Every intro gave me goosebumps. Well done ..

This is why your videos get blocked. You're using their songs to promote your products. You are making money from someone else's work.

@@danielhendriksen9232 I bet you're fun at parties.

The location of that Metallica show wasn't Donnington, it was in 1991 Moscow, Russia with over 1,000,000 people in attendance.

@James Buxton Oh wont you please welcome home....

I think queen should be in the list too. It’s an iconic concert

I think queen should be in the list too. It’s an iconic concert

A new era began in Wembley that day.

LOVE me some Queen!

No question that you nailed it.

Rush Tom Sawyer with the South Park intro

I saw a few shows on the Vapor Trails tour - and it was insane to see them open with TS.

For 15+ years I went to the Roskilde Rock Festival during the late 1980's, '90's and 2000's. But I never went to Rock in Rio. In 1985 many of my Brazilian friends had been to Rock in Rio, I really want to experience that festival some day.

They also open with Limelight a lot. Hail Rush. R.I.P. Neil. Yep Rush in Rio is my favorite live album of all-time. Cheers.

​@@larsrons7937I was at Roskilde Fest in 1983. Simple Minds, Marilion, Mek Pek Party Band . Don't remember the first song of Simple Minds. ...I think New Gold Dream. 😁

I remember going to Day on the Green in Oakland, CA open air.

Same in the 70s with the exception of Kiss of course LOL

@@georgegarvey7338 I would like to have seen the Skynyrd show show on the Green

​@@terryfox1575❤

The 80's also had some of the most elaborate stage productions to date. Priest Fuel for Life Tour, their biggest production yet. Maiden World Slavery tour, arguably one of the most incredible live metal productions they've even done. The second half of the 80's was all about massive live productions and huge stadium tours. I worked with a lot of touring bands at the time, in the 90's they started to cut it all back again.

one of my favorite shows of all time .. and I got in on a used ticket :)

You must have did that one wrong, I saw them in 78 and can only remember Stairway to Heaven and a 45 minute drum solo with Robert Plant switching out with John Bonham at some point in the concert and that's all I can remember other than getting lost after it was over.

That must have been sooo good!

Absolutely the best opening song ever. Not even close! Bonzo saying "all right, let's go!" just before the first note. Classic.

Rock n roll Madison Square Garden yes this is the ultimate best opening ever!! 1973. Check it out the song remains the same full concert

Saw them at Kezar Stadium in 73. Best. Concert. Ever.

Even though they aren’t my favorite band, hands down, the first time I saw PINK FLOYD on The Momentary Lapse of Reason tour was easily the best concert I’ve ever seen to this day. And I’ve seen A LOT! All the big bands, numerous times each. It’s impossible to describe what that live show is like. That’s the power of a good concert. It hits you point blank right between the eyes and ears! PINK FLOYD is next level live performance. What A SHOW! Saw them 3 times.

saw waters 3 maybe 4 years ago in Madrid,watched the best and waters absolutely blew my mind ,for 50 euro so good lol Mr waters I salute you

How do you not know them and also don’t like them?? That’s impossible. Not know of Pink Floyd. Is he or she Amish?? Never mind rumspringa even they know Pink Floyd.

@@fuzzybutkus8970 she likes Bay City Rollers, Paper Lace, Abba, Dolly Parton, Dr Hook etc Although she did know Another Brick in the Wall

@@philstone3859 Same...Opened with "Welcome to the Machine"...

I love how he followed it with, _”Wake up! Time to diiiiiiiiiiiiie!!”_ a line from the film _Blade Runner…_

But Guns opens with Its So Easy

Axl Rose is absolutely the most overrated rock vocalist of all-time. He is absolutely the best worm-dancer, however. 🤘🏼

I saw GnR at the Hubert H Humphrey metrodome when they toured with Fairh No More and Metallica, and their first song was Welcome to the Jungle, and Axl screamed, "Minneapolis, do you know where the fuck you are?" Staduim went wild.

Exactly lol And Freddie Fucking Mercury bruh Best frontman ever-

That was excellent. I've seen Maiden play almost every year since 1983...every opening is pretty epic

Awesome! But they opened with Moonchild on the 2013 tour.

😂😂😂😂😂😂. Are you for real. Pure garbage

When you say buzzed with a spitfire, do you mean a Spitfire warbird went over the crowd?

