Soul, Cinnamon Girl, Touch the Night, Born to Rock, Like a Hurricane, Computer Age, When You Dance I Can Really Love, Violet Side, Powderfinger, Heart of Gold, After the Gold Rush, The Needle and the Damage Done, Cortez the Killer, Hippie Dreams, Down By the River, and Opera Star., There were 9,077 people in attendance. Songs performed by Styx included Lady, Sweet Madam Blues, Babe, Why Me, Borrowed Time, Lights, Great White Hope, Miss America, Renegade, Blue Collar Man, The Grand Illusion, Fooling Yourself, Crystal Ball, and Come Sail Away. Songs performed by The Babys included True Love True Confession, Midnight Rendezvous, Back on My Feet Again, Everytime I Think of You, Isnt It Time, Head First, True Love, True Confessions, and a cover of Money.. Updated: 11:18 AM EST Jan 18, 2012 T.J. Haught. This show was postponed until 10/7/86 due to routing problems., There were 7,580 people in attendance. The show was originally going to be at Three Rivers Stadium with J. Geils Band and Ted Nugent opening. Songs performed by Sinatra during his 75-minute set included Ive Got the World on a String, You Make Me Feel So Young, For Once in My Life, I Get a Kick Out of You, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Lady Is a Tramp, The September of My Years, The Best Is Yet to Come, Summer Wind, What Now My Love, The House I Live In, Mack the Knife, I Guess Ill Hang My Tears Out to Dry, New York, New York, Night and Day, Saturday Night, I Get a Kick Out of You, Ive Got the World on a String, Ill Never Smile Again, All the Way, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), When Youre Smiling, and My Way.Songs performed by Steve & Eydie included This Could Be the Start of Something Big and If He Walked Into My Life., There were 7,996 people in attendance. Songs performed included My Generation, Wont Get Fooled Again, Bowis the Spider, Sister Disco, Substitute, Baba ORiley, Pinball Wizard, See Me, Feel Me, I Can See For Miles, Underture, Magic Bus, Dancin in the Street, Behind Blue Eyes, and Who Are You. The bands next concert was the infamous tragedy in Cincinnati. It was the Penguins who added the extra large scoreboard, causing it. that was a marvel. Songs performed by the Statler Brothers included Do You Remember These?, Class of 57, Bed of Roses, Flowers on the Wall, Elizabeth, Atlanta Blue, and Hello, Mary Lou. Songs performed by Milsap included What a Difference She Made in My Life, Pure Love, Am I Losing You, Wouldnt Have Missed It For the World, Smoky Mountain Rain, Stranger in My House, She Keeps the Home Fires Burning, Blue Suede Shoes, and Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On. Songs performed by Skaggs included Highway 40 Blues, Hallelujah, Im Ready to Go, Uncle Pen, Something In My Heart, Wheel Hoss, and Heartbroke. Songs performed by Greenwood included God Bless the U.S.A., and Dixie Road. Songs performed by Larry Lee Jones included Atlanta Station. Jones was a local performer who won a band contest to appear at the start of the show. Pittsburgh dropped the ball on tearing down a building Songs performed by The Go-Gos included Head Over Heels, Cool Jerk, Our Lips Are Sealed, Capture the Light, Yes or No, Turn to You, We Got the Beat, Vacation, and Im the Only One. Songs performed by Red Rockers included a cover of Eve of Destruction., There were 8,917 people in attendance. PITTSBURGH Known affectionately as "The Igloo" and officially called Mellon Arena at the time of its destruction . Songs performed by Jackson included Come Back to Me, Lets Wait Awhile, Again, Runaway, Miss You Much, When I Think of You, Escapade, What Have You Done For Me Lately?, Control, Nasty, Alright, Someone to Call My Lover, Together Again, amd Love Will Never Do Without You. Jacksons performances of Someone to Call My Lover and Together Again were simulcast live to Madison Square Garden for the Concert for New York City, the star-studded September 11th fundraiser organizaed by Paul McCartney. [28], The first rock concert at the arena was emceed by Porky Chedwick on May 11, 1962, as a DiCesare Engler production and featured Jackie