Opening Acts Who Made It Big
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It looks like they just broke into the top 40 the week they were at Hilton. So not really a hit just yet, but shortly thereafter they shot up the charts.
I was an usher for the GNR show. Some people were jumping from the upper level to get to the concourse level. It was crazy! After they was done, I got to help carry “stuff” off there tour bus and help with security. Witnessed Axl face plant a girl who was in his face and kept yelling “Axl! Axl! He was pretty nonchalant about it. I just gave him a smile. He gave me this smirky grin back at me.
1979ish I saw John Cougar ( aka Mellencamp) as warm up for Kiss at the Barn in Des Moines. He did alright after that.
In the mid 80s I went to a Hank Williams Jr show. Dwight Yoakam was warm up and he KILLED it. I saw Yoakam a year later as the headliner and it was one of the worst concerts I've ever attended.
In the mid 80s I went to a Hank Williams Jr show. Dwight Yoakam was warm up and he KILLED it. I saw Yoakam a year later as the headliner and it was one of the worst concerts I've ever attended.
Not an opening act, per se, but more of a disappointing substitution for the act I really wanted to see. It was during senior orientation at Iowa State and we were supposed to see B.J. Thomas at Stephens Auditorium, but he canceled at the last minute (this was during his drug days) and they substituted a guy no one had ever heard of. So you can imagine my disappointment.
He had one song out, but he didn't even sing it. The name of the song was Leaving on a Jet Plane by Peter, Paul and Mary, but written by John Denver, who took the stage that night with just an acoustic guitar. So not only did I see John Denver, but I saw him for free, because they refunded the money I had paid to see B.J. Thomas.
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Wife and I went to Kenny Chesney at (then) Wells Fargo Arena in ~2013 and his opener was Kacey Musgraves. Hardly anyone there. "The girl trying to transition from writer to performer."
I was there too, but I only caught part of the Guns N Roses show. I didn't know anything about them. My girlfriend was from Adel, the kids in the smaller towns were up more on that genre of music, I was into the Smiths, Cure, etc.. So along with another couple, we were in the parking lot partying, and finially the girls got mad because we were not in Hilton yet so they took off because they didn't want to miss GNR. My friend and I had more beers to drink and we also smoked a bowl. LOL. We spent most of the time trying to find our seats while Guns N Roses were playing because we were so fked up. Concerts like that were a different thing back then, it was anything goes in the crowd.
Glen Fry and Don Henley were members of Ronstadt's backup band before she convinced them to form their own band.
