Famous Bands You Opened Up/Played For

[Swicked]

only aussies will probably know this list but:
- british india
- evermore
- art vs science
- grinspoon
- regurgitator

Omg what band?

 

[polymad]

Opened up for the below with different bands, as the genres are extreme from one another:

-Sting
-Joss Stone
-Stanley Jordan
-Megadeth
-Arrested Development
-Kelly Roland
-Randy Brecker
-Billy Cobham
-Damien Marley
-Foreign Beggars
-Avenged Sevenfold
-The Madness
-The Four tops
-Tina Turner
-Yngwie Malmsteen
-Timberland


There are a few more, just cant remember. All awesome shows!

 

[steelyodis]

Originally Posted by Easy8 View Post
I feel blessed and humbled to have played with so many great people. These are the most memorable.

Freddy King
T Bone Walker
Lightnin' Hopkins
Bo Diddley
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan
Kim Wilson
Charlie Sexton
Robert Ealey
U.P. Wilson
Guitar Gable
Rick Derringer
Juke Jumpers
Anson Funderburgh
Leroi Brothers
Roy Buchanan
T Bone Burnett
Stephen Bruton
Delbert McClinton
Tower of Power Horns
Jim Keltner
Doug Sahm
Marc Benno
Doyle Bramhall

Winner - right there! Wow . . . . you ARE indeed blessed my friend.

If this is who I think it is, he's more talented than lucky

 

[DataDan]

Other bands...
Not really a band but we played the 2nd stage at Surf & Skate

Which year? I might have been at that show if it was 99-04' time period.


and the best I can do here is I jammed with a guy that opened for Jimmy Buffet a few times.

 

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Pop Will Eat Itself
Legendary Pink Dots
Jonathan Richman
Trash Can Sinatras
Dead Milkmen
Letters to Cleo
Catherine
Concrete Blonde
Lisa Germano
Caterwaul
Jim Carroll
Wheat
New Radiant Storm King
Colin Hay
Derek Trucks
Rare Earth
The Animals
Mark Burgess (the Chameleons U.K.)
Jason Aldean / Tim McGraw (second stage pre-show)
Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone

 

[zfunkman]

I played in a punk band in high school in 80 - 81. We were called Citizen Fear and Social Distortion opened for us at a party in Anaheim.

 

[MeridianJoe]

Flotsam&jetsam back in my pre-church playin' days

 

[thobbinghotrod]

My band could have opened for Social Distortion, but when I got the call, I was standing in the venue waiting for social Distortion. Seems the opener's van broke down or something.

 

[Fat Steve]

I've opened up for:

-Fishbone (4 times)
-Weapon of Choice
-The Untouchables
-Hellride (Mike Watt, Stephen Perkins and Peter DeStefano)
-The Missingmen (Mike Watt)
-Agent Orange
-Boy Hits Car
-Voodoo Glow Skulls
-Pato Banton
-Eek A Mouse
-Neighborhood Watch

And I've jammed onstage with Trulio Disgracious (Norwood Fisher, Lonnie Marshall and others) here's a pick of that show (I'm the guitard at stage right)

 

[Marc61]

With various groups:

opened and was actual backup band for Bo Diddley
opened for Wall of Voodoo (Mexican Radio)
Georgia Satellites actually opened for a band I was in about two weeks before they hit it big
A band called the Breakfast Club opened up for my band, and according to timeline Madonna was in the band on drums at that point, although I don't recall seeing her that day
I put together a band with my son in 2009 and our second show was opening for Missing Persons.

Never toured with a major act though

 

[KarlK]

I played in a punk band in high school in 80 - 81. We were called Citizen Fear and Social Distortion opened for us at a party in Anaheim.

Hey, that's my era and neighborhood! Wasn't playing then, but I recal we ALMOST had Black Flag play a lunchtime or after school concert at my high school. They were going incognito under another name, but when the school admin caught wind of who they really were, that was the end of that.

Sorry for the hijack, we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...

 

[bggeezer]

My first school punk band 'The Snot Gobblers' in 1978, opened for '999' when in London who were supporting 'The Stranglers'. Boy were we sh*t but what a riot! All down hill from there!

 

[Fair Warning]

Oh boy theres a lot here lol
Vanilla Ice
Sevendust
All That Remains (twice)
Ten Years (twice)
Straight Line Stitch
HellYeah
Cavo
Blackstone Cherry
Trapt
Hurt
In This Moment
Nonpoint
Saving Abel
and in February we are opening for P.O.D.
Vanilla Ice, Sevendust and Straight Line Stitch were with previous bands.

You win!

 

[Bigfoot414]

Wow, really cool lists over here!

My list of memorable opening shows doens't even remotely comes close to all this, but my band is opening for the younger brother of Johnny Cash in a month, Mr. Tommy Cash.

If anyone is interested, you'll have to travel to Eindhoven, Netherlands .

I didn't even know he had a younger brother...

 

[39-Bassist]

Ok I'll bite......

Stryper, Kings X, Jars of Clay, Flyleaf and a handful of others most on hear may not know.

 

[Cyberbowser]

I played a show with Free Ride. They are not famous by any means and are not signed but they are very well known in southern Manitoba, Canada. They play 3 different sets, one with all Beatles covers, a 70s set and a 50s set. They even use the appropriate instruments for each set(Hofner Violin Bass for Beatles, P-Bass for 50s). They played the 50s and Beatles sets and we played in between the 2.