Opening Acts - Page 2

kenzo · #16 03-19-2006, 09:42 PM

My favorite opening act for a Fleetwood Mac performance was Fleetwood Mac, when they opened for Crosby Stills and Nash (the Time lineup). Bekka sang Lennon's "Imagine" as a tribute to him that night. This was at Great Woods (now the Tweeter Center) in Mansfield, MA.

About half of the audience left shortly after the Mac left; CSN sounded absolutely horrible. It was a bit sad, really.

Neb-Maat-Re · #17 03-20-2006, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by kenzo

My favorite opening act for a Fleetwood Mac performance was Fleetwood Mac, when they opened for Crosby Stills and Nash (the Time lineup). Bekka sang Lennon's "Imagine" as a tribute to him that night. This was at Great Woods (now the Tweeter Center) in Mansfield, MA.

About half of the audience left shortly after the Mac left; CSN sounded absolutely horrible. It was a bit sad, really.

I find it sad that FM were opening for CSN regardless of how anyone sounded.

I saw FM in Melbourne in 1980 for the Tusk tour. I have no recollection who opened, but the Fleetnotes on FM Legacy say John Paul Young opened in Sydney. I have no reason to believe he didn't open in Melbourne. I have a vague recollection that I saw JPY live once, and that would probably have been then.

I do remember that as we lived in the country some mates and I skived off school for the day to travel down to Melbourne. Unlike my wife who grew up in Melbourne, regularly seeing AC/DC and other bands down at her local pub.

aleuzzi · #18 03-20-2006, 12:52 AM

I remember reading somewhere (maybe Mick's book) that The Little River Band, Bob Welch, and The Steve Miller Band each opened at different times for FM during the Rumors tour. Anyone able to confirm this with first-hand, or even second-observations?

David · #19 03-20-2006, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

I remember reading somewhere (maybe Mick's book) that The Little River Band, Bob Welch, and The Steve Miller Band each opened at different times for FM during the Rumors tour. Anyone able to confirm this with first-hand, or even second-observations?

No, that's true. A bunch of guys opened for Fleetwood in 1977 & 1978:

Firefall
Pink Floyd
Doobies
Gary Wright
Steve Gibbons
Kenny Loggins
Bob Seger
Chick Corea
Stanley Clarke
Bozz Scaggs
Marshall Tucker Band
Arizona
Jimmy Buffett
Sanford Townsend
Santana
Little River Band
Kevin Borich Express
Bob Welch
Steve Miller Band
J. Geils Band
Eddy Money

David · #20 03-20-2006, 01:09 AM

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I saw FM in Melbourne in 1980 for the Tusk tour.

Cool! Did you see the show with the soundboard in circulation? (March 11 I think)

Miss Vicky · #21 03-20-2006, 02:05 AM

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Originally Posted by David

No, that's true. A bunch of guys opened for Fleetwood in 1977 & 1978:

Firefall
Pink Floyd
Doobies
Gary Wright
Steve Gibbons
Kenny Loggins
Bob Seger
Chick Corea
Stanley Clarke
Bozz Scaggs
Marshall Tucker Band
Arizona
Jimmy Buffett
Sanford Townsend
Santana
Little River Band
Kevin Borich Express
Bob Welch
Steve Miller Band
J. Geils Band
Eddy Money

Your list isn't quite complete. You forgot Walter Egan

chiliD · #22 03-20-2006, 03:17 AM

My fave opening acts for Fleetwood Mac were:

Little Feat
Sanford-Townsend Band
Dave Mason
Climax Blues Band
The Cruzados
Danny Douma
Mistress

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Christopher Cross was a bore & a half at the Hollywood Bowl. The only cool thing was that Nicolette Larson came out & sang with his band. She was dressed in a long, flowing dress & her hair was Pre-Raphaelite & she played a tambourine -- so it was a little "Stevie" before Stevie came out. They did do a Nicolette song: Lotta Love.

You actually mean they played Nicolette's version of a Neil Young song. And, the extended guitar solo jam at the end of "Ride Like The Wind" was pretty good, too...but, yeah, other than those two things, Christoper Cross was "snooze city".

