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skydigger
Junior
Username: skydigger

Post Number: 15
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 7:23 pm:   Edit Post

I'm kinda curious what response this'll get here at Alembic?

Mine would be...

Bob Marley opening up for 1973 Pink Floyd...

or maybe

1979 AC\DC opening for the RHCP...
jakebass
Junior
Username: jakebass

Post Number: 33
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 1:52 am:   Edit Post

There are so many possibilities
The Oscar Peterson Trio (Ray Brown Ed Thigpen) opening for Miles Davis kind of blue band

Alan Holdsworth for James Taylor to get two helpings of Jimmy Johnson

An all star motown cast opening for Stevie wonder....... Jamerson of course

and the list goes on

Jake
fc_spoiler
Senior Member
Username: fc_spoiler

Post Number: 666
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 2:33 am:   Edit Post

The Who and Motorhead

The ultimate dB battle!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2727
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

Howzabout real, actual, pairings from history? My two favorites are:

1. Jimi Hendrix opens for The Monkees

2. The Who opens for Herman's Hermits

More seriously, I actually got to see my fantasy twosome on Jerry's 31st birthday (August 1, 1973) when The Band opened for The Dead in Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City. 12 days later I moved to California.

Bill, tgo
byoung
Senior Member
Username: byoung

Post Number: 838
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 10:16 am:   Edit Post

Led Zeppelin opens for Iron Butterfly, and Zep's performance was so awesome that Iron Butterfly refused to come on.

Fillmore East, 1969.
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2732
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 10:24 am:   Edit Post

A stairway to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby! hehehehe

Bill, tgo
fc_spoiler
Senior Member
Username: fc_spoiler

Post Number: 667
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 11:53 am:   Edit Post

Another real, actual, pairing from history:

Megadeth opening for Metallica (+ bonus Suicidal Tendencies) in '93
I guess that was the first Metallicatour with Robert Trujillo onstage
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 5716
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 4:22 pm:   Edit Post

Bill; the Band opening for the Dead sounds really cool!
crobbins
Member
Username: crobbins

Post Number: 59
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 6:54 pm:   Edit Post

Rueben and the Jets opening for Frank Zappa and the Mothers
artswork99
Advanced Member
Username: artswork99

Post Number: 233
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 7:37 pm:   Edit Post

Larry Coryell opening for Stanley Clarke at one venue and Al Di Meola opening for Renaissance at another venue and then Al shows up for a nice long encore with Stanley... what an event that was! Glad I picked the Stanley show to see that!
jbybj
Intermediate Member
Username: jbybj

Post Number: 112
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Saturday, November 24, 2007 - 11:00 pm:   Edit Post

In the real world.....

The Dead Kennedys and X at the Deaf Club in S.F.

Robin Trower opening for Sha-na-na at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Sasha & Yuri, the defecting Russian rockers, with Bebop Deluxe and Blue Oyster Cult at Winterland.

And for my fantasy.........

Frank Zappa and 90's era King Crimson

The Damned and Gang of Four

Roxy Music and 801 (Eno, Manzanera, Simon Phillips, .......)

Steve Goodman and John Prine

T.V. on The Radio and Tuxedomoon
the_mule
Senior Member
Username: the_mule

Post Number: 697
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 12:10 am:   Edit Post

My choice would be a Van der Graaf Generator / Return To Forever double bill!

Wilfred
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2734
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 7:17 am:   Edit Post

James:

Steve Goodman & John Prine? A man after my own heart!

Here's another I saw: Tom Waits opening for Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture at the Troubadour in L.A. in about 1975 or so.

Bill, tgo
dadabass2001
Senior Member
Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 821
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 8:42 am:   Edit Post

More reality...
Kenny Rankin in support of his "Silver Morning" lp in the mid 70s, opening for ... George Carlin?
Yep, saw this show at UW Platteville

George and Kenny were label mates at the time so, package deal.

Mike
bassman68
New
Username: bassman68

Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 11:20 am:   Edit Post

Howzabout...
Talas opening for the Who circa '72?
bassman68
New
Username: bassman68

Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 11:46 am:   Edit Post

Scrub that..
Make that the Who '75 when John got his first Alembics....
jacko
Senior Member
Username: jacko

Post Number: 1494
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 11:47 am:   Edit Post

I once saw Chris Rea open for Lindisfarne at Newcastle's city hall and if I'm not mistaken, Yes opened for cream at their (cream's) farewell concert at the albert hall.

In my dream gig, Kate Bush opens for Big Tuna ;-)

Graeme
white_cloud
Member
Username: white_cloud

Post Number: 57
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 11:52 am:   Edit Post

Yes and Cream...thats hard to beat!!

How about Return to forever followed by weather report?? Stanley and Jaco on one bill!

