CONCERT VENUES

All these places are in Toronto, Canada, unless otherwise indicated.
It should be obvious which aerial views come from Google Earth.

MAPLE LEAF GARDENS, known for acoustic and other reasons as "the Barn", was where the Toronto Maple Leafs hung their skate sharpeners from 1931 to 1999, winning 11 Stanley Cups before changing their name to the Make Believes and letting (most of) the country down.
	Their boss, Conn Smythe, built the Gardens, then handed everything over to a crazy man named Harold Ballard, whose son Bill, in 1973, put together a company called Concert Promotions International with Michael Cohl and David Wolinksy. I gave those guys a lot of money over the years.
The Gardens was where Elvis performed in 1957, his first gig outside the States, and it was the only place to host the Beatles on all three of their North American tours. In my time it was where the Who performed their "last concert" (1982), but that's not one of the 47 shows I saw there – yes, that's forty-seven – either in the full barn or in its shy incarnation, the Concert Bowl, in which there was a massive curtain across centre ice. Last I heard, the building was a Loblaws supermarket. What a life!

MASSEY HALL has been sitting on Shuter Street downtown since 1894, and my God what an array of talent it's seen! Hart Massey of the Massey-Harris tractor firm put up the dough to build it and, the next thing anyone knew, Winston Churchill, Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti, Toscanini, George Gershwin, Glenn Gould, the Dalai Lama, Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Cream and Jerry Seinfeld were all fightin' for top bill.

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie recorded "Jazz at Massey Hall" there in May 1953, three months before I was born. I hung on for a different variety of excellence that came later, and personally occupied 39 of the 2,752 seats over the years.

Looking back at '73 and '74, I should really have
rented a room there.

Beer baron EP Taylor had the 3,000-seat O'KEEFE CENTRE ready for a swell, red-carpet opening in October 1960 for the pre-Broadway premiere of "Camelot", starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. Ethel Merman, Yul Brynner, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Duke Ellington, Marlene Dietrich, Diana Ross, Shirley MacLaine, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr, Liza Minnelli and Liberace, as well as the resident National Ballet of Canada and Canadian Opera Company, were all on the stage here before I got to see my shows:

Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen with Freddie King on May 13, 1973; David Bowie on June 16 '74; Jeff Beck on July 23 '75; Van Morrison with Dave Edmunds' Rockpile on October 26 '78; Ian Hunter on October 4 '81; and Bob Dylan on June 6 '90.

Today the place is called the Hummingbird Centre, something to do with software and corporate sponsorship. There ya go.

CNE STADIUM was where the Toronto Argonauts and Blue Jays played ball until they both found better homes. The music played there, built on a showbiz tradition that began with the Three Stooges and Bob Hope, kept going for a while longer, until it too got a new home, the Molson Amphitheatre at Ontario Place, and the CNE Stadium was torn down in 1999 and replaced with a parking lot.

The original stadium was erected in 1879 as part of the original Toronto Fair Grounds. It kept burning down, but the one built in 1947 was a keeper and eventually renamed CNE Stadium as a centrepiece of the annual Canadian National Exhibition. There were plenty of shows and stock-car racing and minor-league sports until Toronto got serious about baseball and redesigned the place for the Blue Jays.

Between 1975 and '89 I was at the stadium to see the Beach Boys, Aerosmith, Emerson Lake & Palmer with Journey and Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, the Eagles with the Little River Band, the Who with Heart, the 1982 Police Picnic with the Police, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Talking Heads and the English Beat, the '83 Police Picnic with, yes, the Police, Peter Tosh and James Brown, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Neil Young & the International Harvesters, David Bowie with Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr & the All-Stars (Joe Walsh, Dr John, Billy Preston, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemons, Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Jim Keltner) and the Cure with Love & Rockets and the Pixies.

The two-week CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION (CNE), billed as the world's largest annual exposition, began in 1879. By the time I first saw the magnificent summer fair in the '60s, "The Ex" was very much a field of dreams, with a midway and loads of indoor exhibits in fancy buildings crowding its 140 hectares. The site is now known as Exhibition Place, and plenty of other stuff happens there year-round.

