Diabolic Scheme

Here’s an interesting bill, Maroon 5 and The Hives. Two, snazzily-dressed, 5-man bands with cocky frontmen. Oh, and both groups are on the Universal label. Don’t want to forget that most important stat. So what to make of this still severely abby normal frankentour? First of all, we want to say that we don’t have a problem with either of these bands, except that Maroon 5 is basically the gay heir to the Eagles’ throne: shitty LA muzak to star fuck to. Other than that, no problem. Besides, they did pick The Hives as their tourmates, right? They can’t be all souless, neu-disco poseurs, right? As for the bright side, you’re totally going to beat the traffic home. Let’s do something kinda stereogum-y: What’s the worst opening band/mismatched opener to headliner you’ve ever seen? We’ll go first (and reeeeeeeally age ourselves in the process), The Beastie Boys opened for Madonna on the Like A Virgin Tour and got booed off stage by the entire sold-out 13-year-old girl crowd at Madison Square Garden. Yes. That’s right. We felt the silky touch of Madonna’s caresses. At the time, and given our tender age, the Beasties seemed pretty fucking cool to us; they were drinking beers and cursing, and they had girls in cages. Our adult chaperones did not find them as equally amusing. Either that or Jimmy Fallon’s band opening for The Strokes on the Wyckd Sceptre tour… good lord, did that really happen? The Hives :: “Hate To Say I Told You So” live at Leeds (mp3)
	Published: 2007-07-09 Provider: GoldenFiddle