:-)P.s. Graeme Im married to a Kate bush lookalike:-)
white_cloud
Member
Username: white_cloud

Post Number: 59
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 12:03 pm:   Edit Post

:-(Only thing is she cant sing:-(
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 2736
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 12:38 pm:   Edit Post

Hey, I almost forgot about one I saw that is arguably the ultimate Alembic-related double bill:

The Grateful Dead open for The Who
Oakland Coliseum, 1976

Bill, tgo
811952
Senior Member
Username: 811952

Post Number: 1228
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 1:33 pm:   Edit Post

Kate Bush and anybody!

John
2400wattman
Senior Member
Username: 2400wattman

Post Number: 474
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2007 - 11:16 pm:   Edit Post

How about U2 opening for Talas(Billy Sheehan's Buffalo,N.Y. band for those who don't know) in '82(I think, the year that is). There is audio on Billy's website with Bono mentioning the first time they came to America and opened for them.
Primus opening for Rush, they did four songs...guess why.
hydrargyrum
Advanced Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 301
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 4:42 am:   Edit Post

I'm pretty jealous of the Tom Waits show Bill (of course, I still hadn't been born yet in 1975 :-).

I would have loved to catch Beck with the Flaming Lips (although I hear they didn't get along very well).
bigbadbill
Senior Member
Username: bigbadbill

Post Number: 407
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 5:18 am:   Edit Post

Skydigger, I'm seriously liking your choices, particularly the second one!

This is really tough actually; any two of the following:

Yes circa Yessongs, Hawkwind circa Space Ritual (in fact they'd be top), Floyd circa Wish You Were Here, Genesis circa Seconds Out, Camel circa Moonmadness, Return to Forever/Stanley circa the Brown Album, Deep Purple circa Made in Japan or even Made in Europe.....RHCPs should be in there but I've seen them several times so I'd be more keen to see people I haven't already seen/never saw at their peak. And yes, Kate Bush would be great! If I had to narrow it down to 2, probably Hawkwind/Space Ritual and Genesis/Seconds Out, although how they'd sound together I dread to think. RHCPs and Bow Wow Wow would be a great double bill.

I'd also have loved to have seen Fleetwood Mac around the time of Rumours for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is a young Stevie Nicks *sigh*:-). The Mac are still the best band I've ever seen actually.

There are probably others I've forgotten....my favourite Metal bill would be Motorhead circa Bomber with Manowar circa Sign of the Hammer....Spinal Tap on steroids!
bigbadbill
Senior Member
Username: bigbadbill

Post Number: 408
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 5:22 am:   Edit Post

Actually my dream gig would include Hot Gossip from around '78-80, but that would have nothing at all to do with music and everything to do with Donna Fielding...

(Message edited by bigbadbill on November 26, 2007)
flaxattack
Senior Member
Username: flaxattack

Post Number: 1777
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 5:41 am:   Edit Post

hey bill
i was at the 8.1.73 show also
from left field
china crisis opening for squeeze at a small club in nyc,
the killer opener band was rockpile with dave edmunds and nick lowe
saw them open for blondie at central park and van morrison at the palladium- neither second act was as good as they were, van walked off after 30 minutes claiming the sound system sucked
little feat opening for the dead
sting opening for the dead- feh-lol
herbie hancock opening for john mclauglin at bklyn college.
funkyjazzjunky
Junior
Username: funkyjazzjunky

Post Number: 19
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 6:48 am:   Edit Post

Bootsy's Rubber Band followed by Sly and the Family Stone, then Parliament Funkedelic
cozmik_cowboy
Advanced Member
Username: cozmik_cowboy

Post Number: 230
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 7:28 am:   Edit Post

Fantasy: Quicksilver opening for the Dead; Allman Bros. opening for the Dead (yes, I know both of those happened multiple times, but I wasn't there, so it's fantasy to me); "Another Time Another Place"-era Fever Tree opening for "Umma Gumma"-era Floyd.
Reality: New Grass Revival opening for John Hartford; Vanessa Davis Band opening for the Neville Bros.; VDB w/The Nighthawks; VDB w/Roomfull of Blues (I was working for Vanessa at the time & did monitors for both acts on all of these - maybe the best days I ever had at work in my life!)

Peter

(Message edited by Cozmik_Cowboy on November 26, 2007)
skydigger
Junior
Username: skydigger

Post Number: 16
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 9:44 am:   Edit Post

Sound wise and for a wicked rock show. The best I saw was Blind Melon opening up for Lenny Kravitz on Halloween '94 in Vancouver.

We got to the show a few songs late and it being Halloween, the boys in BM were dressed up like women (except Shannon Hoon who somehow managed to get on stage in his tighty whity underwear). i turned to my buddy and said, "I bet before the end of the show those underwear are coming off."

Sure enough a few songs later a drunken Hoon fell down on stage and one of the guitarists ran across the stage and "yoink!" off came the underwear.

