Northwest Dance & Music Venues

Salem Armory Auditorium
Salem, Oregon

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

 

Alex Taylor The Allman Brothers America The Animals Atlantis Atomic Rooster Bachman Turner Overdrive  The Bards Big Brother and the Holding Company The Box Tops Breakaways The Buckinghams Paul Butterfield Blues Band Blue Mountain Eagle The Breakaways Buddy Miles Express The Bumps Canned Heat Capitol Street Balloon Chaen Reaction Chessmen Chessmen   Choice Che-vels Collage Review The Control Boys Count 5 Country Joe McDonald Curved Air Dave Clark Five Daze of Nite Deep Purple Dick and Dee Dee John Denver Dino Desi and Billy Don and The Goodtimes The Doobie Brothers The Doors Double Image Electric Light Orchestra

The Executives Fashion Ambulance Fatt Twice Together Fleetwood Mac Fragile Lime The Furies Gary Lewis and The Playboys Gentlemen Wild The Grass Roots Norman Greenbaum Guess Who The Heavy Company High Voltage James Gang The Ikettes It's a Beautiful Day The James Gang Jane's Addiction John Baldry The Kingsmen Lawe Little John and the Merry Men Live Five Liverpool 5 Loverboy Lovin' Spoonful Malo The Mamas & Papas The Marksmen Mary's Danish The Moguls Morning Reign Mountain The Mustangs The New Yorkers Nirvana Paul Revere and the Raiders Pearl Jam The Pied Pipers

Pink Floyd Poco Premiers Billy Preston Quarterflash Red Hot Chili Peppers Reunion Roddie Joy The Rolling Stones Savoy Brown Seventh Resemblance Blues Band Shangri Las Shindogs Silverhead Sky Pilot Sonny & Cher The Soul Searchers Spectrum Spooky Tooth Springfield Rifle Steam Steely Dan Steppenwolf Steve Miller Sugarloaf Superband Swingin' Medallians Thirteenth Story Three Dog Night Merrilee and the Turnabouts The Turtles Tyme The Uniques The Untouchables Uriah Heep Vanilla Fudge War Wishbone Ash The Yardbirds Youngbloods

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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Atomic Rooster (w/ Carl Palmer, later of ELP) warmed up the crowd for Deep Purple at their Salem Armory show some time in 1969-70.

Don Hoover, April 2011

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11 October 1976

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2 January 1992

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5 February 1982

27 August 1971

9 March 1973

The above are tickets stubs to a couple of the concerts I attended at the Salem Armory in Oregon. The Uriah Heep ticket stub is a copy.  I was fortunate enough to have access to a copier machine or I wouldn't even have that memento.  They always took the whole ticket.  The Savoy Brown/Atomic Rooster ticket is an actual ticket that didn't get used.  A buddy called the day of the show and couldn't go... thus the real ticket.  The Loverboy show also featured opening act Quarterflash.

Ken Simpson, Albany, OR, May 2013

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Last Update:  4 Januarry 2019
Credits:  Dave Higginbotham, Sandy Weedman, Dave Columbus, Paul Starkey, Tom Culhane, Roger Kasner, Ryan Daily, Ken Onstad, Rick Sutter, Llyn M., John Gordon, Lars Van Valkenburg, Tom Drechsler, David Zeit, Jodi Heatherington, Grant Beardsley, Todd Miller, Randy Bryson, Don Hoover, Rich Dickson, Randy C. Lawrence, Bob Stoutenburg, Doug Morrison, Roger Ooms, Nathan Langford, Ken Simpson, Dick Schalk, John DuVal, Bob Stoutenburg, Martin Ulstein, Bob Palmer