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You opened for WHOM???

#647
I've had the oppertunity to play with a lot of rad bands over the years. Weather they are big or not is debateable.

Pg. 99, Crestfallen, Mastodon, Suicide Note, CurlUpAndDie, Backstabbers Inc., Godforbid, Discordance Axis, Circle Takes the Square, Black Cross, National Accrobat, Colliseum, Ed Gein, Baroness, Kylesa, Cattle Decapitation, Black Dhalia Murder, Dillenger Escape Plan, Fall Out Boy, The Queers, Dillenger 4, The Suicide Machines... and MOTORHEAD!!

Those are all regular shows. I've played countless Fests that i don't think really count...
 
#648
MikeyB5 said:
Rory Gallagher,Meatloaf,The Turtles,Little Village(John Hiatt,Ry Cooder,Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner) in Finland,Sugar Blue.Shared the stage with Buddy Guy.Played in Son Seals Band for a year or so before he passed away.
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Were you with Son Seals when he played Slice of Chicago in Palatine? I probably saw you there. I think that was also the first place he played after he got shot.
 
#649
BIg O said:
Our drummer, Bert, is quite the character with a long and checkered career that has included stints with Copper Penny (a Canadian band from the 1968-74 era) and Ronnie Hawkins (some of his sidemen became The Band).

So this past Sunday we are recording a demo, and while doing the mix, our guitarist Rob notices a picture on the wall, and comments to the engineer Brian.

Rob: "Great early photo of Led Zeppelin."

Brian "Yeah, I got it in a local shop - you'll never guess where it was taken"

Rob: "Toronto?"

Brian: "No, up in your neck of the woods - Kitchener."

Bert: "Oh yeah, I remember that show, that was when we opened for them."

Rob and me: "You opened for Led Zeppelin???!!!" :eek: :eek:

Brian confirms that Copper Penny opened that show, then Bert regaled us for 15 minutes or so about how the stage was set up, what a jerk Robert Plant was, what a jerk Copper Penny's manager was (his booking and recording deal was 51% to management, 49% to the band!) and how the show was cut short because Plant didn't like the PA. This tour was after the first Led Zeppelin album was released, but before the second.

Bert continues to amaze us with these stories out of nowhere....

:cool: Hope you enjoyed this little journey into the past - I know we did!...

edit - Any other stories like this from other part-timers out there?
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The only famous famous guy (besides a military gig we got opening for Johny Tilitson in a service club) was around 88, 89 I think. The band was playing a festival in Nebraska and we were the last act before Eddie Money came on. Usually at festivals you don't run into the head liners as often as you'd think. They either hide out in there trailors until you get your gear off the stage, or they don't even arrive until the last minute. But we were about two numbers into our hour when our guitar players amp took a vacation. We continued to play as he futzed with it and one of the stage techs came out and pronounced it dead. All of a sudden this guy comes out of the wings with two or three guys toting gear and its Eddie Money directing his guys to set his own rig up! They got it plugged in and Money joined in and jammed with us for about a half hour. Now that was cool.

I have had occasion to play with some pretty semi-famous (at least in our world) guys. Abb Locke (Chicago Blues.Jazz sax player) used to jam with us at a club outside KC back in the early 90's. I've played with John French from Beefheart (he's a friend) Freddy Robinson (who became Abdu something), from the 70's Blues Breakers used to jam with us on gigs. And I played bass for Bugsy Maugh's band for a good part of the 90's. Bugsy was the Bassist for Paul Buttersfield in the late 60's.
 
#650
I met Louise Mandrell at a photo shoot wearing a quarter of a million dollars worth of jewelry that came from the store I worked at. She is as charming as they come, she bats those blue eyes at you and makes you feel like the only person in the world she is interested in.

Opened for Johnny Paycheck and KY Headhunters long ago.

Would like to open for Disco Tex and the Sex-olets some day.
 
#653
We opened for a fairly well known band back in the 70's on a southern "chitlin' circuit". The band was a great R&B
revue call "Wayne Cochran and the CC riders.
All I really remember was the bass player kept asking me for advice on his bass parts. I helped him out as much as I could. Nice guy. Kind of hyper but pretty cool to hang with.

"It ain't braggin' if you can back it up"

Hehe!
 
#655
I once played the Blues Festival in Baton ROuge, LA. We stayed at some piece of crap hotel on the river. THat night the hotel said there was gonna be a jam in the pool area but they didnt have a PA, so we set ours up and all our gear. THen the jam started. Nothing but old black blues legends. BB King, Buddy Guy, lots of others. I played bass most of the jam too. Was awsome. I didnt know alot of them untill they said thier name. was amazing.
 
#656
I was also in a killer country band in Louisiana back in the 80's. We had a house gig at a huge club. We opened for every artist that came thru there. Most before there first album came out. I have pictures of the marquee with our bands name in big letters, and in tiny letters under it "and Garth Brooks". He was a really nice guy.
 
#657
Only famous one I ever opened for was about 2 years ago. It was Ohio Express, famous for "Yummy Yummy Yummy I've Got Love In My Tummy". It was wild. We play Tom Petty and Golden Earing and Cheap Trick and then these guys come up. They were really great guys tho. Probaby just happy to be getting paid. One of their guitar players had toured with The Bullet Boys, and I told him I had a hard time picturing him playing YYYIGOTLIMT after knowing he'd also played "Smooth Up In Ya". He was a Hell of a player tho...

BnB
 
#658
i opened for allan holdsworth trio twice! and jimmy johnson used my GEAR!!!!! ( amps and cabs)

he ( holdsworth ) is my favorite guitarist.

i tried to open for wooten once, but the promoter wouldnt have it.
 
#659
I haven't read the whole 8 years of this thread, so I don't know if Kentucky Headhunters were mentioned. Super nice, down-to-earth guys! Opened for them at Iowa abate last year.Talked to them after the show, but I had to leave to spare myself a DUI, but my guitar player hung out with them.
 
#660
My old punk/noise band Lungbutter opened for a lot of pretty good 90's punk/noise bands. We were kind of a bridge between the East Bay punk rock and North Bay/Sonoma county scenes. So we got to open for Neurosis, Sleep, Spitboy, Filth, Special Forces, Paxton Quiggly, etc when they played up north in Sonoma county.
We played a few shows and house parties in Oakland/Berkeley as well and opened for Crash Worship a couple times, as well as Unwound, Nation of Ulysses, Chumbawamba and Citizen Fish.

The funniest was when we played a few shows with Rancid. I have the privilege of not only introducing Rancid to Brett, their drummer, but also having been in a band with him previously called Smog (a 2 bass guitar band originally but I lost my bass in a fire and switched to guitar until we broke up. Kind of a doomy APPLE influenced band. not the indie rock band).
Once when we (Lungbutter) played with Rancid opening for us, their 2nd guitarist, Lars offered afterwards to play guitar in our band as well. We politely turned him down!
 

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