@@caseyynelmss Yes, at a reasonably low altitude. Given the proximity to East Midlands Airport, I'm surprised they were allowed to do it

YESSSSSSSSS! WOOOOOOOOOOO!

When they opened with Aces High was awesome also

Me, too, and we didn't go broke doing it.

@@wendybutler1681 and all seats were the same price. It was first come first serve and a lot of times we camped out at the venue to get tickets

The 70s were ok but they started off trying too hard to recapture what we lost in the 60s. I can’t stand this know it all hosting calling out chords

Same here

Shut the. hell up play the music

Mettallicka , literally took soviet era communist ideology and showed the door to the boushivic revolution!!! , they need to go back there & finish the job !!!

Not the biggest crowd ever though impressive

more like 600,000

while it is in the top five or ten crowd sizes (I think Rod Stewart holds the biggest record), still amazing!

100% Marco - To me after 500 plus concerts - that is the #1 concert opener. And I've seen all the top metal acts and have enjoyed them all. But Maiden - and specifically Dr Dr, then Chruchills Speech, then Aces High just cannot be beat. If that doesn't make your hairs stand up then too bad for you!!!

The whicker man opening at rocking rio which heralded the return of adrian smith

@@bigstevej0460 I wasn;t at that show but was at the Irvine Meadows and also Universal Ampitheater show on the BNW tour and that was a pretty damn good opener I agree. But for me not quite to the level of Aces High.

@@bigstevej0460 I was debating which one to use for the comment lol

@@charlestelk6526 Churchill speech was killer . To me every intro is great 👍. Starting listening to them in 1980 when I was 10 and seen every tour since 1984 up until this June at download Festival in the uk 🇬🇧

That Rio crowd - WOW! Wish I'd been in amongst that lot. They even sing along to the instrumentals. Those deep keyboard tones in the intro have such weight to them, just awesome.

Came here to say this. Opening chord and 6 seconds later 40,000 Brazilians are singing along. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZiada942rzcj6M.htmlsi=pgWhcKwkffyQzw8M

Soooo, sooo GOOD!!!

@@johnloupis2347 Yeah, and Carl Palmer has stated that a movie studio ( Radar Pictures ) has secured the rights to the lyrics from "Karn Evil 9" and is in the process of making a feature length movie based on those lyrics ,which hopefully should be in theatres sometime in the future.

ELP

Couldn't agree more. Original and raw art.

@steve tarrant I whole hearty agree with you. Today's young people don't understand what real must is.They think listening to techofunck and synthetic sounds is music. They couldn't be more wrong.It takes original thoughts,patients,and most importantly "SKILLS ". Not like OZZY who had to buy his songs from LEMME. K.from MOORHEAD.Now a days they write one or two lines repeat them over and over and they.WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSER. So yeah I'm with you, am happy with my old music on vinyl. LONG LIVE RO

59 & proud of all the concerts I saw starting in 1978!! It was a golden era for live music, REAL music!! Im still going strong. Pearl Jam at MSG on 9/11/22. Be excellent to each other & party on dudes!!! 🤘🎶🤘

Agree still rockin 57 years young

@steve tarrant I blame the Millennium AND GEN-Z.

unfortunately using the wrong prepositions ;)

1st song 1st album 1st song live. Live it. The times ive seen VH (not since 81) they opened once with Light up the Sky (only had 2 albums out then) and On Fire. Never opened with RWTD when i saw them. 5×. Rock on dude!

Until they wrote unchained which blows rwtd out of the water

Van Halen was excellent in the stadium!

Romeo Delight was the opening song first time I saw them.

I saw them on their maiden tour in 78 and they pretty much played their entire first album and was completely blown away by EVH and his unbelievable skills on a guitar..

Harvester of sorrow in that live in Moscow was absolutely insane

ac/dc opened that concert with thunderstruck, so good.

Damnnnn

Damn right..🔥🤘🔥

I think he may have replaced it with Moscow for copyright after. His timing is off.

Yea most if the new music does not have IT. i work with a couple you g guys & they are in to the Classic Rock era. Bad Company Rush all the stuff I grew up on. It us true they knew how to write with a lil magic Triumph was a great band with opener

My daughter, now 23, Said to me on a couple of occasions while growing up "dad it just isn't fair, you grew up with all of the best music!" And she is right.

