Pacific Presentations is a Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 based concert company started in 1970 by Sepp Donahower, Gary Perkins, and Robert Bogdanovich. It grew out of the ashes of LA's early progressive concert company, Pinnacle Dance Concerts, which was founded in 1967 by Sepp Donahower, Marc Chase and John Van Hamersveld

John Van Hamersveld

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. Pinnacle promoted the early shows of the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

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, Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

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, Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

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, Traffic

Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...

, Cream

Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker...

, The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group were an English rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy sounding blues and R&B was a major influence on popular music.- The first Jeff Beck Group :...

 with Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

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 and Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

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. The Single Wing Turquoise Bird Light Show did many of the multimedia light shows at the Pinnacle Concerts.

Pacific grew into one of the largest concert companies in the United States, promoting thousands of concert

Concert

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s all over the US and Canada. The company established and popularized venues such as the Hollywood Palladium

Hollywood Palladium

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, and the Santa Barbara County Bowl

Santa Barbara Bowl

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. Pacific put together California Jam

California Jam

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 in 1974, which set the record for paid attendance. The company also promoted entire tours of Rod Stewart & The Faces all through the 1970s, helping make the artist one of the biggest attractions in the world. In the late 1970s, Gary Perkins, Brian Murphy, and Bob Bogdanovich split from Pacific and formed Avalon Attractions. Donahower stayed with Pacific and promoted tours with Bob Marley & The Wailers

Bob Marley & The Wailers

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 and other attractions. Sepp Donahower is currently the sole owner of Pacific Presentations. After Perkins left Avalon a few years later, Irving Azoff

Irving Azoff

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 and Bob Getties bought into the company and it was sold to SFX a few years later. SFX was then sold to Clear Channel

Clear channel

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, and Clear Channel spun off the their concert company into Live Nation

Live Nation

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, which now has merged with Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster

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with Irving Azoff and Michael Rapino running the combined entity.