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Re: Bad opening acts
Michael Forster wrote:
>I'm sorry to close a discussion but the worst opening act anyone has
>ever had, not limited to the Who (although it was our boys) was the
>Rockets opening for them in 1981 in Birmingham, Alabama. I drove from
>Athens,GA and got there early enough to endure their whole 9 hour (OK,
>you know what I mean) set. Their claim to fame was an incredibly lame
>version of "Oh Well" and their attempt to get the crowd to echo their
>shouts of "Turn it Up" only to get met with stony silence still cause
>me nightmares.
Whole-heartedly agreed! Saw them in April of '80 on the same tour,
at the "Echodome" (Checkerdome - now the St. Louis Arena) in St.L - Rockets
opened, and were non-stop booed, the whole time, even when they played a
medley of their 'hit' - when they finally stopped, they were met with stoney
silence - until the house lights came up! Then the crowd erupted, realizing
that they weren't coming back!! Oh, I also saw, at that show, a person
wearing a t-shirt with footprints printed on the front, with the words on
the back reading, "I'd walk over you to see the Who", which given the
nearness in time to Cincinatti, I thought was in fairly poor taste.
Whack up the volume, & rock on!
Kevin