Wilson, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Castelles, Jerry Butler, The Flamingos, The Angels, The Blue-Belles, and The Skyliners. Songs performed by Rush included Spirit of the Radio, Subdivision, New World Man, Red Barchetta, Closerto the Heart, Tom Sawyer, The Enemy Within, The Weapon, and Red Section A. Songs performed by Travers included Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights). The city charter prohibited using eminent domain on churches, but the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh was able to do so because it was not a city entity. There were 17,700 people in attendance. There were around 15,000 people in attendance. Songs performed by Aerosmith included Love in an Elevator, Walk This Way, Same Old Song and Dance, Cryin, Dont Get Mad, Get Even, Livin on the Edge, No More No More, Shakin My Cage, Sweet Emotion, Seasons of Wither, I Dont Want to Miss a Thing, Dream On, Lord of the Thighs, Baby, Please Dont Go, The Train Kept A-Rollin, Back in the Saddle, and Draw the Line. Songs performed by Kravitz included Are You Gonna Go My Way. One of the members of Kravitzs 8-person backing band was a 19 year-old Trombone Shorty. Songs performed by Fogelberg included Once Upon a Time, The Innocent Age, Old Tennessee, Hard to Say, To the Morning, Beggars Game, Black Orpheus, Eleanor Rigby, Same Old Lang Syne, Morning Sky, Leader of the Band, Longer, Part of the Plan, and Theres a Place in the World for a Gambler., There were 14,308 people in attendance. Fantasy, Unbroken Chain, Help Is On the Way/Slipknot/Franklins Tower. Leshs band included Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks. Songs performed by the Moody Blues included Gemini Dream, The Voice, Rock N Roll Over You, Tuesday Afternoon, I Know Youre Out There Somewhere, The Story in Your Eyes, Want to Be With You, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, Your Wildest Dreams, Isnt Life Strange, Here Comes the Weekend, New Horizons, Talking Out of Turn, The Other Side of Life, Im Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band), Nights in White Satin, Legend of a Mind, Question, and Ride My See-Saw. Songs performed by Kilzer included Red Blue Jeans and Green, Yellow and Red., There were around 13,100 people in attendance. [8], The Civic Arena closed on June 26, 2010. Songs performed included Rocking the Paradise, Blue Collar Man, Grand Illusion, Foolin Yourself, Babe, Lights, Sweet Madam Blue, Renegade, Miss America, Come Sail Away, and Lady.. There were around 6,000 people in attendance. The board also decided to sell assets (handled by the auction company Asset Auctions) from inside and would later award a demolition contract in February 2011. Songs performed by CSN included Love the One Youre With, Turn Your Back, Stranger, Just a Song Before I Go, Wooden Ships, Teach Your Children, Barrel of Pain, Southern Cross, Mr. There were 9,131 people in attendance. Songs performed by CSN included Love the one Youre With, Carry On, Teach Your Children, Just a Song Before I Go, Wind On the Water, Our House, Wasted on the Way, Southern Cross, Long Time Gone, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Lonely Man, Magical Child, The Word Game, and Stranger. Songs performed by The Band included The Shape Im In, The W.S. [18], The Pittsburgh Triangles of World TeamTennis hosted three Eastern Division Championships at the arena from 1974 through 1976 and the Bancroft Cup finals in 1975, winning the title on August 25, 1975, with paid attendance of 6,882. The show was rescheduled from 10/14/77, but this show was also cancelled. minutes. For the final season, the Mellon Arena hosted a record crowd of 16,056, the third-largest conference basketball championship crowd in the nation that year. Songs performed by The Monkees included Last Train to Clarksville, A Little Bit Me, A little Bit You, Steppin Stone, Daydream Believer, I Wanna Be Free, She, That Was Then, This Is Now, Your Auntie Grizelda, No Time, Valleri, Pleasant Valley Sunday, and Im a Believer. Songs performed by Puckett included Woman, Woman, This Girl Is a Woman Now, and Young Girl. Songs