Apart from CNE Stadium, which was torn down in 1999, I saw two other concerts elsewhere on the grounds: My very first live event, with the James Cotton Blues Band, in one of the pavilions circa 1965, and Jimmy Cliff in 1978 in the Queen Elizabeth Building.

	ONTARIO PLACE is a funpark that the provincial government opened in 1971: three artificial, landscaped islands, the Cinesphere for Imax movies and literally countless bars and fast-food joints. Its open-air Forum was splendid for concerts – 3,000 seats and plenty of extra room on the dark and grassy hillside for illicit fueling up, all sprawling lazily around a 68-foot revolving stage.
It was obviously too good to last: torn down in the mid-1990s and replaced with the Molson Amphitheatre, which I haven't seen so I can't comment on. Joining me at the Forum were Foot in Coldwater on July 5, 1973, Jerry Jeff Walker in May '80 and the magnificent and too often overlooked Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Siberry on May 26, 1988.

The 230 hectares of islets just offshore from Toronto proper have CENTRE ISLAND as the biggest, and it's hosted several music festivals over the years, most importantly Mariposa, the annual gathering of the folkie tribes, which in July 1972 drew me, Neil Young, Bruce Cockburn, John Prine, Bukka White and Gordon Lightfoot, not to mention a cameo turn by Bob Dylan, who the crowd wouldn't allow to perform.

Two summers later I took the ferry out again for a blues festival featuring Roy Buchanan, John Lee Hooker and Ellen McIlwaine, and then a rock festival starring Todd Rundgren, Rory Gallagher, Dr Hook & the Medicine Show and Status Quo. Every one of these outings was a home run for me, just like the time in 1914 when Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run into Lake Ontario from a stadium on another of the islands.

	The PALAIS ROYALE, built in 1922, was originally Dean’s Sunnyside Pleasure Boats, where they kept the Parkdale canoe club (now the Boulevard Club) afloat. It took off as a dance hall in the 1930s, when Duke Ellington and Count Basie, Paul Whiteman and the Dorsey Brothers played there.
The place got boarded up for a while in the '90s, but reopened in 2006, and I see that it "recently" hosted a Rolling Stones gig. It's still got the original sprung, cantilevered hardwood floor that I bounced around on at 1980 concerts by British ska outfits the Specials (February 25) and the Selecter (May 14) and Canadian rockers Red Rider in July '82.

Toronto punkish outfit the Diodes had a minor hit with a nice cover of Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball" and invested their earnings into the CRASH 'N' BURN club in the basement of Ontario Liberal Party headquarters at the corner of Duncan and Pearl Streets, which had been their "practice" room. It lasted all of four months through the summer of 1977, but people still talk about it.

Capacity maxed out with about 300 hopping, sweaty fans. On good nights you fought your way to the bar – a door resting on garbage cans – and they gave you a beer out of an iced bathtub. Then you resumed pogoing, being mindful not to bash your head
on the pipes running across the ceiling.

It was all local talent – the Dishes, the B-Girls, Martha and the Muffins, Teenage Head, the Nerves – and in my case the Viletones and the Curse on June 1, but New York's Dead Boys played there too, forging a link that got the the Diodes, Viletones and Teenage Head on the stage at CBGB's. Plus, legend has it, Thin Lizzy singer Phil Lynott came by one night and got in a punch-up with the singer from the Ugly. See a Viletones video from the Crash.

When the Crash 'n' Burn got itself shut down in August 1977, a lot of the punks decided that LARRY'S HIDEAWAY on Carlton Street might be a good hideaway. The one-time gay club that blossomed into the Prince Carlton Hotel and had bands like Rush playing was only slightly bigger than the Crash and almost as grotty.

The Viletones did a string of gigs there, and in 1979 I sawTeenage Head, the Mods and Secrets, but Larry's also booked Husker Du, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, the Fall, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Cult, former New York Doll Johnny Thunders in his junkie days and, in 1984, the still-unknown REM. They tore the place down in the late '80s and put up a park. Insanity.

The RPM club, where I saw the Mission with Balaam & the Angel in 1986, the Pursuit of Happiness with Blue Rodeo in '87 and Peter Murphy and Iggy Pop in '88 is still a nightspot, now called Guvernment (sic).

