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January 24, 1975

Richfield, OH US

Richfield Coliseum




'75 North American Tour Programme


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I was at this show...

I was at this show. We got bored during "No Quarter" and decided to take a walk around the, then new, venue. We heard a series of "Whack! Whack! Whack!" sounds followed by the sound of crashing glass. An usher we'd seen just a few moments before came rushing toward us, his face bloodied, shouting for us to "Get back inside!" As he shouted at us rocks and chunks of concrete started breaking through the large, plate-glass windows that made up the outside surface of the building. When we left later there were millions of shards of glass throughout the concourse and just about every window (they were about 3.5' sq) from the ground to about twenty-five up was broken. It made it quite cold in there. Contrary to the news article shown, the show had been sold out and apparently OVERSOLD for quite awhile and as I recall the people who were angry allegedly had legitimate tickets in hand but were refused entry by the fire marshall. The story at the time said that venue officials tried to get police from throughout the vicinity to help quell the violence but were refused because the locals didn't want the new arena there anyway. In all likelihood however the Richfield Coliseum, located in the countryside about halfway between Cleveland and Akron, was simply too far for any police to reach effectively.