Best "warm-up" bands you have ever seen?

[driver8]

What are some of the best opening bands you have seen? Here are a few of mine...

Rage Against the Machine opening for U2.

Sammy Hagar Band blew Boston off the stage.

REM opening for the English Beat in 1983.

Camper Van Beethoven opening for 10,000 Maniacs.

Aztec Camera opened up for Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians and were awesome!

[flvegan]

1. Faith No More made Billy Idol look like a geezer. And,

they were better than Metallica on the Monsters of Rock tour (w/ GnR).

Rise Against was MUCH better than AFI.

[Dora]

2. A3 opening for Spacehog.

I left in the middle of Spacehog's second song.

Technically, I guess they didn't open for Spacehog. It was a SXSW showcase, but Spacehog was pushed as the star act of the night.

[leftofthedial]

3. steely dan opened for the eagles

[KitchenWitch]

8. Don't tell WIMR you saw that show!

WIMR is a HUGE Steely Dan fan.

[leftofthedial]

15. this was the original lineup

amazing show

The Eagles were excellent too

[WritingIsMyReligion]

65. Yeah, and I don't mind the Eagles, either.

Better musical acts in the world, but also worse, so they're tolerable. :P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

64. HAHAHA.

Wow. That must have been in what, 1973? They stopped touring after '74 and didn't start again until '93...

[leftofthedial]

78. 72 or 73

lots of dead brain cells between then and now

[taterguy]

4. George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers opening for the Stones in 1981

If they had been opening for anyone else they would have blown them away

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Dixie Dregs opened a concert I once saw. I can't remember the headliner!

And NIN and Bowie toured together a while back. Sadly, people picked up and left the hall after NIN.

[MrCoffee]

6. Pixies opening for U2...Stevie Ray Vaughn opening for The Who...

Flaming Lips opening for Candlebox...Violent Femmes opening for someone I can't even remember...Frank Black opening for They Might Be Giants...Soundgarden opening for Guns 'n' Roses

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Ha! I used to see SRV for free

on Ladies Night when I was going to college in San Marcos, TX in the late 70's/early 80's.

[Lethe]

42. wow that kicks ass

i live in san marcos at the moment. I went to high school in austin and we all idolized SRV.

[TexasBushwhacker]

86. Good ol' Cheatam St Warehouse n/t

[KitchenWitch]

7. Buckwheat Zydeco opening for Eric Clapton in the late 1980s

[greendog]

25. Muddy Waters opening for Clapton in the late '70's...

...Albert Lee was Clapton's 2nd guitar player.

[LSdemocrat]

9. Black Eyed Peas opened for Jurassic 5 at a college concert I went to a few years ago

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Quiet Riot opening for Black Sabbath, and Fictionplane for The Police

[Greyskye]

11. Dave Grisman and Stevie Ray Vaughn! (Hagar involved)

The Dave Grisman Quintet opening for the Grateful Dead. The Dead were amazing as usual, but this was my first exposure to Grisman. WOW! :wow:

Stevie Ray Vaughn opening for Sammie Hagar. This was around 1983. Stevie was pretty much unknown, and was performing solo. He was fantastic! Unfortunately, the ass-hole Hagar and Y&T (a metal hair band of the era that played after Stevie) fans didn't 'get' actual musicianship, and freaking BOO'd Stevie off the stage. My girlfriend of the time who had dragged me there to see Hager didn't understand why I was so pissed. :eyes:

[Bennyboy]

22. Was that in Sacramento?

Cuz it was Sammy who asked that SRV be on the bill and he was PISSED OFF at the crowd and told them so....

[Greyskye]

37. Yep. Cal Expo

I had forgotten that Sammy had told the crowd off. Good for him.

That was so long ago, and who knows what my state of mind was at the time lol. I remember being totally in awe of this guy I'd never heard of before (SRV), remember the crowd booing him off, remember tolerating Y&T and wishing I had earplugs, and honestly the only thing I remember of Hagar's show was that he climbed all over the rigging.

I take it you were there? :hippie:

[Bennyboy]

39. Yeah iI was there.

I was familiar with SRV at the time and came to see him. Whenever I tell this story, people cannot beleive it. A couple were at the show and booed him too and yet found SRV later in life and loved him.

