I figured they may have --- but were they in the same league?
When I was just a youngster myself, I once took a sweet looking young gal to a concert that she wished to attend, to see Kiss. She didn't like me, just knew I could afford the tickets.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band opened for Kiss, and flat blew them off the stage. No contest, just a lot of make-up and posing for Kiss, while they played air-guitar to canned recording. Seger and his boys on the other hand, were the real thing, live.
This was before Seger had much national exposure. After that tour, he and his band became more widely known. Speaking of those who got close to making it "big", perhaps.
I wish that I'd seen Seger. Good beer drinking music, that.
I saw Kiss for the first time a few years back. I'd been going to rock n' roll shows since I was a kid, but never bothered with them whenever they were in town. They put on a decent show, lots of spectacle as expected, but the entire time I said "Ohhhhhhh....that's where (band X that I'd seen before) got their idea for stage theatrics!" Kiss may not be a top five rock band, but they put on a top 5 performance.
Interestingly enough, Ted Nugent opened for them. He put on a pretty good show too.