Pink Floyd Releases 1973 Concert Album From Jersey City’s Roosevelt Stadium

Written By Mike Greenblatt
Pink Floyd Roosevelt Stadium Poster

Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City opened in 1937 and was demolished in 1985. It hosted baseball, football, boxing, soccer and an annual drum and bugle corps competition. It also had some pretty damn good concerts, one of which was Pink Floyd on June 18, 1973. (The poster for the show advertises June 16 but it rained and was rescheduled).

The show is one of 18 such Pink Floyd events now available from their ‘73 Dark Side Of The Moon tour as a “copyright dump.” According to Variety, Euro artists must use or lose sound recordings within 50 years of creation or they go into the public domain, available to anyone to release with the artist not compensated.

Jay Lustig of www.njarts.net recently posted a list of all the Roosevelt Stadium ‘70s shows:

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July 13, 1972: Chicago
July 18, 1972: Grateful Dead
Aug. 10, 1972: Alice Cooper, J. Geils Band, Flash
Aug. 19, 1972: The Kinks
Sept. 6, 1972: Joe Cocker, Mark-Almond, Patto
Sept. 17, 1972: Leon Russell, Captain Beyond
Sept. 19, 1972: Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage

June 18, 1973: Pink Floyd
July 26, 1973: Three Dog Night, T. Rex
July 31 and Aug. 1, 1973: Grateful Dead, The Band
Aug. 12, 1973: Santana, Tower of Power
Aug. 18, 1973: Grand Funk Railroad, Lee Michaels
Aug. 25, 1973: Beach Boys, Poco, Stanky Brown

June 7-8, 1974: Allman Brothers Band, Grinderswitch
June 30, 1974: Seals and Crofts, Maria Muldaur, The Souther-Hillman-Fury Band,
                           England Dan & John Ford Coley
July 7, 1974: Eric Clapton
Aug. 6, 1974: Grateful Dead
Aug. 8, 1974: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Aug. 20, 1974: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Aug. 23, 1974: Beach Boys, Eagles
Sept. 2, 1974: Chicago, Doobie Brothers, Ozark Mountain Daredevils

June 14, 1975: Pink Floyd
July 6, 1975: Alice Cooper, Johnny Winter, Leslie West with Corky Laing, James Gang
July 19, 1975: Eagles, Seals & Crofts, Poco
July 25, 1975: Yes
Aug. 22, 1975: The Faces, Ten Years After, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Aug. 31, 1975: Doobie Brothers, The Outlaws, New Riders of the Purple Sage
Sept. 13, 1975: Allman Brothers Band, Charlie Daniels Band, Muddy Waters

June 17, 1976: Yes, The Pousette-Dart Band
July 10, 1976: KISS, J. Geils Band, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Point Blank
July 29, 1976: Eagles, Boz Scaggs
Aug. 4, 1976: Grateful Dead
Aug. 28, 1976: Beach Boys, The Richie Furay Band

Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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