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

@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 

A friend had an extra ticket to Men At Work at the Kings Island amphitheater in Mason Ohio. I had never heard of them before but the opening act was INXS. The next day I bought their first album and have been a fan of their music ever since.

Jim S.

Freddie King opening for Elvin Bishop (if you think it should’ve been the other around, I agree). I was in high school -- it was either ’73 or ’74. That was some of the most intense Blues guitar playing I’ve witnessed in person, culminating in "Goin’ Down". I know Blues scholars prefer his earlier work with the cleaner-sounding P90 equipped Gold Top, but not me. I like the nastier tone he sported later on, with those big ol’ semi hollows and more gain. There’s a youtube video from some outdoor gig in Texas, I believe, from around that time, with a great version of "Ain’t Nobody’s Business". My favorite of the three Kings.