What are some memorable multi-act concerts you've been to?

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Opener: Kangaroo (Similar to Stone Poneys, pleasant enough but not for this crowd)
Second Act: The Who (Keith had the Pictures of Lily kit)
Headliner Act: The Doors
Singer Bowl, NY, August 2, 1968 ("The one with the riot")

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Aug 2, 1968 - Singer Bowl, New York. Over the years there were numerous accounts of the Doors provoking riots at their performa
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Lollapalooza 1&2. $30.00. Don't even want to think what current prices are.

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I've never been to one where I liked all three acts. However this might change this fall if I get a ticket to go see Junior Brown, The Mavericks, and Dwight Yoakam. I'm really hoping I can make this show.
 

Canadian World Music Festival​

CNE Stadium, Toronto, ON, Canada​

Monday, July 2, 1979​

Aerosmith
April Wine
Goddo
Johnny Winter
Moxy
Nash the Slash
Nazareth
Ramones
Ted Nugent
Triumph

Rush seating so we slept overnight and were right up front. I loved the Ramones but they were on the wrong bill and got booed off the stage under a shower of bottles and other items being thrown at them. In true Ramones fashion they gave the crowd the finger as they left. Marky Ramone talks about this show in his bio. When they saw the lineup they knew they were in trouble. I remember Ted Nugent swinging across the stage on a rope to make his entrance. I don't remember a lot of it as it was a WILD day lol.
 
1978 Newport Jazz Festival (first year held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center)

George Benson
Chick Corea
Dizzy Gillespie
Herbie Hancock
Al Jarreau
Jean-Luc Ponty
Maynard Ferguson
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Mercer Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra
Buddy Rich Big Band
 
GregR said:

Canadian World Music Festival​

CNE Stadium, Toronto, ON, Canada​

Monday, July 2, 1979​

Aerosmith
April Wine
Goddo
Johnny Winter
Moxy
Nash the Slash
Nazareth
Ramones
Ted Nugent
Triumph

Rush seating so we slept overnight and were right up front. I loved the Ramones but they were on the wrong bill and got booed off the stage under a shower of bottles and other items being thrown at them. In true Ramones fashion they gave the crowd the finger as they left. Marky Ramone talks about this show in his bio. When they saw the lineup they knew they were in trouble. I remember Ted Nugent swinging across the stage on a rope to make his entrance. I don't remember a lot of it as it was a WILD day lol.
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  • Day On The Green, Oakland, 1991: Metallica, Queensrÿche, Faith No More, Soundgarden
  • Anthrax/Public Enemy/Primus, Oakland, 1991
  • Big Mele, North Shore Oahu, 1993: Tool, Fishbone, Stone Temple Pilots, Violent Femmes, Primus
  • Deck the Hall Ball, Key Arena, Seattle, 1999: Bush, Beck, Foo Fighters, 311, Filter, Staind
  • Deck the Hall Ball, Key Arena, Seattle, 2000: Green Day, Moby, Papa Roach, Orgy, Fuel, Eve 6
 
Ozzfest 04 Jones Beach right after high school graduation:
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Slayer
Black Label Society
Superjoint Ritual
Lamb of God
Slipknot

The “Big 4” at Yankee Stadium in 2011:
Metallica
Slayer
Megadeth
Anthrax

Live 8 Hyde Park London 2005:
Elton John
The Killers
Velvet Revolver
The Who
Pink Floyd
 
cbphoto said:
1972: Rory Gallagher, Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple (Purple FTW)
1983: Def Leppard, Billy Squire, Sammy Hagar (Squire was a one-hit wonder, DL blew my mind, Sammy ran around in a red jumpsuit and looked like a 2-year old in a onesie).
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How was Rory live?
 
The big one for me was in 1995 - The Pharcyde and Parliament Funkadelic

Edit…oh three or more acts…

Probably a Newport Jazz Festival…I remember seeing Ornette Coleman, Lee Konitz and Wayne Shorter/Herbie Hancock in the same day
 
dcrigger said:
Soft Machine, Vanilla Fudge, Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hollywood Bowl 1968 (I think)

Don Ellis Orchestra
Ike and Tina Turner Revue
Taj Majal
Spirit
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Newport '69 Pop Festival at Devonshire Downs (Los Angeles)
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I also attended both of those concerts. (And @dcrigger's memory of the Hollywood Bowl date and bill is correct. A fourth band, Eire Apparent, opened the shows, which were on 9/15/68 and 9/16/68.)

My most memorable multi-band concert was the Moody Blues, Ten Years After, and the Jeff Beck Group (Beck, Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Nicky Hopkins, and Mick Waller) at the Shrine Expo Hall in November of 1968. A band called Outlaw Blues Band (not to be confused with The Outlaws) opened the show. Each band was at the peak of its powers; out of the hundreds of concerts I've attended it was probably my favorite.

Another memorable multi-band bill was a two-night festival in Palm Springs in April of 1969. The first night included Lee Michaels, Paul Butterfield and Procol Harum; the second night included the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Canned Heat and Savoy Brown, who kicked complete and total a$$!

EDIT: I almost forgot — my very first rock concert was a 'package tour' at the Hollywood Bowl in October of 1967. It included (in order of appearance): Spanky and Our Gang, The Association, The Everly Brothers, The Animals, and The Who. The Association, The Animals and The Who were still on the same run that took them to the Monterey Pop Festival the previous June, but at the Bowl Keith was playing a Pictures of Lily kit, not the backline Slingerland kit that he wrecked in Monterey.
 
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hsosdrum said:
I also attended both of those concerts. (And @dcrigger's memory of the Hollywood Bowl bill is correct. A fourth band, Eire Apparent, opened the shows, which were on 9/15/68 and 9/16/68.)
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I went with my Mom to that Bowl concert (I was like 14 in '68) and would've had no idea there was an earlier opening act as God bless her heart for taking me to all of this stuff (dozens upon dozens of concerts) but the lady was never on-time to anything in her entire life. :)
 
My first in ‘67. Young Rascals, Freddie & the Dreamers, McCoys, Left Bank.
More recently a couple come to mind.

Zappa does Zappa opening for Return to Forever (with Dimeola, White, Clarke and Chick) in 2008 I think.

Dream Theater opening for Yes (Anderson, Squire, Howe, Wakeman and White) in 2008 also I think.
 
I've never been to a 3 band concert. Only 2 bands. My favorite was:

Steps Ahead with Michael Brecker, Mike Maineiri, Eddie Gomez, Elaine Elias and Peter Erskine (the warm up band), and

Herbie Hancock with Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Winton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis.
 
College when Quadraphonic Sound was making a splash, a concert from Winterland Ballroom (San Francisco) was part of a 2 station/2 night test. We set up 2 stereos in a room and listened to Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead.

Next night we traveled into town for the second night of the concert/radio test. WOW.
 
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