I’m seeing a lot of this myself these days. It’s really cool.

Wow most of my grandchildren like the old rock and roll to.

I was born 1960, music has been the biggest part of my life, iv just retired, but I still play in a gigging band. Music can be a physical, spiritual, emotional, experience. Some people just don't get it, but some do, I believe my life has been way better for it

Yeah, Big Money was a great opener.

As soon as I saw the video title I thought of Rush. When I saw them after the Three Stooges theme they launched into Spirit of Radio. Great, great opening for a show!

The Southpark open to Tom Sawyer was the best intermission comeback I've ever seen.

I sure wish I could've been there for that

Or the compilation from the R30 tour that is doing the rounds on KZfaq leading into Spirit of Radio. Here's some tunes we may or may not play tonight. We're only on stage for 3 hours and we may well miss some out. Saw Rush on that tour in Manchester.

just as my ass hit the seat the lights went out :)

I saw that tour - such a great concert.

@@loafersheffield There's a reason you can look that up as the "Best Intro Ever!"

Agree! This is one of the great parts of social media. The love.

Absolutely the exact same for me, came by it on accident and WOW!! What band were u talking about that u can’t say

.....until Sabbath

Exactly! I've seen them quite some times, but The Legacy of the Beast tour opening.... It's in a different league, soooo good!! Gonna see them again in June and i can't wait haha

The Spitfire is my absolute favorite WWII aircraft. That flying overhead and Iron Maiden?!?! 🤘🙃 Oh Hell Yes!

Absolutely a kick ass opening song.

Yes got to include Iron Maiden. Also Richie Blackmore with or without Deep Purple. Give him a few guitars, amps, petrol, gun powder, & a cameraman, & he will put on an unforgettable show.

@@wp-fxpyrodesign snap, roll on june

🤘🏼😎🤘🏼

"Burn" is a VERY close second.......

Both my favorite openers of all time. Spotlight kid and kill the king is next .

I can definitely agree with that ✊🏼

Blackmore: four epic openers - Burn, Highway Star, Kill the King, and Spotlight Kid. Name another guitarist who has equalled that?

@@robertritchie2860 none

I was at Tampa twice, Division Bell, and The Wall

Saw it at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Starts off with their jet taking off from Burke Lakefront Airport and buzzing the stadium, then all of the sudden they are playing. WOW!

​@@s7centnickel915 Yep.....I was there too.

Love Bastille Day on Rush... All the world's a stage

Xanadu has always been my number 1. When I finally made it to a Rush concert, (I think it was Presto), I was way too high to remember much. I don't know when it was played during their set, but I remember thinking that I had to remember that song as they played it.🤓

I realized after many concerts that I enjoy and remember more wh3n sober. Delayed intelligence. . .​

I don’t know - Tom Sawyer was an awesome opener. Not necessarily my favorite song by then, but always great, live - and just really kicked off those shows.

Yep Texas Jam early 80s

Agree completely... I seen that opening a couple of times and no other word describes it but... Perfect.

I only missed one tour since Hold Your Fire 88

Saw Rush 70 times but my most memorable show - and a Top 10 moment in my life - was my first show when they played Radio City in ‘83 . Your comment was how they opened the show and it was 2 hours of ecstasy for me followed by another 4+ decades of them as my Favorite band

@@nickhoagland6568 Seventy?! Dang, man! That's Deadhead-level dedication. Good for you. (Just three for me. I feel like a piker now.)

Perfect...

Lucky bastard!!!!

Saw ELP in Milwaukee. 'Works' tour. Unbelievable show. They started out with Karn Evil 9 and the system was shorting every time Greg Lake hit a note. The lights went out for about 10 minutes and then they started over - wow! Carl Palmer's solo in Tank was pretty danged awesome, too.

I also saw EL&P 3 times. Boston Garden was the first time. The crowd went so crazy for 5 minutes you couldn't even hardly hear them play. They were also using the cutting edge quad system that night. Sooo very special.

Refer to Rics reply below!☺

Man always wanted to see EL&P doing Brain Salad Surgery. I always thought they were every bit as good as Pink Floyd.

I have seen AC/DC at least a hundred times. Well I am 58 years old. It never gets old. Never watching Angus Young mesmerizing just like you're watching. Eddie Van Halen that's how I feel the two are different but rock and roll is rock and roll

That's fucking superb.

