Kicking myself over that one

Actually, I dunno if it counts but I discovered Derrick Comedy very early on, before it was even on YouTube. At least as early as 2006

When he turned up on community I felt like a proud dad. When this is america dropped I felt like a proud grandad

saw weeknd before he had released the third album in trilogy

saw kendrick lamar when all he had was section 80

Euripides posted...

I also did the lighting for Band of Horses on their second tour (are they "big"?)

My now-wife and I saw them in August 2007. It was an amazing show! Our wedding dance song was one of theirs.

For me it was probably ice nine kills and sleep token.

thronedfire2 posted...

idk how big she's considered but I started listening to Tove Lo back when she only had 3 songs out

my friends made fun of me for being obsessed with Habits but as soon as it started getting radio play they all knew the words and were singing along

I was pretty big into that song when it first came out and would obsessively had it on repeat.

hitokoriX posted...

For me it was probably ice nine kills and sleep token.

Was the Sleep Token performance comparable to how it is today? Or toned down because of lack of funds? Just wondering if Vessel always put in so much effort. I only found them with their most recent album.

I saw Arcade Fire in early 2005, a few months after Funeral released. It felt obvious to me that band was going places as it's still maybe the most memorable show of my life (but I was also 18 at the time)