A HUGE band you saw before they broke?

[Devin]

Of all people Alanis Morrissette at the howling wolf in NOLA, A year later jagged lil pill Bam

I've seen many an awesome show at The Howlin Wolf (I live in LA).....good times

 

[Devin]

not really a brag, but i saw nickelback, and linkin park, with another band, at The Shelter (if you've ever seen the movie 8 mile, its the club Em is battle raping in), in Detroit in 98 or 99. I just went cuz it was something to do that night, never heard of any of the bands, and didn't really think they were anything special, but obviously shows what i know cuz both bands got massive.

Battle raping

 

[PBGas]

Whitesnake broke out in 78

Ok whatever.

I meant in the 80s when they got bigger and more well known.

 

[panhead]

You do know Coverdale came from Deep Purple? It wasnt like nobody knew who he was in 78

 

[Donnie B.]

I'm with PB.

The band were doing OK but they weren't selling many albums and had no hit songs/MTV vids prior
to the Whitesnake album, which was one of the biggest of the 80s and made the band mega-stars.

 

[SoooRad]

Battle raping

Who is the greatest rapist of them all?!

Or in this case it may be "raper"

 

[Mark Skid]

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Derek Trucks
Black Crowes
Bob Seger System
James Gang
Raspberries

 

[Mailman1971]

I remember my uncle playing whitsnake Slide it in cassette. Early 80s. Blew me away. But I do love the later version of the band. Still of the night intro when cranked still gives me goosebumps!

 

[JimAnsell]

Battle raping

oups

 

[Monkey Man]

Still of the night intro when cranked still gives me goosebumps!

Arguably the most-epic rock song of all time IMHO, Brother Dan.

It's got everything.

 

[Mark Skid]

Many of the bands that toured NE Ohio played Chippewa Lake Amusement Park. Here is a pic of The Bob Seger System playing at Chippewa Lake Amusement Park. I saw a lot of up and coming bands there when I was a kid.

 

[BIGKAHUNA]

I saw Bon Jovi open for Ratt - She's a little runaway era. Does Bon Jovi count LOL

 

[Monkey Man]

Hey, don't feel bad; I nominated my regular gig supporting The Wiggles back in the '80s... when they were a country-rock band called The Cockroaches.

 

[Fret-Shredder]

Late 1982 my band INVADERS played our first show at the Troubadour in Hollywood. A fairly unknown band at the time was the opening act. We were to go on right after them. The band was SLAYER. I kid you not. As they took the stage our singer and I stood on the balcony looking on in amazement as they proceeded to devastate the place. Fog machine and light show and a blistering set. Afterwards we just looked at each other in utter shock. I looked at him and said... we gotta follow that shit. DAMN. Fortunate for us we drew about 200 plus people ourselves and pulled off a decent show. We did one other show with those guys not too later on at a place in Buena Park called The Woodstock and then they became huge and the rest is history for them. Good times. Did a show with Lizzy Borden too. Best years of my life.

 

[squealie]

I saw Bon Jovi open for Ratt - She's a little runaway era. Does Bon Jovi count LOL

I saw that.

Ratt was so fucking loud you couldn't tell what song they were playing. I loved Ratt and barely knew who Bon Jovi was.

16th birthday.

 

[thegame]

Late 1982 my band INVADERS played our first show at the Troubadour in Hollywood. A fairly unknown band at the time was the opening act. We were to go on right after them. The band was SLAYER. I kid you not. As they took the stage our singer and I stood on the balcony looking on in amazement as they proceeded to devastate the place. Fog machine and light show and a blistering set. Afterwards we just looked at each other in utter shock. I looked at him and said... we gotta follow that shit. DAMN. Fortunate for us we drew about 200 plus people ourselves and pulled off a decent show. We did one other show with those guys not too later on at a place in Buena Park called The Woodstock and then they became huge and the rest is history for them. Good times. Did a show with Lizzy Borden too. Best years of my life.

Wow, amazing story. Just to confirm, it was THE Slayer everyone now knows right? Because at the time there was another Slayer from San Antonio Texas who occasionally played on the west coast.

 

[Fret-Shredder]

Wow, amazing story. Just to confirm, it was THE Slayer everyone now knows right? Because at the time there was another Slayer from San Antonio Texas who occasionally played on the west coast.

It was the SLAYER. It may have been early 1983. I had thought it was late 1982 but I could be wrong on the exact date but yes it was the real deal Slayer. The other venue they played was The Woodstock in Buena Park.

 

[PeteLaramee]

Phish - I think January of 1989. I was a cameraman for a public access recording. Not really my kind of thing, but you could see they had the dead crowd even back then.

 

[bubbastain]

My band played a show with Korn at a San Diego club back in 1994. I didn't even ask who we were playing with until we were actually at the club and I was like "Corn!???". We played our set and then hung around to check them out. After the first song I said to my buddy that these guys are gonna get BIG.

 

[japetus]

This is too good

My friend convinced me to go saying they were this huge new rock band. The drummer was really good but I guess back then tuning your guitar, singing on key, remembering your parts, or taking baths were optional to them. Then a few years later they got huge.