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That was 1978? Ouch. |
odd pairing..both great...redbone, charles lloyd |
On the odd combo side
Toots & The Maytalls opened for The Who on the Quadraphrenia tour. This may have worked in England, but at that time the crowd in Detroit (Pontiac, actually) wasn't very receptive. They literally booed Toots off the stage. The Who followed with the worst set I've ever seen them deliver. |
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I also saw AC/DC on the same tour (seattle 1978) Cat Scratch Fever i think and AC/DC with Bon Scott blew both Ted Nugnet and Cheap Trick away.
I saw a triple bill in the Paramount in Seattle (1979?) with Wireless, Judas Preist and UFO as the headliner. Judas Preist was unbelievable they killed UFO (no michael schenker, he had just left UFO) no contest. We were in the third row over to right in front of the speakers and ears rang for 2 days. |
Update on my previous post:
03/08/74 - SCHAEFER MUSIC FESTIVAL, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
JUNGLELAND / KITTY'S BACK / ROSALITA
ONE show, triple bill, with Springsteen & The E Street Band occupying the middle slot in a show headlined by ANNE MURRAY, with BREWER & SHIPLEY as the opening act. This was an evening show held outdoors in the Wollman Ice Rink Theatre within Central Park. This concert had originally been booked with Boz Scaggs headlining, Anne Murray billed second and Brewer & Shipley opening. When headliner Scaggs pulled out of the gig in June promoter Ron Delsener replaced him with Springseen in the headlining slot. However Shep Gordon and Johnny Podell (managers of Murray) objected to Springsteen receiving headlining status, citing Murray's then-superior commercial success. As a consequence the schedule was changed the week before the show, with Murray receiving the top billing. Advertisements exist from both before and after the change of headlining status (see photos below). Mike Appel reluctantly agreed with the change on the condition that Springsteen would be allowed to perform for at least 80 minutes. As it turned out approximately 80% of the 5,000-strong crowd came specifically to see Springsteen - and half way through Bruce's performance Murray's managers realized they'd made a serious mistake, even trying in vain to get Mike Appel to yank Bruce offstage prematurely. Needless to say Bruce played his full show and Anne Murray was placed in the nightmarish position of having to follow him. Partial setlist above is from an attendee recollection. THERE IS NO CIRCULATING AUDIO FROM THIS SHOW. This would turn out to be the last time (excepting charity benefits) that Springsteen & The E Street Band opened for another artist.
A BRUCEBASE reader who attended the show statesÂ….Â…"It is absolutely true that most of the crowd booed when the announcer informed us that Anne Murray would be out in 15 minutes - while we were still screaming for another encore. Most of us left. In Los Angeles Mark Brickman (Bruce's lighting director) was talking to my wife and said that Anne Murray was hysterical backstage - really pissed off that her manager had forced Bruce to play second. The story made it to JOHN SEBASTIAN, who voluntarily took second spot on 18/10/74 in Passaic." |
once saw stevie ray vaughn open for the moody blues during their long distance voyager tour. while srv did not blow away the moody's (they were both performed extremely good sets). I bring this up only because the pairing was odd. |
Ejvl752 you saw Steeleye Span? They are quite accomplished. TAS raved about their stuff for years as terrific music and quality recordings and I have to agree. Commoners Crown is a good one to start with if anyone has an interest.
sorry to get off topic... |
I enjoy Mick Ralphs and Ian Hunter but Mott is a very overrated band in the annals of rock and roll history.
Audiofeil You're just saying that because you ain't a young dude anymore Bill. :) John |
I saw New York Dolls and Aerosmith in October 1973; both of them smoked the opening act, Mott the Hoople.
I enjoy Mick Ralphs and Ian Hunter but Mott is a very overrated band in the annals of rock and roll history. |
The Replacements opening for Elvis Costello at MSG. I was, and still am a Costello fan but the Replacements totally kicked ass ending the show with each band member swapping instruments and bringing the house down. Early 80's? |
From my days growing up outside Philadelphia... a local band called the Hooters fronted for a lot of national bands and for a while, the conversation went a bit like this...
"You going to see the Hooters this weekend?"
"Yeah"
"Who are they opening for?
"Dunno. You going?"
"Dunno. Saw them a couple of weeks ago."
"Were they good?"
"Great!"
"Who came after?"
"I forgot"
Then, after a while, when others started opening for them, they seemed to lose their hunger to play for a small enthusiastic audience.
Otherwise... I remember seeing the Bus Boys open for someone at a concert at a university. I went to see the main act, and have long forgotten who that was, but have never forgotten how good the Bus Boys were...
