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

@pdspiegel's listing of Dwight Yoakam opening for Nick Lowe in 1983 reminded me that I saw the legendary songwriting team of Dann Penn and Spooner Oldham open for Nick and his band in the late-90's at The Pantages Theater on Hollywood Blvd., an incredible Art Deco theater. Nick has great taste in opening acts! Dann played acoustic guitar and sang, Spooner played his trademark Wurlitzer electric piano and also sang. Fantastic!

I also saw Dylan at The Pantages, during his five night run there in the early-2000's. He was great that night, and had a killer band. On each of the five nights he had a different opening act; on my night it was Beck, whom I found underwhelming. I wasn't alone---the audience response to his set was tepid.

I had seen Dylan ten years earlier at The Greek Theater, an outdoor venue in L.A. That night he stunk, as did his 3-pc band.

@simonmoon Unfamiliar with Magma, which LP would you recommend for starters?  THX!

@larsman - yes indeedy, they were working out the material that would become Dark Side and handed out a pamplet call Eclipse 'a piece for assorted lunatics' which was their working title for dark side. Of course my pamplet fell by the wayside.

Fast forward 50 years, I'd loaned my spinclean to a friend who had bought a collection from a widow who's husband had passed and was cleaning them.

He holds up this pamplet he found in The Wall and says whats this? I almost fell down, it was the concert pamplet. I've got it framed in my music room.

@larsman

Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac. Warming up Blue Oyster Cult in the fall of 1973 ...

The band and Christy blew me away