Prog Rock was King in Montreal in the 70's, and Pink Floyd was arguably the city's most popular band. The show in Montreal was both the largest crowd of the tour, and the last show:
Pink Floyd 1977 In the Flesh Tour gigs.
@shack : I think you probably saw the 1975 Wish You Were Here tour at Ivor Wynne Stadium. According to Wikipedia, Montreal was the only Canadian date on the 1977 tour.
I might have had a better opinion of Pink Floyd if I had seen them in a smaller venue, or earlier in the tour, but by July, 1977, I was already listening to a lot of Punk rock. I was pretty much the only person in my high school who was listening to Punk, especially the Marquee Moon album by Television, and Patti Smith's Horses. People in my graduating class were more into Peter Frampton, and they laughed at Ramones. I guess you could say I was ahead of the curve. They were reading Rolling Stone; I was reading Creem, New Musical Express and Trouser Press.
The Phantasmagoria record store on Avenue du Parc had an employee named Keith Normoyle who had a booth in the back of the store, devoted almost exclusively to imported singles, which was great, because Punk was never played on the radio. I was also at a party at the apartment of a guy named Tycho Manson, (yes, that WAS his real name), and he would be playing tunes that had been released in the UK within the previous few weeks.
I was also connected with a group of music fans three years older than I was, who had their own local fanzine named Surfin' Bird. I rarely bought albums that were played regularly on the radio. All of that exposed me to a lot of great music that people who were influenced by radio knew nothing about.
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