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20 years ago or so in Red Bank, NJ. Chick Corea was supposed to play. Some weak excuse that his plane was delayed (nice, way to cut it close...) The program organizer was desperate and made a invitation to the audience to give it crack. Anyway, the guy was SOOOO much better then Corea that 1/2 the audience walked out half way into his abbreviated set.
Classic |
gotta jump in....i saw the monkees on a reunion tour and they were great....when a bunch of guys play a great band long enough, they actually become a great band....'i'm not a real doctor, but i play one on tv'...... buck dharma has done more in 2 minutes than some well respected guitarists have done in a lifetime.......bruce springsteen played warm up for sha na na. |
Mid 70s when Blue Oyster Cult opened for Black Sabbath. |
Steve Earle opened for Bob Dylan. No contest... |
Rush opening up for Kiss, think it was 77...
Second would have to be Metallica opening for Ozzy 86...... |
1978(?). Tom Waits played before Jerry Jeff Walker at the Orpheum Theater in Madison, WI. When Mr Waits did "Phantom 309" it was a transcendent moment. Mr Walker may have been a little under the weather that night. |
Mismatch blow off-The Who opening for Herman's Hermits, '68 or '69 memory fades. More recently, that is within the last 15 years; unknown Keb Mo' solo opening for bored and boring JJ Cale, the crowd called out for Mo' and got him to come back out when Cale limped off. |
Allman Brothers opening for The Nice (Keith Emerson et. al.)at The Boston Tea Party c.1969.
Best "odd matching concert": at the Orpheum in Boston c.1970 w/Steve Marcus, Capt. Beefheart, and the NY Dolls sharing the same bill (they blew each other off stage??) |
Hey my uncle took me to see Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins and Rosemary Clooney at WolfTrap in 1975. Never mind. |
"Blown off the stage" is too strong but a couple years ago Susan Tedeschi followed by Koko Taylor and Buddy Guy. Buddy is still an amazing guitarist but they both brought Susan back on stage for duets and virtually passed the torch.
The oddest double bill was Joe Cocker and SRV. Completely different styles. Cocker had Ray Charles-like precision while I doubt SRV ever played a song the same way twice. Still, the best concert ever. That was the last road trip for SRV. |
1968....minneapolis armory...a local band-white lightning-opened for creedence clearwater revival. first time i had heard them. creedence played 2 25 minute semi-psych droners. white lightning had the flair and dash of the early who along with a singer who could do a pretty good jim morrison....no contest |
Steve Morse Band opening for Rush Worcester, MA 1985(?) for the Power Windows tour.
Morse and Co. did a version of Dazed and Confused from the second half, the instrumental section, that nailed absolutely every note and nuance of Pages studio version solo, simply frightening and scary as I remember. Totally unexpected and the audience was in shock.
Rush was good but they didn't top that one that night.
Please tell me there were others that were also at that same show. |
John McLaughlinÂ’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, December 1971 in Burlington, VT. They opened for The Blue Oyster Cult and the reconstituted Byrds. No contest. Not even from the same solar system. |
Back in the early '70's the headliner was Jethro Tull. The opening band was Steeleye Span. Never heard of them...no one had.
They were pure magic. I can't say they blew away Tull, but they were a very hard act to follow. So much so the crowd kept applauding and yelling for more, that the concert went for a VERY long time.
Tull was, of course, not a letdown (I think it was the Aqualung Tour), and after a great headliner act, Ian Anderson brought back Steeleye Span and both bands played together.
Their synergy was incredible. |
Bob Seger opening up for Deringer, Ted Nugent and Kiss at Anaheim Stadium in 1976. Smoking hot. |
I remember Guns N Roses blowing AeroSmith right out of the arena during thier opening stint in support of "Appetite For Destruction"..........it was sad! |
Saw the Foo Fighters absolutely destroy The Red Hot Chili Peppers in Phoenix a few years back. Ever since I have not been a Chili Peppers fan at all. Waited months for the show and then was greatly disappointed except for the Foo Fighters. Dave Grohl rocked! |
At a multi-performer benefit for Bill Bradley's first run for office, Paul Simon was supposed to open and close the show, with several acrs in between his two sets. Patti Smith was next to last on the schedule and was so overwhelming that Simon didn't even try. He skipped the last set entirely and just intoduced " Biiill Braaaadley" in his best MC voice.
As a funny aside, Bradley was apparently unready for the early introduction and a few akward moments passed after Simon's dramatic intro. As the stage full of performers looked around in confusion for the real "headliner", Patti Smith pipes up
"So where the fuck is the guy?"
