Who Toured With Your Favorite Prog Artist? |
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presdoug
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Topic: Who Toured With Your Favorite Prog Artist? Posted: May 22 2012 at 19:26 |
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Thought this might be kind of interesting.
What artists, prog or otherwise, toured with your favorite prog band/artist? Either as an opening act,or one your fave prog artist opened for. It can be a concert you have personally seen,or just read about. Please keep the fave prog artist to a single favorite, or maybe two or three of your top favorites. My favorite prog artist- Triumvirat Acts that toured with Triumvirat -Fleetwood Mac -Nektar -Caravan -ELO -Grand Funk Railroad -Supertramp -Little Feat those are the ones i currently know about Edited by presdoug - May 22 2012 at 21:30 |
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 19:47 | |
Kansas opened for the Doors and for Zappa back in their early days. Either one of those would have been worth seeing. Saddest opening act was probably Quarterflash for Loverboy around 1982 or so. Rindy Ross came out with her saxophone and a bottle of Jack, and was so wasted she could barely stand up let alone sing. Also saw a redneck band in Helena Montana in the early 80s who had a midget guitarist in a white tuxedo. Can't even remember what show that was but I think it was David Allen Coe. Figures... |
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 21:56 | |
Genesis, Van Der Graaf and Lindisfarne toured together in 1971 for the famous Charisma Package Tour. Nine major gigs were booked in England; at the time, Van Der Graaf were the most commercially successful and recognized, but that would soon change as this was the tour that Genesis really became promoted.
I read in the autobiographical book, Genesis: Chapter And Verse, that all three bands shared the same tour bus and schedule. It was funny, Phil was saying that if you wanted to have a conversation about life, death and questions about the universe, you went to the Van Der Graaf side of the bus. If you wanted to have a go at crosswords and board games, you went to the Genesis side. If you wanted to have a pint and a chat about football, you went to the Lindisfarne territory. Genesis is my favourite band of all time and Van Der Graaf are one of my favourites. I've never heard Lindisfarne, but I should give them a chance in the near future. |
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smartpatrol
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Posted: May 22 2012 at 22:16 | |
Favorite band: Rush opened for: Kiss opened by: UFO (who treated Rush like sh*t) that's all I know
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richardh
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 01:02 | |
ELP toured with PFM on their 1973 European tour. They even opened for them on the Italian leg
They also toured with Dr Hook in the USA , just about as 'unprog' as you can get
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presdoug
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 11:56 | |
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presdoug
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 11:59 | |
I read that in 1972 in America, they played concerts with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. (Don't know who opened for who) |
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tamijo
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 12:06 | |
Peter Gabriel......................when he started working with Fripp
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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frippism
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 16:23 | |
Funny enough, my bass teacher from the U.S. was in a band that opened for Rush real early in Rush's career.
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There be dragons
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frippism
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 16:24 | |
Radiohead opened for Cardiacs in 1992. Not even kidding.
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There be dragons
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dwill123
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 17:09 | |
I saw Curved Air open for Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Fillmore East in 1971. And I also saw Buddy Miles open for King Crimson around 1973 in Central Park, NYC. But the show I missed and wished I had seen was a tour, Mahavishnu Orchestra opened for Frank Zappa. I know this showed played at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
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Epignosis
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 17:23 | |
Kansas and Yes in 2000.
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martinprog77
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 03:31 | |
i saw dream theater open for ELP and deep purple
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npjnpj
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 04:28 | |
End of the '70s I saw Peter Gabriel open for Frank Zappa
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 05:32 | |
In 1970 Miles Davis opened for Neil Young and Steve Miller Band at the Fillmore East. That's just plain wrong!
When Miles went electric he wanted young hip Afro Americans to shake their booty to his 20 minute funk epics, but no such luck. Instead got some new fans amongst the hippies. Around the same period he opened for Grateful Dead and Laura Nyro too. |
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richardh
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 16:04 | |
at that time must have been something else
don't think I've ever seen a really great band support another great band
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rushfan4
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 16:09 | |
If they ever build a time machine, I will travel back to March 28, 1986 Joe Louis Arena. Detroit, Michigan (Marillion) Edited by rushfan4 - May 24 2012 at 16:20 |
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rushfan4
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 16:30 | |
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martinprog77
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Posted: May 25 2012 at 04:55 | |
spocks beard opened for dream theater
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 25 2012 at 05:06 | |
^Saw that...also Symphony X did. saw that too.
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