Stones Opening Acts That Were Actually Good!

The Pretenders - Giants Stadium 2002
Alanis Morisette - Giants Stadium 2005
Living Colour - Shea Stadium 1989

Or... Worst Stones Opening Acts ...



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The Corrs Washington DC 1999 Philly 1 & 2 1999

Buddy Guy Beacon Theatre 2006


Kanye West Giants Stadium 2006........(JUST KIDDING HE SUCKED...BAAAAAD)

Blues Traveler - 1997, Soldier Field
The Prentenders - 2002, United Center
Black Eyed Peas - 2005, Fenway Park

Ian McLagan - Austin 2006

At the ripe old age of 16 in the year 1999 the barefoot Johnny Lang tore it up for The No Security tour in KC.

George Thorogood & The Destroyers
J Geils Band
Newcastle 1982

Black Uhuru (with Sly & Robbie)
Wembley 1982

The Quireboys
Newcastle 1990

I've seen a few lousy ones too. . . .



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Jonny Lang - Cleveland 1999

molly hatchet 81

J. Geils Band - L.A. Coliseum, 1981
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Pasadena Rose Bowl, 1994
Solomen Burke - The Joint, Las Vegas, 2002
Toots and the Maytalls - both Feyenoord Stadium shows, and Ahoy Arena show - Rotterdam. 2003
The Hives - Stockholm Stadion, and Globen Arena, 2003
Toots and the Maytalls - San Diego, and Anaheim, 2005
Bonnie Raitt - Dodger Stadium, 2006
Van Morrison - McAfee stadium, Oakland, 2006
Van Morrison - Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2007

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Van Halen - 1978 and 1981

A weekend with Van Halen and the Rolling Stones

Best of the ones I've seen:
Stevie Wonder - 1972.
Lenny Krzvitz - 1994.

Living Colour 1989 Pittsburgh
Blues Traveler 1997 Columbus
Pearl Jam 2005 Pittsburgh
Kid Rock in Columbus 2015 but......he was just well known.
And SARSFEST if that counts. Plenty of good warmup bands there

I've seen:
BB King
Stevie Wonder
George Thorogood

I noticed someone mentioned Jony Lang 1999 above.
Didn't see him, but I would agree.

Kravtz,Pretenders and No Doubt was ok

No one has mentioned Ike & Tina Turner.
Neville Bros in 81 were incredible.
I have to say that since then the openers that I have seen have ekther sucked outright, or fell victim to inferior sound systems, provided by the Stones. On all late-era tours the openers sounded like mud, and then the Stones would come out and sound like gold. Except in ( I think) 2002 there was No Doubt, where Glen Stefani rose above it all.

Living Colour, Carter-Finley, NC, 1989

Slane Castle 2007...forget who it was but was good

Toots and The Maytals, Greensboro, 1975

Etta James, Greensboro, 1978

just to name a few

J. Geils Band, 1982, in Gothenbeurg.
Almost outrocked Stones at that time!

Been Stoned since 1964 and still am!

The Nevile Brothers in Chicago November of 81.

I suspect the Stones had very little input on openers for the Zip code tour.
Maybe nowadays the choice is all controlled by the promoter?

Pearl Jam - Oakland 1997
Sheryl Crow - Wembley 1999
The Pretenders - NY/NJ 2002
Johnny Lang - NY 2002
The Cranberries - Munich 2003
ZZ Top - Helsinki 2003
Trey Anastasio - Durham 2005
John Mayer Trio - Philadelphia 2005
Van Morrison - Werchter 2007
Toots & The Maytals - Helsinki/Gothenburg/Copenhagen 2007
Gary Clark Jr - Hyde Park 2013

That chick on the Csucker blues plane ...



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The Pretenders-United Centre Chicago 2002.

Primal Scream are always good

The Hives – Stockholm Stadium, Stockholm 2003
Gary Clark – Hyde Park, London 2013
BigBang – Telenor Arena, Oslo 2014

By far the worst band: Dan Reed Network, Valle Hovin, Oslo 1990

My faves were

The Corrs - Mannheim 1998 (just beautiful irish weather, great lights, great music)
Sheryl Crow - Wembley 1999
Keziah Jones - Cirkus Krone 2003
AC/DC - Hockenheim 2003 (reboosting everyone since we were worn out by the heat)
Toots And The Maytals - Ahoy 2003

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The Pretenders - 2003 Barcelona

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Van Halen - 1978 and 1981

A weekend with Van Halen and the Rolling Stones

Nice link.

Those were the days, I thought they would never end.

Gimme a time machine and I would go back to 1981 so fast it wou

Kracker Rotterdam 1973
Billy Preston with Mick Taylor 1973

St. Paul and the Broken Bones: Buffalo 2015

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That chick on the Csucker blues plane ...

Hahahahahaha. Greatr One rockman.
Jeroen