Opening Acts Who Made It Big

[TitanClone]

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.

 

[Drew0311]

Blind Melon opened for the Stones at Jack Trice

 

[JP4CY]

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.

 

[SerenityNow]

Oct of 1991... CY Stephens... I saw the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam open up for RHCP... beat that!!

That's crazy that was at CY Stephens even.

 

[SerenityNow]

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.

So that's what's wrong with you.

 

[cyfanatic]

Saw the BoDeans open for U2 in Iowa City in 1987...both were incredible!

 

[ljm4cy]

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.

 

[JP4CY]

Saw the BoDeans open for U2 in Iowa City in 1987...both were incredible!

I'm pretty sure BoDeans played at People's 20/25 years ago.

 

[cyfanatic]

I'm pretty sure BoDeans played at People's 20/25 years ago.

Off-topic...but seeing the Gear Daddies at People's was one of my all-time favorite concerts!

 

[Acer88]

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!

 

[TitanClone]

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?

 

[RagingCloner]

And now she's opening for Travis Kelce.

Holy ****. Post of the ******* decade

You, my friend, win CF

 

[clonechemist]

I think it was 2001.... Papa Roach with Hed(PE) concert at Toad Holler..or was it super toad...doesnt matter. Linkin Park was the opener. Spent about 30 min talking with Mike and Chester selling their own merch after their set. Hybrid Theory came out shortly after.

I was there!

 

[Cupped]

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.

 

[2speedy1]

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.

 

[Cy4Lifer]

Lauren Daigle opened for Jason Gray in the contemporary Christian genre! Now, she’s huge!

 

[psycln11]

Came here to drop this same concert. When they, Hootie, came back a year later they had Edwin McCain open for them.

And when he was done opening for Hootie, Edwin performed at Peoples.

 

[DRCHIRO]

2007, Quad Cities, Taylor Swift opened up for Brad Paisley.

 

[bozclone]

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.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

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.