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The best opening act you've ever seen & heard?

 

I have two:

 

In 1983 I went to see The Plimsouls (Peter Case’s pre-solo career band) at The Garage, a tiny little "club" on Ventura Blvd. The room had filled up (elbow-to-elbow tight), and the opening act started their set. My woman and I both looked at each other, our mouths agape. It was Los Lobos, and they were great! Their debut album How Will The Wolf Survive? had yet to be released, but I sure picked it up when it was.

 

I went to see John Hiatt at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. during his Perfectly Good Guitar tour, entering the room just as the opening act was starting her final song. The ads for the show listed her name, which was unfamiliar to me. As the song started and progressed, I was stunned; the song she and her band were performing was a great one, and I knew I had missed a quality set of music. It was Sheryl Crow, whose debut album had not yet been released. Damn it!

 

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Wow, wow, wow, so many shows here I would love to have seen!  Thanks for the memories, folks.  Among my favorites:

My first large concert on a visit to Phoenix, 1970, Blues Image, whom I’d never heard of, knocked my stuffing out, I never knew there were bands that good.  Followed by Three Dog Night.

The next year, my second large concert, another visit to Phoenix, the headliner again was Three Dog Night.  Opening act was the basically unknown band, The Doobie Brothers.

Fast forward a lot of years, there were:

Rufus with Chaka Kahn and the Charlie Daniels band opened the Stones’ show in 1975?

An unknown Lyle Lovett and a cello player opening for Bonnie Raitt

Chesapeake opening for Doc Watson

Jerry Jeff Walker opening for Delbert McClinton

 

 

 

 

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