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'they blew'em off the stage'

what concerts have you attended, where the warm up act blew the headliners away.....my examples...brownville station upstaging zz top to the point where people where chanting 'brownsville station!' during the littl ol' band from texas' set.....another..t.rex upstaging lynyrd skynyrd(yes there really was such a show), and the grass roots upstaging cream.
jaybo
hifibri
39 posts
 
Boston backing Aerosmith in '76. Boston was as tight as a Quad diaphram, then Aerosmith came out and were as 'incoherent' as a turntable being spun by hand. Of course the effects of intoxicating substanced will do that - a common affliction at the time.
dlr
201 posts
 
Back in the early 70's Buddy Guy and Junior Wells opened for Dave Mason at the Field House in Iowa City. Most of the people were gone in the middle of the first set of Dave Mason. No comparison. Dan
birdies
85 posts
 
1973 Paramount Theater, Portland: Little Feat (the Lowell George band), with the-then traditional finale of "Tripe Face Boogie", leaving an obviously compromised Sly Stone nothing to do but shuffle around for 35 minutes and go home.
siliab
362 posts
 
John Legend thoroughly outperformed Alicia Keys at a performance at the Kodak Theater in LA several years back.
unsound
7,311 posts
 
Ten Years After opening for Peter Frampton.
My memory is a little less clear on this, you know the times were different then, but I seem to recall King Crimson opening for Golden Earing.
I wasn't there, but, it's been reported that Jimmy Hendrix opened for the Monkeys.
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