Northwest Dancehalls

The Armory
Salem, Oregon

Paul Revere & The Raiders Pack them in at the Salem Armory
Photo Courtesy of Sandy Weedman

I'm in that photo, dead center about 8 feet back from the stage. WOW! What a crazy night!   Girls screaming, passing out, getting pulled up on stage. Geesh!!

Llyn M., January 2006

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Salem Armory was THE location for most EJD sponsored concerts and dances from about 1963 to well into the early 80's.

Some of the bands that rocked The Salem Armory during the early years of NW rock and roll were:

The Animals Bachman Turner Overdrive  The Bards Big Brother and the Holding Company The Box Tops Breakaways The Buckinghams Paul Butterfield Blues Band Blue Mountain Eagle Buddy Miles Express The Bumps Canned Heat Capitol Street Balloon Chaen Reaction Chessmen Choice Count 5 Che-vels Country Joe McDonald Curved Air Deep Purple Don and The Goodtimes The Doobie Brothers The Doors Electric Light Orchestra Fleetwood Mac Gary Lewis and The Playboys Gentlemen Wild The Grass Roots Norman Greenbaum Guess Who The Heavy Company High Voltage James Gang It's a Beautiful Day Lawe Little John and the Merry Men Live Five

Liverpool 5 Lovin' Spoonful Malo The Mamas & Papas The Marksmen The Moguls Morning Reign Mountain The Mustangs The New Yorkers Paul Revere and the Raiders The Pied Pipers Pink Floyd Premiers Billy Preston Reunion The Rolling Stones Seventh Resemblance Blues Band Shangri Las Shindogs Sky Pilot Sonny & Cher Spectrum Steam Steely Dan Steppenwolf Sugarloaf Swingin' Medallians Thirteenth Story Three Dog Night Merrilee and the Turnabouts Tyme Vanilla Fudge War Wishbone Ash The Yardbirds Youngbloods

Others?