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Old 03-14-2018, 11:41 PM
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Opening for bigger bands in essential for smaller bands. Without that they have no way to really get out there to play live to larger audiences. It blows my mind that people would rather have silence than a support band. No suppiort doensn't mean the healdiner will play longer, so you lose nothing. Hell you have seats, if you really don't want to see the support turn up later. Or you could support live music and check out a new band that you might actually like. I've discovered many bands this way.

No wonder the younger bands struggle to find an audience....
Exactly...I would prefer any opener over silence. On the shows they didn't have an opener, it didn't start any earlier and the shows have usually been around the same length regardless.
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