Best rock show opening number (you remember)

[hobbit.]

Irrespective of the theatre of modern shows, going back to the day when musicians walked on stage and played - what in your opinion/memory did it for for?

IMHO it was -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEaxow3PoO0

From the opening bars you knew exactly what you were in for.

(excluding budgie, who really did turn up, plug in and play!)

 

[PaxNurgle]

Black Sabbath, "Neon Knights." 1981

Basically, anything where Dio came out and started singing.

 

[Saint_Ann]

U2
Bad
Live Aid 1985

 

[sircumvent]

Uriah Heep - Stealin'.....1974

 

[hobbit.]

Black Sabbath, "Neon Knights." 1981

Basically, anything where Dio came out and started singing.

Even the Elf gigs? still dio, so probably yes.

U2
Bad
Live Aid 1985

taxavoidance.com.

Uriah Heep - Stealin'.....1974

Friday Night in Birmingham

 

[Scareltt]

Good one!

U2
Bad
Live Aid 1985

How about U2 walking through the crowd to open PopMart in the 90s god I’m old!

 

[FGB]

Hard to say this, was the second concert I went to.


Artists Who Performed At The Texxas Jam

(Headliners marked in bold.)

1978 (July 1) - Texxas Music Festival, Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas (General Admission - $13.00)

Blackstone (Winner of the State-Wide "Battle of the Bands" for opening slot on the 1978 Texxas Jam)
Walter Egan
Van Halen (second appearance in Texas)
Eddie Money
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Head East
Journey
Heart
Ted Nugent
Aerosmith
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush

Notes: Ted Nugent joined Aerosmith on stage for a rousing rendition of "Milk Cow Blues". For comic relief, Cheech & Chong entertained the crowd between a couple of acts. The temperature reached 104 degrees that day (over 120 degrees on the field). To protect the Cotton Bowl, they covered the surface with black tarps. Over 100,000 people were in attendance on the hottest day of the decade. The concert had hose sprinklers around the field edge to cool people off, and they hosed the crowd down with firehoses from the stage. First aid stations were busy. This was the FIRST southern stadium rock show since ZZ Top played to 80,000 people at UT Austin on September 1, 1974 and tore up the field; there was never supposed to be another stadium rock show in Texas again.
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It's strange but I don't remember seeing Aerosmith...But then again We all was pretty fucked up when we got there!

Fresh made brownies and four kick ass J's before we arrived!

What a Trip!
************************
The first concert I went to was Pink Floyd.

 

[FlowersForFun]

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[Sean]

I wanna be adored. Stone Roses. Spike Island.

 

[sircumvent]

Hard to say this, was the second concert I went to.


Artists Who Performed At The Texxas Jam

(Headliners marked in bold.)

1978 (July 1) - Texxas Music Festival, Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas (General Admission - $13.00)

Blackstone (Winner of the State-Wide "Battle of the Bands" for opening slot on the 1978 Texxas Jam)
Walter Egan
Van Halen (second appearance in Texas)
Eddie Money
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Head East
Journey
Heart
Ted Nugent
Aerosmith
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush

Notes: Ted Nugent joined Aerosmith on stage for a rousing rendition of "Milk Cow Blues". For comic relief, Cheech & Chong entertained the crowd between a couple of acts. The temperature reached 104 degrees that day (over 120 degrees on the field). To protect the Cotton Bowl, they covered the surface with black tarps. Over 100,000 people were in attendance on the hottest day of the decade. The concert had hose sprinklers around the field edge to cool people off, and they hosed the crowd down with firehoses from the stage. First aid stations were busy. This was the FIRST southern stadium rock show since ZZ Top played to 80,000 people at UT Austin on September 1, 1974 and tore up the field; there was never supposed to be another stadium rock show in Texas again.
*******************************

It's strange but I don't remember seeing Aerosmith...But then again We all was pretty fucked up when we got there!

Fresh made brownies and four kick ass J's before we arrived!

What a Trip!
************************
The first concert I went to was Pink Floyd.

I was there and yes, it was hotter than hell. Remember when Ted Nugent came flying off the speakers to start his set and after landing he's looking out over the crowd and says "look at all that sunburn pussy out there. All we need now is some biscuits."

 

[SpeareChucker]

Steve Miller Band

I don't remember the song but I remember the day
because I was working it as security.
All day long I listened to him berate his band
demanding they clean up the littlest of things
and I thought, what an asshole, I'm really going to hate this show.
Then I saw it, tasteful and perfect, the lights and the sound;
they could have been lip-synching album tracks...

I had seen so many acts, so many openings,
but that is the one that I remember the most,
the one that raised my awareness about an artist
I formerly dismissed as being something less than rock'n roll.

 

[Sweet_Lara]

Black Sabbath, "Neon Knights." 1981

Basically, anything where Dio came out and started singing.