I also didn't really care for Roger McGuinn's solo acoustic performance as opening act for the Oct 1994 show. If he'd just shut the hell up between the songs and just PLAYED the damned songs, he would've been 100x's better. But he was doing his own one man version of "Storytellers" before there ever WAS a thing...he'd talk for 10 minutes in between each number (the songs would only be 3 minutes long).

PsychCat · #23 03-20-2006, 06:29 AM

I was JUST thinking about this very topic the other day.
I thought Joe Walsh totally rocked when he opened for Stevie. We had either first or second for that show so that was all pretty cool.

In all honesty, the only opening act I remember was Livingston Taylor (James' bro) on the Rumours tour in Atlanta. I remember because being as young as I was, as excited as I was at my first concert... let alone FM, I thought this guy would NEVER get off stage! Granted he could have played 5 mins and it would have seemed like an eternity to me. But bless his heart, he was no James Taylor and had quite a job to get thru that night.

As our seats were right in front of Lindsey, it seems like that was where LT stood during his set as it was just him and his guitar. I remember the stage was all set for FM .... Mick's set was the first thing I saw when we walked in!! ... and no one was going to be within arms length of Stevie's special mic.

Richard B · #24 03-20-2006, 12:20 PM

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My fave opening acts for Fleetwood Mac were:

The Cruzados

Nice choice. I really enjoy their album After Dark. Not sure it is still in print, but it's worth tracking down.

chiliD · #25 03-20-2006, 02:32 PM

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Nice choice. I really enjoy their album After Dark. Not sure it is still in print, but it's worth tracking down.

I have both of their albums...great stuff. An interesting trivia item...Tony Marsico, the Cruzados bass player, later became Rick Vito's bass player in the Lucky Devils.

I wonder if they met during that tour, or if Rick already knew Tony and that's how the Cruzados got the opening act gig.

DavidMn · #26 03-20-2006, 04:36 PM

Everytime I hear Firefall and Fleetwood Mac mentioned in the same sentence, I always think of that stupid poster that used to be all over Ebay!!

aleuzzi · #27 03-20-2006, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by David

No, that's true. A bunch of guys opened for Fleetwood in 1977 & 1978:

Firefall
Pink Floyd
Doobies
Gary Wright
Steve Gibbons
Kenny Loggins
Bob Seger
Chick Corea
Stanley Clarke
Bozz Scaggs
Marshall Tucker Band
Arizona
Jimmy Buffett
Sanford Townsend
Santana
Little River Band
Kevin Borich Express
Bob Welch
Steve Miller Band
J. Geils Band
Eddy Money

Holy ****, ChicK Corea opened?! All the other names seem compatible, but the thought of his fusion band pumping up some heady jazz groove just doesn't seem like it would get an FM audience primed for MAC's music...Weird.

no_spoken_word · #28 03-20-2006, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by David

No, that's true. A bunch of guys opened for Fleetwood in 1977 & 1978:

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd opened for the Mac? Whoa... I never knew that!

Neb-Maat-Re · #29 03-20-2006, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Cool! Did you see the show with the soundboard in circulation? (March 11 I think)

I don't really remember the day - I always had it in my mind we skipped school on a Friday and then got dressed down by the year co-ordinator the following week.

FM played Melb on March 1,2,3 (Sat, Sun, Mon) then 11 (Yes, bootleg) & 12 (Tue, Wed). As 11 Mar was a Tues I think the answer sadly is "unlikely".

For my own benefit I'll ask 2 of my mates who went. The 4th suffered a breakdown and would now have trouble remembering his name.

Unless my ticket stub is still in my tour book!

David · #30 03-20-2006, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by aleuzzi

Holy ****, ChicK Corea opened?! All the other names seem compatible, but the thought of his fusion band pumping up some heady jazz groove just doesn't seem like it would get an FM audience primed for MAC's music...Weird.

I agree, but it seemed a slightly different circumstance. This was for the May 29 Rock Super Bowl at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando. A big daylong festival that Fleetwood was headlining, but bunches of other artists played -- possibly even on different stages -- including Corea, Bob Seger, Stanley Clarke & Kenny Loggins.