this is a good question.

someone please refresh my memory as to who opened the 4-5 show at giants stadium during the voodoo lounge tour....other than that i quite enjoyed the band that opened for them during the no security tour at hartford that sings that song.....and i don't want the world to see me 'cause i don't think that they'd understand when everythings made to be broken...yeah yeah yeah, that song.

muraned 5 weren't that bad....


everybody say owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Pearl Jam 05.  I maybe the only one on this board to see that, since PJ only opened for one show on that tour. 

Coop second.

Worst Blind Mellon, K West.

axl79 wrote on Aug 21^st, 2008 at 5:23pm:


I agree... in fact there was a band with members of J. Geils Band and the Rolling Stones... I don't remember the name but they played one gig only LOL

" everybody say owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww "

PRINCE, Tina Turner,

The Worst...Coors...Strokes...GnR

Wish I was there...Pretenders...they have NEVER disappointed me live!!

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The Hartford opener was the Goo Goo Dolls (the song you're referring to is called 'Iris').

All 3 admins from this board were at both shows. However, we  missed the Goo Goo Dolls due to being otherwise occupied in the nearby Hartford Brewery, as evidenced here : - http://www.rocksoff.org/salt2.htm

Best opening bill - George Thorogood & The Destroyers followed by the J Geils Band at Slane in 1982. (the Chieftains actually opened the show, but I'll draw a Long Black Veil over that one)

Saw Stevie open a half dozen times that tour. He was never any hotter musically.
At the final birthday show at the Garden, the cutting of Mick's birthday cake evolved into a "cake" fight - chunks hurled everywhere and at everyone on the stage. Poor Stevie didn't know enough to duck and was consequently bombarded. Didn't stop him though from leading the "Uptight/Satisfaction" encore one last time with icing running down the side of his head.

My favorite openers were Thoroughgood, Pretenders and Counting Crows.
The TerryReid/BBKing/Tina Turner deal was interesting for one show, but after that was a long time to wait through for the headliners.
Worst was Kanye West and Living Colour.
Wished I had seen Chuck Berry who I believed opened a few shows in the 70's maybe.

Best openers I didn't see: Pretenders, Danko Jones

best opener: J. Geils Band

the worst: frickin' ...........Starsailor 

another stinker was Peter Maffay 

Journey 1975
Journey 1978

Big Hits.  No competition.

monkey_man wrote on Aug 20^th, 2008 at 11:05am:

Yes, I seen Stevie open for The Stones at Maple Leaf Gardens July '72, at the first show, (there were 2) on the same day, it was so damn hot, it was unreal, I still got the ticket stub, which I posted here before.
On the '69 tour, Ike & Tina Turner opened (also at Royal Albert Hall in '66) also B.B. King,  Terry Reid, & Chuck Berry, I would have loved to have  seen that.

Best opening act for The Stones has always been Ike & Tina turner.

glen759 wrote on Sep 1^st, 2008 at 1:40am:


I enjoyed her - all 5 UK shows in 1999 plus two in LA in 2002.

She basically ticked all the boxes for an warm-up act.

In the last few years, I've generally missed the openers due to 'summiting' commitments. Of the 13 shows last tour, the only acts I saw were Kasabian in Nice (apart from 5 minutes of Jet in Lisbon and Madrid) and most of the bill at Slane (I'd no choice in that one as we we re taken by coach).

Most disappointing - in relation to the way they were hyped up - were the Black Crows at Wembley Stadium in 1995.

Although, it goes without saying that in terms of vomit-inducing trauma, nothing comes close to the psychological turmoil of witnessing Bon Jovi in Paris in 1995. To this day, I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat, crying and shaking, just thinking about it.

"The horror, the horror...."