Concert History of a Retired "Teenager"

• My first big concert
• I went to this show to see CDB;
• I wore out the Fire on the Mountain album grooving on songs
• Caballo Diablo
• Long Haired Country Boy
• The South's Gonna Do It
• Orange Blossom Special
• Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way was cool
• REO was alright

Frank Zappa

Santana

Stephen Stills

Great American Music Festival

Rod Stewart and Faces

Peter Frampton / ZZ Top

Rush, Kiss and Black Sabbath

Todd Rundgren

Electric Light Orchestra

Boston

Genesis

Animals Tour

Pink Floyd

• We initially headed south on Inerstate 45 from Houston
• toward Galveston; we should have gone north to Univ of Houston
• where Jeppeson Stadium was located ((now TDESC Stadium) We missed first part of show.
• Good show, great video and props (flying pig)
• Outdoor venue, Weather was ok for the show but pouring rain on way home
• Saw VW Beetle spin out next to me on the 610 loop, a six lane highway

Song Remains the Same Tour

Led Zeppelin

• sold out; we snuck in when somebody popped a door;
• ran straight into Women's Room;
• It was general admission so no problem finding a seat (in the concert hall) enjoyed the show.

Aerosmith

Nazareth

Alice Cooper

• This was a special show for me
  • Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies was my first record album I bought it in Summer of 1973; I was 14 years old
  • as of this cocert date I had lived in Houston TX area for about half a year;
  • it was my first time away from home
  • My brother came to visit me
  Al had just flown out from my hometown, Rome NY.
• I worked in Houston and Lake Charles (Holly Beach) LA painting oil tanks for Chicago Bridge and Iron (CBI).
• I worked for Jim Webster who had migrated to TX from NY several years earlier.
• My family knew Jim's wife Fran, she was my former babysitter
• The CBI crew I worked with was out of Chicago - Mel and a couple of other guys
• We all went to the show in a van
• No trouble but many LA State Police inside the concert venue
• Maybe they were afraid Alice would start a zombie apocalypse.

Rex, Foreigner, Ted Nugent

Yes

Bob Seger

J. Geils Band/

Jethro Tull

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

• rode from Rochester to Syracuse with
• David Rybicky , Bill Caprice
• met a friend from SU
• slept well on the ride home

Genesis

The third stadium show on the Rolling Stones 1978 US tour was the US Independence Holiday show on the fourth of July. 
The Rolling Stones played to a sold-out 80,000 fans on 7-4-78, at Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York. 
This was the best stadium show of the entire tour. The Rolling Stones played with ferocity and intensity–they just amazed the audience,
 despite the fact that they played very few of the crowd-pleasing stadium classics. But when the Rolling Stones refused to do an encore,
 the fans became aggressive and hostile. This was the rowdiest, most dangerous crowd of the entire tour 
(Mick Jagger asked the crowd to please not throw bottles at Keith as he sung "Happy"-- things were that wild)
 it was the fourth of July and they were very drunk, very loud, very rowdy, and when the Rolling Stones would not return to the stage
 to do an encore, they trashed the stage with garbage, beer bottles, and anything else that wasn’t nailed down. 
They tore down the mouth and tongue stage and almost destroyed it. 

Bruce Springsteen

• Darkness on Edge of Town
• album released several months prior to this show
• seven of the first nine songs were from this new album
• Great show, a lot of energy, you could tell Bruce was trying as hard as he could to please.
• Bruce fell (jumped?) off stage at one point and didn't get back up for about a minute
• probably a staged move but it added a bit more drama to the event.

Ted Nugent

J Geils

Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes

Rick Derringer

• Venue is about size of high school gynasium
• Sound man thought they were playing Rich Stadium
• Painfully loud concert experience

The Marshall Tucker Band

The Cars

1000 Island Music Festival

Black and Blue Tour

Blue Oyster Cult _____________ Black Sabbath

• On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 chartered by the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd
• from L&J Company of Addison, Texas,
• ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi,
• near the end of its flight from Greenville, South Carolina,
• to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant,
• guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines,
• backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister)
• died in the crash

Allman Brothers

Santana

1000 Island Music Festival,

Ozzy Osborne and Blizzard of Oz

REO Speedwagon

Rolling Stones

• The_Rolling_Stones_American_Tour_1981 wiki
• video from the 9/27/81 show (poor audio quality)
• video from another 1981 show (good audio quality)

