@immatthewj I saw John Cougar Mellencamp open for KISS. Maybe 1979? I'd never heard of him and he was really good.
Papa Roach opened for Shinedown several years ago. Both shows were awesome.
The best opening act you've ever seen & heard?
I have two:
In 1983 I went to see The Plimsouls (Peter Case’s pre-solo career band) at The Garage, a tiny little "club" on Ventura Blvd. The room had filled up (elbow-to-elbow tight), and the opening act started their set. My woman and I both looked at each other, our mouths agape. It was Los Lobos, and they were great! Their debut album How Will The Wolf Survive? had yet to be released, but I sure picked it up when it was.
I went to see John Hiatt at The Roxy Theater on Sunset Blvd. during his Perfectly Good Guitar tour, entering the room just as the opening act was starting her final song. The ads for the show listed her name, which was unfamiliar to me. As the song started and progressed, I was stunned; the song she and her band were performing was a great one, and I knew I had missed a quality set of music. It was Sheryl Crow, whose debut album had not yet been released. Damn it!
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@bassbuyer - when I first moved to San Francisco in 1973, I went to a show at Winterland with Wishbone Ash headlining, I think. The first band came on, who I never heard of before, and they tore the roof off the sucker. Montrose. I had friends in other parts of the country who had a similar experience with the original Montrose band. If they'd stayed together, I think they could have been the American Led Zeppelin. |
@larsman - Wishbone Ash and Montrose, what a show! Man, we had some good music back then. I have a few good warm-up memories (like Billy Idol for Def Leppard) but limited to people/groups that I didn't really know well at the time, it would be:
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Come to think of it, @sls883 , it was 1979! I had to ponder it, but I hadn’t moved off base yet so it would have had to have been ’79. Anyway, I enjoyed the John Cougar part of the show so much that I bought his self-titled LP because of it. I remember it had I Need A Lover (That Won’t Drive Me Crazy) and Night Dancing on it. I took a fairly long hiatus from live music after I got out of the Air Force, but in retrospect an opener I would have really liked to have seen/heard would have been Townes Van Zandt when he was opening for the Cowboy Junkies on their Caution Horses tour. I guess when it comes down to it, I would have liked to see Townes anywhere anytime with anybody. But with the CJ? That must have been fantastic. |
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