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Topic: Worst mismatch of acts incompatible with each other |
Mike Perlowin
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 1:13 am |
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Probably Jimi Hendrix and the Monkees.
My girlfriend, (now my wife) and I saw the Who open for Herman's Hermit's in 1967. Whoever thought up that combination? We, along with most of the audience, left during the intermission before H's H's came on. I wonder how Peter Noon and the guys in the band, as well as the concert promoters, felt when the sold out arena was suddenly filled with empty seats.
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 2:59 am
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Mr. Mike, When Charlie Daniels was REALLY getting hot. He came to town at our civic center . I took my wife and two teenage daughters. The building was PACKED with CDB fans [back then it was the big straw cowboy hat,pot smoking crowd] His opening act was a HEEEAVY trio from NYC. [THEY WERE GOOD]But they were NOT right for that crowd.We were sitting down front, When they counted off their first song The roof almost came off the building. They made Ted Nugent sound like a supper club band. Can't name the song they opened with,so vulgar can't say it here.As I said I had my 13 and 15 year old girls with me. They cut their set short, those old redneck CDB fans were about to riot.That was the most mismatched show I ever attended. It was like having Queen opening for Bill Monroe. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Russell Nugent
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 6:11 am
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| I, too, went to that Who - Herman's Hermits show in St. Petersburg but it opened with the Blues Magoos. They were good, the Who, which was the band we really went to see, was fantastic. We left as the little girls were screaming for Peter Noone. |
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Jack Francis
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Queen Creek, Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 7:01 am
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Went to see Merle Haggard once and the opening act was "The Rascals" ...they were AWFUL!!!
Everyone in our area was unhappy to say the least.
Did I mention how bad they were??? And that they wouldn't get off the DAMN STAGE???? 
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Mike Perlowin
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 9:16 am
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| Russell Nugent wrote: |
| I, too, went to that Who - Herman's Hermits show in St. Petersburg but it opened with the Blues Magoos. They were good, the Who, which was the band we really went to see, was fantastic. We left as the little girls were screaming for Peter Noone. |
Wen we saw them, the first act was the Strawberry Alarm Clock. They were OK. But we were there to see the Who.
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Cal Sharp
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the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 9:27 am
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Imagine how King Curtis, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Brenda Holloway, and Sounds Incorporated felt when they opened for the Beatles at Shea Stadium. Yikes! At the height of Beatlemania John was noted for spending time with the opening acts on travel days, making them feel appreciated. Although they weren't, as far as the fans were concerned.
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Tony Glassman
From:
The Great Northwest
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 9:33 am
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Ella Fitzgerald opening for F. Scott Fitzgerald  |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 1:40 pm
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| Who can forget Jimi Hendrix opening for The Monkees and Tom Jones. |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 4:26 pm
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In the early '80s a guitarist and I formed a "Techno-billy" duo. We sounded sort of like a cross between Bill Haley and The Stray Cats, if you can imagine - rock-a-billy beat and slap-back echo with steel guitar punctuations. We were popular as an opening act a local concert halls because of our minimal equipment and tear-down time, plus there were no ASCAP fees on our original song list.
The worst mismatch of all time was when we opened for headbangers Y&T. Anyone remember them? Hard rock or heavy metal, I guess you call it. The place was so packed that security broke down and people were climbing in through the bathroom windows. The audience had no respect for us at all. They threw burning napkins at us. It was a very weird gig!
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 6:27 pm
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The weirdest combination I ever saw was Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids (ersatz 50's rockabilly) opening for Roxy Music. Oh, and the Blasters opening for Queen.
I know Miles Davis opened for Neil Young at the Fillmore back in the 1960s - that must have been interesting.
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Brint Hannay
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Maryland, USA
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 10:58 pm
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| I saw the original Mahavishnu Orchestra when they were probably at their peak, between the Inner Mounting Flame and Birds Of Fire albums, at the Shady Grove in Maryland. The opening act was a fellow named Buzzy Linhart, who had played with various "folkie" types and played vibes on Jimi Hendrix's "Drifting". He came onstage and before playing he gave a little speech that said "Listen, everybody, I'm really sorry you have to wait through my set, but I'll try to keep it short and the real musicians will be out here soon. In the meantime, I've got a single out called "Friends" and I could really use a break, so please try to find it in your hearts to bear with me and see if you can find a way to enjoy my silly little songs". And sure enough, he (and I guess he had a band) played a few amiable lightweight pop songs and got offstage quickly. You had to feel for the guy. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 16 Jan 2010 11:28 pm
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Buzzy Linhart 
At a festival in Berlin John B. Sebastian and NRBQ came on after the Buddy Rich Big Band. |
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Ernie Renn
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Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 5:00 am
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Our band opened for Molly Hatchet in Branson. Fiddle, steel and Molly Hatchet. They go together like peanut butter and German car parts. Wait, even that's too close...
(I was laying in my bunk in the bus when they were doing their sound check. It was so loud I couldn't hear the CD I was listening to in my headphones. The owner came out and told them to turn it down or pack it up.)
We also opened for Asleep at the Wheel at the same place. That made a lot more sense. Cindy Cashdollar was with them at that time.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 6:01 am
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Of course there is the famous story of when Tom Waits was first starting out and he toured and opened for Frank Zappa. He was booed every night.