performed by Hermans Hermits included Mrs. Civic Arena (formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena) was an arena located in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The Civic Arena primarily served as the home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city's National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, from 1967 to 2010. Songs performed by Motley Crue included All in the Name Of, Dancing on Glass, Looks That Kill, Ten Seconds to Love, Red Hot, Wild Side, Shout at the Devil, Home Sweet Home, Too Young to Fall in Love, Live Wire, Smokin in the Boys Room, Jailhouse Rock, Helter Skelter/Highway to Hell/Walk This Way/Rock and Roll, and Girls, Girls, Girls. Songs performed by Whitesnake included Bad Boys, Slide It In, Here I Go Again, Love Aint No Stranger, Crying in the Rain, and Still of the Night.. A private consultant to SEA was hired to conduct the survey. [40] On January 21, 1990, the Civic Arena hosted the 41st National Hockey League All-Star Game. Perth Arena Australia's strong reputation for hosting major sporting events has kept the country invested in implementing the latest technology in sport stadiums with retractable roof installation continuing to rise. There were 8,321 people in attendance. There were 12,707 people in attendance. 1865 to 1929. He would die 45 days later. Saturday Feb. 11, 2023 at 7:00pm Akron Civic Theatre. June 1966, Civic Arena - With opening acts, Tommy James & The Shondells, and The McCoys. There were 10,736 people in attendance. The arena, Foester wrote, should not be used to shock and indecently exploit our people. Songs performed by Alice Cooper included Hello Hooray, Billion Dollar Babies, Elected, Im Eighteen, Raped and Freezin, No More Mr. Nice Guy, My Stars, Unfinished Sweet, Sick Things, Dead Babies, I Love the Dead, Schools Out, and Under My Wheels., The Chi-Lites, The Moments, Millie Jackson, The Main Ingredient, Detroit Emeralds. Vs. the Montreal Canadiens. Dokken was advertised as the opening act, but Krokus actually opened. It was opened for the arena's first act, an Ice Capades show, on Sept. 19, 1961, but then closed after 22 minutes because of fears that the ice would melt in the 74-degree weather. This concert was moved to the Stanley Theater due to poor ticket sales. He was given a citation for risking a hazardous condition. The Arena roof was opened prior to the Monkees taking the stage. As. [30] Circus reported, "They broke the existing box office record by grossing $76,000."[31]. Demolition for the arena began September 26, 2011 and was completed March 31, 2012. Songs performed included Let There Be Rock, Rock and Roll Aint Noise Pollution, Sin City, You Shook Me All Night Long, Hells Bells, For Those About to Rock, This House Is on Fire, Flick of the Switch, and Bad Boy Boogie., Songs performed by Genesis included Dodo/Lurker, Abacab, Thats All, Mama, Eleventh Earl of Mar/Squonk/Firth of Fifth, Illegal Alien, Man on the Corner, Who Dunnit?, Home by the Sea, Second Home by the Sea, The Carpet Crawlers, Keep It Dark, Its Gonna Get Better, Follow You Follow Me, In the Cage/The Cinema Show/In That Quiet Earth/The Colony of Slippermen/Afterglow, Los Endos, and Turn It On Again., Only around 5,000 people were in attendance. Originally scheduled for 9/30/90. Songs performed included Bermuda Triangle, Ready to Take a Chance Again, Rain, Nickles and Dimes, New York City Rhythm, Bobbie Lee, Tryin to Get the Feeling Again, Even Now, Weekend in New England, Copacabana, Its a Miracle, Daybreak, This Ones For You, Looks Like We Made It, Could It Be Magic, Mandy, One Voice, and I Write the Songs., Songs performed by Kansas included Dust in the Wind and Hopelessly Human., Iron City Houserockers, Johnny Van Zant Band, Songs performed by The Outlaws included Stick Around For Rock and Roll, There Goes Another Love Song, Angels Hide, Ghost Riders in the Sky, and Green Grass and High Tides. This was the Houserockers first arena show. [5] The Penguins played their first game at PPG Paints Arena October 7, 2010. Clapton told the audience at the outset that were gonna