\m/ \m/

 

[FGB]

I was there and yes, it was hotter than hell. Remember when Ted Nugent came flying off the speakers to start his set and after landing he's looking out over the crowd and says "look at all that sunburn pussy out there. All we need now is some biscuits."

Missed that!

Who was it that started his set and passed out before he was good and cranked up?

I carried a fair amount of sunburned pussy to the first aid stations! I would have enjoyed it some if they had been awake.

Back then almost all females were on a diet and had NO salt intake.

Hell. My first wife didn't even make it to the seats! Then her sister fell out. they crashed again later and we spent sometime in the building next door because it had A/C!

This was in the first thirty minutes we were THERE!

The ambulances averaged fifty eight trips an hour to the hospital.

 

[juttjaw]

How about U2 walking through the crowd to open PopMart in the 90s god I’m old!

Hey! I went to a Pop Mart concert in the Metrodome in Minneapolis. Had to be 98 or 97. It was a cool concert but the acoustics in the dome sucked!

My best was:
'National Anthem'
-Radiohead-
St.Louis
2012

 

[sircumvent]

Missed that!

Who was it that started his set and passed out before he was good and cranked up?

I carried a fair amount of sunburned pussy to the first aid stations! I would have enjoyed it some if they had been awake.

Back then almost all females were on a diet and had NO salt intake.

Hell. My first wife didn't even make it to the seats! Then her sister fell out. they crashed again later and we spent sometime in the building next door because it had A/C!

This was in the first thirty minutes we were THERE!

The ambulances averaged fifty eight trips an hour to the hospital.

I can't remember. After the show we all walked back to the car and just threw down on the ground. Man, we were wore out.

 

[PaxNurgle]

I used to hate shows at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for that reason. No matter what the temperature was outside- it could be your typical San Francisco wintery 33 degrees with a wind chill of negative 10 (and 33 degrees in SF feels like zero degrees anywhere else) but it would ALWAYS be like 125-130 degrees inside. Because the crowds would pack in like sardines, to the point where your arms would be pinned to your sides by the other bodies around you, and the crowd would just start moving from side to side for no apparent reason, like this huge crushing wave of people, and you couldnt hold your ground and would just get swept along with it. At every show I saw there, by the end I would be sick with dehydration and heat exhaustion- and that was without even drinking that much.

With that said, when Metallica played there in fall 1988 and opened with "Blackened" it was still pretty awesome. Even though I actually enjoyed their summer 1989 show (which was at the outdoor Shoreline ampetheater in San Jose) much more.

 

[FlowersForFun]

I used to hate shows at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for that reason. No matter what the temperature was outside- it could be your typical San Francisco wintery 33 degrees with a wind chill of negative 10 (and 33 degrees in SF feels like zero degrees anywhere else) but it would ALWAYS be like 125-130 degrees inside. Because the crowds would pack in like sardines, to the point where your arms would be pinned to your sides by the other bodies around you, and the crowd would just start moving from side to side for no apparent reason, like this huge crushing wave of people, and you couldnt hold your ground and would just get swept along with it. At every show I saw there, by the end I would be sick with dehydration and heat exhaustion- and that was without even drinking that much.

With that said, when Metallica played there in fall 1988 and opened with "Blackened" it was still pretty awesome. Even though I actually enjoyed their summer 1989 show (which was at the outdoor Shoreline ampetheater in San Jose) much more.

It's rarely below 40 in SF....... 33 and wind chill negative 10 being typical is a load of shit, probably by someone who's never actually been much less lived there.

 

[FGB]

I can't remember. After the show we all walked back to the car and just threw down on the ground. Man, we were wore out.

We paid like $10.00 to park in someones yard just down the street from the front entrance.

Now I wasn't driving...wasn't my Good Times Machine but I do remember running off the interstate a couple of times...

or maybe he forgot he was driving.

I remember a couple of times Dickhead would get up and go in the back for a beer or something...unannounced while going down the Highway or a Farm road!

I guess that is probably why I always rode Shotgun...

Quick reflexes, able to function when high and plenty of snap in emergencies!

 

[PaxNurgle]

It's rarely below 40 in SF....... 33 and wind chill negative 10 being typical is a load of shit, probably by someone who's never actually been much less lived there.

BotanyBoy, I doubt you have ever actually set foot in the continential U.S, much less been to San Francisco.

 

[Scareltt]

Same..

Hey! I went to a Pop Mart concert in the Metrodome in Minneapolis. Had to be 98 or 97. It was a cool concert but the acoustics in the dome sucked!

My best was:
'National Anthem'
-Radiohead-
St.Louis
2012

I dated a huge U2 fan back then. I saw them in KC, Foxborough, and St. Louis. The shows outside were fine, just loud. I remember losing a contact at Foxborough and having to watch with one eye closed. The show at the Dome in St. Louis had all kinds of issues with the sound.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I worked a U2 show, Starlight I think...




Maybe Municipal; it's been a while and they all merge together.