Northwest Dance & Music Venues
Portland Memorial Coliseum
Exhibition Hall
1960 - Present
Portland, Oregon
Some of the bands that performed at this place during those great years of NW music were:
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The Allman Brothers The Association Bad Company Beach Boys The Beatles The Bee Gees Billy Preston Blue Oyster Cult Bob Segar Bruce Springsteen Buffalo Springfield Chambers Brothers Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Dave Clark Five The Doobie Brothers The Doors Emerson, Lake & Palmer Grand Funk Railroad Grateful Dead Herman's Hermits Jethro Tull Jimi Hendrix Johnny Winter |
Linda Ronstadt Little River Band The Marshall Tucker Band The Monkees Music Box Neil Young Paul Revere & The Raiders Rare Earth Robert Fleischman Robert Palmer Rolling Stones The Seeds Soft Machine Spiral Staircase The Standells Three Dog Night Steppenwolf Ted Nugent The Troggs The Turtles Vanilla Fudge The Wayds |
Johnny
Winter
That ticket stub that Ken Simpson posted for Led Zeppelin playing at the Memorial Colesium in Portland on 6-17-72 was also my first concert. Boy was it loud!I was just starting to get a band together as a guitarist and Page was my hero. I had just graduated from high school
I think a ticket was $6.50 or close to it.
Some of the other bands to that also played there that I saw were: Grand Funk Railroad / Billy Preston, Rare Earth, The Doobie Brothers, Aerosmith, Bob Segar, Ted Nugent, Johnny Winter, Blue Oyster Cult, Little River Band and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
A lot of great bands, or soon to be great bands were playing over at the Paramount Theater (Arlene Schnitzer) in downtown Portland then.
Dan Schmidt, June 2014