The HORSESHOE TAVERN on Queen Street West was another legend in its own gold-mine times, actually immortalised in song by one of Canada's great country characters, Stompin' Tom Connors. It was beery and bruising for decades before the punk bands came looking for fresh yet pathetic places to perform.

I was first there a bunch of times in 1978, first to see transplanted Jamaican Leroy Sibbles sing some reggae, then to see the Stranglers, Teenage Head and Toots & the Maytals, and I was there for the last time on December 1 when the Viletones, the Mods and the Curse played "The Last Pogo", ostensibly Toronto's final punk round-up in the face of widespread selling out.

Supposedly the Police played their first Toronto gig at the Horseshoe – to an audience of three.

The VICTORY BURLESQUE on Spadina Avenue was nothing but trouble from the start, but city politicians still toy with the idea of giving heritage status to the building that housed it. Originally the Standard Theatre, famous for its Yiddish comedians and notorious for its communist rallies, it became a strip club and then, as seen in the photo, a kung-fu movie house! Now there's a bank there.
	The 1,500-seat Standard opened in 1922, became the Strand cinema circa 1935 and the Victory in the early 1940s. In the '50s and '60s it was a striptease joint, and there was one night in '65 that Toronto scribe Robert Fulford memorably wrote up in an essay called "The Crisis at the Victory Burlesque" when Justa Dream popped a pasty.
Somewhere between the strippers and the chopsocky it was a concert hall, which is of course where I came in, starting with the New York Dolls on October 27, 1973. I also admit to being at the burlesque theatre for Climax Blues Band on December 9 and McKenna-Mendelson Mainline on December 31, and the following year for Iggy & the Stooges (January 25), Spirit (February 9), Soft Machine (March 9), Roy Buchanan (March 15), Peter Frampton (March 23) and Savoy Brown (May 11).

The EL MOCAMBO, still in business further up Spadina Avenue, is a justifiable legend, if only for being the only place other than Niagara Falls where Marilyn Monroe and I have both been. She was at the El Mo in 1958, doing what I don't know. I was there on business:

In 1974 I went to see Downchild Blues Band and Wayne Cochrane & the CC Riders, in '75 Dr Hook, the Firesign Theater's Proctor & Bergman, Savoy Brown and Dr John, in '76 Burning Spear, in '77 John Miles, Mink De Ville and Elliott Murphy, in '78 Blondie, David Johanssen and Devo, in '79 Lou Reed and in '81 Icehouse, Duran Duran and King Crimson.

There was plenty at the El Mo that I missed, including U2 and the Police in their early days, the Elvis Costello and Stevie Ray Vaughan shows that separately became "Live at the El Mocambo" albums, and of course the back-to-back Rolling Stones gigs in 1977 that were recorded for "Love You Live". "The Cockroaches", as they billed themselves, were doing their first live club date in 14 years. I didn't think there was any chance of getting in the second night so I didn't try, but a buddy took a chance and strolled right in.

The "Road House" opened in 1940, one of the first places a guy could get a drink in Toronto, and it got its name and famous sign
six years later.

The University of Toronto's VARSITY STADIUM was built in 1924 and torn down in 2002, and in between witnessed a hell of a lot of great rock music and, I presume, some fine football games too. It was supposedly "replaced with the Varsity Centre", but it sure looks the same to me.

This was where John Lennon deigned to return to the stage following the Beatles' break-up, for the 1969 Rock 'n Roll Revival Concert, also starring the Doors, Bo Diddley, the Chicago Transit Authority (later just Chicago), Alice Cooper, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent and Little Richard. No, I did not see that show, a cause for much self-flagellation since.

What I did see at the stadium: Humble Pie and Leslie West's Wild West on July 12, 1973, Leon Russell on August 9 '73, and Crosby Stills Nash & Young with Jesse Colin Young on September 2 '74.

