Check out this one. I thought Casa shows started late. How about 10:30.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DAVID-CROSBY-GRAHAM-NASH-1973-OHI...

I worked that concert as an usher on the floor.
To be honest,I don't remember it starting that late.
I do remember it being a great show and the band going uptown after it.

The worst concert I worked I was Sly and Family Stone.
He showed up,over 2 hours late,and looked stoned out of his mind.
Then he wouldn't go on until he got a pizza.

When he did go on,he only did about a 45 minute set.

Setlist for this show is missing at sites that have setlists for most of his shows dating back to when he was in high school, circa mid-1960s.

Did find this:

Festival appearance with Blood, Sweat and Tears, the Eagles and Billy Preston. A fairly impressive 9-artist roster with Bruce and the band receiving near bottom billing. They play early on the first day of this 2-day festival held indoors at the school's Convocation Center. The Eagles co-headline. Eagle Don Henley has commented on this show: "I'd first heard about Springsteen from Jackson (Browne), who raved about him. Then we ended up on the same bill as Bruce at a festival out in Ohio. So I sort of wandered in alone and checked out his set. He was just a warm-up act at that this show. After watching him I remember thinking to myself that this was a guy that wasn't gonna be warming up the crowd for us - or for anybody - for very long".

The setlist is unknown, but a fan who was present said : "I was at the show April 27th, 1973 at Ohio University in Athens, Oh. I was going to school there, and my resident assistant at the dorm was on the concert board. He was telling me about who all was going to be on the bill for the festival, and I said that I had never heard of Bruce Springsteen. He told me that Bruce was going to be something big, and he gave me a copy of the "Greetings from Asbury Park" album so that I could listen to it. I was blown away. I went to the concert looking forward to hearing tunes from the album, and seeing what this new guy was all about. People in the audience were asking "Who is this guy?". By the time Bruce's set was over, they were converted fans. I don't remember many of the songs from that night, but I do remember "Growin' Up", and I also recall Bruce jumping up onto the piano and singing. What energy! The show was excellent. I have been a big fan ever since".

Does anybody remember when Haffa's went out of biz? I loved that place.

Fall of 1979, my first quarter as an Ohio University student, saw three national acts performing in the Convo. I'm unable to remember the three acts, although one was REO Speedwagon and Michael Stanley Band was a warmup act for one of the shows. (MSB was a Cleveland-area rock band and, as mentioned in an earlier post in this thread, anything big in Cleveland tends to translate to being big in Athens).
I came home for winter break that December thinking that my college years in Athens would include several big-name concerts per year. However, The Who concert that month in Cincinnati where several fans were trampled to death supposedly changed all that. Three Convo concerts in one quarter became maybe three Convo concerts the remaining 3 2/3 years. Rumor was the tragedy in Cincy altered planning concerts at Ohio University thereafter.

Thanks, Joe. Obviously a better memory than mine. Do you think that The Who tragedy in Cincy had any effect on future concerts in Athens? Or just rumors?

Best show ever in Athens - Mem Aud - J Geils winter of '78. Houseparty, Motor City Shakedown, Southside Shuffle, Musta Got Lost, etc. Full house-everybody on their feet-funky dancin'- balcony shakin'- non-stop 2+hours......

http://archive.org/stream/spectrumgreen73ohio#page/66/mod...

I think I have seen Geils live about 20 times over the years. Every show great - and the one at Mem Aud may have been the greatest.

Springsteen, a relatively unknown at the time, was on the cover of Time and Newsweek on Oct. 27, 1975, a couple of months after Born to Run was released.

He changed the lyrics to "Rosalita" at a concert a few months later to: "Tell him now it’s his last chance, Rosie / Tell him I ain’t no freak / ‘Cause I got my picture / On the cover of Time and Newsweek!’

There are still plenty of good songwriters/lyricists out there in nearly every genre. You just aren't going to find many/any on the radio. Pandora and other similar sites have enabled me to find quite a few artists that I never would have found otherwise.

Thanks Joe. I was a dorm director from 79 - 81 and till had lots of friends in residence life for a few more years. The "word on the street" was that the dean of students office wanted to kill off concerts. The university had been successful in ending the spring riots of the last 70's and getting rid of big concerts was just one more step in eliminating the party image. The next time I see Joel Rudy, I'll have to ask him if that was truly the case or just rumors from the street. Either way, big Convo shows pretty much disappeared overnight.

I was in Concert Review Committee meetings with Joel, Jimmy Matthews and others. None were against shows. The most significant questions typically had to do with pyrotechnics and staging.

I served as a SpringFest Committee member for three years and had friends lead it the next couple. We had a lot of latitude and earned the trust of the administrators with whom we worked. The change in drinking age, though, changed the cost model and liability significantly.

The 2,500 ticket limit on out of town sales might've been a damper for promoters considering Convo shows, knowing that our history of on campus sales suggested it would be difficult to sell enough seats to turn a profit. A Tom Petty show, late in spring quarter 1981 was cancelled due to lack of sales in Athens.

Thanks! I just assumed they were closed and just a relic of my good old days. How wonderful and will pay a visit next time I visit.

Springstein will be forever known as a punk that tried to be relevant