But at the time the blues was kind of a dead art form.So he was playing something unfamiliar.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

12. Rufus Wainwright opening for

Tori Amos.

[tigereye]

18. he has an amazing voice, doesn't he?

I wanna see him opening for Loudon - or would it be the other way around? ;)

[Initech]

13. Eagles of Death Metal!

[Redneck Socialist]

51. Self Delete

Posted in the wrong spot, grrrrr...

[izzybeans]

125. Shit Goddamn

[DS1]

14. Pantera kicked the shit out of the crowd, Suicidal Tendencies had nothing but exhausted sweaty

metalheads standing there watching afterwards :D

[tigereye]

17. well Geri Allen opening for a jazz singer I disliked

it made no sense.... she was so wonderful and the singer was so boring....

[mentalsolstice]

19. Cowboy Junkies opening for John Prine. n/t

[smoogatz]

117. Richard Thompson opening for John Prine, Atlanta, 2000 (or maybe 1999).

Also, Dave Matthews opening for Los Lobos in Charlottesville, probably 1993.

[Bennyboy]

20. The Who..opened for the Herman's Hermits......

The Grateful Dead opened for the Who.

Blondie opened for REO Speedwagon. REO would not let Blondie do an encore and tehy got booed off the stage after three songs. HILARIOUS!

The Ramones, the English Beat, Oingo Boingo,The B52s and the Talking Heads opened for the Police (US Festival)

Santana opening for the Grateful Dead many times.

Dave Mathhews opening for Phish

DMB opening for the Grateful dead

Phish opening for Santana

Jeff Beck opening for Santana

SRV opening for Sammy Hagar. (SRV was booed off the stage by the MORONS in Sacramento, and Sammy let em have it)

Sting opening for the Grateful Dead

The Band opening for CSNY

Traffic opening for the Grateful Dead

[LibDemAlways]

104. I saw The Who open for Herman's Hermits at the

Anaheim Convention Center, probably in 1967. They attracted two entirely different sets of fans, and some of The Who fans stayed around to openly taunt and jeer at Peter Noone and Co. It was a very strange bill.

[Dukkha]

21. Metallica during the first Monsters of Rock tour

Dokken, Scorpions, and Van Hagar didn't have a chance.

Spiritualized was awesome with Siouxie and the Banshees

Bauhaus opened for NIN though it should've been reversed!

[ThePowerofWill]

28. I saw the first Monsters of Rock tour.

1988 in Miami, and yes Metallica made all the others look bad. You are however leaving one band out. It was some Zepp clone (not White Snake) who's name escapes me at this time.

[Dukkha]

36. Kingdom Come

intentionally omitted! They were referred to as Kingdom Clone at the time.

[rocktivity]

55. Didn't have enough money for Monsters and Iron Maiden

Since Metallica was the only Monsters band I really wanted to see, I decided that it would smarter to see Maiden, who were due in town three weeks later, and wait for Metallica to return as headliners.

:headbang:
rocknation

[SecularMotion]

23. Guns 'n' Roses opened for Aerosmith at SPAC

REM opened for The English Beat in a small gym at Vassar College
The Ramones opened for Patti Smith in Asbury Park
Screamin' Jay Hawkins opened for The Stones at Madison Square Garden

[driver8]

32. What year was the REM/English Beat show?

I saw them in 1983 in Daytona Beach, FLA while on Spring Break.

[SecularMotion]

67. It was in 1983

The tour was for the Murmur album.

I didn't attend Vassar College, but I lived in the area and saw some great shows there. Patti Smith in the chapel was very memorable. Also, Butthole Surfers, The Dead Milkmen, Squeeze, and Steve Forbert all in intimate settings.

[YDogg]

24. Sammy Hagar. Opening for Boston. Jan 1979.

[driver8]

33. That was the tour I saw -- Sammy Hagar and his band were amazing!

I went out and bought his live album after that show!!

[YDogg]

34. A kid I knew was psyched about Hagar ... and I hadn't heard of him.

But he rocked. Excellent show.

[Catshrink]

26. Zepplin opened for Vanilla Fudge

I think it was '68 in Seattle. Another DUer saw the same show the night before in Denver.

