UNLIKELY BAND TOURS

One night in IRC, the Whosers spent a good portion of it giving examples of bands who
should, or shouldn't tour together -- depending on your point of view. ;-) Anyway, here
are some of the ideas tossed around!

Contributors: Emile, Jeff, Jules, Kerri, Laura, Stelic

Talking Heads and Simple Minds
Fine Young Cannibals and Missing Persons
Warrant and The Police
Styx and The Stones
Less Than Jake and Better Than Ezra
Blue Oyster Cult and Poison (The Salmonella Tour!)
Prince and Queen and King Diamond
America and The Eagles
America and Foreigner
Simple Minds and Blondie
Cat Stevens and Snoop Doggy Dogg
They Might Be Giants and Little Feat
Chicago and Boston
Little Richard and the Big Bopper
Tori Amos and the Afghan Whigs
Celine Dion and the Grateful Dead
B.B. King & Queen
Journey and The Seekers
Survivor and Grateful Dead
Ministry and Judas Priest and Jesus Jones
Cilla Black and Barry White
The Beatles And The Crickets
Van Morrison, Morrissey, and Alanis Morrisette
U2 and UB40
Rush & The Go-Gos
Whitesnake and Frank Black
Richard Marx & John Lennon
Ringo Starr and Keith Moon
Britney Spears and Stabbing Westwood
Climax and Limp Biskit
Klyymax and Wet Willie
Cake and Eminem
Weird Al and Lesley Gore
Lesley Gore and Kate Bush
Alive And Kicking and The Grateful Dead
The Beatles and Adam Ant
Peaches and Herb...and Cream
The Sex Pistols and the Breeders
Davy Jones and The Lockers
They Might Be Giants and Paul Revere & The Raiders (for the football fans)
Mister Mister and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Christopher Cross and Kris Kross
Def Leppard and Third Eye Blind
The Guess Who & Question Mark (and the Mysterians)
Everclear and the Gin Blossoms
Hole and Badfinger
Stone Temple Pilots and Jefferson Airplane and the B-52s
Neil Diamond & Andrew Gold & Silver Convention
Burl Ives and Human League (It's a college band)
John Denver and Whitney Houston
Kim Wilde & Free
Neil Young and Randy Newman
Wild Cherry Hot Chocolate
Moody Blues and Green Day and Deep Purple and Pink Floyd
Kajagoogoo and Babyface
Uncle Cracker and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Ssssspicy!!)
Dan Hill & Frankie Valli
George Harrison and Bonnie Tyler (For the US history buffs)
Glass Tiger & Plastic Ono Band
A Flock of Seagulls and Katrina & The Waves
Boy George, the W's, and Kate Bush
Stevie Wonder and The Who
Vince Gill & Phish
Marvin Gaye and Queen (apologies!)
Ratt & Poison
Richard Marx & Julian Lennon
Kajagoogoo and The Goo Goo Dolls
Our Lady Peace & War
Vanilla Ice and Cream
Beatles & The Buggles
The Presidents Of The United States Of America and Simple Minds
Happy Mondays and 'Til Tuesday
Cherry Poppin' Daddies & All Saints
Cherry Poppin' Daddies & Wild Cherry
Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Sex Pistols
Mom's Apple Pie and The Faces
Nirvana and Damn Yankees
Raspberries & Cream (Yum!!)
Charlie Watts & Who
MC Hammer and Nine Inch Nails
The Five Americans & Foreigner
Taco & the Flying Burrito Brothers
Nena & Enya (The sign maker would hate it)
Flying Burrito Brothers and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Doris Day & Gladys Knight
Joan Jett & Jefferson Airplane & The B-52's
They Might Be Giants and Danny Elfman
Golden Earring and Lisa Loeb
Plasmatics & Blood Sweat & Tears
Prince and Toad the Wet Sprocket
Alanis Morrisette and Screech (Oh wait, they're the same thing...)
Crystal Gayle & Gale Storm
Beck & CW McCall
Jesus Jones and Madonna
Sylvester & Gonzales
Deep Purple & Simply Red
Bananarama & The Banana Splits
Paul McCartney and Lorena McKennit
Glenn Miller & Steve Miller
Mighty Mighty Bosstones & the Deftones
Elvis Presley & Elvis Costello (with Bud Costello as the opener)
The Cars and The Detroit Wheels, with REO Speedwagon and Van Halen!
Billy Joe Royal and Freda Payne
Atlantic Starr & Pacific Gas and Electric
Kiss & Penn & Teller
Stray Cats and Snoop Doggy Dogg
No Doubt and Yes
The Hollies & Chuck Berry
Metallica and The Carpenters and Tool and Nine Inch Nails
Air Supply and Weezer
Barbara George & George Michael & Michael Jackson & Jackson Browne
Michael Jackson and The Faces
First Class and Reunion
Sweet & A Taste Of Honey
