A last-minute booking a week or so earlier led to this SRO Monday night show. Nowadays it's hard to imagine a time when bookings were this fast and loose, but for a couple weeks we'd been getting calls asking if Pink Floyd were coming, and the answer was no, until they were booked less ten days before the date, which was pretty short notice back then. Nonetheless this show sold out pretty quickly, just two days after they sold out the 2,700 seat Akron Civic (Loew's) Theatre. This was also a show where gate crashers were a problem, people got into a roof hatch above the ceiling and kicked out a door at the top of the balcony, house right, in a closet opposite a fire exit. Aside from that this was a pretty mellow crowd, some were obviously on drugs, but there were no major problems. At one point a poorly mixed batch of flash/gun powder produced a bit more of a flash-bang then they anticipated. Poe (Ken Plocica) had asked for and received front row tix, was quite startled by the intensity of the blast, scorch marks on the stage remained a reminder of that night. Most of what they played was material they were woodshedding which would appear a year later on their Dark Side of the Moon longplayer: Travel Sequence, Time, Money, Lunatic Song, One of These Days, Careful With That Axe, and Echoes at the end.
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