Music History: Commodore Ballroom & Mr C’s Rock Palace
Taken from comments by people in the FB Group “You Know Your’e From Lowell …,” here’s a list of some of the bands that played in the 1960s and ’70s at the legendary night spot and dance hall on Thorndike Street, now long gone.
Vanilla Fudge
The Buckinghams
Cream with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Edgar Winter
Neil Diamond
1910 Fruitgum Company
Grand Funk Railroad
The Doors
Ten Years After
Rod Stewart & The Faces
Neil Diamond
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
B. B. King
and the local favorites: Little John & the Sherwoods