![]() He believed if the StonesĬame and put on a good show, other big-name acts would follow. Two years before and had been trying to land the Stones from day one, sending their agent a posterįrom their original Civic Center show and offering to give away the house. Two decades, the city had been nothing more than a tertiary market, but Mick and Keith literallyĭelivered A Bigger Bang (the album they toured on that year). Like convincing the Rolling Stones to play inĢ006-41 years after the sempiternal bad boys of the British Invasion first played Baltimore. You clean theīuilding top to bottom and somehow there’s more the next day.”Īh, but he had a hand in the triumphs, too. “It’s theĭust those events leave behind,” he says, shaking his head. Monster trucks? Remesch has watched them careen into the walls. Once, a circus elephant wrecked an arena phone booth, trapping an employee who was making a call. Fortunately, as the sun went down, temperatures fell again, and We’re running around with towels trying the keep the floor dry and I’m thinking someone is going “It’s the middle of winter and a heat wave hits, and suddenly it’s raining in the building. Which wasn’t unusual, we had Ice Capades or something that week,” he recalls. “The basketball court was laid overtop our ice, Remesch was there when the franchise formerly known as the Baltimoreīullets returned to town and an unexpected weather front inside the arena “Or we weren’t going to have a tournament.” “I had to ask him not to do that again,” he recalls withĪ wry smile. NCAA tournament, forcing Remesch, then the operations manager, to put his He was there when Bryant “Big Country” Reeves, Oklahoma State’s 7-foot,Ģ90-pound center shattered a glass backboard during warm-ups for the 1995 Institution as an electrician in 1988, three years out of Overlea High School. Venue originally known as the Civic Center started working at the 60-year-old Right Side, Clockwise from top, left: Bruce Springsteen/Wiki Commons: Takahiro Kyono Beyonce/Shutterstock Prince/Getty Images Wes Unseld/Usa Today Sports ©Malcolm Emmons Kiss/Getty Images Tiger/Shutterstock Jimi Hendrix/Wiki Commons: Marjut Valakivi Ric Flair/Mediapunch Inc/Alamy Stock Photo Andre The Giant/Hbo Sports Mlk: Library Of Congress: Dick Demarsico, World Telegram Staff Photographer Frank Zappa/Herb Cohen Management Robert Plant/Dina Regine.īy Ron Cassie Illustration By Ryan Olbrysh Opening Spread Left Side, from left, James Brown/Wiki Commons: Heinrich Klaffs Bull Riding/Courtesy Of Pbr Media Willie Marshall: Baltimore Clippers/Wiki Commons Tim Wittman/Courtesy Of Baltimore Blast Beatles/Wiki Commons: United Press International Elton John/Wiki Commons/Yabosid Elvis Presley/Wiki Commons: rca Records Grave Digger/Wiki Commons: Kevin Cabral Miss Usa/Ap Photo: Chris Gardner. Originally Named The Civic Center, The Building Newly Renamed The CFG Bank Arena Has Hosted The Biggest Acts In Pop Music As Well As A Bevy Of Local Sports Teams And A Wide Range Of Events. Will a reborn former Civic Center finally make Baltimore a major tour stop and spark a downtown renaissance?īy Ron Cassie Illustration by Ryan Olbrysh Opening Spread
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