Famous Bands You Opened Up/Played For

[RhynoRock]

Mushroomhead
Chaimaira
Devin Townsend (of Strapping Young Lad & Steve Vai fame)
All Shall Perish
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Between The Buried & Me
Stephen Pearcy of RATT

Those are all metal bands that, unless you're into modern metal, you most likely won't have heard of them, but they're all big news, except for Stephen Pearcy, he's a hack.

[vishuddha]

Originally Posted by Corevalay

No one will top this...

Well, everyone else better quit wasting our time with their LAME stories! This guy already claimed the crown!

[epirokker]

Originally Posted by RhynoRock

Mushroomhead
Chaimaira
Devin Townsend (of Strapping Young Lad & Steve Vai fame)
All Shall Perish
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Between The Buried & Me
Stephen Pearcy of RATT

Nice list! BTBAM is one of my favorites...Dan Briggs is AMAZING.

The only real band of merit that I can really think of that I've played with is Freya, and if you're not big into hardcore, you've probably never heard of them. And if you have heard of them, then you probably understand why it was a big deal to me!

[RhynoRock]

I have indeed heard of Freya, never listened to them though. We all got to meet BTBAM and they were super nice dudes. Dan was awesome, talking about gear and the tour and stuff, he even played my Ric! Unfortunately I never got a photo of that though

[Jared Hanlon]

Grouplove
Young the Giant

Played the side room of the Ritz Ybor

[qervo]

Warrant
The four tops
Naughty by Nature
The temptations
Funny thing about the temps,,, we were suppose to play for one hour and 15 mins. But when they saw that the crowd was digging us heavy they shut us down after 45 mins. Nobody likes to be upstaged I guess.. Lol

[qervo]

Oh I forgot.. We opened for Egyptian Lover and we got word that E.Lover's band got a flat tire so they weren't gonna be able to do the show. So our manager said we had to do the show. None of us knew lover's song list but that was no problem since the entire show was on DAT tape. So we just faked it as best we could. I got paid to fake keyboards all night! It was a blast.

[knowles]

This club wanted us to open for DFA 1979 so eagerly that they had us listed on the matinee the night before.

[avri62]

Originally Posted by Buzzramjet

Humble Pie
Sugarloaf
Grand Funk Railroad

Jammed with a huge amount.(Another thread)

With those bands...you got my vote!

[justiceforyall]

Originally Posted by LCBurt

David Allen Coe has the most hardcore fans....They are some drinking, fighting, rowdy, crazy B@$^@ds and they are a tough crowd. I remember feeling like we had to win them over after every song, it's a good thing we played well that night, if we sucked I think we would have gotten lynched.

I had a chance to talk with his Bassist before the show and I was asking him what material they might be doing, and if they were going to do anything from the Rebel Meets Rebel collaboration with Dimebag Derrell. He told me "I know the first song were going to play after that it's chase the rabbit, Mr. Coe will play what he wants and you better keep up!"

Coe has one of Derrell's guitars, it was a Dean that had a rebel flag finish that he would use for some songs. It was set up on the side of the stage in a stand while we were playing. I thought it was pretty cool to share the stage with Derrell's guitar.

Good times

I saw him play a show this summer. He didn't even have a bassist with him then; just another guitarist besides himself and a drummer. That was an intense show.

[bootsox]

David Allan Coe has got to be one of my favorite musicians of all time, but imagine how shocked someone who just heard The Ride or You Never Even Called Me By My Name on the radio and thought they might check out one of his concerts might be.

[peabody]

We opened for Chicago a couple of years back. Of course all of their stuff was already set up when we took the stage, but the coolest part was seeing their set lists taped around the stage.

[levonrocks]

We've played with The Marshall Tucker Band, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, a the Radiators, Janes Addiction, Joe Cocker, The Dark Star Orchestra, Seven Walkers with George Porter Jr. and Bill Kruetzman, Keller Williams, and a few others.

Here is a link to hear us play http://quimbymountainband.net/videos

We're called the Quimby Mountain Band. The bass is pretty clear on the first video;.

[Moe Monsarrat]

Let me take a deep breath.......Talking Heads, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Peter Tosh, The Wailers, Head East, The Busboys, The Meters, The Neville Bros., David Allen Coe, The Pointer Sisters, Sugar Minott, Gregory Issacs, The I-Tals, Toots & The Maytals, The Meditations, The Skatalites, The Mighty Diamonds, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, Merle Haggard,Johnny Bush,Herbie Mann, Deodato, Joan Baez, The Texas Tornados, The Electric Prunes, Big Youth, Rick Springfield, Henry Gross, Don Carlos & Gold, Buju Banton, Pato Banton, Shabba Ranks, Freddie King, Julian Marley, Asleep At The Wheel, Gary P. Nunn, Jerry Jeff Walker, Freddy Powers, The Radiators, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jimmy Cliff, Israel Vibrations, Roots Raddics, Rory Gallagher, Morgan Heritage, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Christopher Cross, Queen Ifrica, Inner Circle, Ray Manzarek, Marcia Griffiths, Sublime, Vince Vance & The Valiants, Joe Higgs, Beres Hammond, Sister Carol, Third World, Black Uhuru, Joe Cocker, John Rich, Eddie Rabbit,Ruby Jane Smith, Sonny Throckmorton, Kinky Friedman, The Nighthawks, Eddy Hinton, Clinton Fearon, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, The Gatlin Bros. Robert Earl Keen, Kevin Fowler, Clifton Chenier, Junior Brown, Dale Watson, Sea Level, Rick Derringer, Billy Joe Shaver, Lee Scratch Perry & Noel Redding....just to name a few.

[stettoman]

Robin Trower (post-Dewar, RIP)
Wishbone Ash
Cheap Trick
Lita Ford
Testament

...Some of these folks were not very nice people, some were salt of the earth. Trower made me wish I was related to him...

We didn't open for, but played for Queensryche at the Prime Rib Palace in Belview (sp?) WA on Halloween of 1988...And Roger Fisher walked in for a set...That was a wild gig; I dressed as Ed Grimly...



Boy was I self conscious...

[shadven]

Cheap Trick - 3x
Leon Russell - 2x
Artimus Pyle - 2x
The Fixx - 2x
The Gin Blossoms - 2x
Dickie Betts
The Subdudes
Little Feat
Southern Culture on the Skids
Avril Levigne
Live
Bobby Bare Jr.
Dale Watson
Commander Cody

There are a few more, but that all I can think of. For almost all we were the only opener. Most exciting for me was Cheap Trick.

[hachi kid]

Originally Posted by knowles

This club wanted us to open for DFA 1979 so eagerly that they had us listed on the matinee the night before.

This guy wins the mother f***ing thread. Now I want to hear your band. Link to material, please?

[EvanF1322]

I guess every Genre has there "Famous" bands.
being in this band for about a year so far we've opened up for
The adicts
Played a show with dan potthast of MU330
and share the marque with some of these guys

[Neiler]

some very impressive lists here...

Only band worth listing for me would be Kill Devil Hill. It may not have been Pantera, but it was still Rex Brown, and that's good enough for me.

[brotherbassj]

i'll play

Halestorm
Apocalyptica
All That Remains
Nonpoint
Orgy
and a few more I'm missing.......I'm sure