You opened for WHOM???

[Tim669]

These are all really cool...
In the past I have been in bands that have opened for:

James Brown
Kenny Wayne Sheppard
The Blues Brothers
The Stranglers
Atlantic Rhythm Section
The Wailers
The Connells
2 Skinnee J's (really cool, now defunct band from NYC)
and a couple fo others that I am trying to remember now.

 

[DigableGrooves]

I've opened for Maynard Ferguson. Got a J-bass pickguard autographed by some of the band members with his big ol' sig' right in the middle. Maybe it's valuable now that he's no longer with us.

 

[Acepiloto]

In my first two shows with my new band Link Removed, on Monday we opened for Napalm Death and Exodus. And last night we played a big festival show, where we played right before the nationals, with Fear Factory, Drowning Pool, Fozzy, American Head Charge, Motograter, Five Finger Death Punch, etc. Huge stage, awsome sound, it was a blast. Too bad the people putting on the show lost their a$$ due to the turnout.

 

[CTbass&birdsong]

In 74 the band I played with "gypsy wine Band" opened For Santana @ william and mary hall in williamsburg,va.---in the early 70s in the tidewater area, alot of headliners used popular local groups to open for them... It was a fantastic experience!!!!

 

[elwood]

In 74 the band I played with "gypsy wine Band" opened For Santana @ william and mary hall in williamsburg,va.---in the early 70s in the tidewater area, alot of headliners used popular local groups to open for them... It was a fantastic experience!!!!

Seems like everyone was playing Tidewater back then, too.

 

[AGCurry]

Muddy Waters - 3 nights in 1972, 1 night in 1980.
John Lee Hooker
Asleep at the Wheel - 3 different times
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
John Mayall
Charlie Daniels Band
Albert Collins
Homesick James and the Dusters
John Hartford
Doug Kershaw
The Klezmatics
Jethro Burns
Merle Haggard
Played in a "pickup band" with Eddie Harris

 

[j-raj]

Muddy Waters - 3 nights in 1972, 1 night in 1980.
John Lee Hooker
Asleep at the Wheel - 3 different times
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
John Mayall
Charlie Daniels Band
Albert Collins
Homesick James and the Dusters
John Hartford
Doug Kershaw
The Klezmatics
Jethro Burns
Merle Haggard

wow!

Played in a "pickup band" with Eddie Harris

ever get a chance to do Cold Duck Time or Freedom Jazz Dance with him?

 

[chrisrhoads]

This last Saturday I opened for Alan Jackson
Link Removed

 

[matrok]

^^^ wow! very cool!

 

[AGCurry]

wow!

ever get a chance to do Cold Duck Time or Freedom Jazz Dance with him?

Eddie Harris? It was like 1982, in the dead of winter, Lawrence, Kansas. We all expected to play some of his better-known numbers, but he came in (late) and I think we played a lot of bebop-like stuff, along with a lot of jamming on I-IV progressions. I don't remember any song names.

The hall we were playing had neglected paying the utility bills, so there was no heat in the building. We were all wearing coats, and there were maybe 50 people in the audience.

Just goes to show that paying your dues never really ends...

 

[j-raj]

tough to play bebop with cold fingers.

 

[Christian Waiau]

The Violent Fems
Our Daughter's Wedding (with Mars Williams on saxophone!)
The Bongos (2x)
Wall of Voodoo
Ebn Ozn (our keyboard player was in their band too)
The Waitresses (only Patty Donahue and some hair band)
Peter Tork! (also with a hair band!)
Alien Sex Fiend
And some others I can't recall at the moment...
We were supposed to open for the B-52's, but Ricky got sick...

ALIEN SEX FIEND!!!! how was tha??

 

[Stumpy]

In an earlier incarnation my band opened for Agent Orange.

 

[patrickj]

Funny... forgot about that.. I have too!

Wasn't on bass - back in my jazz trombone days.. real nice guy, real classy musician when I met him. INSANE breath support!

He's definitely missed.

I've opened for Maynard Ferguson. Got a J-bass pickguard autographed by some of the band members with his big ol' sig' right in the middle. Maybe it's valuable now that he's no longer with us.

 

[tribal3140]

Orgy, linkin park, taproot, spineshank, chiamera lots of times,
cold, lollipop lust kill & they opened for us, stroke 9, tantric, no one, papa roach, nashville pussy, sponge and they opened for us too.

theres many more but I cant remeber them all.

 

[Christian Waiau]

In an earlier incarnation my band opened for Agent Orange.

my good friend shawn played bass for Agent Orange briefly when he was 17... but they soon got a new bassist because they couldnt get him in to all the venues.

 

[washtub_bass]

my old band Cadillac Kidz opened up for Professor Irwin Corey (commedian) and Peter Noone (hermans hermits) at a Michigan State fair... dammm we did anything for a couple bucks!

 

[srxplayer]

This last Saturday I opened for Alan Jackson
Link Removed

Don't you just hate playing to those small venues.

 

[JacksonsMen]

the only notable one would be Cracker. but then again ive only played a handful of shows as of yet

 

[patrickj]

I think I'll be opening for Ryan Star (of Rockstar Supernova fame) this monday night in Baltimore.