[3] The ballroom has hosted concerts by many famous artists, including Kansas, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Wishbone Ash, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, KISS, The Police, Alice Cooper, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane & The Doors, among others.
It was promoted by Raymond Cannefax as a token of respect to a venue he felt was one of America's best concert halls, in line with San Francisco's Winterland.
Claudia Appling sang Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi with its apropos chorus, "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot."
LaFlamme (born Gary Posie) was a former member of the San Francisco band It's a Beautiful Day, known for its signature song "White Bird".
After a fire in 1997, the building was demolished and the lyrics of Claudia Applings song, Joni Mitchell's Yellow Taxi, "They tore down Paradise and put up a Parking Lot," holds true through the present, 2023.