Shannon continued to sing and proceeded to piss like a racehorse off the front of the stage!

Hoon got arrested after the show and Lenny's band came out and rocked hard.

Fans were lighting off fireworks INSIDE Pacific Coliseum during the show. Lenny says, "were gonna burn this place down!"

It was truly a classic rock concert that would be a pretty rare experience these days.
funkyjazzjunky
Junior
Username: funkyjazzjunky

Post Number: 20
Registered: 5-2007
Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 2:11 pm:   Edit Post

Did any of you see Marcus Miller open for George Duke/Stanley Clark last summer?
terryc
Advanced Member
Username: terryc

Post Number: 358
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 1:21 am:   Edit Post

Early 80's Level 42 opening for Stanley Clarke then Mark King And Stan jamming together at the end of the night..Thumping Thumb meets Fast Fingers!!!
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1701
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 3:09 am:   Edit Post

U2 played some very small venues when they first came to mainland Europe, around 1980. Their drummer was not even 18 at the time, which was part of the reason for using aliases.

I clearly remember watching them do I Will Follow on a Belgian TV show Génération 80, against a backdrop of the album cover of Boy - not sure if they lipsync'ed or played live. I could have been at their gig in my then home town of Tilburg, but you know how things go - anyway, I got the Boy album before most people had ever even heard of U2. That same tour they played in Etten-Leur, which is a small town where nothing happens - well, most of the time.
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 5720
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 6:15 pm:   Edit Post

James mentioned Bebop Deluxe. We used to play Ships In The Night and Piece of Mine off the Live In The Air Age album back in the late '70s. I thought that was a great album and I loved Bill Nelson's guitar work and sound. Then came one of the biggest 180's in music history with Nelson's Red Noise, Sound on Sound album, and the tune most memorable for me off that album, Furniture Music. That album came out in 1979 and was way ahead of it's time. It was hard to believe that it was the same guy.
kenbass4
Advanced Member
Username: kenbass4

Post Number: 269
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 8:01 am:   Edit Post

I would have to say Gensis opening for Yes in Mid 1972...that would be after Foxtrot/Close to the Edge when Bill Bruford was still behind the drumkit for Yes. Suppper's Ready and then Close to the Edge...it just doesn't get better than that.

Ken (TEO)
olieoliver
Senior Member
Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 1644
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 8:20 am:   Edit Post

Not sure this qualifies but, Texxas World Music Festival (Texas Jam) 1978.
All for under 15 bucks, thats about the price of nachos and a beer at a concert now.

Aerosmith
Eddie Money
Ted Nugent
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Head East
Heart
Mahogany Rush
Van Halen
Walter Egan
Journey


Olie
alembic76407
Senior Member
Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 547
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 1:46 pm:   Edit Post

Alice Cooper and Flo and Eddie
Bloodrock and Grand Funk Railroad,
The Kinks and Cheap Trick

all back in the 70s

David T
jerryme
Junior
Username: jerryme

Post Number: 11
Registered: 1-2008
Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 7:44 pm:   Edit Post

Miles Davis opening up for the Grateful Dead... Fillmore East 1970; in fact any Wolfgang Fillmore show with the Grateful Dead and ???; When I was seeing lots of Widespread Panic 1997-2000 I saw 4 Panic/String Cheese Incident shows, they were lots of fun.
zappahead
Intermediate Member
Username: zappahead

Post Number: 144
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 7:51 pm:   Edit Post

Jeff Beck opening for Stevie Ray Vaughn, turned out to be a once in a lifetime opportunity unfortunately...
bigbadbill
Senior Member
Username: bigbadbill

Post Number: 416
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 5:23 am:   Edit Post

Oh I forgot, any bill featuring ABBA...I love ABBA (seriously!!) and never got to see them.
dela217
Senior Member
Username: dela217

Post Number: 865
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 5:42 am:   Edit Post

Ok, I'll play.....

Nickle Creek opening up for AKUS.

But Nickle Creek is no more.
lidon2001
Advanced Member
Username: lidon2001

Post Number: 381
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 6:59 am:   Edit Post

I saw Van Halen open for Black Sabbath way back when. And yes, Van Halen should have been the main act; they could not have been a fun act to follow.
lidon2001
Advanced Member
Username: lidon2001

Post Number: 382
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 7:09 am:   Edit Post

Proof:
stub
lidon2001
Advanced Member
Username: lidon2001

Post Number: 383
Registered: 4-2005
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 7:22 am:   Edit Post

'77 wasn't a bad year either (just a small example)
more stubs
jalevinemd
Senior Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 626
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 7:37 am:   Edit Post

Michael,

The Smoothie Song is one of my all time favorites. I didn't realize Nickle Creek was no more.
amedine
Junior
Username: amedine

Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2006
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 8:05 am:   Edit Post

Summer 1969, Kinetic Playground, Chicago
Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull opening for Vanilla Fudge.

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