Hollywood Argyles & Nu Shooz
Madness and Insane Clown Posse
The Cars and Crash Test Dummies
A Flock Of Seagulls and The Byrds
Mickey Dolenz & Minnie Riperton
Third Eye Blind and Tears for Fears
Johnny & The Hurricanes & The Tornadoes
Steven Bishop & The Reverend Horton Heat
Tony! Toni! Tone! and Lisa Lisa
Tony! Toni! Tone! and Phil Collins (WL Reference)
The Presidents & The Trammps
Seal and Hole
The Rembrandts and Gallery
The Monkees & Bananarama
Culture Club and Pearl Jam
Bob Hope and Neil Diamond
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Faith No More
Bad Finger & Band Aid
AC/DC and Frank Zappa
Stevie Wonder & Stevie Nicks
Jefferson Starship and Captain & Tenille
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Coolio
Fiona Apple and Arrogant Worms
Garth Brooks & Brooks & Dunn
Screaming Trees & Fiona Apple
The Cars & Charlie Parker
Marky Mark and Shania Twain
Blondie & The Grass Roots
The Toys & The Vibrations
The Music and Comedy duo of Eddie Rabbitt and Carrot Top
Gene Vincent & Lloyd Price
The Butthole Surfers and The Ass Ponys
Crash Test Dummies and Megadeth
The Scorpions and Sting
Anthrax & Megadeth & The Cure
Meat Loaf and The Spice Girls
Warrant and Public Enemy
Mighty Mighty Bosstones & Def Leppard
The Coasters & The Dixie Cups (A duo that don't really need each other)
The Allman Brothers and Sister Sledge
A Flock of Seagulls and the Beach Boys
Tim Curry & The Spice Girls
Fat Boys & Thin Lizzie
Sister Sledge and MC Hammer
The Most Lucrative Tour Ever: Geddy Lee and The Hues Corporation
Mariah Carey & Elton John (Couldn't resist a Kerri & John ref!)
The Casinos & Four Aces
The Firm & Hooters
No Doubt and Right Said Fred
The Lemondrops & Blind Melon
Ray Charles and Marilyn Manson
Leann Rimes and Gary Reasons
Murmaids & Country Joe & The Fish
David Ball and Terry Jacks
Journey and Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Boney M, M & Eminem
The Searchers and The Seekers
The Seekers & The Destroyers
The Romantics & Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Vanilla Ice and Hot Chocolate
Spanky and Our Gang and The Stooges
Uncut Balloon and Iggy Pop
Bruce Springsteen & Rick Springfield
Missing Persons and Bloodhound Gang
Johnny Rivers & Billy Ocean & Roger Waters
Kansas & Ohio Players
Poe and Usher
The Doobie Brothers and INXS
Poe and Sixpence None the Richer
Frankie Goes to Hollywood & Boston
Frank Sinatra & Frank Zappa
Sonny Bono & Moon Unit Zappa
Insane Clown Posse and Bad Company
Third Eye Blind and Def Leppard
Bread & Butterfield Blues Band
Toto and Kansas
John Cougar & Def Leppard & Glass Tiger (The Pussy Tour!)
Carly Simon & Garfunkel
The Sherrys & Brandy
David Ruffin & Helen Reddy
Rare Earth & The Moonglows
The Sex Pistols and Dead Kennedys
Tim Curry and Salt-N-Pepa
The Police & The Intruders
Carole King & Queen
The Crystals & Instant Funk (Just add Roger Waters!)
Jefferson Airplane and Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd and Haircut 100
Stryper & The Clash
Genesis & Exodus
Electric Prunes & The Cramps
Fiona Apple and David Peel
Supertramp & Boxcar Willie
Hole & Whitesnake
Presidents of the USA and Parliament Funkadelic
Fontella Bass and Turd
Lulu, Enya, Sade, Nena, & Englebert Humperdinck
Fine Young Cannibals and Badfinger
Norman Greenbaum and Lee Greenwood
John Denver and Tony Orlando
Moby Grape & the Electric Prunes
Mary McGregor and Savage Garden
The Electric Prunes & The Move & The Push
Ice T and Ice Cube
Moby Grape, Strawberry Alarm Clock & Bananarama
The Boston Pops and Korn and Hot Butter and Salt-N-Pepa (Lighter on the Pepa)
John Lee Hooker and Cheap Trick
The Searchers and Warrant
Sting and the Bee Gees
Bush and George Clinton
The Four Seasons, with special guests Bruce Springsteen, Donna Summer, The
Autumns and Edgar Winter
Electric Light Orchestra & Bad Company
AC/DC and Electric Light Orchestra
Destination, featuring special guests Freddie North, Sheena Easton, Joe
South, and Kim Weston
Freddie Mercury and Canned Heat
The Village People and Everything But The Girl
Wings and the Byrds
Green Day & Gladys Knight
Johnny Sea & Dinah Shore & The Beach Boys
The Shields! Now with Wings!

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