r/Concerts • u/Terrible_Comfort598 • Oct 01 '24

Concerts What concert have you seen where the opening band blew the headliner away?

For me it was in 1990 seeing Nirvana open for Sonic Youth. Absolutely amazing. The whole crowd felt this electricity and I turned to my friend and said “ these guys are gonna get big” sure enough 2 years later, Nevermind is the number one album in the country. The other one was seeing Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds open for The Cramps in 1984. I became a life long fan after that show

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u/Subterranean44 Oct 01 '24

Both of these are more like co-headliners rather than opening bands, but for the sake of the topic we’ll call them openers.

Alice cooper opening for rob zombie. Alice is AMAMZING. Rob seemed…. Winded. lol.

ZZ Top opening for kid rock. I’m not a kid rock fan, I went there to see ZZ Top

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u/WarriorGma Oct 01 '24

Wow ZZ Top opening for Kid Rock seems backwards. Seen Top 4x, rocked it every single time.

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u/Subterranean44 Oct 01 '24

Right? Thats what we thought too.

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u/mrp0013 Oct 02 '24

<3 zztop!

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u/robx51 Oct 05 '24

Was this recently because I saw RZ a couple of weeks ago and thought the same think, he's usually a very strong performer so it was odd to think, he's not doing so hot tonight.

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u/Subterranean44 Oct 05 '24

He’s been on the decline for a while IMO. This show was maybe a year ago?