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re: Bands you've seen that got bigger than the band they opened for?
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:44 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 7/12/23 at 2:44 pm to StringedInstruments
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Edit - I retract my statement. Didn’t realize REM has sold 90 million albums in their career. Not a lot of up-to-date statistics on Radiohead, but I saw an estimate of 47 million. I wonder if Radiohead releasing a few albums during the streaming era influences that.
i am not sure if they continued to do it but Radiohead was giving away free downloads of their albums at one time.
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Posted on 7/12/23 at 3:03 pm to StringedInstruments
quote:Radiohead's first release was May 1992. REM's was August 1982. So, you have a 10 year difference. Not sure that's really a fair comparison.
Still though, Radiohead can still headline large festivals and produce a tour of sold out large venues. Not sure REM would have that pull.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 5:15 pm to AlxTgr
Exactly what I was thinking.
Radiohead couldn’t pull off the tour that The Cure just had IMO
Radiohead couldn’t pull off the tour that The Cure just had IMO
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 7/12/23 at 6:17 pm to Jake88
I guess Nickelback opening for Three Doors Down. Tickets were cheap in 2000.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 6:17 pm to Jake88
Not necessarily bigger but I saw Soundgarden open for Guns n Roses and I saw The Black Crowes open for Robert Plant.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 6:20 pm to AlxTgr
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Still though, Radiohead can still headline large festivals and produce a tour of sold out large venues. Not sure REM would have that pull.
They absolutely would have at their peak... they're no longer a band though..
Posted on 7/12/23 at 6:23 pm to Jake88
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In Nov 1987 at Tipitinas I saw Jane's Addiction open for Love and Rockets. On the ticket it was misspelled as "James Addiction
That's the one that comes to mind. But I still prefer L&R over JA. Just saw L&R a month ago and they were great.
A couple 3 years ago I saw Charley Crockett open for Shinyribs and CC has blown up now.
This post was edited on 7/12/23 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:04 pm to Zappas Stache
Saw Taylor Swift open for George Strait.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 7:49 pm to Jake88
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In Nov 1987 at Tipitinas I saw Jane's Addiction open for Love and Rockets. On the ticket it was misspelled as "James Addiction."
In 1990 at Tipitinas I saw Nine Inch Nails open for The Jesus and Mary Chain. Saw them for $1 a few months later too.
In 1990 I saw Alice in Chains open at Tips for someone I cant recall currently. Anyone recall who?
Damn.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 8:02 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
1977 or 1978? (it was a fog back then) I saw Van Halen open up. then Cheap Trick, for Ted Nugent at Bay City Central High School in Bay City, Michigan. Looking back at what a gem that was.
Posted on 7/12/23 at 8:55 pm to Jake88
First concert I ever went to was Bon Jovi opening for Ratt in Fayetteville NC
Posted on 7/12/23 at 9:42 pm to TFTC
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they're no longer a band though..
Link?
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:20 pm to StringedInstruments
REM has been broken up for about 15 years now
Posted on 7/12/23 at 10:27 pm to Brosef Stalin
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REM has been broken up for about 15 years now
Ah. I thought he was talking about Radiohead. I see it now.
Posted on 7/13/23 at 1:22 am to StringedInstruments
Soundgarden opening for Skid Row in 1992
Posted on 7/13/23 at 3:00 am to Jake88
Saw Queen open for Mott the Hoople in '75. Mott had a nice career, but no doubt that Queen surpassed them in terms of popularity.
Posted on 7/13/23 at 9:00 am to Wtodd
quote:Some of these are really interesting like above and the ones with GnR, The Scorpions, Frampton, etc.
Maiden opened for .38 Special
Sometimes you don't realize you're witnessing something really special. For me it was Jane's Addiction. Didn't know much about them in 1987. They only had a live album out at the time.
Posted on 7/13/23 at 9:15 am to Jake88
I saw Tim McGraw open for Confederate Railroad who opened for Doug Stone.
Posted on 7/13/23 at 9:27 am to bgoodwin
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bgoodwin
Man, how's everything going?
Hope your picking is going good, along with everything else. Hope your brother is doing well too.
Posted on 7/13/23 at 9:41 am to auggie
No Doubt opening for Public Enemy at the Varsity 92' comes to mind. I remember thinking who is this hot chick and wondered if they were from New Orleans.
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