- Shoreline Amphitheatre
Infobox Venue
name = Shoreline Amphitheatre
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nickname = "Shoreline"
location =Mountain View, California
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type = Outdooramphitheatre
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opened =1986
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seating_type = reserved, lawn
seating_capacity = 22,000Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor
amphitheater inMountain View, California ,USA , in theSan Francisco Bay Area . It has a capacity of 22,000 with 6500 reserved seats and rest are unreserved lawn seating. It was built from 1985-86 by the city of Mountain View in cooperation with local promoter Bill Graham as part of theShoreline Park project. The premier season was during the Summer of 1986 and opened with The Grateful Dead. Each row of fixed seating at the amphitheatre has a pitch of three feet providing ample legroom.In its opening year, a fan attending a
Steve Winwood concert flicked a cigarette lighter and ignited methane that had been leaking from a landfill underneath the theatre. Several small fires were reported that season. After those incidents the city of Mountain View commissioned methane testing studies to define the locus of methane vapors emanating from the soil within the Shoreline Amphitheater. ["Methane testing in the vicinity of landfill environs", EMI prepared for the City of Mountain View, Ca., 1986-87] These tests were used in developing a design for improved methane monitoring and more efficient methane extraction to assure the amphitheater became safe as an outdoor venue. Ultimately the entire lawn was removed to allow the installation of a gas barrier and better methane removal equipment.The venue has hosted local radio station
Live 105 's BFD concert every June. TheDownload Festival 's San Francisco show is also held at Shoreline.It was the site of
Phish 's final show before their hiatus on October 7, 2000, as well as the site of 12 other Phish shows from 1992-2003.It has also been the site of every
Bridge School Benefit show except one, which was held at theOakland Coliseum in 1988.ee also
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List of contemporary amphitheatres
*List of concert halls References
External links
* [http://www.shorelineamp.com/ Shoreline Amphitheatre website]
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