The Rubber Bowl was also a regular performance venue . The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus gave its first performance since the Hartford Circus Fire on July 6 , 1944 . Music groups such as Black Sabbath , Simon & Garfunkel , Alice Cooper , Three Dog Night , and The Rolling Stones played there in the 1970s . In the 1980s , the New Jersey ( album ) tour of Jon Bon Jovi and the Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 that featured Van Halen , the Scorpions , Dokken , Metallica , and Kingdom Come had stops at the Rubber Bowl . Simon & Garfunkel returned in 1983 in front of a crowd of around 37,000 , their first tour together in 13 years . Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , Bob Dylan , and The Grateful Dead toured together in 1986 and played at the Rubber Bowl , which featured Bob Dylan performing live on stage for the first time with The Grateful Dead . The stadium also hosted a Veterans Memorial Jam concert with Aretha Franklin , Ringo Starr , and Three Dog Night in 1997 and Ozzfest in 1998
Monsters of Rock Tour 1988
Monsters of Rock Tour 1988
Rubber Bowl