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Famous Bands You Opened Up/Played For

#64
These are shows that I booked for bands that I managed in the past
Slaughter
Warrant
SNOT (before they were signed)
System of a Down (also before signed)
Zebrahead
Green Jello
Souls at Zero
Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park before signed)
Hell Yeah
Foo Fighters... Dave Grohl actually gave my drunken guitar player a ride home after the after party.. LOL
and a bunch of others...
Slaughter and Warrant were the hardest to work with.. they were stars and they knew it.. LOL
Just about all of those other bands were really cool and fun to hang with.
 
#65
Well, I never opened up for any famous bands myself, but the closest I get is seeing my former band Menfolk perform, and even play some songs I helped create, at the same festival (Roskilde Festival 2006), although not the same scene, where names like Tool, Bob Dylan and Roger Waters also performed.
 
#66
My Brother just moved to Denmark.. He is going to Roskilde this year... VOLBEAT!!


NoiseNinja said:
Well, I never opened up for any famous bands myself, but the closest I get is seeing my former band Menfolk perform, and even play some songs I helped create, at the same festival (Roskilde Festival 2006), although not the same scene, where names like Tool, Bob Dylan and Roger Waters also performed.
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#68
rfslick said:
Opened the first Black and White Ball for the Greatful Dead in San Francisco.
Jeff Beck w/Rod Stewart
Santana
Chambers Brothers
Big Brother/w Janis
Youngbloods
It's a Beautiful Day
Mother Earth
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Blues Project
Steve Miller Blues Band
...
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Along the same genre:

played onstage with -
The late Levon Helm
The late Vassar Clements
Buddy Cage (he's also on our CD)

opened for -
The New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jorma Kaukonen
Railroad Earth
Umphrey's McGee
Robbie Kreiger Band
David Nelson Band
Commander Cody
and a lot of festivals with multiple headliners...
 
#70
I never opened for anyone but I drove a Limo Part time in the 90's and took a lot of popular musicians to the Letterman show.

my 2 favorites

Slash

Tony Bennett

others included

some of the Alman bros, Oasis, the spin doctors( got Chris Barron to sign a NORML hat for me)

bunch of others that I cannot remember now
 
#71
Top_Ten said:
Green Day opened for my band at a pizza parlor, among various other places. Then they got huge and we opened for them at big shows.

Blink 182 did a tour opening for one of my bands. Then they got big too. See a pattern here?

We did a tour opening for Bad Religion. We played festivals with Rancid. We opened for No Doubt just before they got huge. We played the first and second Warped tours, so played with whatever bands were on those. Actually, if you name any popular punk rock type band from the early-mid 90s, we probably played with them.

The bands I was in back then were called The Mr. T Experience and Samiam, if you're curious.
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Aaron?
 
#72
Top_Ten said:
Green Day opened for my band at a pizza parlor, among various other places. Then they got huge and we opened for them at big shows.

Blink 182 did a tour opening for one of my bands. Then they got big too. See a pattern here?

We did a tour opening for Bad Religion. We played festivals with Rancid. We opened for No Doubt just before they got huge. We played the first and second Warped tours, so played with whatever bands were on those. Actually, if you name any popular punk rock type band from the early-mid 90s, we probably played with them.

The bands I was in back then were called The Mr. T Experience and Samiam, if you're curious.
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Ah, the power of the internets. The bass player for one of the bands I was in back in the mid to late nineties, was in a band that opened for Mr. T. Experience when you guys played Pittsburgh at Club Laga.
 

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