[Blue_In_AK]

62. That was me!

December 26, 1968, in Denver. Were they awesome or WHAT? I've never heard another concert like it. :hippie:

[av8rdave]

27. A couple...

I also saw Sammy Hagar totally upstage Boston.

The other remarkable one was Bryan Adams opening for Journey. Adams was fun and spontaneous. Journey was polished and choreographed and predictable.

[MnFats]

29. Foo Fighters opened for Bob Dylan, nov. '06, Xcel Center, St. Paul.

Foo Fighters did their accoustic thing.
vastly different styles but both were exceptionally memorable...

[blitzen]

30. Ron Sexsmith opening for Lucinda Williams

[Orsino]

31. Sea Level opening for the Cate Bros., 1976

Also Squeeze in front of Elvis Costello, '81, and Kronos Quartet opening for the Modern Jazz Quartet, ca.'90.

[HughBeaumont]

35. Geez, I think I started a thread on this once . . .

And I gotta MILLION of them. Well, not a million. A few. Shut up.

Mr. Bungle opening for System of a Down, Incubus and Boy Hits Car. System was only OK that evening but the bands that went on directly before them sucked furious amounts of ASS. Why Incubus got immensely popular besides the lead vocalist being a jeans-creamer is beyond me completely. That was the WORST ersatz-Def-Leppard-covering-the-Chili-Peppers crap I've ever seen in my life. Their hour seemed like days. And Boy Hits Car was a forgettable half-drunk embarrassment. Bungle is such a great collection of talent and composition and the audience knew it. They were chanting their name throughout other band's sets.

Nine Inch Nails as the middle act on Lollapalooza I. NIN in a Cleveland return. Terrible Lie started and turned the entire Blossom music center into a riot and the pavillion area into a giant mosh pit (which included several hundred people from the lawn). Not even Jane's Addiction, whom I love to death, could top that performance.

The Melvins opening for Tomahawk. I like most Mike Patton bands, but Tomahawk makes merely average music considering who's in it. And the Melvins shouldn't play second banana to ANYone. Period. Wasn't even a contest.

Every band that preceded the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lollapalooza 1992. My first and last Chili Peppers show. Weak sound, indifferent and obviously high Anthony Keidis, non-energetic show, total disappointment. Among the acts that blew them away that day: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Ice Cube, Ministry (and they didn't even bust out "Jesus Built My Hot Rod") . . . I even thought LUSH was better than them.

Mastodon opening for Killswitch Engage. No small wonder why Mastodon is going to be the next huge metal act, as their riffing, sound, songs and stage presence made KE's metalbore sound plain in comparison.

High on Fire opening for Mushroomhead. WHY they went on this tour I DO not know. Possibly one of the loudest and most metal bands in existence opening for a band of 499 costumed clowns that play 10th-rate FNM throwaways mixed with Peabody's-core (Clevelanders will get that joke). An insult. Lots of mallgoths covering their ears. It made me laugh. Having to sit through Mushroomhead's non-educated 'Crombie-core fanbase cover their ears while HOF blew them off the stage was truly amazing.

Helmet opening for Faith No More. To FNM's credit, it's really REALLY hard to upstage them live, but Helmet had such perfect sound and vibe that night that they did. Plus FNM's classic line-up (Bottom, Patton, Bordin, Martin and Gould) was on their last legs, as there was lots of in-fighting and you could tell.

Primus opening for Fishbone. Fishbone is a way better live act than they are a studio one, but Primus was coming up through the ranks with Sailing the Seas of Cheese, one of the 1990's best albums. They owned that sold-out night.

Neurosis opening for Integrity. This was in 1996. That isn't a typo. Some brain surgeon actually scheduled Neurosis, one of the best live bands like, EVER, to job for Cleveland-core heroes Integrity. To the uninitiated, 1996 Through Silver and Blood-era Neurosis is as close as you're going to come to hearing a nuclear war accompanied by tribal juggernaut beats. It took all heavy music that was coming out back then and squashed it like a mere grape. And this was the first time I'd ever heard anything by Integrity. It was like following the DC firework display with backyard bottle rockets.