THX!

That's my favorite as well.

First concert I attended back in the 70s, and this intro is the best ever

Yes!!! Firebird Suite going into Siberian Khatru was the greatest!!

My #1 desert island album will always be Close to the Edge. Hearing Firebird Suite live always gave me goosebumps. RIP Chris and Alan.

Still gives me chills. Saw it 4 times

True!

Thanks brother!!

David Pots rocks!

First time I saw Queen they opened with Tie Your Mother Down. Full quad sound pyro and you were blown away immediately. Then it kept going. Boom! Day at the Races tour.

I saw Queen in 78, opened with Tie your mother down.

One Vision the songs called.

Good call, Rush had a lot of iconic openers: Bastille Day, 2112 Overture, Spirit, Limelight, Tom Sawyer

Definitely agree with that.

Rush 🇨🇦!

I don't know mang. I have been to three Rush concerts in the highest prime of their career and the best thing I can say about Rush live is Mediocre in concert and this almost applies to most true 3 piece bands I've seen live it's because the layers used in recording studio doesn't carry over to playing live

@@jimmy7144 OK…

AC/DC legendary rockers add up to your formulas , hells Bells among many others

What about jani prittinen

Hello Hello Hellooo.....Hello.

Yes!

Greatest band ever. They proved it over and over again. To stay together as long as they did is something no other band has done before or since. Even though the first album has Rutsey on drums they changed quite a bit on fly by night so that is where Rush really started being great.

Limelight from there “Snakes and Arrows” Tour was always my fave, but I’ve seen them over 20 times, so it’s really hard to pin it down...

Tom Sawyer in Rio is pretty epic!

Rush concerts were always amazing. When we took our kids it was pretty amazing. My 11 yr old daughter earned the respect of those around us because she also knew every song Long Live Rush!!!

Best opener has to be “best intro ever” on KZfaq….absolutely immense

You beat me to it 😁 much love

Without question the best opening of all time.

Shudder Before The Beautiful in Wembley is a GREAT choice!

Hi you all, i 100% agree with you! Nightwish is of a higher level for sure! Michael problaby never heard of the magnificent Finnish band.. Greetings from the Netherlands 🤘🇳🇱🤘

@@hansv.d.hooven5232 Probably so. Luckily you and I know better. 😅👍

Oh yea and Ozzy rules!! 😅

Taurus pedals on A Show of Hands🔥👍

I think in 1980 I saw them open with 2112.

That must have been incredible. Spirit of the Radio is the greatest rock song IMHO.

@@ruds2600 seen them two or three times in the 70s and they always opened with

@@leonelfederico245 2112

Rush in Rio opened with Tom Sawyer blew me away. Seen them 10 times over the years and each time they left me speechless.

Can you link it pls?

Agreed. I saw Van Halen at their touring peak on the 1982 Diver Down tour. I haven't been the same since.

Brown m&m pueblo colo. Oh. My. They were changing the laws and adding up the fines hours after that show!

@@necrom4454 Check out this link. This was from the 1984 tour in Montreal - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y59ghrOpm77Kp6M.html - I must add that Van Halen had the best MC to introduce the band before they hit the stage. I believe I read in one of Van Halen’s documentaries, Dave recruited one their roadies with the best voice, to introduce the band in each city as “Hellllooo (insert city name) are you ready to get down, I give you the Mighty Vannnn Halennn” That was enough to give you goosebumps,😀🎸!!!

I have tried and tried to make myself like EVH. I can always admit when someone is a supreme talent, and Eddie sure as hell was! ...but there's just an element of 80's pop in their sound that I just can't make myself like. It would be like trying to make myself like 'Take on Me.' - I can admit it's a catchy song, I clearly see why so many people add it to summer/party mixes... but I hate that sound. That goddamned 80's pop sound. I think, had I had the opportunity to see him live, it would have done the trick... but, alas, I wasn't ever able to catch a show before he passed (and I really made an effort!). So I think Eddie will always be the guy I have the utmost respect for and greatly admire the technicality and innovation of his playing but can't stand to listen too. I really love how passionate EVH fans are about his music. I really want to share in that, but I've always felt Van Halen was the missing link in my playing. I have never learned an EVH lick. Either way, that intro sounds incredible, Friend!