The University of Toronto's VARSITY ARENA, also visible in the Google Earth image above, is primarily where the school's Varsity Blues play hockey, but for some reason it hosted a one-day reggae festival I got to see in 1987 that featured Rita Marley & the Wailers (with a bunch of Bob's kids), plus Chalice and Messenjah. Toronto seemed to like sticking Jamaican concerts in small hockey rinks, as was the case with the 1976 Toots & the Maytals show at Moss Park Arena.

But Varsity Arena opened in 1926 as one of the first indoor arenas with no pillars to obstruct the fans' views, so that was okay with me. There were something like 4,100 seats, though it seemed bigger, and most of the ganja smoke had probably dissipated by the next time the university had to use it again for student exams.

Another musically inclined spot at the University of Toronto, CONVOCATION HALL is where they hold, uh, convocations. Psychology professors give lectures there too, but I went to learn other stuff: from John Mayall on October 7, 1973, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band on April 7 '74, Manfred Mann and Rush on December 12 '74, Bob Marley & the Wailers on May 5 '76 and on March 4 '79 another Wailer, Peter Tosh, who delightfully flaunted the smoking ban by firing up a colossal spliff onstage.

The 1,700-seat hall was built in 1906, modelled after the Sorbonne in Paris. It's very nice, but never really appealed to be as a concert venue. Or as anything else either, for that matter.

It's kinda sad to see the CONCERT HALL at 888 Yonge Street relegated to being a TV studio cause it's seen plenty, starting with those spooky Freemasons. The five-storey building erected in 1918 was home to the Free and Accepted Masons' Toronto chapter, and they hung around even after the Who and Led Zeppelin played there in 1968, when the venue was called
the Rockpile.

When it reincarnated in the early 1980s as the Concert Hall – with its sweeping, wrap-around balcony perfect for fans' flying experiments – it had shows by Duran Duran, the Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, Metallica, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails and, on one night in '91, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins.

What I saw there: In 1980 the English Beat, in '81 the Plasmatics, the Jam, the Gang of Four, Gary US Bonds, Bow Wow Wow and the English Beat again, in '82 Steel Pulse, in '87 Billy Bragg, in '88 Gene Loves Jezebel and Flesh for Lulu and Love & Rockets and in '89 the Waterboys.

At some point in the '90s the Rolling Stones used the old Masonic Temple to rehearse, and they must have been careless with the volume because the owners decided to tear the place down in '97, the better to build a place where local Asians could shop, 888 being a lucky number, see? Fortunately (?) MTV Canada and then the CTV network stepped in to keep 'er going, and now it's called the CTV Temple.

THE EDGE at Gerard and Church Streets began life as Egerton's, a buttoned-down tavern for students of nearby Ryerson College, so named because the school's founder was Egerton Ryerson. When the club finally got Edge-y, it hosted early gigs by the Police, Pere Ubu, the Specials and U2. I caught eight pretty-good-to-excellent concerts there: In 1979, John Cale, 999, the B-Girls, Truths & Rights, the manic Crazy Cavan & the Rhythm Rockers and Levi & the Rockats, and in 1980 the Necessaries, featuring Chris Spedding.

MOSS PARK ARENA on east-side Sherbourne Street is an obscure little community hockey rink that Toronto's Jamaican expat community besieged one evening in July 1976 to put on a terrific Toots & the Maytals concert. I stuffed myself with curried goat and bounced around all night.

The COLONIAL TAVERN was famous as a jazz venue before they let us rock kids in. It was torn down in the late 1970s, but now at least there's a brass plaque out front with the names of 150 jazz greats and pretty-greats who performed there, including Dizzy Gillespie, Roland Kirk and Gene Krupa. What's not on the plaque are the pair of shows I attended: the late, great Irish bluesman Rory Gallagher with Mainline and King Biscuit Boy on March 20, 1973, and the Jam, no less, in March '78, with local punks Battered Wives warming up.

THE CHIMNEY was a curious and eminently forgettable little depression in the wall at Yonge and Dundonald that music buffs best remember as the venue for Rough Trade's nine-week siege in 1976. I didn't give a rat's about that, but did pop into the Chimney three times in '74, for comedian Martin Mull, draft-dodger Jesse Winchester and Toronto music mover-shaker Bill King.

