When I was at Front Bottoms and You Blew It the other night the local opener was a bunch of guys my age playing their third gig ever, which I'm pretty sure is the "newest" band I've ever seen if you don't count this white guy who came out and interrupted a Topic set last year and started dropping weird rhymes about suicide, anyway, they rocked. Surprisingly. I wanna say they were called Fade but I feel like they forgot to introduce themselves or maybe I was just drunk. Anyway I was a bit surprised that someone quite so inexperienced was opening for the bands above, both of whom are big and getting bigger. Large crowd for a third gig. However they proved the exception to your rule because they played a professional set, or at least as professional as the situation called for (not very).1. Yes, if a band sucks nobody will want to see them. That goes without saying. However, the first few gigs a band plays are rarely going to go over spectacularly. There is a break in period that no amount of rehearsal will solve. Other than that, fair point.
How was You Blew It! live? Thinking about seeing them two weekends from now out here with Prawn and some other bands. The bit about the interruption is hilarious, I'm imagining that everybody was really confused for a little while when that was happening? Anyway, that's great! I haven't seen that happen too often, usually it's more experienced bands opening. My point was, admittedly, a generality and it is possible that some bands are exceptions to it.
YBI! was pretty solid, the crowd was mostly there for Front Bottoms so it wasn't as wild during their set, but they sounded great. I don't know their songs well enough to have really keyed in on it. Front Bottoms on the other hand, knew every song they played except maybe two, someone started a mosh pit ... much harder concert than I was expecting.