re: Biggest band that you saw opening for another band?

Posted by High C

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 3:21 pm to messyjesse

Radiohead opening for REM
The Cult opening for Metallica
Soundgarden opening for G’NR
Lenny Kravitz opening for The Cult
Damn Yankees opening for Motley Crue

Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 3:33 pm to messyjesse

Saw Radiohead open for REM years ago. Creep was just getting popular, but most of the crowd still didn't know it. Michael Stipe was in the crowd in a wig during Radiohead's set, then admonished the crowd during REM's set for not paying more attention to Radiohead and called them the next big band. Gotta say, he nailed that. I only remember Creep from their set.

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Posted by REB BEER

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:04 pm to The Spleen

Not me, but my wife said she saw G&R open for Motley Crue in Lafayette in 1987.

Posted by Dandy Lion

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:17 pm to The Spleen

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Saw Radiohead open for REM years ago. Creep was just getting popular, but most of the crowd still didn't know it. Michael Stipe was in the crowd in a wig during Radiohead's set, then admonished the crowd during REM's set for not paying more attention to Radiohead and called them the next big band. Gotta say, he nailed that. I only remember Creep from their set.

I saw him interviewed on Radiohead, wherein he said 'this band's so talented, it's scary'.

Posted by KISS ARMY

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 4:56 pm to messyjesse

Kid Rock was the first act at House of Blues. Main act was Monster Magnet

Posted by PiscesTiger

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 5:19 pm to messyjesse

Bon Jovi for RATT

Pantera for White Zombie

No Doubt for Bush

Sev3ndust for Coal Chamber

Marilyn Manson for NIN

Posted by devils1854

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 6:00 pm to messyjesse

Back in the mid 2000s, George Strait was doing those massive all day tours, and I saw him at Turner Field in Atlanta.

George Strait
Alan Jackson
Lonestar
Brad Paisley
Sara Evans
Asleep at the Wheel

Posted by Bayou

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 8:06 pm to devils1854

Van Halen (earliest days) opened for
Cheap Trick who opened for
Ted Nugent

Bay City (Michigan) Central High School Stadium 1976

Posted by rutiger

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 9:53 pm to messyjesse

Either bob dylan or sting opening for the grateful dead.

Posted by LSUDUKE

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 10:17 pm to Dandy Lion

RATM opening Lollapalooza in 93' with Primus and AIC as headliners...Tool was second band up.

Also Radiohead opening for REM in 95', not sure how much you guys remember about that concert but it was quite strict. Everyone had to stay pretty much seated until almost the end of the concert and I had a pocketful of herb that went to waste, no way to burn in there.

Posted by jer0009

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 10:18 pm to messyjesse

Incubus and system of a down opening for the phunk junkeez at grant street in Laf

Posted by EA6B

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Posted on 3/23/20 at 11:49 pm to messyjesse

My wife was a kid, and saw Jimi Hendrix open for the Monkees.

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Posted by 88Wildcat

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Posted on 3/24/20 at 9:08 am to EA6B

Black Crowes (opening for Aerosmith in 1989)
Cheap Trick (opening for .38 Special in 1987)
Blues Traveler (opening for the Allman Brothers in 1992)
Jimmie Vaughan (opening for Eric Clapton in 1995)
Fabulous Thunderbirds (opening for Joe Walsh in 1994 or 1995, it was sometime during Desert Storm, show was on the parade grounds of Ft. Riley)
Blue Oyster Cult (opening for Kansas in 1996)

Posted by BluesDriver

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Posted on 3/24/20 at 9:09 am to EA6B

In the early 80’s Stevie Ray Vaughn opened for The Moody Blues...contrast in style to say the least. One of them admitted in a later interview that he blew them off the stage.

Posted by 88Wildcat

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Posted on 3/24/20 at 9:14 am to BluesDriver

You want a contrast in styles? On Spring Break at South Padre Island in 1988 I saw Richard Marx open for Triumph.

Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger

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Posted on 3/24/20 at 9:31 am to messyjesse

I saw Cheap Trick when they opened for Foreigner in the late 1970's, and George Thorogood when he opened for the Rolling Stones in 1981. My brother saw KISS when they opened for Blue Oyster Cult in the early 1970's.

Posted by bartjovi

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Posted on 3/24/20 at 10:38 am to messyjesse

System of a Down opened for Incubus in like '98 at the Varsity. I vividly remember a guy called "Stuff" wiping the entire pit area out during the SOAD set.