Opening Acts Who Made It Big

I would guess most who made it were openers for a bit. Bit of a 1 hit wander but Tracy Chapman getting on stage solo at Wembley and introducing Fast Car to the world is great.



Wouldn't be shocked if Combs plays it tonight.


 
Mentioned it on here before but 30 Seconds To Mars opened for Chevelle at the old Toad Holler.
Jared jumped off the stage and kicked me in the head. He knew it (and I knew it was an accident) and made sure I was OK.
 
Head East and Little River Band opened for Foreigner at Hilton on Sep 24, 1977. Thought Head East was great. Little River Band was good. Passed out through Foreigner.
 
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I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn open for Jeff Beck at the orpheum in Minneapolis a couple of months before the helicopter crash claimed his life. They were both really famous then and they took turns as the opening act from venue to venue. I’m not sure that this show qualifies as an opening act that went on to make it big, but it sure was a great concert!
 
Mentioned it on here before but 30 Seconds To Mars opened for Chevelle at the old Toad Holler.
Jared jumped off the stage and kicked me in the head. He knew it (and I knew it was an accident) and made sure I was OK.
Did he invite you to Mars Island?
 
Living Color opened the first time the Stones played Jack Trice. As mentioned, the Stray Cats and Blind Melon opened other Stones shows I saw plus Lenny Kravitz at Soldier Field. And the first time I saw the Rolling Stones was at Anaheim stadium and warm up bands included Peter Tosh and The Outlaws.

Seems like most of the "big name" bands I saw had no warmup bands.
 
Tonight's Luke Combs concert has me remembering about the Brantley Gilbert concert at Wells Fargo about 10 years ago. Luke Combs opened that night. It was just him and his acoustic guitar. Now he's sold 60,000 tickets at JTS!

So who have you seen as an opener who hit the bigtime??
For the most part everyone that makes it big, were just starting out at some point.
 
Lauren Daigle opened for Jason Gray in the contemporary Christian genre! Now, she’s huge!
 
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2007, Quad Cities, Taylor Swift opened up for Brad Paisley.
 
I saw Luke Combs in Louisville a few years ago. Lainey Wilson was the opening act.

It was actually Lainey, then Jordan Davis and then Luke.
 
Back in 2001 I saw a local band, Bowling For Soup play at a bar called The Beer Garden in Wichita Falls Texas. My civilian instructor at my Tech school told us that his grandsons band was playing there and that we should go check them out. A couple years later those goofy bastards took off.