Frank Zappa

• Springfest II (Dust Fest)
• Blotto
• Todd Hobin
• Alecstar
• Joe Whiting
• The Blushing Brides
• Dakota
• Kentucky Moon

Elton John

The Who

The Clash

Peter Gabriel

• Great small venue to catch such a huge talent
• Phil Collins is talented; I liked the first few Genesis albaums with Phil at the helm
• Wind and Wuthering, Trick of the Tail
• Even Phil's first couple of solo albums were pretty good.
• And Phil is an engaging live performer.
• But it's clear that Peter wrote and performed better material over longer period
• And Peter's music stands up better over time (all his material still sounds good)

• Springfest III (Mud Fest)
• Springfest promoter David Allen and Mark Gummer
• The Guess Who
• The Fixx
• Huey Lewis and the News
• Todd Hobin Band
• Blotto

Grateful Dead

• We were feeling better than we had a legal right to that night.
• As we left the Dome I spotted a highway cone on the sidewalk
• So naturally I picked it up and proceeded to use it as a meaphone
• "Step right this way folks"
• And that amused my concert mates
• Until I brought the cone into our van and a cop approached the driver window (Eric)
• "What are you going to do with that? shove it up your ass?"
• He then asked Eric for his driver's license
• What happened next was funny
• Eric had several licenses - NY, CT,.
• And he gave all of the licenses to the cop
• Apparently this subterfuge worked ( or the cop couldn't be bothered)
• He let us go

David Gilmour

• Springfest (Frost Fest)

Grateful Dead

• Remarkable things about this show
1. Hundreds of gatecrashers running past dozens of helpless security guards
2. Winds picked up, lightning appeared imminent yet
• scores of concert attendees were pogo sticking up and down with their arms reaching for the sky
3. Had to ride motorcycle home in rain
4. by that point of the evening both my bike and myself
5. were running like shit

Supertramp

Pat Travers Band

• setlist
• 1. Snortin' Whiskey
• 2. Makin' Magic
• 3. Magnolia (J.J. Cale cover)
• 4. Amgwanna Kick Booty
• 5. Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)
• 6. Crash and Burn
• 7. Hooked on Music
• 8. Heat in the Street
• 9. Hammerhead

Dicky Betts

Greg Allman

The Outlaws

Steppenwolf

Guess Who

Blue Oyster Cult

Stevie Nicks

Neil Young

• 1987 was a busy year for me.
• I bought a fixer upper house, 14 Mohawk St in Feb started rehab in April
• Spent all summer gutting and rebuilding it
• moved in September 1st with Mila and Mark Nalli.

• Jim Flanagan and Tim Grace visited July 4th
• grilled on the roof, watched Plaza fireworks

• Ginny and Carney visited during Oct 4th snowstorm
• Thruway was a mess
• Motorcyclist was getting on Thruway with 8 inches of heavy wet snow in the road

• Alan visited ,
• slept in gutted LR,
• Grandpa's bright orange sweater

• I'm sure I saw music this year but
• have yet to find ticket stubs for this timeframe.

• Took tour bus from Rome
• Jordan cavity searched at Canadien Border
• Lost my glasses

Jackson Browne

Little Feat

• I love Little Feat and they played well (too bad Lowell George gone by then)
• but Melissa Etheridge blew me away. She was Janis Joplin powerfully good
• I generally prefer harder rock but she was also the best act at Woodstock '94

Aerosmith

Guns and Roses

• GNR Setlist
• 1. It's So Easy"
• 2."Mr. Brownstone"
• 3."Out Ta Get Me"
• 4."Move to the City"
• 5."I Was Only Joking" ("Rod Stewart" Cover) [Intro]
• + "Patience"
• 6."Rocket Queen"
• 7."Slash Guitar Solo"
• 8."Guns 'N' Roses Instrumental Band Jam"
• 9."Paradise City"
• 10."You're Crazy"
• 11."Welcome to the Jungle"
• 12."Sweet Child O' Mine"
• 13."Used to Love Her"
• 14."Only Women Bleed" ("Alice Cooper" Cover) [Intro]
• + "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" ("Bob Dylan" Cover)
• 15."It Tastes Good, Don't It?" [Encore]

Joe Jackson

Neil Young

Moody Blues

Chicago

U2

• Primus was logical warmup for this show
• My name was mud by the end of that show
• Les Claypool was cranking the base right through you
• Stopped at Saratoga Diner after show.

