Opening bands

[redbirdjazzz]

The opening act for Clapton in KC was Robert Cray!

[MrCrowesGarden]

The heavy/death metal reference reminded me of this band that played at my high school talent show my senior year. No one could understand them, they could barely play, and halfway through the second song the lead "singer" chugged a bottle of honey.

[G. Keenan]

I saw a good one tonight. Page France. AD, did they open for Bishop Allen in Austin a couple weeks ago?

[JackofDiamonds]

Advanced botting.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

In high school, me and the boys went to see Thin Lizzy when 'Boys are back in town' was on the radio. Their opening act was an unknown band from Australia nobody had heard of called 'AC/DC'.

Awesomest opening act I've ever seen. They were so good, Thin Lizzy got booed!

True story.

[Freed Roger]

Saw Bon Jovi open for the Scorpions.
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bon-jovi/ ... 1452d.html
I thought they'd never make it. Then later that summer saw them on the Alan Thicke show and came to the same conclusion.

[Radbird]

I know I mentioned this in the '70s smackdown thread, but the best opening band I've ever seen is Lynyrd Skynyrd opening for The Who.

Had never heard of them before that concert.

[sighyoung]

I remember the db's opening for R.E.M. at Graham Chapel at Wash. U., and even got to meet members of both bands.

Nick Lowe opening for Elvis Costello was quite good, too.

Probably Lyle Lovett opening for Bonnie Raitt was the best, though.

[heyzeus]

One time a million years ago I was psyched to see REM and the opening act was this boring band that played really slow and mopey stuff for awhile til finally they played their only song that anyone knew that was on the radio that went "I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo" etc and everyone cheered when they were done.

Oops. Turns out they were the best band of the last 20 years.

[sighyoung]

I just remembered. The Hoodoo Gurus and another band (can't remember who) were supposed to be opening for Katrina and the Waves, who were going to make their U.S. debut at Washington University--this was before they signed with a big record label, and two or three label reps were going to be at the concert.

Well, Katrina and the Waves got held up at the Canadian border and couldn't make it. But the Hoodoo Gurus were great.