Best Opening Act You Sat Through .......

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by John B, Jan 14, 2018.

  1. Propinquity

    Propinquity Forum Resident

    Location:
    Gravel Switch, KY
    Kris Kristofferson opening for George Jones at Carnegie Hall on Halloween. :)

    Jerry Lee Lewis opening for Chuck Berry
    Little Richard opening for Chuck Berry
     
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  2. Wally Swift

    Wally Swift Yo-Yoing where I will...

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    Brooklyn New York
    Judas Priest opening for KISS 9/79
    Good Rats opening for Styx, also 1979
     
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  3. BiffJackson

    BiffJackson Senior Member

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    Northampton, MA
    Around 2000, at a small outdoor venue in Northampton called the Pines Theater. I also saw Shawn Colvin open for Rikie Lee Jones there.
     
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  4. Minty_fresh

    Minty_fresh Forum Resident

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    B.
    Mid 90’s. We went to see Digable Planets. The opener was Mike Franti’s Spearhead. They were GREAT.

    Months later Spearhead was back headlining and Brooklyn Funk Essentials was opening. BFE was incredible.

    Local band Beats the Hell Out of Me opened for the Cramps and they killed it.

    Saw little known band Kyuss (we were fans already) and Babes in Toyland open for FNM. All were great.
     
  5. tommy-thewho

    tommy-thewho Senior Member

    Location:
    detroit, mi
    I saw INXS open for Men at Work.

    I saw NSYNC open for Janet Jackson. I didn't know who they were and they came out and the crowd went crazy...
     
  6. jerico

    jerico Forum Resident

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    Philadelphia, PA
    Bob Dylan opening for the Grateful Dead
    Merle Haggard opening for Bob Dylan
    Trey Anastasio opening for the Black Crowes
    Trombone Shorty opening for Galactic
    John Doe opening for Nick Lowe
     
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  7. BDC

    BDC Forum Resident

    Location:
    Tacoma
    I can't say definitively what was best, but Y&T opening for AC DC was great.
    When Metallica wrongfully headlined Lollapalooza, I thought the Screaming trees were really good, Soundgarden at the same gig were decent IMO, but deferred a little too much the headliners. Having been to a good few Soundgarden shows, a couple years ago they shared billing with NIN and played before them and IMO were great, a well presented show.
     
  8. black sheriff

    black sheriff Magic City

    Jane’s Addiction opening for Iggy Pop
    Motörhead opening for Slayer
     
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  9. BiffJackson

    BiffJackson Senior Member

    Location:
    Northampton, MA
    I saw John Craigie open for Todd Snider, during which he sang the tale, "I Almost Stole Some Weed From Todd Snider."

     
  10. wwaldmanfan

    wwaldmanfan Born In The 50's

    Location:
    NJ
    The aforementioned J. Geils Band opening for Black Sabbath at the Fillmore East. If you never thought Ozzy had stage fright, you didn't see him try to follow Peter Wolf & Co. that night.
     
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  11. Luvtemps

    Luvtemps Forum Resident

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    P.G.County,Md.
    Back in[68]opening for[Gene Chandler]was a group outta Chicago called[The Chi-Lites]who were pretty good.
     
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  12. bataclan2002

    bataclan2002 All You Need Is Now.

    The Mint Juleps opening for Fine Young Cannibals in 1989. Superb! And I had never heard of them.
     
  13. nodeerforamonth

    nodeerforamonth Consistently misunderstood

    Location:
    San Diego,CA USA
    I could name hundreds. Great bands play clubs all the time. And I go to clubs almost exclusively.

    Most recently?

    The Queers opening for The Dickies.
    Death By Unga Bunga opening for Stiff Little Fingers

    27 years ago? Nirvana opening for Dinosaur Jr.
     
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  14. Splungeworthy

    Splungeworthy Forum Rezidentura

    I saw Jeff Buckley open for Juliana Hatfield once. That was fun, because he came back later and sang with her.
     
  15. samthesham

    samthesham Forum Resident

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    Moorhead MN
    BBKing opening for the Stones in 69
    Bobby Blue Bland opening for BBKing
    Buddy Guy opening for Santana
    New Riders opening for the Dead
    Neville Bros opening for the Dead
    Wilbert Harrison opening for CCR
    Freddie King opening for the Who&Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Moving Sidewalks opening for Jimi Hendrix
    Savoy Brown opening for Deep Purple
    Joe Ely opening for the Clash
    Fabulous T-Birds opening for the Stones
     
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  16. ZippyPippy

    ZippyPippy Forum Resident

    Pretenders opening for The Who
     
  17. ZippyPippy

    ZippyPippy Forum Resident

    Went to the latter tour, what a show
     
  18. Orthogonian Blues

    Orthogonian Blues A man with a fork in a world full of soup.

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    London, UK
    I was well impressed by Kasabian (opening for Oasis in 2009).
     
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  19. Dave

    Dave Esoteric Audio Research Specialist™

    Location:
    B.C.
    Rush opening for Nazareth.
     
  20. Saint Johnny

    Saint Johnny Forum Resident

    Location:
    Asbury Park
    Elvin Bishop opened for Bachman-Turner Overdrive at Greensboro Coliseum.
     
  21. arthurprecarious

    arthurprecarious Forum Resident

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    North East England
    I'm a big Dylan fan and saw this bill on 2 nights at Hammersmith and thought he was far better than Bob.
     
  22. ash1

    ash1 Forum Resident

    Location:
    bristol uk
    I was gonna chip in with Joe Pass opening for Count Basie but you have a winner there. What was that gig like ? It would be enough to see The Doors but then Buffalo Springfield and then, wait, hang on, who's this, it's The Byrds. I think I'd still be wetting myself 50 years later.
    In terms of my current (ancient) musical tastes, one gig I'd like to have seen would be Johnny Kidd and The Pirates headlining the Cavern Riverboat Shuffle on August 10th 1962. Johnny Kidd and The Pirates on a boat !! "Support" act was some band called The Beatles.
    Member of The Pirates "what did you think of them?"
    Johnny Kidd "They're good but they'll never be as big as Joe Brown".
     
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  23. Godbluff

    Godbluff Forum Resident

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    UK
    I've done a bit more digging and the most reliable gig listing I can find is in the Remembered for a While book, which lists all Nick's known gigs, less than thirty in total including a few private parties and low-key appearances when he was at university. In most cases they have details of who else was on the bill and the only two that mention Genesis are the Ewell Tech and Leicester Uni gigs (although it does erroneously show it as Leeds Uni rather than Leicester). There are a couple with no details but they don't correspond with any known Genesis gigs at the time, so that looks like being all there was.
     
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  24. Dennis Metz

    Dennis Metz Born In A Motor City south of Detroit

    Location:
    Fonthill, Ontario
    Little Feat:cheers:
     
  25. Blastproof

    Blastproof Senior Member

    Location:
    Mid-Atlantic USA
    Def Leppard, opening for Scorpions, who opened for Judas Priest. August 3, 1980 - the Heavy Metal Marathon in Syracuse, NY.
     

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