> here's a thread-any opening bands that totally blew away the headliners? I 
> remember seeing the True Beleivers from Austin open for Guadalcanal Diary 
> at the Paradise here in Boston 'round 1986 and completely 
> destroyed.....enough so that the singer from GD said something to the 
> effect of "how do we follow that?"

I recall The Dictators routinely making it impossible for the headliner to 
follow them (a few times, early-mid 70s). But the vivid wipe-the-stage-clean 
show was Split Enz nuking a VERY stoned Tom Petty (1982 or 3).

b