Northwest Dance & Music Venues
Garden Auditorium
Corner of Hastings and Renfrew
Vancouver, British Columbia
Some of the bands that rocked this place during those great years of NW music were:
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Badfinger The Beachboys Black Oak Arkansas Blue Oyster Cult The Centaurs Chicago Transit Authority Chuck Berry Janice Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company Black Snake Blondie Bobby "Blue" Bland James Brown Canned Heat Chilliwack The Collectors The Clash David Bowie Devo Django DOA Bill Dogget Fats Domino Jason Hoover & The Epics The Fabulous Poodles Fleetwood Mac Gene Vincent Greadful Dead Don & The Goodtimes The Imperials Ian Thomas James Cotton Blues Band Jeff Beck Group w/Rod Stewart John Little John Kentish Steele & The Shantelles BB King The Orbits Joy of Cooking Long John Baldry Lou Reed Meat Loaf |
Montrose Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck Motherhood Ricky Nelson Northwest Company Paul Revere & The Raiders Pink Floyd Poppy Family Prism Quicksilver Messenger Service The Rascals Ray Charles Richie Havens Little Richard Walter Rossi Max Webster and Rush Savoy Brown Seeds of Time Del Shannon Silver Bullet Band Sly and the Family Stone The Sonics The Specials Spring Stallion Thumbrock The Stampeders Streetheart Styx Sweeny Todd Ten Years After Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Taj Mahal Triumph Conway Twitty United Empire Loyalists Vancouver Playboys Vancouver Shades Vanilla Fudge Wilson Picket Zingo |
Others ?
One of the best shows at the Gardens was Vanilla Fudge with Pink Floyd as an opening act. Later, Floyd came back as a headliners and brought one of the first surround sound systems. They closed with " Set The Controls" and the gong behind the band rose up and exploded. The lights came up and a guy in the section to us was wearing a gorilla suit.Brian Shields, May 2007
When I saw Streatheart at The Gardens, they were backing up RUSH.
Gary Johnson, March 2008
I recall (somewhat) an excellent concert held the winter of '68 that had the incredible line-up of Jason Hoover & The Epics, Spring, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, The Seeds Of Time, and The Collectors. All in one night!! I believe the light show was Ectoplasmic Assault. What an incredible concert!John Stevenson, January 2009
Kentish Steele and the Shantelles played here in 1968 as the warmup for Wilson Pickett.Brian Pulham, October 2010
The Specials supported The Police there in 1979 and wiped the floor with them. They were immediately offered a headline spot at the Commodore the next day if I recall correctly. It was an unexpected ska explosion!Mark Mushet, July 2011
I saw Max Webster open up for Rush in 1977. One of the best shows I ever saw there was when Ian Thomas opened for The Stampeders. For their encore the Ian Thomas band came out and did a Beach Boys set that was just killer.I also recall a Sunday afternoon concert that featured about 4or 5 local groups including Zingo & Sweeny Todd.
Steve Sukert, July 2011
