Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert in Pittsburgh, PA – July 24, 1976

The Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh was where the Eagles with Fleetwood Mac and Boz Scaggs performed on July 24, 1976. This was only the second concert of the summer at the stadium. ZZ Top was the first on June 12, and according to what was written it did not go well. Unfortunately, almost everything that was written about Three Rivers Stadium right after that show only focused on the disaster of that ZZ Top concert and not the music of the Eagles concert.

The Eagles had their two shows at the Spectrum in Philadelphia just three days later. They were nearing the end of the One of These Nights tour.

Three Rivers Stadium was home to Pittsburgh Pirates baseball and Pittsburgh Steelers football from 1970-2000.

An article written by Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette appeared in the online Post-Gazette on March 22, 2022 about this particular Eagles concert in 1976. And, it has a link within the article to this page on Randy Meisner Hearts On Fire. The article is titled 1976: The Year the Eagles Saved Stadium Concerts in Pittsburgh and Released Hotel California. It’s a very interesting Eagles article written by Scott Mervis, so you may want to take a few moments just to read it. If you can’t access the newspaper site, this is the pdf version.

Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh
Randy is wearing his shirt from their show at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati two nights earlier.

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

Randy Meisner
Nothing runs like a Deere

Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, and Don Henley

Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, and Don Felder

Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, and Joe Walsh

Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, and Joe Walsh

Randy Meisner

Glenn Frey, Don Henley, and Don Felder

Glenn Frey

Joe Walsh

Don Felder

Glenn Frey

Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh

Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Don Henley

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

Randy Meisner

Fleetwood Mac at Three Rivers Stadium

1976 July 22 28 The Scene

The Scene (Cleveland, OH) – July 22-28, 1976

Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 18, 1976

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

News Record (North Hills, PA) – July 28, 1976

The music at this concert will be more subdued and the audience will be less oriented to rowdy behavior. The bad publicity from the previous concert has hurt ticket sales for the Eagles concert.

Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 21, 1976

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert in Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 25, 1976

It’s a nice crowd, all orderly, not like the last one that was here, said a Three Rivers usher. His hand went up in a gesture of frustration and disgust.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 26, 1976

The Eagles arrived about 5:30 and spent two hours on stage, including a pair of encores. And they even played policemen. Glenn Frey reminded fans who were trying to scale a wooden barrier near the stage “you’ve had one bad concert here already.” “We came to play,” added Randy Meisner.

New Castle News (New Castle, PA) – July 26, 1976

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 26, 1976

“So successful was the concert that the Stadium Authority on Monday released to Three Rivers Management Corp. the license agreement for another rock concert on Aug. 14, featuring the Beach Boys, Gary Wright and Peter Frampton.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – July 29, 1976

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

El Paso Times (El Paso, TX) – July 31, 1976

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA) – Aug. 7, 1976

Three Rivers Stadium Eagles concert

Excerpt from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) – June 21, 2009

Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh

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    1. That’s good to know. With the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, AND Boz Scaggs it doesn’t surprise me that it was a great day.

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