October 18, 1975 Riverfront Auditorium, Cincinatti, OH

This was a brand new facility and this was the first major concert attraction held there. The venue seats over 17,000 but on this night was arranged in “theater setup” with only 7500 tickets put on sale. Gentle Giant opened the show. Procol Harum was supposed to appear second on the bill (having replaced Peter Frampton) but was unable to, due to their equipment truck breaking down in West Virginia. Gentle Giant agreed to let Procol use their equipment, but Rick Wakeman vetoed the idea. Procol may have also asked to play last to give their equipment time to arrive, but Wakeman was not keen on that idea, either. Whatever the case, this all led to a nasty scene backstage between Wakeman’s road crew and members of Procol Harum. After Giant’s set, Procol band member Keith Reid tried to take the stage and announce to the crowd why they weren’t playing, but Wakeman’s crew stopped him. In fact, no announcement at all about Procol was made until the end of the evening. After the show, the battle went public as Procol’s Reid and Gary Brooker took to the airwaves over Cincinnati's WEBN radio to complain about the situation. Wakeman himself heard this broadcast and phoned in to rebut against what he called “lies”.