Longest and shortest headling sets you've seen

Tristan_Geoff · 09-11-2016, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Raust

Went to see Slightly Stoopid a few years back. Played for 4 hours straight. They thought it would be a good idea 3 hours into there set to cover Nirvana's Nevermind.

And how was that?

Raust · 09-11-2016, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

And how was that?

Ha it was actually pretty rad. It got pretty late and everyone was pretty drained. Never seen a band play that long before.

Tristan_Geoff · 09-11-2016, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Raust

Ha it was actually pretty rad. It got pretty late and everyone was pretty drained. Never seen a band play that long before.

Sounds exhausting but I'd be willing to do that at some point.

dwill123 · 09-12-2016, 06:05 PM

For me the longest, 3 hours 45 minutes - Electric Hot Tuna. The was 3 hrs. 45 mins. no intermissions, no long winded how they wrote this song of that song, no what it was like to be in the Airplane. Just music. Just song after song after song. And it was all good.

Shortest, T.Rex at the Fillmore East. Thirty minutes tops. As the opening act to a packed house waiting to hear who they came to see, Mountain. 30 minutes and if they had played just one more minute thy might not have made it out of the auditorium. The audience was very tolerable but very anxious.

Tristan_Geoff · 09-12-2016, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dwill123

For me the longest, 3 hours 45 minutes - Electric Hot Tuna. The was 3 hrs. 45 mins. no intermissions, no long winded how they wrote this song of that song, no what it was like to be in the Airplane. Just music. Just song after song after song. And it was all good.

Shortest, T.Rex at the Fillmore East. Thirty minutes tops. As the opening act to a packed house waiting to hear who they came to see, Mountain. 30 minutes and if they had played just one more minute thy might not have made it out of the auditorium. The audience was very tolerable but very anxious.

T.Rex as the opening act for Mountain? Seems opposite.

dwill123 · 09-13-2016, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

T.Rex as the opening act for Mountain? Seems opposite.

Page from the actual concert program:

The Batlord · 09-13-2016, 06:29 PM

T. Rex never broke in the States. They had "Get It On" (which I still occasionally hear on local classic radio) but other than that I think they may have been a one hit wonder on this side of the pond.

Tristan_Geoff · 09-13-2016, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

T. Rex never broke in the States. They had "Get It On" (which I still occasionally hear on local classic radio) but other than that I think they may have been a one hit wonder on this side of the pond.

That's unfortunate. 20th Century Boy should've been a hit here.

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dwill123 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 265	For me the longest, 3 hours 45 minutes - Electric Hot Tuna. The was 3 hrs. 45 mins. no intermissions, no long winded how they wrote this song of that song, no what it was like to be in the Airplane. Just music. Just song after song after song. And it was all good. Shortest, T.Rex at the Fillmore East. Thirty minutes tops. As the opening act to a packed house waiting to hear who they came to see, Mountain. 30 minutes and if they had played just one more minute thy might not have made it out of the auditorium. The audience was very tolerable but very anxious.