Northwest Dance Halls

Gold Creek Park
Woodinville, Washington

Some of the bands that this place during the early years of NW rock and roll were:

Albert Collins The Allman Bros Bighorn Black Snake Blue Light Blue Max Bo Diddley Bruce and Eli Buckwheat The Byrds Charles Musslewhite Chuck Berry Chicago Transit Authority Chinook City Zu Crome Syrcus Daily Flash Delany and Bonnie The Doors Dutchmasters The Dynamics Emergency Exit The Epics Floating Bridge The Flock Flying Burrito Brothers Good Blessing Don and the Goodtimes Guess Who

Heart Hocus Pocus It's A Beautiful Day Kidd Afrika Led Zeppelin Charles Loyd Lonnie Mack Mama's New Washingtons Melton Levy and the Dey Bros. Lee Michaels Mountainheath Pied Pipers Renaissance Fair Rockin Fu Murray Roman Santana The Section Slade The Sonics Springfield Rifle Spirit Ten Years After Tim Buckley Ike & Tina Turner Vanilla Fudge Volumn V Wayne Marshall Band Cherry Berry and the Winemakers The Youngbloods War

Others??

Cold Creek was our first job ever and we had to do our own advertising.  Basically we had to bag the owner to let us play there.  The offer was 50% of the door.  I think we maby made 50 bucks if we were lucky, but it was a great experience. It gave us a start!!!

John Gordon, December 2006

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Last Update:   1 April 2007

Credits: Randy Solvang, Richard Evans, John Gordon, Don Edge, Fred Raxter