To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. CITADEL BROADCASTING • The Queen concert in November 1978. Pure entertainment featuring scores of colored lights, a surprise acoustic set, and Freddy Mercury never taking himself too seriously. 1972 1973 1980 1975 1980 1987 1979 1973 1984 1968 1984 1978 1981 1979 1980 1977 1981 1978 1982 1978 1976 1981 1973 1995 1975 1983 1973 1977 1977 1976 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Led Zeppelin .June 10, Pink Floyd .June 22, Bruce Springsteen .December 4, Rolling Stones .June 15, Bob Seger .September 5-7, U2 .October 7, The Who .December 4, Led Zeppelin.July 15, Bruce Springsteen .September 24-25, Jimi Hendrix Experience .March 23, The Police.February 22, The Eagles .August 4, Van Halen .July 31, Supertramp .May 21 & June 7, AC/DC .October 4, Fleetwood Mac .July 2, 3, Rush .May 9, Bob Seger .September Ozzy Osbourne .April 9, Queen.November 28, Lynyrd Skynyrd.October 29, Genesis .December 9, Jethro Tull .July 1, Page And Plant.September 22, The Who .December 10, Neil Young .February 17, Alice Cooper/ZZ Top .December 31, Aerosmith .July 6, Boston.April 29, Kiss .December 15, • Led Zeppelin in July 1973, playing almost three hours without a break in typical Aud summer heat, only to return after an eight-minute ovation. • The Pink Floyd concert in June 1973, which featured a special effects repertoire of smoke, fire, lights and quadraphonic sound purported to have cost $250,000. • The U2 concert in October 1987, at which Bono’s arm was in a sling, his throat started to give out, and he left it to the audience to get him through both the chorus and the verses of With or Without You. • Bruce Springsteen in September 1984, in a muggy Aud–all performance and no special effects–playing until 12:30 in the morning, despite its being the first of two consecutive sold-out shows. • The classic four-hour Grateful Dead show in 1977. • The Genesis concert with the dueling drums–Chester Thompson and Phil Collins. • The Genesis concert with Peter Gabriel. • The rocking Bob Seger concert in September 1980, that The Buffalo News reported was opened by “a Boston quintet called The Cars, which was the very picture of the new bands that are being touted as the stars of the ‘80s.like Cheap Trick without the slapstick.” • The concert that Cheap Trick actually opened, in April, 1977, for the “hottest new band in America,” –Boston, so hot that they leap-frogged over smaller venues and went right to The Aud. Perhaps the acoustics were rough and the air conditioning non-existent until the 1990s, but The Aud gave us concert experiences that can’t be replicated in any current venue. The intimacy, the sightlines, and that cloud of smoke–of whatever kind–made The Aud special before the opening act even took the stage. 3 2