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Rick BowenRick Bowen has held a variety of positions in the entertainment industry for the past thirty-eight years. In the early years, Bowen worked as a concert producer for National Shows, Inc. in Charleston, West Virginia where he cut his entertainment teeth on every type of arena event from acid hard rock, The Jefferson Airplane, to The Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus. While with National Shows, Bowen promoted such events as; Holiday on Ice, Ice Capades, Loretta Lynn’s Championship Rodeo, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspel, Mame, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Four Seasons, War, The Temptations, and The Drifters. The Royal Lipizzan Stallion touring show, which Bowen helped create, produce and promote with Phillip and Gary Lashinsky owners of National Shows, is still touring today doing more than 125 performances a year all over North America. After leaving the National Shows in West Virginia, Bowen moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and formed, East Coast Concerts. While headquartered in Florida, Bowen became the leading Concert impresario in the Southeastern United States producing live concert venues at Pirates World, The Hollywood Sportatorium, The Orlando Sportatorium, Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, Fl., and Veterans Auditorium and The Jacksonville Coliseum. With the popularity of Rock Festivals such as Woodstock, Mari Sol, and the Monteray Pop Festivals, Bowen saw the opportunity to bring large numbers of people together for music concerts and big profits for the promoters. Problems had to be overcome in order to do these events in a more controlled environment for crowd control, bigger production and talent safety concerns. Bowen’s idea was to make successful events rather than create news stories about the disasters of out of control patrons. In an effort to turn the public’s desire for large venue concerts into money making successful ventures, Bowen and his partner Concerts West, convinced the Tampa Stadium’s management to contract for the rental of the 75000-seat stadium for a series of rock concerts. Bowen produced, Three Dog Night, Led Zeppelin, Chicago and Elton John in a series of summer concerts in Tampa that year. The success of that outdoor stadium series enabled Bowen and Concerts West to negotiate with Braves Stadium owners to do a similar set of concerts in Atlanta the next summer. From that point Bowen and Concerts West promoted concert tours in several National Football League Stadiums including Irving Stadium in Dallas, home of the Dallas Cowboys. No other organizations had ever been permitted to do patrons on the field concerts at any of these stadiums before the initial concerts in Tampa. The whole idea revolved around making a great entertainment event successful for both the producers and the patrons. Bowen produced more than 90% of the major rock concerts in Florida over a five-year period. He then teamed with Concerts West full time and moved to Dallas, Texas. Bowen produced shows in Florida for such famous acts as; Elvis Presley, John Denver, The Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart and Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Three Dog Night, Chicago, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Bob Seeger, Eric Clapton, Mountain, The Allman Brothers Band, Al Green, Ike and Tina Turner, Ted Nugent, The Guess Who, ZZ Top, Creedence Clear Water Revival, Elton John, Leon Russell, Black Sabbath, and Steppenwolf.
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