I personally saw a comic trying to open for Adrian Belew in the early 80's. Boy that was torturous for everyone, especially the comic, who at one point led the audience in a chorus of "get the f off the stage you f ing MF. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 7:20 am
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra had a habit of assassinating acts. They did one tour opening for Frank Zappa, at the second date he refused to go on, and by the third one Frank was opening for them. Buddy Cage has a funny story of when NRPS were at their peak, and Mahavishnu opened for them. Cage was running back and forth to the dressing room telling the other Riders "Hey you guys you better see this" and they were too cool to watch. When the New Riders finally hit the stage expecting the usual kind of adulation, the audience was sitting dead-quiet, stunned.
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| We (Riders) did one indoor date a number of years back, when we were pretty damn high on the prestige list- and VERY aware of it! I always checked out the opening acts, out of respect, curiosity, amity and so forth. They like (I know I do!) to see other players around when they're performing; it's helpful in a lot of ways. Anyway, the rest of the guys were up in the dressing room doing their shit, whatever that happened to be at the time, and remained fairly aloof from what was going on at stage level. What WAS going on at stage level, was "John MacLaughlin & Mahavishnu!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I ran upstairs and told the guys that it would behoove them to get their asses in gear and get the fuck downstairs: Something REALLY BIG was happening and they were missing it. They just kinda' looked at me with polite disinterest. Tough. I went back down to enjoy the experience and witness "Mahavishnu" DESTROY the audience. OUR audience! After the debacle, our band came down and assumed playing positions, completely unaware of what phenomenon had just gone down. Blissfully ignorant. We proceeded to play our hearts out (in retrospect, I think a more mellow tack might have spared us) to ABSOLUTELY NO AVAIL!!!! The audience was in a fucking coma over MacLaughlin. |
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Columbia Records actually used to market them as "The hardest act to follow." 
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/mahavishnu-orchestra/concerts/orpheum-theatre-march-11-1973-late-show.html |
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Bob Ritter
From:
pacfic, wa
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 5:28 pm
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Way back like 74 or 75 went to see Savoy Brown (not sawyer brown  )and Manfred Mann at the paramount theatre in Seattle. And Kiss was the opening act. Nobody had heard of them and they had the curtain closed across the stage so we coud not see their gear. We were kinda expecting something mellow with maybe a couple of chicks singing with acoustic instruments. It shocked everyones mind when the curtain opened and they started playing. Gene Simmons walked right up front and spit blood and started flapping his tounge, then he blew a couple of fireballs out his mouth. Then thier antics on stage got more worse ( they would pose and start humping each other while playing  ) |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 7:18 pm
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| Judy Collins opening for Paul Butterfield Blues band. It sucked. We went outside for some herb and came back in for Butterfield. He smoked. |
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James Cann
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Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 8:27 pm
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How about Merle Haggard opening for Bob Dylan a year or so ago in -- ready ? -- Sun City, AZ? Hag played to a solid crowd and was in fine form as always, as was his speaking up as his set ended for "the great Bob Dylan."
Since I'm a 60s guy, I have to admit sadness and embarrassment to recall my wife's and my leaving after Dylan's first set, but what we heard simply wasn't the Dylan we'd known. |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2010 10:34 pm
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| I was living in New York in 1967 and went to see Cream when they were doing a 2 week stint in some joint in the Village promoting their first LP called "Fresh Cream" and Ritchie Havens was the opening act - just him and a bongo player. Around that same time I saw The Blues Project at a club on the lower East side called "The Scene" and Tiny Tim was the opener. |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 11:07 am
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| Michael, my brother was at one of those Cream shows at The Cafe Wah in the Village. He came home raving about some new British group. |
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 12:12 pm
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| Michael, my brother was at one of those Cream shows at The Cafe Wah in the Village |
Yeah there was so much great music at that time and place that I wish I could just go back and relive it all again. I saw The Electric Flag at the Cafe Au Go Go and they were the best live band I ever saw except for maybe James Brown in 1966. You could see The Flying Machine with James Taylor and Danny Kootch just about any night of the week somewhere around the Village. There was another club on the lower East side called Ondine's and Hendrix would show up and jam with whoever whenever. I saw Buffalo Springfield and The Doors play there. I once saw Moby Grape - I think that was in 1969 at the Fillmore East and they were an incredibly powerful band with great vocal arrangements and terribly underrated. Them were the days..... |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 1:55 pm
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| They were the days Michael. You had to be there.Soooo much variety of musical talent. Thats interesting about Moby Grape. I thought they were terribly underated also. They didn't last long. The music scene in the Village in those days had a vibe that was palpable. Electric Flag was an amazing band. I really believe the younger generation doesn't have the fullness of music that we had. My nephews listen to Traffic. I opened for Flying Burritos in 71. They blew me away. Al Perkins. I did see the Monkees two years ago. They actually sounded pretty good. |
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 3:47 pm
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Friend of mine told me about a show with Captain Beefheart and Jefferson Starship. Grace wouldn't agree to let him use her piano, so they had to quickly get another piano in. My friend was the tuner and he was frantically tuning it up before the show.
He finished and the Captain was standing there, so he said, "Mr. Beefheart, it's all tuned now, would you like to hear it?" Captain says, "Why, sure" and slams his forearm on the keys and says "Sounds great!"
I'm a big Captain Beefheart fan, FWIW.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 18 Jan 2010 6:12 pm
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The wierdest I can remember was in the late 60's to early 70's at the Fillmore West in San Fransisco. The Who and Woody Herman and his Big Band.
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Ben Elder
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La Crescenta, California, USA
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Posted 19 Jan 2010 1:49 am
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If PBS runs it, I'm there. Ditto anybody and Moby Grape.
I think Vince Gill said he once opened for Kiss. I've seen each of them separately and that's the way it should be. One of them was free and Vince I'd pay to see a second time.
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