In "Wayne's World", Wayne – played by Toronto lad Mike Meyer – has the line, "THE GASWORKS! Always a babe fest!" The allusion is to a devoutly inebriated bar at 585 Yonge Street that specialised in hard rock, prog rock and butt rock, as well as never calling "last call". Meyers and other regulars still take pride in having spent quality time there amid all the big hair and extremely loud guitars.

I got smashed in the Gasworks innumerable times, though the names of the bands I saw there in 1974 don't exactly send chills up my spine: John Mills-Cockell, Diamondback, Moxy, and a ho-hum visit with Rough Trade late in '76.

Then a developer from Hong Kong bought the joint, and he didn't much care for rock, so he shut it down in January 1993. Some of the frequent drinkers put on a final show: Goddo, Sebastian Bach from Skid Row, Triumph, Saga, Helix, Platinum Blonde and Coney Hatch.

The NEW YORKER THEATRE at 651 Yonge Street was originally a cinema, but it's had several fitful reincarnations over the years. I was there for a slew of concerts: The Ramones in 1976 and '77 and John Cale, the Dead Boys with the Viletones and Tom Waits, twice, in '77.

The north campus of HUMBER COLLEGE Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, in whose backyard I saw some pretty scintillating Canadian music-of-the-day at a big "festival" circa 1971 – Lighthouse, Keith McKie and a comical local character named Subway Elvis – was established in 1967.

Humber has another branch way down south by Lake Ontario, part of which was once the Mimico Lunatic Asylum. They kept us loonies on the grass far, far away.

SENECA COLLEGE's Newnham campus in Toronto's north end had a fine 1,116-seat concert hall called Minkler Auditorium, which is where Springsteen was supposed to make his Toronto debut, but he ended up in the gym-style Field House, three times as big.

It's now called the Sports Centre. Seneca hasn't exactly set up a shrine to the Boss.

That was December 21, 1975. I'd been to the joint the year before to see Nazareth and Rush, and came back in '76 for Patti Smith and Sparks, '77 for Iggy Pop with David Bowie on the keyboards, Blondie warming up, and again that year for Be Bop Deluxe and City Boy.

I did not go to see the Grateful Dead play the Field House in November '77, but anyone who gives a shit can buy a three-CD they put out years later that has two tracks from the Seneca show. The rest is from a gig in Rochester, New York, three days later.

The INTERNATIONAL CENTRE in Malton, Ontario, next to Toronto's airport, was originally where they built wings and other bits for DC9 Jetliners, but in 1972 it became a centre for trade fairs. I once attended a psychics' sell-o-rama there, but more importantly a concert by the Tubes in April of '76.

The ABBEY ROAD pub, way the hell out on the Erin Mills Parkway in Mississauga, was yer basic booze hole, but for a while there they got some fine local bands in. I agreed to drink some beer there while watching Breathless on December 12, 1973, and Scrubbaloe Cane on March 7 the following year.

The KINGSWOOD MUSIC THEATRE is a fancy, grassy amphitheatre with 15,000 seats – mostly under one of these new-fangled "tent" tops – that somehow managed to get the likes of Lou Reed and the Grateful Dead not only all the way out into the boondocks of Maple, Ontario, about a light-year from downtown Toronto, but to an amusement park called Canada's Wonderland, where it's located. Does this happen in every city?

Built in 1983, the Kingswood has more recently focused on "cultural shows", so it seems fortunate that I got to see Lou and Jackson Browne there in '86, Siouxsie & the Banshees in '87 and the Violent Femmes and Lou again in '89.

MOLSON PARK, where I saw Jackson Browne in 1989 and where a Lollapalooza and the Canadian contribution to Live 8 were staged, is now the more family-oriented Park Place. It was set up on the property of a Molson beer brewery that infamously turned into
a ganja plantation.

The scene of speeding cars since 1961, MOSPORT RACEWAY was Canada's first purpose-built auto-racing track (Stirling Moss won the inaugural Player's 200), and Gilles Villeneuve, Bruce McLaren and even stock car king Richard Petty have had the pedal to the metal there. Me, I just came to see Heatwave in 1980. Go for the review.

The UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO's barn-like Physical Activities Complex hosted concerts by Cat Stevens in 1970, Yes and Alice Cooper in '72 and Frank Zappa in '73, none of which I saw. But I was there to see the Guess Who in '73 and Bachman Turner Overdrive in '74,
all solid Canadian entertainment.


Hamilton, Ontario's IVOR WYNNE STADIUM opened in 1930 as Civic Stadium to host the British Empire Games, and since 1950 has been the home of Canadian football's Hamilton Tiger Cats. The team strives to fill the 34,500 seats. Pink Floyd had absolutely no trouble doing so in June 1975.

HAMILTON PLACE – now officially "the Ronald V Joyce Centre for the Performing Arts at Hamilton Place" – has 2,181 plush seats in its lovely Great Hall, which is where I saw my high-school buddy Kevin Head perform for a second time on the 1979 Chris De Burgh tour,
the first being at Massey Hall.

They kept changing the name of this 80,000-seat jock bin, from RICH STADIUM to Orchard Park Stadium to Ralph Wilson Stadium, but I kept finding my way back there. The Buffalo Bills' turf is in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, but I don't know who Rich and Ralph are.

It opened in 1973, just in time for Eric Clapton and Freddie King to try and knock it down with a rockin' blues show I saw there in July 1974, with the Band in tow. That same year I was back for Emerson Lake & Palmer with the James Gang and Lynrd Skynrd, then in '75 for Yes with the J Geils Band and Johnny Winter, then finally in '78 for the Rolling Stones with the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Journey and April Wine.

BUFFALO MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM downtown has been "Aud" since it was built in 1940. Only when the Buffalo Sabres came to play hockey in 1970 did it get the tender loving care it had always craved: They tore off the roof, added a whole other level and put another roof on, so that 16,400 people could watch the games, and 18,000 if it's basketball. Make that 20,000 if it's Pink Floyd and we have a deal. It's now called the HSBC Arena.

The Floyd and I were there on June 27, 1973, and the Grateful Dead and the Doug Sahm Band joined me the following September 26.

The 3,100-seat CENTURY THEATER at 511 Main Street in Buffalo used to host vaudeville acts before it became a cinema. Then in the '70s Bob and Harvey Weinstein formed Harvey & Corkey Productions and started putting on rock concerts there, including a couple I saw in '75 – the Mahavishnu Orchestra with Jeff Beck in one, Lou Reed in the other, a chandelier teetering over the proceedings as the balcony oscillated under the weight of jumping fans.

The hall gave way to a Burger King and the Weinstein brothers moved into film production, starting with "The Secret Policeman's Ball" in 1979, which made so much money that they launched Miramax, which churned out a batch of Oscar winners. Good work, fellas!

The FREE TRADE HALL in Manchester, England, where I caught the Beach Boys and Led Zeppelin in 1969 (fortunately not on the same bill) and where I missed seeing Pink Floyd by a matter of days, opened considerably earlier, in 1856. Its name is a tribute to the wealth the flowed into the city with the Industrial Revolution.

Hammered by Nazi bombers, it was rebuilt and then in 1951 declared a concert hall. Only the facade remains of the original building, which the city sold in 1997 so it could be turned into the Radisson Edwardian Hotel.

The Free Trade is where a pissed-off Bob Dylan fan hollered out "Judas!" when Dylan got electric for a set during his May 17, 1966, show, and where the Sex Pistols drew all of 40 people for their on June 4, 1976, gig. Somehow it was appreciated enough that the Pistols were back at the Free Trade Hall the next month, this time with the Buzzcocks making their live debut.

The 6,000-seat BEC-TERO HALL in downtown Bangkok is poised to move to some still-unannounced location, but in its few years it's done reasonably well in concert-starved Thailand, with Elton John, Deep Purple and Black Eyed Peas and, for me, a terrific Bryan Ferry-Pretenders double-bill on February 23, 2004 and an awful Kitaro show on September 14 that same year.

IMPACT ARENA is part of a massive convention and exhibition complex still being polished east of Bangkok.

The 12,000-seat arena has hosted a few good Western acts in its short life, including the Eagles
on October 15, 2004.

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