Opening acts you liked

Been thinking aboot this for a while, since I often complain aboot the opening act at show I go to.
 
Here are a few I have really liked
 
Porcupine Tree opening for Yes
Dream Theater opening for Yes and also ELP/DP
Bob Dylan opening for GD multiple times
Los Lobos opening for GD and others
Warren Haynes
Little Feat   GD
Steve Miller Band   GD
Sting   GD
Kansas   Yes
King’s X   DT/Satch
Hot Tuna
Living Color opening for KC
King Crimson opening act HORDE tour
Robert Fripp
Steve Morse band opening for the Dregs
NIN opening for David Bowie
The Band opening for CSN

SymX for DT
Ben Harper for RHCP
James Brown for RHCP another time
unfortunately thats all i've enjoyed

Mastodon opening for Tool

Pain of Salvation opening for DT
Spock's Beard opening for DT
Amplifier opening for Opeth
Kino opening for Spock's Beard
Steve Thorne opening for Kino
Basement Jaxx opening for Robbie Williams

CHEERZ!

Riverside was very nice!

Mastodon for Tool
Oceansize for Porcupine Tree
Riverside for Dream Theater

Mastodon for both Slayer and Iron Maiden
The Sword opening for The Melvins
Symphony X opening for D.T
Hmm..can't think of any more right now..

Though some friends of mine are gonna warm up for the one and only Motörhead later this year, gonna kick ass!!

Oceansize opening for Porcupine Tree
Pain of Salvation opening for DT
Symphony X opening for DT
Eric Sardinas opening for Steve Vai
Vanden Plas opening for DT

3 for Porcupine Tree
Isis for Tool
Jurassic 5 and Pepper for 311
O.A.R and Alien Ant Farm (when they had just released their first album) for 311
 

DoubleDrive opening for QR.Was so impressed that I bought the album at the concert. Pretty solid rock album.
 
Devin

These are kinda old, but then, so am I:

Iron Maiden opening for Judas Priest (circa 1980)

Blue Oyster Cult opening for Black Sabbath (circa 1979)

Whitesnake opening for Jethro Tull (circa 1976)

Spock's Beard opening for DT
Pain Of Salvation opening for DT
Paatos opening for Porcupine Tree
Burst opening for Opeth
Mastodon opening for Tool
Oren Lavie opening for Anna Ternheim
Sentenced opening for Tiamat
Cradle Of Filth opening for Slayer
Some weird magician dude opening for Mr Bungle

NIN/David Bowie like Spinaltap already mentioned wasn't a fan of either of these bands(I enjoyed their music but only went to the show because I won tickets) Great show although wish now that I am a Bowie fan that he would have performed some of his older material.  Saw them at Hershey Stadium and the way Bowie and his band came on stage and NIN re-appeared for an encore with Bowie was just awesome

Big Wreck opening for Dream Theater they were booed by alot of people and had people Chant Pearl Jam and shit like that at the Old Bridge but they were really good live

Dream Theater opening for YES: 'Nuff Said

Winger opening for Deep Purple: Maybe not a popular answer in some circles but I thought overall they were a really good band and pulled off some cool stuff live

Guns N Roses opening up for Aerosmith: Guns at their peak

Mr. Big opening for RUSH: seeing Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert together was great

King Crimson opening for Tool: 'Nuff said

there's more just can't think of them right now

Sym X opening for DT 

Wow I forgot about seeing Mr. Big open for Rush. That was a great opener.
 
Devin

Well, besides SX opening for DT, I saw Pagan's Mind last night opening for Fates Warning. They were really good.

ORIGINAL: Anarchy

Wow I forgot about seeing Mr. Big open for Rush. That was a great opener.

Devin

 
I left this one off my list too.

Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath
Rainbow opening for Aerosmith and B.O.C.
Scorpions opening for Rainbow
U.K.opening for Tull
Max Webster opening for Rush
Marillion  for Rush
Godsmack for Metallica

Alice Cooper opening for Deep Purple
Kino opening for Spock's Beard
Eric Sardinas opening for Steve Vai
Symphony X opening for DT

DT opening for Yes
Kansas opening for Yes
King's X opening for Satch/DT
Fates Warning opening for QR/DT
3 opening for PT
Redemption opening for DT

ORIGINAL: phoenixdown

Big Wreck opening for Dream Theater they were booed by alot of people and had people Chant Pearl Jam and shit like that at the Old Bridge but they were really good live

Guess who was chanting the loudest? Good old KeithK. He was ragging them hard and loud and they were getting pissed at him.

The irony is that not long after that he met them down in Atlanta and really began to dig them after that.

Only opening bands that ever did anything for me were:

Primus for Rush--'91

Echolyn for Dream Theater -- jeez, when was that? 91, 92?

Porcupine Tree for Yes--2002

Firewind opening for dragonforce (i actually came just to see firewind :) )
I usually like opening acts if they're in about the same genre as the headlining band, so that's basically every opening band I see.

ORIGINAL: Anarchy

Wow I forgot about seeing Mr. Big open for Rush. That was a great opener.

Devin

 
Except that both times that Rush took Mr. Big out, King's X qws supposed to go.  Can't remember if that was Rush's call or Atlantic's call, but while Mr. Big was good, King's X would have kicked tennis player ass.

Eric Johnson opening for Rush was very cool.

ORIGINAL: phoenixdown

Big Wreck opening for Dream Theater they were booed by alot of people and had people Chant Pearl Jam and shit like that at the Old Bridge but they were really good live

 
Really? Wow, what a bunch  of idiots. I saw them open for DT in Toronto where they actually got a pretty good response. You can read between the lines on that if you like.

Three for Porcupine Tree were incredible.

Star People opening for Dream Theater

Tom Griesgraber opening for the Tony Levin Band was just mind blowing.
King's X opening for AC/DC.

Star People was definitely an interesting choice opening for DT, and yeah Eric Johnson and Primus were great opening for RUSH I didn't even think about them...even Candlebox was a pretty good opener...although I think they were the wrong audience for an Overly vocal Philly crowd. Though of an interesting one not technically opening but went to like an all day music show and one of the bands was Dread Zeppelin I had always enjoyed hearing there music(especially when I was "expanding my mind" in my high school days) but it was awesome seeing them live especially in a small club.

mars volta opening for system of a down
victor wooten opening for dave matthews band
and i guess redemption opening for DT

where do I start?

All That Remains opening for Dragonforce
Children of Bodom, Lamb of God and In Flames opening for Slayer
Trivium opening for Iron Maiden
I Killed The Prom Queen opening for Bring Me The Horizon
Anterior and The Ocean opening for The Black Dahlia Murder
The Enemy opening for The Stereophonics


Not bad eh?

epica opening for sonata arctica was like

Halford and Queensrÿche opening for Iron Maiden
Elfonia opening for The Gathering
Stream of Passion opening for Anathema
Agora opening for Deep Purple


That's all I can remember...

No love for the Dixie Dregs opening for DT on the Metropolis2000 tour?  I thought that they were incredible!

3 opening for Porcupine Tree in 2007
Godsmack opening for Metallica in 04
Some band that opened for Apocalyptica in Toronto in 05

I can't honestly say that I remember that many concerts I've been to that have an opening band.  My absolute favorite is DT opening for Yes.  I also liked the band that opened for U2 in Mexico this tour.  Nothing special but I enjoyed it.

Clutch and Opeth before Lamb Of God in the 05' Sounds of the Underground tour was one of my favs.
 
54-40 for the Rolling Stones
Volta for System of a Down
The Tea Party for Def Leppard
The Trew for Robert Plant
Megadeth for Heaven & Hell
Robert Cray for Eric Clapton

Queens of the Stone Age for Nine Inch Nails
QOTSA for RHCP
Devin Townsend for Opeth (missed the show, though - but that's just awesome)
3 for PT
Mars Volta for SOAD

Jared would say Opeth for PT.

Mudvayne opening for Slipknot
Sinch opening for Stone Sour
Into Eternity opening for Dream Theater
Sanctity opening for Symphony X
3 opening for Porcupine Tree