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.
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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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.
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First concert I attended, everyone sitting on the floor in the gym at WSU in Pullman WA where loaves of bread, bottles of wine and joints were freely passed around. Warm up was a one man band, Duster Bennett, very fun performance, then John Mayall and his superb band. Tommy Bolin, around 1974, terrible venue when it could of been in the really great opera house in Spokane WA, amazing performance from all members, warned up for Rush. Most were not paying much attention to TB but went nuts when Rush came on stage and quite frankly, they sucked, I had to leave. I really did not get it how little the audience understood the talent of TB and his band. I was standing in line to buy tickets to see Jimi Hendrix when someone came out to tell us he had died, that was a sad, sad day. Rick
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@wharfy , was it Daddy's Little Pumkin? I like Josh Ritter a lot. Girl In The War back in '07 is what turned me on to him. But sadly, I haven't followed up on him much. |
@winoguy17 , Steve Earle is one of my favorites; I would have loved to see that. What year was that? |
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