Save The Allen Benefit

 The Save the Allen benefit was the work of Veralynne Bosco and Ralph "Smitty" Smith. Veralynne was friends with a number of people in the local rock scene and was able to recruit some of Cleveland's top bands. Damnation failed to appear, but their absence was hardly missed as they became the butt of that evenings jokes. This rather raucous affair lasted until well into the evening and was fairly well attended. This was supposed to be a big weekend for us, but the Peter Yarrow show on Friday was a flopo, and the Joe Tex show skedded for Saturday cancelled, so this was the highlight of the weekend.

Veralynne, along with "Poe" (pronounced Poe-ee) Ken Plocica, Kevin McAndrew, Pete Weber, and "Flemo" Chuck Fleming were some of Playhouse Square's earliest volunteers, all of whim Veralynne brought onboard, shameful they'll never get an acknowledgement from them.