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Post by almightycrunch on Oct 20, 2006 10:19:22 GMT -5
Ok, this is a new thread just for chits and giggles. Anyone else had any national act opening slots in their career? Go ahead and toot your own horns!!!! My band has opened up for Quiet Riot, Slaughter(twice) April Wine, Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat, Jimmy Van Zant band(several times as well). Hmmm, oh yeah actually we played a gig at one of our local establishments with a huge outdoor deck, Firehouse played first out on the deck, then during the changeover, the three hundred people that were there came inside and watched my band play, then went back outside to watch Slaughter play on the deck SOOOOOO, in essence Firehouse opened up for us!!!!! LOL I love to tell that story. Im sure that the guys from Firehouse wouldnt agree with the statement, but that was the band order!!! TEE HEE. Anyone else?? lets hear em
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Post by almightycrunch on Oct 20, 2006 10:29:28 GMT -5
And just as an afterthought, When we opened up for Slaughter the second time, they actually used our backline, and the guitar player Mark?? Blando blew up my brand new marshall head, his tech had impedences mismatched, using DI, for some god-awful reason, and the prick never even apologized or said anything except, Yeah it just quit working man. Then he proceeded to pull out a crate 50 watt stealth head of his own LOL. I remember Dana Strum the bass player wasnt all that happy about running through our bass players Gallien Krueger rig( he wanted his SVT stack of course!!). At least Mark Slaughter was cool, the rest of em were real dinks, thought they were all that.
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Post by shreder75 on Oct 20, 2006 10:29:57 GMT -5
nope....never had any such luck...
but the bassplayer in my soon to be new band opened up for bands like Kansas and Brittney Fox about 15 years ago when he was in an original band..that's about as close as I get....lol..
oh, and the drummer I was playing with for a few days opened up for quiet riot, lynch mob, bands like that...
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Post by VomHalen on Oct 20, 2006 10:31:24 GMT -5
the 80s metal cover band i'm in opened for Blue Oyster Cult a few months ago. but during the years before i joined, those guys opened for RATT, warrant, Dio, Slaughter, Cinderella, Bret Michaels, and basically any other hair band that came through town.
i wish i was around when they opened for Ratt.
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Post by davo on Oct 20, 2006 10:37:47 GMT -5
the 80s metal cover band i'm in opened for Blue Oyster Cult a few months ago. but during the years before i joined, those guys opened for RATT, warrant, Dio, Slaughter, Cinderella, Bret Michaels, and basically any other hair band that came through town. i wish i was around when they opened for Ratt. megahertz? I thought you guys were kaput. |
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Post by VomHalen on Oct 20, 2006 10:42:42 GMT -5
the 80s metal cover band i'm in opened for Blue Oyster Cult a few months ago. but during the years before i joined, those guys opened for RATT, warrant, Dio, Slaughter, Cinderella, Bret Michaels, and basically any other hair band that came through town. i wish i was around when they opened for Ratt. megahertz? I thought you guys were kaput. in a nutshell those guys basically said they love me, think of me as a close friend, and don't want me to go...we had a great conversation about things and i feel alot better about everything....so i'm staying... what the future holds concerning our hiatus that's coming up i'm not sure about but if they want to continue w/ the band after the hiatus then that's fine w/ me. we're going to be rehearsing new songs in the meantime anyway so the band isn't going to really be on break... |
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Post by davo on Oct 20, 2006 10:55:01 GMT -5
megahertz? I thought you guys were kaput. in a nutshell those guys basically said they love me, think of me as a close friend, and don't want me to go...we had a great conversation about things and i feel alot better about everything....so i'm staying... what the future holds concerning our hiatus that's coming up i'm not sure about but if they want to continue w/ the band after the hiatus then that's fine w/ me. we're going to be rehearsing new songs in the meantime anyway so the band isn't going to really be on break... Told Ya..... Them hot licks you been playin' melted their panties. TeeHee |
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Post by VomHalen on Oct 20, 2006 10:56:44 GMT -5
in a nutshell those guys basically said they love me, think of me as a close friend, and don't want me to go...we had a great conversation about things and i feel alot better about everything....so i'm staying... what the future holds concerning our hiatus that's coming up i'm not sure about but if they want to continue w/ the band after the hiatus then that's fine w/ me. we're going to be rehearsing new songs in the meantime anyway so the band isn't going to really be on break... Told Ya..... Them hot licks you been playin' melted their panties. TeeHee HA! |
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Post by DonaldDemon on Oct 20, 2006 11:06:05 GMT -5
My original band opened for Tracii Guns last year. That's it though  |
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Post by Dirrty Craig on Oct 20, 2006 11:28:35 GMT -5
uh, lets see if my memory can withstand this one,...
Blue Oyster Cult
Chris Duarte
Slaughter
Humble Pie
Skid Row
Molly Hatchet
The Godz (Lmao)
Jackyl
Warrant
Jani Lane solo
Firehouse
Eddie Money
Night Ranger
Crimson Glory
Ratt (old Pearcy version w/o Demartini pre-court case)
Loverboy
Played onstage with:
Paul Gilbert
Mike Portnoy
John Petrucci
Brian Setzer
Vinnie Moore
Bruce Kullick
Dennis Chambers
Tony MacAlpine
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Post by almightycrunch on Oct 20, 2006 12:40:39 GMT -5
THE GODZ!!! funny Actually I had a run in with the former guitar player from The Godz named Mark Chatfield. I sold him( what was I thinkin?  ) my 1956 Fender Tweed Champ amplifier, actually traded it to him for a Gibson Les Paul studio in white dead even. I think that was back in 1999 or 2000. Then as a sidenote I sold the studio to a kid who wanted to play guitar so bad and couldnt afford anything worth playing. He got in a bad car accident and was brain dead for a few days before he died. He loved that guitar sooo much that him Mom put it inside his coffin and it is now buried with him six feet under. |
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Post by motorcop71 on Jan 11, 2007 0:17:36 GMT -5
Night Ranger, Warrant, Slaughter. Almost Quiet Riot. We decided to go to the beach instead.
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) my 1956 Fender Tweed Champ amplifier, actually traded it to him for a Gibson Les Paul studio in white dead even. I think that was back in 1999 or 2000. Then as a sidenote I sold the studio to a kid who wanted to play guitar so bad and couldnt afford anything worth playing. He got in a bad car accident and was brain dead for a few days before he died. He loved that guitar sooo much that him Mom put it inside his coffin and it is now buried with him six feet under.