Freak By Night Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Did anyone here go to this show in Toronto? They played two nights at the CNE, I went the second night on Sat. June 24th.Having an argument with a co-worker about the opening band, he says there was no opener, I disagree and I remember the opener being a particular legend. Our googling for info about the opener was fruitless. I still have my ticket stub from the show, but it just says "Q107 presents The Who". Does anyone here remember? (I won't say who I think the opener was so as to not distort anyone's memory.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Was it Joe Jackson?Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Nope. Joe Jackson was the opener at the 1982 show. That was "Final" tour. Joe was unceremoniously booed and pelted with projectiles at that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was there ... i can't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Nope. Joe Jackson was the opener at the 1982 show. That was "Final" tour.Right.Next guess: Bryan Adams.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Damn - I was counting on you Kev! If nobody can help this morning, I'll reveal who I remember as the opener later today. It wasn't Bryan Adams. I said "legend" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 David Wilcox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Chaos Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was there.I remember no opener, but I was 18 and very drunk.Still, by my hazy recollection, no opener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I seem to have missed this show.....I was eight. You're fucking old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was 26 at the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was at the show too with dogatthestation's brother. I can't remember if there was an opener, but I don't think there was one. Great show even if Pete was recovering from impaling his hand with his whammy bar after doing a windwill in Buffalo two nights before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 (edited) I don't think there was an opening band, the 23rd was the kick off of that tour and the show was quite long (first set they performed 'Tommy') and I remember there was a rather long intermission. [color:red][edit to add]The 23rd was actually the second show of the 89 tour, Glen Falls 06/21 with no opening act was the first, my mistake. Edited February 15, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSloth Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was there and don't remember an opening act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was at one of those 2 shows too. Also can't remember any opener. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Checking out a Who setlist site, they have a artcle/review from newsweek posted about the Glen Falls show..The Who - Wed, 21 June 1989:Glens Falls, NY, Civic CenterSee Them! Feel Them!in: Newsweek, 03-07-1989The Who's back, again ... And what do audiences expect of The Who in 1989? »They expect us to be present,« he says [sic. Pete Townshend]. »We're just supposed to be there. It's not that it's unimportened what we play or how we play, but it's importent that we're present and that we want to be present. You don't invite people to celebrate your work and then look like you don't want to be at the party.«If The Who weren't genuinely getting a bang out of this, they did a good job of fooling the crowd in Glen Falls. It's obligatory that Daltrey, 45 swing his mike on it's cord like a lasso, and that Townshend, 44, do his stony stares and synchronize his leaps with slashing guitar chords; his windmilling arm motions are even adcertised on the $20 T-shirts. But why bother to fake the little grins? And why not hire an opening act and do a quick and dirty hour of greatest hits, instead of a three-hour concert that began with numbers from »Tommy«, ended with »Won't Get Fooled Again«, introduced songs from Townshend's new solo album »The Iron Man« and threw in »Twist And Shout« for an encore? A brief moment, maybe for Pete Townshend, but a hell of a show for the money.http://www.thewholive.de/suche/show_review.php?id=91I would say by looking at the other 89 dates they didn't have an opener at all. 1989 tour setlists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted February 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 OK. Looks like people here can't remember an opener, so I might have to agree with that. For some reason, I thought Stevie Ray Vaughan rocked out an opening set before The Who took the stage. I could be wrong. As they said on Dead tour "Leave only the footprints, take only the memories". Well I've left many a footprint in my time, but the memories are vague at best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Stevie was playing within travelling distance around that time, but any setlist data base I look at only shows these shows around and on that date...21jun89 Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, VT24jun89 Lake Compounce Festival Park, Bristol, CT25jun89 Great Woods Amphitheater, Mansfield, MAHad had played in Ottawa, Montreal & Toronto a week earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 wasnt that the tour that The Who recorded live for TV? They did a Tommy set in NYC with Elton John and Billy Idol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 wasnt that the tour that The Who recorded live for TV? They did a Tommy set in NYC with Elton John and Billy Idol? Thu, 24 August 1989: Los Angeles, CA, Universal Amphitheatre Info Tommy-Show with special guests: Steve Winwood (Eyesight To The Blind), Patti Labelle (The Acid Queen), Billy Idol (Cousin Kevin), Phil Collins (Uncle Ernie) and Elton John (Pinball Wizard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Are you getting the SRV opener mixed up with the Eric Clapton show? I kick myself frequently for missing SRV opening for Clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Also, SRV opened for, and then kicked Robert Plant's ass around the same time in Toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForbinHood Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I had a great time at this show... as for SRV, he also toured with a guitar heroes tour around this time as well... Jeff Beck was on the bill too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Also, SRV opened for, and then kicked Robert Plant's ass around the same time in Toronto. I still have the ticket stub for that show, it was in may 1988, MLG. :thumbup:There are DVD copies floating around, but here's a video from that show...Stevie Ray Vaughan Live In Toronto May 10th 1988 Maple Leaf Gardens Opening For Robert Plant.http://video.aol.com/video-detail/stevie-ray-vaughan-scuttle-buttin/3788920230 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I was too pissed at them for touring years after their "farewell tour" to see them in 1989. Although, I did see them again in 2000 (?) at the molson amphitheatre doing Quadrophenia, and again in 2007 in Ottawa.The 1982 show was one of those very rare experiences (for me) where I can't really remember the show. I remember Joe Jackson stopping his set early due to moron "rockers" throwing beer bottles at him. I was a big Joe Jackson fan and was quite pissed at that. (I would have put myself inthe "mod" category.) I remember the first Who song, and I remember going out for drinks at the Roxy after the show (they would serve us underage kids at the time), but nothing in between. And I had put so much of an effort into getting tix - camping out at the CNE. I remember that night quite well, actually. I also initially had tix for their Rich Stadium show as no Toronto show was announced on the initial set of dates of that tour. After buying the tix we realized the Rich show was on Yom Kippur so some of us couldn't go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Also' date=' SRV opened for, and then kicked Robert Plant's ass around the same time in Toronto.[/quote'] I still have the ticket stub for that show, it was in may 1988, MLG. :thumbup:There are DVD copies floating around, but here's a video from that show...Stevie Ray Vaughan Live In Toronto May 10th 1988 Maple Leaf Gardens Opening For Robert Plant.http://video.aol.com/video-detail/stevie-ray-vaughan-scuttle-buttin/3788920230Awesome Greg! Thanks. Stevie's the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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