I think Jimmy really wanted to kick off each show going full blast to get people going.They did it with Immigrant Song in the early `70s then used RocknRoll then Song Remains the Same. All powerhouse songs to start with.

I was a sound roadie for Showco on that tour .That gig is in the top 10 gigs I did .As you can imagine the load out was fucked ! Also I dodged many whiskey bottles and other flying debris as I pulled all the mics after it was announced the show was over . IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL!!

@@leechild4655 No matter how short and crazy it was, it was worth every minute of those 2 1/2 songs...

@@spiritualimmunesystem836 I know having see the band maybe at the lowest point healthwise in Feb.`75 Nonetheless we all looked past Robert`s horse voice and Jimmy`s busted finger and were all just happy as clams just to see them right in front of us.

as usual, Tom is correct

AC/DC could start off with Mary had a little lamb and it would be epic.

When I saw AC⚡️DC live, I don’t even remember what song they opened with, but I had goosebumps for 90 minutes straight!

@@BJMauck Hells Bells Seattle Wa Feb 11 82’ Angus on top of 12x12” stacks ( 3 4x12”) playing opening riff, jumps down on stage right when Malc & Co. kick in.

Same with KISS.

wich 3 did you saw?

@@blacktna8164 Ac/Dc , Sabbath and Pink Floyd

@@daxhausentraveller8488 I'm jealous!

Live without a net in new haven and changed to new halen

I grew up on VH live without a net. Knew every move of the show.

5150 Tour was just about as good as it gets!! I was at the 2nd show in Memphis and BTO opened up and took care of business and Valerie and Kari came up the aisles to see it from the mixing board and then out went the lights and The Mighty Van Hagar just fkn played the best 2 plus hours I’ve ever seen from the band!!! My favorite one of all the other ones

@@terryashmore2109 he was still with Betsy at the time . Sammy didn’t meet her till after the second album

Absolutely!! Yes.

Love that. Thanks for sharing. Gord could wrangle a crowd with the best of them

My favorite Hip song, never got a chance to see them live.

The Hip!🔥💯❤️

Great tune! Am partial to 50 mission cap opening, but I can roll.

Ok AWESOME that the first comment is saying the very first song that popped into my head with what I'm guessing is the first one Thunderstruck

I am surprised that I had to scroll that far to find Hells Bells mentioned. Personally, I think that Thunderstruck is a bit overrated, has been overused and can in fact be a bit boring. To me Live Wire and Hell Bellsare the ones. Hells Bells was their opener on the BiB Tour in 1980. It was the very first concert I ever attended (went with a friend, we were both 14). We got to enjoy the bluesy 1980 incarnation of Whitesnake as support - and enjoyed that a lot. Then came on the bell and that spine tingling lick, the crowd just went mad with "I'm roaring thunder, pouring rain ..." and my life was never gonna be the same. That concert - of similar intensity as 1979 Let there be rock in Paris - has stayed with me until this very day. The insane performance of Angus in his early to mid-twenties is something you may love and appreciate from a film recording but in truth ... you'll really have no idea what it was like to be there. That sound, that drive and that level of complete and utter madness on stage just could never be bettered.

I saw the San Francisco show at the Cow Palace. Greatest opening I ever witnessed! Bon recently passing I really didn't know how this new guy would measure up in a live show. Angus playing the picking riff in the dark while the bell slowly descends bathed in a golden light, here comes Brian Johnson running around on stage carrying a sledgehammer. He hit that bell so hard you could feel it in your chest. I still get goosebumps remembering that moment.

I was there as well.

Saw him in Winnipeg Canada and the show started with that

Too bad Waters is a closeted Nazi with humongous “daddy issues” . Am Israel 🇮🇱 Chai !!!

I actually thought "Pink Floyd" before the list started, but I said..."nah ,Pink won't make it" . But I did think of "Thin Ice" before the bands started playing . I used to walk thru the warehouse where I worked as a cabinetmaker for many years sing the lyrics to "Thin Ice" and people would have a brain spasm when they realized what I was quietly singly. I'm very impressed Guitargate used Pink Floyd, as I am with Black Sabbath. My first Black Sabbath was on an 8 -track tape. They came outta the gate in 1968 playing some of the heaviest metal .

So you thought youd might like to go to the show*