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'they blew'em off the stage'

what concerts have you attended, where the warm up act blew the headliners away.....my examples...brownville station upstaging zz top to the point where people where chanting 'brownsville station!' during the littl ol' band from texas' set.....another..t.rex upstaging lynyrd skynyrd(yes there really was such a show), and the grass roots upstaging cream.
jaybo
nrostov
199 posts
 
Metallica opening for Ozzy in '86 on the Masters of Puppets tour.

Metallica on the Monsters of Rock tour of '88. They blew everbody away that day. Of course given the lineup(see below) it's not as impressive as blowing Ozzy away in '86.

Van Halen (headline act)
Scorpions
Dokken
Metallica
Kingdom Come
tom_hankins
928 posts
 
Jethro Tull completely killed Led Zeplin the first time I saw LZ. I had never even heard of Tull back then. Left (along with many others) halfway through the LZ show.
wireless200
415 posts
 
A couple of friends saw a Judas Priest/Aerosmith show in the 70s and said JP blew away Aerosmith.
macdadtexas
1,794 posts
 
OK, I have an opposite experience in the same vein. I went to see The Cult open for Metallica in 1990 and I really was not a fan of Metallica at all. I just wanted to see the Cult, and Ian Ashbury could not sing a lick at the show, which made it suck (as another aside, I saw them 4 times from 86 - 90 and twice they were phenomenal, and twice Ashbury had no voice at all). We decided to stay for the first song or 2 of Metallica and ended up staying the whole show and I bought all of their albums them. They absolutely rocked, one of the top 5 shows I have ever seen.
rnm4
308 posts
 
Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band (the tour their "Live Bullet" came from), opening for the Doobie Brothers, maybe 1976.
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