The Offspring Says Opening for The Who ‘Hasn’t Even Sunk in’ After ‘Legendary’ Hollywood Bowl Performance (Exclusive)

The Offspring formed successful nan mid-80s and person performed each complete nan world — but it wasn't until Friday nighttime successful Los Angeles that a “beyond bucket list” infinitesimal happened.

While attending nan iHeartRadio Music Festival successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected Saturday, Sept. 20, The Offspring said exclusively to PEOPLE astir their acquisition of opening for The Who astatine nan iconic Hollywood Bowl nan nighttime before.

“It's almost for illustration it hasn't moreover sunk in,” frontman Dexter Holland tells PEOPLE. “

"They're beyond huge. They're truthful big," he adds, speaking of The Who. "It's for illustration they've conscionable ever been portion of your life, if you cognize what I mean.”

The nostalgic punk set only recovered retired they would person nan opportunity to stock a shape pinch nan Rock and Roll Hall of Famers earlier this month. 

“We've been a large instrumentality since, arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember, and this conscionable benignant of fell successful our thigh astir 2 weeks ago,” guitarist Noodles (real sanction Kevin John Wasserman) said. “It wasn't moreover confirmed until astir a week and a half ago.”

The English stone band, fronted by vocalist Roger Daltrey, 81, and guitarist Pete Townshend, 80, has said their tour, which ends connected Oct. 1, will beryllium nan extremity of nan road.

If that’s true, they’re going retired successful style, The Offspring members say. 

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“They were phenomenal. They put connected a awesome show. The venue was nan Hollywood Bowl, a legendary venue. So it was conscionable incredible. We're still connected a precocious from it,” Noodles, 62, says, earlier joking that Daltrey and Townshend weren’t precisely begging for The Offspring to subordinate nan bill.  

“We sewage to do a photograph pinch Roger and Pete correct earlier they took nan stage, and Dexter says, 'Thank you for letting america unfastened up for you.’ And Pete says, ‘We had perfectly thing to do pinch this,’” Noodles recalls. “Okay, that's fair. It was honest. So I told him that. I admit your honesty. He was great.”

Still, nan iconic rockers “couldn’t person been nicer,” Holland, 59, adds. “[Townshend] asked really it went for us. I said, ‘Great. We warmed him up for you. They’re warm. They’re lukewarm now.’ It was beyond bucket list.”

Before sharing nan shape pinch much euphony royalty specified arsenic John Fogerty, Mariah Carey and their pal Ed Sheeran astatine nan iHeartRadio Music Festival connected Saturday, The Offspring paid tribute to The Who connected Instagram.

"A monolithic convey you to The Who for having america astatine your last Los Angeles show. What an unthinkable honor!!!" they captioned nan Sept. 20 post.