Forced Entry opening for Atrophy. FE were miles ahead of their time in 1989, but things simply didn't pan out for them. Their off-time heavy thrash served as a blueprint for many bands of this day and age. Anyway, Atrophy were nothing spectacular and they should have been placed lower on this bill.

Obituary opening for Sacred Reich. First Cleveland Obituary show. They turned the whole Agora ballroom into a giant pit and upstaged Sacred Reich and their pissy-pants frontman Phil Rind.

Napalm Death opening for Sacred Reich and Sepultura. This tour featured a Max-fronted Sepultura and Napalm Death was still the best act on that show. WAY more memorable than SR and just as good as Sepultura. That was a very riotous evening, as fans and the jock security butted heads quite often.

DBC and Forbidden opening for Sacred Reich. One of the best metal shows I've ever been to. Both openers scorched SR. Sacred Reich was the pushed underground metal act of it's day, but they didn't really endear themselves to crowds much (not Cleveland's anyway), so they didn't pan out. The frontman always yelled at the audience and was completely condescending for no reason.

Battles opening for Lightning Bolt. I'll go see Lightning Bolt again because they just piss energy, but Battles sonically outshone them.

[mac56]

38. Richard Thompson opened for Randy Newman

back in 1980-something in St. Paul.

John Hall opened for The Roches at the Guthrie in Minneapolis in 1980.

[Greyskye]

45. Thompson is amazing!

That must have been a hell of a show!

[mac56]

46. All acoustic for both of them, both solo.

I've seen Richard a handful of times, but this was my favorite.

[tigereye]

80. I've seen him several times

liked his solo-ish gigs best.

Only time I've ever stood on the rain to see someone play and felt that it was a "not to be missed" show.

[Greyskye]

81. Yeah.

Thompson excels at solo acoustic. I was lucky to see him that way in '01.

[bbernardini]

40. Robert Fripp for Porcupine Tree; The Samples for Bruce Hornsby; Jim Boggia for...umm...

Not sure on the last one. It was either Don Maclean, Todd Rundgren, or Dan Fogelberg.

[Ptah]

41. Chick Corea opening for Frank Zappa

[Bennyboy]

43. That musta been sumthin'

Like going to music school.

[Ptah]

44. It was Ann Arbor Michigan, 1975 or 1976

:hippie:

[ghostsofgiants]

47. Wintersleep opening for Pearl Jam a couple years ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ45UNanMhE

[Lethe]

48. The Ramones

they opened for Pearl Jam

*snicker*

[AllegroRondo]

72. I saw that tour!

in Las Cruces, NM.

Awesome show.

[AllegroRondo]

75. error

wrong place

[rocktivity]

49. Best Warmup Band I Ever Witnessed: Living Color opening for Soul Asylum.

Best Warmup Bands I Witnessed But Didn't Expect To Enjoy:
Candiria opening for Clutch
Green Jello opening for Testament

Best Warmup Band I Didn't Witness But Definitely Would Have Enjoyed:
Biohazard opening for Insane Clown Posse. When Biohazard left, two thirds of the audience did, too. ICP fired them three days later, and the other openers Coal Chamber quit in solidarity.

Worst Warmup Band I Didn't Witness And Would Not Have Out Of Fear of Bodily Harm:
Billy Joel opening for the J. Geils Band

:headbang:
rocknation

[smoogatz]

118. Living Colour was great. Burnin' Vernon Reid definitely rocks the house.

[OzarkDem]

50. Humble Pie opening for Grand Funk Railroad

I was there to see Steve Marriott, of course.

[argyl]

58. Caught the Dallas leg of that one. Left after Humble Pie. Had suffered one GFR set

a while back. Humble Pie was a great band."Smokin'" is a classic.

[Redneck Socialist]

52. Dirty Dozen Brass Band opened for the Dead one Marti Gras show I saw.

Mountain opened for Triumph. Leslie West was great.

[BlooInBloo]

53. Foo Fighters opening for Chile Peppers.

[Horse with no Name]

54. An unknown Brian Adams opened for Bob Seger in Dallas

That was pretty awesome.:thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

56. frank zappa and the mothers of invention opening for

the cream in chicago....i still can`t decide who was a better guitar player.

little stevie wonder and pattie labelle and the blue bells opening for the first chicago stones show. stevie and pattie were better than the stones..the stones sucked ass.

