| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
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These were taken from a comedian on VH-1's Standup Spotlight.
Then I posted a note in the MUSIC notesfile for further combinations.
This is a compilation of all of the great double-billed concerts
that would be great to see based on name alone.
Meatloaf with Bread
Styx with the Stones
Madonna with Supertramp
Fine Young Cannibals with Missing Persons
Talking Heads with Simple Minds
Genesis with Earth Wind & Fire
Guns 'n' Roses/.38 Special
Genesis/Earth, Wind & Fire
The Carpenters with Hammer
The Cars with Mike & the Mechanics
The Doors with the Guess Who
The Dead Kennedys with Slaughter or combine the two bands to make
the Grateful Dead Kennedys.
Scorpions with Poison and Sting
Indigo Girls with the Pet Shop Boys
Red Hot Chili Peppers with Bananarama
Chicago with Boston
Journey with Foreigner
Color Me Badd with Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, & White Snake
The Inspirations and the Temptations
Prince with Queen and King's X
Ratt/Poison
Guess Who/Who/U2/Yes
Rush/Traffik
Cream/Bananarama
REM/ELO
Black Crows/Byrds
Monkees/Animals
Fat Boys/Weather Girls
Violent Femmes/New York Dolls
Sweet/Taste of Honey
John Stewart/Rod Stewart/Al Stewart/Amii Stewart/Charles Stewart...
King Crimson/King's X/Queen/Prince/Duke Ellington (The Royal Family)
Heart/Soul II Soul
Dr. Hook/Doc Severenson (sp)
John Butcher/Anita Baker (the "Where's the candlestickmaker?" tour)
The Raspberries/Wild Cherry/Bananarama
Paul Simon/Carly Simon
The Birds and "The B's" (common nickname for the B-52s)
REM/XTC/ELO/RTZ/OMD/INXS
The Waitresses/Eat at Joe's
Nirvana/East of Eden
The Bears/Wild Swans/The Animals
Joe Jackson/Jackson Browne/Michael & Janet Jackson
Donna Summer/Winter Hours/Bruce Spring-steen
The Fall/The Call/Hall & Oates
Choke/Fishbone
Boston/Chicago/L.A. Guns/N.Y. Dolls/America
ZZ Top/BB King/CC Ryder/GG Allen/BeBe & CeCe Winans
Billy Joel/Billy Idol/Billy Bragg
Mama's and Papa's with The Baby's
U2 and UB40
Extreme/Pretenders
Outlaws with LA Guns
Warrant/Arrested Development
Dr. and the Medics/Cure
Christopher Cross/Kriss Kross
Vanilla Ice/Ice Cube/Ice-T
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| 986.1 | SUBWAY::BONNELL | Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy! | Thu Jul 09 1992 12:08 | 17 | |
I once heard a takeoff of "Who's on First" which was a promoter
trying to sell a multi-band bill of The Who, The Guess Who, and Yes
(and possibly one or two others)
>> Dr. Hook/Doc Severinsen
Throw in Dr. John & you've got a real show
And a few more...
Cream/Strawberry Alarm Clock
B-52s/U2
Beatles/Roches
regards...
...diane
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| 986.2 | VMSMKT::KENAH | Seeking the Philosopher's Stone | Fri Jul 10 1992 06:59 | 1 | |
Crickets/Beatles | |||||
| 986.3 | claimed by some as a real bill | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | mazap�n y turr�n | Mon Dec 28 1992 10:58 | 2 |
Squeeze/Hooters
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| 986.4 | VMSNET::S_VORE | I feel the need... for speed | Mon Dec 28 1992 14:12 | 1 | |
Styx/Little River Band | |||||
| 986.5 | Two Piece Combo | DWOVAX::ROSENBERG | HAL/IBM -- VMS/W(indows)NT | Mon Jan 04 1993 14:46 | 13 |
Johnny Cash/Eddie Money/Bread?
Men Without Hats/Talking Heads (or is it, Head Men Without Talking Hats)
Cowboy Junkies/Jane's Addiction/The Cure
Red Hot Chili Peppers/The GO GO's
The Art of Noise/OINGO BOINGO/WHAM/AHA
Cher/Supertramp
As a bonus, combine the lyrics of two Supertramp songs to get:
"Take a look at my girlfriend -- Take the long way home..."
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| 986.6 | VMSMKT::KENAH | Tangled up in blue... | Mon Jan 04 1993 14:56 | 7 | |
>Cher/Supertramp
Nah -- it's
Madonna/Supertramp
Cher's positively angelic compared to Madonna...
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