re: Bands you've seen that got bigger than the band they opened for?

In '93 (I believe this was the year) I saw Stone Temple Pilots open up for Ministry at the State Palace Theater. They were a last minute add, since Helmut's tour bus crashed in transit to New Orleans. Nobody in the audience knew who the hell they were, and they blew us away. They proceeded to blow up several months later into the massive success we know them to be.