Former promoter John Brower talks about how easy it was to bring Led Zeppelin, the Doors and others to Toronto

John Brower has the answer — and he should know, because he promoted the show. “Peter Grant comes over and I’m standing on the top of the marble stairs at the Rockpile,” Brower recalled. The second agency, a guy picks up the phone and says, ‘I’m Richard Ouellette, who’s this?’ I said, ‘It’s John Brower, I want to bring the Doors to Toronto. “David Byrne was quoted as saying, ‘We would never play a rock festival,’” Brower noted. “These things are not a cakewalk.”That was proved in 1969 when Brower tried to stage a Peace Festival with John Lennon.