WATERBURY PALACE THEATER SHOWS Musical Artists - Performance Dates 1971-1986 Date Artist Also on Bill 1971-04-17 Enzo Stuarti (2 shows) 1971-05-06 Victor Borge 1971-12-01 J. Geils Band Yes Wheatfield Ash 1972-01-12 Alice Cooper 1972-01-21 Quicksilver Messenger Service Malo 1972-02-05 Badfinger Electric Elves (w/Ronnie James Dio) Mahogany Rush 1972-02-17 Cactus Uriah Heep Dreams (Billy Cobham) 1972-02-27 Yes The Eagles (?) 1972-03-03 King Crimson Edgar Winter Group Sweathog 1972-03-17 Franki Valli & the Four Seasons Jay and the Americans The Coasters 1972-03-23 B.B. King Malo (Jorge Santana's Band) 1972-04-06 Fleetwood Mac Savoy Brown Long John Baldry 1972-04-07 Procol Harum 1972-04-11 Electric Light Orchestra 1972-05-01 New Riders of the Purple Sage Henry Gross 1972-05-13 Lee Michaels Jo Jo Gunne 1972-05-17 Jeff Beck Group Todd Rundgren & The Hello People 1972-05-27 The Byrds JF Murphy & Salt Eric Andersen; Ground Hog 1972-06-24 Quicksilver Messenger Service Boone's Farm The Mad Musician 1972-06-25 Ray Price Dottie West 1972-09-23 Grateful Dead 1972-09-24 Grateful Dead 1972-10-16 Waterbury Jazz Festival (1st Perf.): Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, & Maynard Ferguson 1972-11-01 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Tim Buckley 1972-11-09 West, Bruce, & Laing Grin 1972-11-11 Deep Purple Elf (Dio) 1972-11-19 Mahavishnu Orchestra John Paul Jones & Friends 1972-11-21 Waterbury Jazz Festival (2nd Perf.): Count Basie, Lee Castle's Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra 1972-12-12 Waterbury Jazz Festival (3rd Perf.): Buddy Rich, Woody Herman 1973-02-05 Tower of Power 1973-02-16 J. Geils Band 1973-02-24 Santana (2 shows: 7 & 11) Peace (with Bobby Womack) 1973-03-10 J. Geils Band 1973-03-18 Pink Floyd 1973-03-21 Hot Tuna New Riders of the Purple Sage 1973-04-04 James Taylor David Bromberg Michael Cooney 1973-04-20 Johnny Winter 1973-04-29 Uriah Heep McKendree Spring 1973-05-06 King Crimson Black Oak Arkansas NRBQ 1973-05-19 Mahavishnu Orchestra Leo Kottke 1973-06-07 Old & In the Way (Jerry Garcia) 1973-06-21 World's Greatest Jazz Band 1973-08-10 Muddy Waters 1973-10-28 David Crosby & Graham Nash 1973-11-09 Steve Miller Band Rick Roberts ING 1973-11-16 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention Kathy Dalton 1973-11-23 Focus Spencer Davis Group 1973-11-29 Cheech and Chong 1974-02-01 James Brown 1974-02-16 Canned Heat Firefall 1974-03-07 Dave Brubeck 1974-03-10 New Christy Minstrels 1974-04-05 The Kinks 1974-04-25 Steely Dan Sunship 1974-05-04 Mott the Hoople Queen 1974-05-19 Mountain 1974-07-12 Billy Preston Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1974-08-02 Uriah Heep Aerosmith (?) Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1974-08-24 The Eagles Snafu 1974-09-07 Lynyrd Skynyrd Elvin Bishop 1974-10-11 Lou Reed Mahogany Rush 1974-10-15 Santana 1974-10-29 Frank Zappa (2 shows) Climax Blues Band 1974-11-16 Steppenwolf 1974-11-XX Focus Gentle Giant 1974-12-12 Genesis 1974-12-22 James Cotton Blues Band NRBQ 1974-12-29 Blue Oyster Cult Rush 1975-01-28 Joe Walsh 1975-02-14 Queen Mahogany Rush Kansas; Styx 1975-02-15 Sha Na Na 1975-02-26 Blue Oyster Cult Jet Black 1975-04-13 Tower of Power WATERBURY PALACE THEATER SHOWS Musical Artists - Performance Dates 1971-1986 Date Artist Also on Bill 1975-05-03 Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson 1975-05-19 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention 1975-05-21 Santana 1975-06-08 Fleetwood Mac Fabulous Rhinestones Henry Gross 1975-07-11 Johnny Winter The Ramones 1975-08-02 Poco Janes Montgomery Band 1975-08-22 Todd Rundgren's Utopia 1975-09-29 ZZ Top 1975-10-04 Steppenwolf 1975-10-09 Rick Wakeman Gentle Giant 1975-10-29 Frank Zappa (2 shows) Mahavishnu Orchestra 1975-11-08 Arlo Guthrie 1975-11-11 Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Revue 1975-11-13 Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (3rd Show ever) 1975-11-21 Graham Central Station 1975-12-06 The Kinks Cockney Rebel 1975-12-18 Kiss Rush 1976-01-27 Queen 1976-02-21 Foghat 1976-02-28 Freddy Fender Don Williams Lee Arnold 1976-03-21 Electric Light Orchestra Journey 1976-04-01 Jerry Garcia Band (2 shows) 1976-04-03 Arthur Fiedler 1976-08-21 Bruce Springsteen 1976-10-12 Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer REO Speedwagen 1976-10-27 Lynyrd Skynyrd 1976-11-05 Lou Reed 1976-12-08 Rush Black Oak Arkansas The James Gang 1976-12-17 Boston Graham Parker & The Rumor 1977-02-26 Renaissance 1977-03-16 Kansas Stankey Brown Group 1977-04-09 Charlie Daniels Band The Outlaws (?) 1977-04-24 ZZ Top Piper 1977-06-08 Dan Fogelberg Fool's Gold 1977-06-24 J. Geils The Cars (?) 1977-09-15 Foreigner Cheap Trick 1977-10-04 Iggy Pop The Ramones 1977-10-13 Be-Bop Deluxe 1977-10-19 Nektar 1977-11-23 Jerry Garcia Band 1977-12-04 Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (cancelled) Nick Jameson 1977-12-27 Marshall Tucker Band Pure Prairie League Jonathan Edwards 1978-03-04 Sea Level 1978-03-09 Aerosmith 1978-05-06 Charlie Daniels Band 1978-05-09 Elvis Costello Mink DeVille Nick Lowe 1978-05-24 The Kinks 1978-05-25 The Kinks 1978-09-24 REO Speedwagon UFO 1978-11-04 Rock and Roll Revival (Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon, The Angels, Del Shannon, Joey D and the Starlighters) 1978-12-09 The Bill Gaither Trio 1980-02-09 Atlanta Rhythm Section .38 Special 1980-03-02 UFO Blackfoot Off Broadway 1980-03-22 Leon Russell 1980-03-25 Cheap Trick 1980-04-22 Robin Trower Shooting Star 1980-04-26 Maynard Ferguson Herbie Mann 1980-07-16 ZZ Top Humble Pie 1980-08-22 Rossington-Collins Band (ex-Lynryd Skynyrd) Fountainhead 1980-11-05 Bob Weir (Bobby & The Midnites) New Riders of the Purple Sage 1980-11-22 Triumph Diesel 1981-02-26 The Outlaws 1981-04-04 Beatlemania 1981-04-24 .38 Special Point Blank 1981-05-03 Rainbow Pat Travers 1981-10-11 Def Leppard Blackfoot 1982-05-08 Sammy Hagar Aldo Nova 1984-06-23 Pearl Bailey 1984-10-12 Bob Marley Tribute: I-Threes with Rita Marley, The Wailers, Crucial Band 1985-05-05 The Caesar Singers (with Shirley Caesar) 1985-08-22 B.J. Thomas Soupy Sales 1985-11-08 The Imperials 1986-03-16 The Clancy Brothers.