When was the tour that QR was meant to do with DT but decided to open for Maiden instead - the one that sparkled the whole Portnoy outburst against QR for leaving DT empty-handed?
I believe that was in 2000. I seen QR and Halford open for IM on that tour. Halford actually opened the show, but they should have been the middle act in my opinion.
Also, I've seen FW live a total of 3 times, but the DT/QR opening gig was the last as I mentioned before. Of those 3 times I've only seen them headline once. That was for APSOG. The other time I seen them was for Disconnected and they opened for Savatage in Cleveland, Ohio.
The last time that I seen them was probably their weakest performance. It wasn't really a bad set, but they had Nick D'Virgilio playing drums for them at the time and while I think he's a great drummer, he's just not suitable as a replacement for Mark.