Bands you discovered as support acts

blue44 said:
I saw Blackfoot back the Scorpions too,Blackfoot toured the year after on their own .
we managed to walk into the stage area at the back of the apollo near where that pub was after the gig.
I remember talking to the singer who's name i forget,I was stunned at the time that he liked Rod Stewart same as me !
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Yeah, I also saw them the year after. Rickey Medlocke was the singer, used to play drums for Lynyrd Skynyrd in the early 70s and rejoined as a guitarist in the 90s - he's still a member of Skynyrd to this day.
 
BillCarlisle said:
On that subject, although I'd already discovered the late great Tom Petty by then, I went to see Bob Dylan at the NEC back in the late 1980's. First on was Roger McGuinn backed by TP & the Heartbreakers, doing old Byrds songs. Followed by TP & the Heartbreakers doing their own stuff. Followed by Dylan backed by TP & the Heartbreakers. What a gig that was and Tom & the boys really earned their money that night. Like you, I've loved Petty's music to this day. I was gutted when he passed away.
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I had the pleasure of seeing TP and the Heartbreakers again in the early 80's when I lived in the south east at the time. Brighton Dome was the venue, which in those days didn't have a stage so everything was at floor level.

He was promoting his new album, Rattlesnake, and it's one of the most memorable concerts I've seen.

Standing a few feet in front of a band playing great music is a night I'll never forget.
 
I went to see Aerosmith in ‘93 and they had a support act who was a guitarist. “Who the fuck is Steve Vai?” I thought. He came on and did a song called For The Love Of God and just blew my mind!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
So this thread is about which bands did you discover that you had never heard of previously, that you saw as a support act at a gig you attended and went on to love.
For me these four.....

James (supported The Smiths at Palace Theatre, Manchester 1985)


Inspiral Carpets (supported The Wedding Present at The Ritz, Manchester 1988)


The Thrills (supported Morrissey at Royal Albert Hall, London, 2002)


Girl In A Coma (supported Morrissey in New York / Boston 2007)


Honourable mentions to
The Comsat Angels (support to U2 at Warwick Uni 1981)
The Red Guitars (support to The Smiths at Lanchester Poly, 1984)
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i was at that gig at the palace theatre, am i imagining tim booth smacking his head with a tea tray during their set??
 
blue44 said:
bloody hell,you've got a good memory !
so that gig i saw leppard play was 1980 feb 3rd at belle vue, 4 days before my 15th birthday.
do you remember 1 of the guitarists strings snapped and he had to replace it with an other ?
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Not a good memory a book of ticket stubs. Your memory may be better I don’t remember if he had to change a string.
 
blueparrot said:
Not a good memory a book of ticket stubs. Your memory may be better I don’t remember if he had to change a string.
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well,if my memory serves me right
i think the ticket for def leppard at belle vue was a really.big thing ,much bigger than the ticket stubs for the apollo.
i threw all.mine out years ago moving houses .
 
blue44 said:
well,if my memory serves me right
i think the ticket for def leppard at belle vue was a really.big thing ,much bigger than the ticket stubs for the apollo.
i threw all.mine out years ago moving houses .
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Yes, big yellow postcard size, oddly got in the car car this morning and radio 2 playing a song off their new album.
 
blueparrot said:
Yes, big yellow postcard size, oddly got in the car car this morning and radio 2 playing a song off their new album.
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I only ever bought 1 of their albums.
the first one, On through the night,i got a limited picture disk record, summert like the first 1,000 . Years later around 2002 i sold it for £1 along with 100's of my other albums for £1 each.
probably could have got a small fortune for it now !
 
blue44 said:
I only ever bought 1 of their albums.
the first one, On through the night,i got a limited picture disk record, summert like the first 1,000 . Years later around 2002 i sold it for £1 along with 100's of my other albums for £1 each.
probably could have got a small fortune for it now !
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Probably a fair few of the 100s sold worth a bit now, I sold teh Iron Maiden Sondhouse tapes for about £400 about 15 years ago goes for over £1000 now.
 
bornblueegg said:
Saw Tracy Chapman open for John Martyn in Manchester. He introduced her himself with a joint in hand and said "listen to this girl, she's special" and she was
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What a voice.
Fast car is my favourite song of all time.
 
dickie davies said:
T'Pau
They were supporting Brian Adams at the NEC and had just entered the charts with Heart and Soul
Next day I booked tickets to see them at the Apollo and in the time running up to the gig they had their number 1 hit, China in your hands, which meant the Apollo was easily sold out
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I saw T'Pau on that Bryan Adams Tour in Leeds. Never heard of them when I bought the tickets for BA. They were really good and I bought the album Bridge of Spies on the strength of it. Some good tracks on it.
 
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Public Hall Preston - Lindisfarne, supported by GENESIS who opened with 'Watcher of the Skies', I was hooked before PG had opened his mouth!
 
dan_bo said:
Bobbie Peru supported the Fall, Leeds Uni, about 2013. Check out Social Suicide'. Top band.
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That’s weird and brings back lots of memories. Bobbie Peru were formed from the ashes of a band called Adom, half of them were from Manchester and half from Atlanta Georgia. I loved them from the 1st moment I saw them in 2003 supporting Puressence at the Scala in London. Their only album “idiot savant” is still one of my all time favourites. I went to see Bobbie Peru on their first tour after Adom split, at the Late Room, 16 years and 1 day ago. I still have the cd they were flogging at the gig.
 
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