'they blew'em off the stage'

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.

Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullet Band (the tour their "Live Bullet" came from), opening for the Doobie Brothers, maybe 1976.

In 1968 I was at a concert at the Garden State Arts Center with the bill being CHicago as headliner and Iron Butterfly ( go on, laugh). Iron Butterfly absolutely blew Chicago away. CHicago appeared ill-prepared and unrehearsed, Terry Kath broke a string and seemed unable to comepensate for it until the end of the song when he had a roadie give him another guitar. I heard Chicago about a year later in Asbury Park's Convention Hall, and they seemd like a totally different band, much tighter and with much improved sound. Go figure.--Mrmitch

I meant Bob Seger, not Seeger (obviously).

Black & Blue Tour at the Garden (79 or 80); Blue Oyster Cult totally blew away Sabbath (Ronnie James Dio--not Ozzie). First time I saw BOC and they made Dio/Sabbath look absolutely terrible. Made me a BOC fan.