'they blew'em off the stage'

Jerry Garcia Band opened for Bobby and the Midnights, So. Fallsburg, NY, 1982. Rained hard on Bob, everybody went home, except for some guy with a bottle of Jack who kept screaming "Ain't it good to be alive!" at the top of his lungs.

More obscurely, the smokin' hot cowpunk band Speedball opening for a lamentable Toad the Wet Sproket, Ann Arbor, early nineties. Anyone remember Speedball?

John

Holy poop... I wanna see Mahavishnu in 71!!!
Judas Priest drained the crowd, (77') before Mahogany Rush hit the stage, Frank Marino was visibly bummed and did no encore. On July 25th 1976 Portland Oregon, Gentle Giant blew the doors off the headliner, (just put out too much energy and precision for Yes to match).

Not saying they blew him off the stage, but I saw the Feelies open for Lou Reed and they were so good I copped seats at the next show a couple days later and drove a hundred miles to catch it again. Just to see them.

Mes,

I used to live in Hoboken, NJ - The Feelies adopted hometown. They played a local club called Maxwell's all the time and I saw them a lot. I've also seen Lou Reed a bunch of times, some great shows and some pretty awful. On his best night, I'd still take The Feelies over Lou Reed. Just MHO.

Marty

BTW, the new Glenn Mercer cd "Wheels in Motion" is very good. It's not a Feelies record without Bill Million, but it's still worth a spin.

Hey thanks Marty, I'll check the Mercer CD out. Luna, Feelies and Galaxy 500 all had some good stuff around then, and all were good live shows. I think they had some member hopping between those bands also.