RIP New Haven Coliseum

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i won't begin the flood of stories/memories associated w NHC,suffice it to say,they involve blackberry brandy and cheap tee shirts w barely recognizable caricatures of th actual photos on them.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

I went to my first concert there! Bowie-the Station to Station tour. I took the bus from New London and my dad had to come down and pick me up afterwards, which was a big deal at the time. I think it's the only time I went there, though.

I remember when there was a rumor going around among my older sister's friends that Jeanne Dixon had predicted that the Hartford Civic Center was going to collapse during a Neil Young concert.

― Punky Husbear Party (Arthur), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh, I was wondering when it would happen. Another part of youth washed away. Saw a lot of New Haven Nighthawks hockey games there (back when both Macy's and Malley's existed)...I'll miss driving down the spirals from the rooftop-parking garage housed above the facility (what a weird concept! definitely wouldn't fly in a post 9/11-world).

Saw Jimmy Page there in '88. The only other concert I saw there (and the last time I ever set foot in there) was taking my little brother to see Phish in December '95. I think the place was already pretty dilapidated by then.

R.I.P. Coliseum!

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:44 (eighteen years ago)

Weird, I was just thinking about this place yesterday.

Is Eddie Seward another one of your brothers?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

The only other concert I saw there (and the last time I ever set foot in there) was taking my little brother to see Phish in December '95

if you saw a dude going nuts in the middle of the front part of the floor, that might have been me

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

I was just having a flashback to a plaid-shorted preppy guy I knew in college talking about going to see (no first name) Thoroughgood there. I wonder if any of you were at that show?

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

"I went to my first concert there!"

same here! rush. permanent waves tour. with my dad.

god, the nighthawks...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

"This is New Haven, isn't it? New Haven, Connecticut? UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

I roused my five year old son up early to go and see the thing implode. Bad idea in retrospect but still, it was pretty cool.

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

i saw david gilmour open for zz top there,and billy squier open for queen,and ronnie james dios black sabbath w boc and i saw ozzy and randy rhodes there and i saw lotsa van halen shows there,and i saw a guy get stabbed at th bowie serious moonlight tour there and lotsa nighthawks game..

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

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