[gmoney]

57. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet opening for The Fleshtones

The Men are probably best known for the theme song and incidental music on "The Kids in the Hall" series. Great Canadian surf trio... could not believe what one guy was able to get out of one guitar.

And screw you, I MISSED REM opening for the Beat because a friend screwed me over... :sulk:

[SKKY]

59. The Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Ice-t/Body Count, Nine Inch Nails...

...Living Colour, and Siouxie and the Banshees opening for Jane's Addiction on the first Lolapalooza tour. To this day, the most amazing concert I've ever seens. Perry Ferrell and Ice-T singing "Don't call me nigger whitey" was unreal.

[lligrd]

60. Prince Opening For Rolling Stones

Oh wait, that was the worst of opening acts. He was actually booed off stage. Never thought I would hear from him again. Oh well, you never know. Never thought anyone would vote for * the first time either.

[Blue_In_AK]

61. Led Zeppelin opening for Vanilla Fudge and Spirit --

Denver, December 26, 1968. LZ's first US concert, before the first album was released -- no one had even heard of a group Led Zeppelin. They totally blew us away.

[enigmatic]

63. 2

Husker Du opening up for The Fall in 1982- Right around the time of Metal Circus, and they blew the fucking walls down. I instantly became a fan after that show.

Blue Rodeo opening up for Edie Brickell in 1990, I think; an old girlfriend dragged me to the show because she loved Edie Brickell (I HATED her music), and when Blue Rodeo hit the stage I was instantly hooked and again, instantly became a huge fan....

[bunkerbuster1]

66. Ministry opening for Madness

oh, wait--actually, Ministry sucked then. This was their synthpop disco version, as seen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sET1lhBMNiU

only it really, really didn't work onstage. At all. And 5,000 or so ska fans really weren't in the mood for it, and let them know, early and often.

Still, I enjoy looking back on that odd concert, and realizing how much fortunes and music changed in the immediate years that followed.

[regularguy]

68. Steele Pulse opening for Herbie Hancock

They were just phenomenal. Herbie is a God, but he was going though one of his I-wish-I-were-Sly-Stone phases...

[Rambis]

69. 10,000 maniacs for REM

Camper Can Beethoven for REM
Santana for the Grateful Dead
Traffic for the Dead
Roger McGiunn for the Dead
Steve Earl for the Allman brothers

[Arugula Latte]

70. The Clash opening for The Who in 1982, Oakland Arena.

Damn ... REM/English Beat?! What a bill!

I saw the Beat at the Greek Theater in Berkeley ... probably also '83. Don't recall who opened, though.

[Bennyboy]

87. Another show I was at!

The biggest single firework covered the stadium after the Who's set.

[Arugula Latte]

93. Oh yeah ... I remember seeing you there!

Remember me? I was the 16-year-old white girl growing out the Farrah Do? :D

[Bennyboy]

97. How could I forget.......

[abq e streeter]

111. Thanks a lot

now I'm jealous ----The Clash AND The Who.......same show.....sigh....

[abq e streeter]

112. Not a BAND

but saw Richie Havens in Chicago in 1971; opening act was somebody I'd never heard of named Jackson Browne. Curtain opened, and there's this skinny white kid sitting on a stool in the middle of this huge stage holding an acoustic guitar.. And when he opened his mouth and started singing you could almost hear the jaws dropping all over Arie Crown Theater. And maybe not best, but have seen some odd , and very cool pairings. Marshall Crenshaw for Stevie Ray; Billy Preston for the Mahavishnu Orchestra; and I've resisted tooting my own horn about this but here goes: my old blues band, Doctor Blues sharing the bill one day at the New Mexico state fair in 1992 with some talented, but mostly unknown young women from Texas by the name of The Dixie Chicks.

