thebin
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Post by thebin on Sept 16, 2011 10:14:36 GMT -5
I just learned that the Dead, Who and Springsteen among others have played at Mcdonough...which got me to thinking...does anyone have any photos of the place before they down -sized it?
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 16, 2011 11:13:15 GMT -5
It's always looks much the same through the years--capacity was dropped by removing the second level seats along the hallways and the temporary seats along the baselines.
The single game attendance record is 4,620 Missouri, 1982), the concert record was said to be 6,000 for the Grateful Dead, but that's probably a wild guess.
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thebin
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Post by thebin on Sept 16, 2011 13:01:12 GMT -5
Thanks DFW. You in New Haven tom?
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Sept 16, 2011 17:46:48 GMT -5
From my era lots of acts played McD from Ray Charles to the Four Tops.
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DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 16, 2011 18:50:12 GMT -5
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Post by sleepy on Sept 19, 2011 10:04:11 GMT -5
Springsteen played Gaston Hall in March of that year as the warm up band for Little Feat and Bonnie Rait.
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seaweed
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Post by seaweed on Apr 26, 2015 10:32:01 GMT -5
Not a picture, but I am listening to a hi quality bootleg of the Grateful Dead's 10-23-1970 show in McDonough right now. Talk about what rocks..
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Post by Loyal Hoya on Apr 26, 2015 19:35:56 GMT -5
I saw Fishbone and Elvis Costello at McDonough in the mid to late eighties. I always thought that Fishbone fans were like the punk/ska version of Dead Heads.
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Post by gutuna on Apr 27, 2015 1:36:11 GMT -5
A Tribe Called Quest played McD in Fall of 1998. Best concert of my time in school.
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