start out in the 60s and try to get up to date, kicking off with Crossroads. Other songs performed included White Room, Sunshine of Your Love, Wonderful Tonight, I Shot the Sheriff, Cant Find My Way Home, After Midnight, Layla, Have You Ever Loved a Woman, Motherless Children, Ramblin on My Mind, Money For Nothing (with Knopfler on lead vocal), Tearing Us Apart, Behind the Mask.. Songs performed by Ronstadt included Cant Let Go, Its So Easy, Just One Look, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Youre No Good, Living in the USA, Heat Wave, Lies, Look Out for My Love, Girls Talk, Blue Bayou, Mad Love, Cost of Love, I Cant Help It If Im Still in Love With You, Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Party Girl, Faithless Love, Hurt So Bad, How Do I Make You, and Desperado. Kortchmar was also part of Ronstadts backing band. Only six hours earlier, five thousand people had been in the arena watching a basketball game. 1., There were only 3,040 people in attendance. It was the most attended single concert in Pittsburgh in 1978. Songs performed by Jones included Shes a Lady, Ill Never Fall in Love Again, Green, Green Grass of Home, Daughter of Darkness, I (Who Have Nothing), and Love Me Tonight.. Some sources said that this show was a rock festival, so there may have been more acts on the bill. Robert Plants 7 year-old son died in England on July 26, and Plant subsequently flew home. Songs performed by Chicago included Stop the Hurtin, Make Me Smile, Colour My World, Saturday in the Park, If You Leave Me Now, Love Me Tomorrow, Hard Habit to Break, Limelight, Stay the Night, Prima Donna, Beginnings, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Along Comes a Woman, Hard to Say Im Sorry, We Can Stop the Hurtin, Get Away, 25 or 6 to 4, Get Away, and Im a Man., There 14,678 people in attendance. It was later described as among the poorest draws of a concert at the Arena. Songs performed by Air Supply included Just As I Am, When the Time Is Right, Here I Am, Sweet Dreams, Lost in Love, I Wanna Hold You Tonight, Dont Be Afraid, Black and Blue, The One That You Love, All Out of Love, Making Love Out of Nothing At All, I Cant Stay Away, This Heart Belongs to Me, and Make It Right.. Songs performed by Madonna included Burning Up, Material Girl, Angel, Everybody, Borderline, Lucky star, Like a Virgin, Gambler, Over and Over, and Crazy for You. The Beastie Boys played for a half-hour and were described in one newspaper review as talentless urchins., There were 7,485 people in attendance. Songs performed by Aerosmith included Back in the Saddle, Mama Kin, I Wanna Know Why, Big Ten Inch Record, Three Mile Smile, Reefer Head Woman, Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy), Walk This Way, Dream On, Rats in the Cellar, No Surprize, Lord of the Thighs, Same Old Song and Dance, Milk Cow Blues, Toys in the Attic, Come Together, and The Train Kept A-Rollin., This concert was originally scheduled for 10/30/1979; that date was cancelled due to a strike by Arena workers. And drove by it with the roof open For five seasons the arena hosted the Eastern 8 Conference men's basketball tournament every March. Songs performed by the Marshall Tucker Band in their over 90-minute-long set included Take the Highway, Heard It In a Love Song, Takes Time, Special Someone, Ill Be Lovin You, Lets Tell the Blues, This Ol Cowboy, Fire on the Mountain, Somethings Missing in My Life, Cant Ya See, Ramblin, Bob Away My Blues, Lets Tell the Blues, Searching for a Rainbow, and Long, Hard Ride., Songs performed by The Jacksons included Can You Feel It, Things I Do for You, Off the Wall, Ben, This Place Hotel, Shes Out of My Life, I Want You Back/ABC/The Love You Save, Ill Be There, Rock With You, Lovely One, Workin Day and Night, Dont Stop Til You Get Enough, and Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)., There were 17,679 people in attendance. Laupers songs performed included Girls Just Want to Have Fun, All Through the Night, Time After Time, She Bop, Money Changes Everything, When You Were Mine, Witness, Baby Workout, Ill Kiss You, Good Enough., There were 3,719 people in attendance in the Arena theater-like configuration. 