[AllegroRondo]

71. I saw Mr Big's guitar player get his hair caught in a power drill

Atlanta, 1990. Still have the ticket stub to prove it.

http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/tours/90may1_story.htm

Opening for Rush on the Presto tour was "Mr. Big". Part of their act featured guitarist Paul Gilbert playing his guitar with a Makita power drill. During the show at Atlanta's Omni on May 1st, 1990, he accidentally got the drill hopelessly tangled in his hair in front of 15,000 perplexed Rush fans. The next day, Alex Lifeson made this sign, and left it next to the drill onstage, along with an assortment of other tools, including a glue gun, that the road crew thought Paul might prefer.

[Richardo]

73. I didn't see it, but Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees on the 1967 tour...

:wow:

[Richardo]

74. Al Jarreau for Tower of Power, The Go-Gos for The Police.

[SteppingRazor]

76. Do double headliners count? Like Foo Fighters/Chili Peppers or Metallica/Guns n' Roses? n/t

[driver8]

83. Sure they do! A friend of mine saw the Metallica/ Guns n' Roses

show in Los Angeles. He said when Metallica finished their set James Hetfield said, "Top that, motherfuckers!"

[LynneSin]

77. Living Colour when they opened for the Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones was a snoozefest but Living Colour had the house rocking.

Another great opening act was The High Strung, which opened for Son Volt (who were equally great). The High Strung sounded like early The Who meets the 21st Century.

[MissMillie]

79. The Fixx...opening for the Moody Blues in the mid-80s

I would have said Stevie Ray Vaughn opening for the Moodies in '83, but he was so drunk that he really didn't sound all that good.

I would have loved to have seen him again after he sobered up.

[SoxFan]

82. The Three O'Clock

The Three O'Clock, opening for REM at Walter Brown Arena, Boston, 1985

The Alarm, opening for Pat Benatar, Capital Centre, Landover, MD, 1986. Rolling Stone actually wrote about the Alarm's support gig during this tour, since they embarrased Benatar on a nightly basis.

The Sidewinders, opening for Steve Wynn, opening for Concrete Blonde, The Channel, Boston, 1990

Lone Justice, opening for U2, The Centrum, Worcester, MA, 1985

Steve Earle, opening for Mary-Chapin Carpenter, BankAmerica Pavillion, Boston, 2001

Winter Hours, opening for Let's Active, American University, Washington, DC, 1986

Danni Leigh, opening for Dwight Yoakum, BankAmerica Pavillion, Boston, 2000

Festivals don't really count, but I saw Offspring, Better Than Ezra, Smithereens, Violent Femmes, and the Lemonheads (among others) on a single afternoon in 1994 (Zephyrfest, City Park, NOLA)

[driver8]

84. I saw the Three O'Clock at the 9:30 Club in DC in 1985.

They were better than REM? Really??

[SoxFan]

108. On a par with REM

and REM was far, far better on the Fables tour than the were when I saw them in Portland, ME on the Green tour.

[enigmatic]

105. Damn, we've seen alot of the same bands at the same time..

Winter Hours and The Three O'Clock are 2 of my favorites from that time and it's nice to see them get some love. I posted this on by blog awhile ago:

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2007/04/with-cantaloupe-girlfriend-three-o.html

[devilgrrl]

85. Mazzy Star opening for the Cocteau Twins.

Israel Vibration opening for Mikey Dread.

[mwdem]

88. Yes opening for Alvin Lee and 10 Years After.

Chapel Hill, back in the day.

[NewJeffCT]

89. Metallica opening for Ozzy Osbourne/ 10,000 Maniacs opening for REM

those two stand out in my hazy memory of my youth.

I had heard that the original Van Halen kicked ass opening for Black Sabbath in the late 70s.

[Throd]

90. Batallion of Saints opening for Social Distortion

It was at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento in 1984 or 85.

Nobody had heard of Batallion of Saints and the crowd assumed they would be a heavy metal band based on their name. They came out and completely kicked ass! The crowd went wild with a raging slam pit going the entire show. Then Social D came out and ruined everything. They were schwacked out on heroin, out of tune, and looked like they would rather be sleeping. The crowd turned on them, and the show was cut short to prevent a riot.

Oh, the good ol' days.

[Arugula Latte]

110. Story of their life ...

;)

[Tyler Durden]

91. Robin Trower opening for Slade...

But Slade was pretty damned good, too.

The old Michigan Theater, Detroit, 1973 or 1974.

