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AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
edited February 2008 in The Porch
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/28/MNE0V9LPS.DTL

Looks like time is short for the Cow Palace, the site of one of PJ's most memorable shows from the early days.
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  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    Oh wow -- haven't been to the Cow Palace for like, forever.

    But I can just mention one or two phenomenal shows, mid 80s.
    If you were a rocker back then, you undoubtedly were at:

    Fastway / Saxxon / Iron Maiden

    That show was nuts, and only barely beat out, a year later:

    Metallica / Iron Maiden (did Yngwie open that, or was that Ygnwie/Metallica later, saw that too!)

    insane general admission shows in the heyday of metal! I remember the all-day line (we started at like 10am) wrapped around a u-haul truck and about an hour before the line went in, well, the u-haul had it coming. Started wiht a couple bottles being thrown "at" a nearby trashcan, ended with the trashcan through the windshield of the poor truck .... mayhem even before anyone was inside!
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  • riffrandallriffrandall Posts: 685
    I'm sorry but that place is a dump in the middle of a slum. It should be torn down & the area gentrified just a little.
    "If you're looking for someone to pull you out of that ditch, you're out of luck."
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,517
    acutejam wrote:
    Oh wow -- haven't been to the Cow Palace for like, forever.

    But I can just mention one or two phenomenal shows, mid 80s.
    If you were a rocker back then, you undoubtedly were at:

    Fastway / Saxxon / Iron Maiden

    That show was nuts, and only barely beat out, a year later:

    Metallica / Iron Maiden (did Yngwie open that, or was that Ygnwie/Metallica later, saw that too!)

    insane general admission shows in the heyday of metal! I remember the all-day line (we started at like 10am) wrapped around a u-haul truck and about an hour before the line went in, well, the u-haul had it coming. Started wiht a couple bottles being thrown "at" a nearby trashcan, ended with the trashcan through the windshield of the poor truck .... mayhem even before anyone was inside!

    I saw the Maiden/Saxon/Fastway show in Long Beach...man, did it rock!

    Saxon should have made it bigger then they did!

    The singer from Fastway is now the singer in Flogging Molly.
  • MasterFramerMasterFramer Posts: 2,268
    That place is a dump... level it...
    10.31.93 / 10.1.94 / 6.24.95 / 11.4.95 / 10.19-20.96 / 7.16.98 / 7.21.98 / 10.31.00 /8.4.01 Nader Rally/ 10.21.01 / 12.8-9.02 / 6.01.03 / 9.1.05 / 7.15-16,18.06 / 7.20.06 / 7.22-23.06 / Lolla 07
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Looks like the Cow Palace will live to see another day.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/15/BAHD1060B4.DTL&tsp=1

    Yes, it's a dump, but the place has history.
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