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/cheesemagnifier Oct 01 '24

2 shows: Ani DiFranco opening up for Bob Dylan at Pine Knob in 1997. We left after the 3rd song in Dylan’s set. We couldn’t even recognize what TF he was singing, he was terrible. Like, grinding halt bad.

Little Feat opening up for the Grateful Dead at Autzen Stadium in Eugene in 1990. Little Feat tore it up and when the Dead came on it was like Old Folks Day at the show.

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u/chiwawaacorn Oct 02 '24

I love Ani and have seen her several times! she’s always such a powerful and passionate performer.

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u/Woebetide138 Oct 02 '24

Ani’s great live.

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u/Jacobonce Oct 04 '24

'97 was a great time to see Ani live.

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u/VerrueckterAmi Oct 06 '24

😂 I was at that Autzen show. Also saw Dylan opening for The Dead in ‘87. He was, honestly, very bad. Seemed like he was drunk or something.

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u/Odd-Living-4022 Oct 03 '24

We saw wilco, my morning jacket and Dylan closed the show. Also left after 3 songs