[ceile]

92. Catherine Wheel for House of Love

The Killers for the Pixies
Breeders for Nirvana
Pearl Jam for Soundgarden and the Chili Peppers
Pixies for U2

[madinmaryland]

94. Joe Walsh opening for Foreigner in 1983

[Phillycat]

95. No Doubt opened for 311...White Zombie opened for Testament.

[Phillycat]

96. Oh yeah, and Maceo Parker opening for Ani DiFranco.

Ani came out after Maceo blew the roof off the place and said, "Yeah...we're calling this the 'We're Not Worthy' tour!"

[Rambis]

98. Crooked Still opened for Flook

Best band I have seen in a long time!

[Redneck Socialist]

114. Crooked Still are a lot of fun. n/t

[Norwood]

99. Heres my list

Fear Factory opening for Rob Zombie (Fear Factory was better) Tomahawk opening for Tool (even though 90% of the crowd didnt appreciate the greatness that is Mike Patton) Queens of the Stoneage opening for Nine Inch Nails

[CottonBear]

100. REM opening for the English Beat at a free outdoor concert in Athens, GA, 1982. n/t

[jpak]

128. REM opening for the Brains at UGA May 15, 1980

they tore the place up...

seriously

[peacefreak]

101. Emmylou Harris opening for Doc Watson

Carole King opening for James Taylor

[LibDemAlways]

106. I saw Emmylou Harris open for Elton John at

Dodger Stadium in 1975. She was great but hardly noticed by the crowd, most of whom had arrived before dawn to get decent "festival seating" seats and were getting restless in the afternoon sun.

[Bennyboy]

102. Steely Dan opening for Rare Earth!

75. Countdown To Ecstacy tour. The reviews were so bad for Steely Dan that they never toured again for decades. "they just stood there and played the music" wrote one review. This was the days of galm rock and all that, so theri lack of stage presence did not endear them to the press.

[Spirochete]

103. Foghat opening for J Geils

ZZ Top opening for Rare Earth
Molly Hatchet opening for REO Speedwagon.

[Bzzzz]

107. Rusted Root...

opening for Tom Petty at the Verizon Center in Indianapolis.

[Paladin]

109. That's Easy: Buffalo Springfield, back in 1967, Austin, TX

Buffalo Springfield was third-billed behind Peter&Gordon and the Beach Boys. They did a 20-minute version of "Blue Bird" that practically peeled the paint off the walls of the old Austin Coliseum---Steve Stills on the right side of the stage, Neil Young on the left. Best concert I ever went to.....

[1gobluedem]

113. Bob Seger, opening for Queen

1976.

[EstimatedProphet]

115. Rusted Root opened for Plant&Page in 95

Lili Hayden did to in 97

[Cabcere]

116. sloshy opening for Limozeen.

:P 1,000 nerd points to anyone who gets that reference. :+

[bbernardini]

119. I'm surprised it took this long for someone to make it.

:)

[Cabcere]

124. You win!

1,000 nerd points for you, my friend. :toast:

(I'm glad I'm not the only one.) :)

[aquaman]

120. Helmet open up for Faith No More in early 1990's

Helmet blew them off the fucking stage. Faith No More on the other hand was without question one of the worst live bands that I have ever seen.

[Fading Captain]

121. Mercury Rev for I can't remember, and Spiritualized for JAMC

Sebadoh, Robin Hitchcock and Sonic Boom for Flaming Lips was sweet too ...

But spiritualized/curve/Jesus & Mary Chain was pretty awesome. The best, I've seen so far.

[jmowreader]

122. Bon Jovi opening for Blue Oyster Cult (twice)

For some reason, Bon Jovi opened for BOC a LOT.

Anyway...Accept opening for Bon Jovi (who opened for BOC)

Alarm opening for Pat Benatar

The Hooters opening for The Wall In Berlin

[gate of the sun]

123. Sting opening for the Grateful Dead n/t

[Bennyboy]

127. In Vegas!

I saw those shows. Sting was great, changed his set everyday (not a lot but some). Damn I miss tour.

[Nikia]

126. Seether opening for Rob Zombie

They were just standing around after the show like normal people too. That was before they became big though.