It was priceless.
Marty |
I bet Hendrix blew the Monkees off the stage! |
Allman Brothers at Stony Brook Univ (a long, long time ago). Opened for Chicago! |
Just last year I saw the Jack White and the Raconteurs simply own the stage when they opened for Bob Dylan in Amherst, Mass. Dylan, on the other hand, might as well have phoned in his performance. |
Pacific Gas and Electric opened for John Mayall at the Kinetic Playground (Aaron Russo's Electric Theater) in Chicago around 1969 and came out smokin'. I don't remember Mayall's lineup of band members at the time but do remember him being upset with the bass player's volume. PG & E went on to return many times, gathered a loyal following and never had a bad night any of the many times I heard them. |
Wow, I have to go way back for this: Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon at al. as warm-up to the Rolling Stones. |
In 1987 I was in the front row when The Cult opened for Billy Idol.
Idol was pretty good, but The Cult just brought the house down. |
Jay Ferguson, ex of Spirit, blew the Doobies off the stage on a nightly basis in support of his Thunder Island album. I used to work for Jay as his lighting designer. He had a remarkably tight band and he was a one man wrecking crew on stage. The press coverage started to become embarassing for the Doobie Brothers so we came off their tour and started headlining our own in smaller venues. |
Ten Years After opening for Peter Frampton.
My memory is a little less clear on this, you know the times were different then, but I seem to recall King Crimson opening for Golden Earing.
I wasn't there, but, it's been reported that Jimmy Hendrix opened for the Monkeys. |
John Legend thoroughly outperformed Alicia Keys at a performance at the Kodak Theater in LA several years back. |
1973 Paramount Theater, Portland: Little Feat (the Lowell George band), with the-then traditional finale of "Tripe Face Boogie", leaving an obviously compromised Sly Stone nothing to do but shuffle around for 35 minutes and go home. |
right off the top of my head:
toadies opening for bush
slipknot opening for coal chamber
mudvayne opening for disturbed
tying:
tweaker opening for skinny puppy (that was a great show!!!) |
Back in the early 70's Buddy Guy and Junior Wells opened for Dave Mason at the Field House in Iowa City. Most of the people were gone in the middle of the first set of Dave Mason. No comparison. Dan |
Boston backing Aerosmith in '76. Boston was as tight as a Quad diaphram, then Aerosmith came out and were as 'incoherent' as a turntable being spun by hand. Of course the effects of intoxicating substanced will do that - a common affliction at the time. |
Van Halen touring for their first album and they opened for Black Sabbath at Madison Square Garden in 1978 |
This was long ago, when Bon Scott was alive, ACDC opened for Ted Nugent at an outdoor concert in Rockford, IL, and they just burned the place down. Just a great bit of showmanship with a killing beat that no one could have surpassed. And they made sure of it. Show over.
Lesson learned: Always back pride with talent. |
Blues Traveler opening for the Allman Bros. at the Mann in philly |
Better? Memorable might be a better word for the 3 that come to mind.
Peter Frampton opening for ZZ Top. Same year as the live album (I think) but in Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY.
Tania Tucker opening for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Also in Louisville. She was also first on the bill for Frampton/ZZ Top.
INXS opening for Men at Work. Timberwolf in Cincinnati the year Shabooh Shoobah came out.
Jim S. |
way back when I went to see a triple bill of Seals and Crofts, some guy named Springsteen and the headliner, Anne Murray. When the whole crowd left after Springsteen's performance I heard a little girl ask "where's everybody going Mommy, the shows not over". she was right. |
Ncarv, I agree with you, of the two of us my wife was the one who preferred the Commander. Also, I think CC was a local favorite in Ann Arbor at the time, might have had something to do with it. Me, I was mezmerized by the late Clarence White's guitar work, and the Byrds had always been my favorite band from the 60s, so it was no contest for me.
The Duke's post brings back fond memories of those old Filmore East concerts. Really, they had great acts, and not just one headliner either. |
Saw Beth Hart a few yrs ago at an outdoor concert in front of The Pretenders. The Pretenders weren't bad but Beth Hart was fantastic! |
Many years ago, pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac, with Peter Green playing blues guitar opened for original Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath. No contest. Mac.
As for that Commander Cody/Byrds concert, I saw that tour in South Florida. I had backstage passes and stood on stage. Sorry, Rcprince, Cody was fun, but the Byrds . . . stellar.
Biggest mismatch -- my younger sister went to see The Monkees. Jimi Hendrix opened. Need I say more. |