13,845 people were in attendance at the show, a new Arena record at the time (some sources reported 13,911 or 14,044). This concert was postponed until 6/4/80. The Pittsburgh Penguins played their last game in Mellon Arena on May 12, 2010; a 52 defeat at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens to eliminate them from the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. how many times was the civic arena roof opened. Songs performed included The Ties That Bind, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Adam Raised a Cain, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Two Hearts, Trapped, Darlington County, Factory, Point Blank, Youngstown, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, Loose Ends, Back in Your Arms, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Light of Day, Jungleland, Spirit in the Night, and Born to Run. During the encore, Bruce brought Joe Grushecky onstage to perform Hungry Heart with the band. 9, I Dont Wanna Play House, Your Good Girls Gonna Go Bad, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Til I Can Make It on My Own, Rocky Top, Dueling Banjos, Stand by Your Man, Amazing Grace, and I Saw the Light., There were about 13,200 people in attendance. At approximately 4:15 a.m. on January 17, 1978, the roof of the Hartford Civic Center Arena collapsed. [5], Constructed in 1961 for use by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (CLO), it was the brainchild of department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. Songs performed by The Moody Blues included Gemini Dream, The Voice, Rock n Roll Over You, Voices in the Sky, New Horizons, Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin, Dear Diary, Your Wildest Dreams, It May Be A Fire, Talking Out of Turn, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, Im Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band), Question, and Story in Your Eyes. Songs performed by Til Tuesday included Voices Carry., Songs performed by Bon Jovi included Pink Flamingos, Raise Your Hands, Id Die for You, Tokyo Road, You Give Love a Bad Name, Wild in the Streets, Twist and Shout, Never Say Goodbye, Livin on a Prayer, Let It Rock, In and Out of Love, Runaway, and Travelin Band. Bon Jovi invited Pittsburghs Norm Nardini on stage to join the band in their set-closing cover of Travelin Band., The Turtles, Hermans Hermits, The Byrds, Mark Lindsay, The Grass Roots, There were 17,160 people in attendance. Reviews of the show were lukewarm-to-poor, with Cocker singled out as as being subpar. Beat/Conga/Rhythm Is Gonna Get You/1-2-3/Get On Your Feet, Higher/Tres Deseos, and Reach., Songs performed by Smashing Pumpkins included Where Boys Fear to Tread, Zero, Cherub Rock, To Forgive, Tonight, Tonight, Today, Thru the Eyes of Ruby, Disarm, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, F*** You (An Ode to No One), Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Muzzle, Siva, X.Y.U., 1979, Bodies, and Silverf***. Songs performed by GLB included The Shining Hour, Drag, Lone Star Song, Mockingbirds, Bethlehem Steel, and Two & Two., Songs performed by Phish included Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus, The Old Home Place, Cars Trucks Buses, Stash, Strange Design, The Divided Sky, Billy Breathes, Taste, Sample in a Jar, Suzy Greenberg, Maze, You Enjoy Myself, Reba, Waste, Harry Hood, and Julius., Songs performed by Rush during their three-hour set included Closer to the Heart, Wheres My Thing, The Big Money, The Trees, Red Barchetta, Freewill, Tom Sawyer, and the Spirit of Radio., The Who performed the Quadrophenia rock opera start to finish, with Idol playing Ace Face and Glitter playing the Godfather. Songs performed by Jay-Z included D.O.A. This date was postponed to 11/16/98, due to throat problems suffered by the singer. [16] The arena originally consisted only of lower bowl seating, but over time, upper decks were installed in the arena's "end zones" to increase capacity. 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