Steve Miller Band

(H.O.R.D.E.)

Black Crowes

Joan Osborne

Blues Traveler

Aerosmith

• free Alive at Five show
• played Guess Who
• remember his intro of song "Laughing"
• that it was most requested song on radio
• and BTO songs

Aerosmith

• For everybody that did not attend Woodstock '99 (and perhaps some who did)
• this festival will be remembered for the minor rioting, looting and vandalism that occurred after the music stopped
• Maybe they shouldn't have handed out candles as Chilli Peppers closed the show (certainly a combustable situation).
• 
  This was a great event until the one percent fucked it up
• I can understand frustration by people who felt gouged by vending costs and camping conditions weren't ideal.
• There were many people already sunburned after the first day and it was sunny and hot all weekend.
• But the rioters really screwed us out of any chance for a subsequent Woodstock scale show in upstate NY
• Anybody got the balls to sponsor Woodstock 2019 ?

Highlights

• Topless women
• Three of the best female singers
• Alanis Morrisette
• Jewel
• Sheryl Crow
• All of the bands brought their A Game
• I started to list them but I ended up just repeating the performer list
• Bands I expected to be good (.i.e I was already fan of their musc)
• Live, Bush, Offspring, Counting Crows, Dave Matthews Band,
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Bands that I didn't really know beyond their one song which got played on radio.
• These bands impressed/entertained me. I felt their energy. I understand their popularity
• DMX, Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Kid Rock, Creed
• Looking back there were many acts on the other stage I would have liked to have seen.
• Same regret for Woodstock '94 but these megashows/festivals often present such dilemas
• Too bad they don't tape the performances and provide stream access to ticket holders

Counting Crows

Live

• Really like both bands;
• should have been inside;
• watched from lawn seats

Aerosmith

moe.

Styx

Eric Burdon

Collective Soul

3 Doors Down

• First big concert with Clare
• got up to front of stage at 17,000 seat arena
• a little tight but fun time at a good show

Nine Inch Nails

• Awesome concert, front seat balcony next to go go dancers
• Just like his music is sonically different Trent's stage show was unique
• Trent played behind store front security caging for pretty cool effect

Train

Lou Gramm of Foreigner

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Alice In Chains

Goo Goo Dolls

• These old time Loews movie theater
1. Palace Theater Albany
2. Proctors Theater Schenectady
3. Stanley Theater Utica
4. Landmark Theater Syracuse
• provide nice venues for acoustic, melodic, good vocalists acts like
• Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, GooGoo Dolls, (early) Train , Melissa Etheridge, ..

Medeski, Martin and Wood

Allman Brothers

Velvet Revolver

Alice In Chains

• Really impressed with VR
• each member of the band is a bonafide rock star
• Wish I would have seen Scott Weiland with Stone Temple Pilots
• Love his voice and he knows how to work the stage
• just like Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Gordy (Tragically Hip)

Charlie Daniels Band

Chris Cornell

Third Eye Blind

Widespread Panic

Robert Randolph Family Band

The Police

Ted Nugent

David Byrne

• I attended as Hal's guest
• Of course it was all Talking Heads material
• What a great show
• Thanks Hal.

George Thorogood

Lamb of God

Eddie Vedder

Cold Play

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa

40th Anniversary Tour for Allman Brothers

• Two of the best guitar players alive -
• Jim Herring, Widespread Panic and
• Dereck Trucks, Allman Brothers.

• Widespread Panic 08/26/09
• Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel Woods, NY
• 0: Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Love Tractor, Pickin’ Up The Pieces, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Party At Your Mama’s House > Ribs And Whiskey, Greta, Papa’s Home* > Drums > Papa’s Home*, Red Hot Mama**, Chainsaw City**, Imitation Leather Shoes
• * with Danny Louis on keyboards
• ** with Warren Haynes on guitar

Robin Trower

The Tragically Hip

Vertical Horizon

Metallica

Joe Perry

Alice In Chains

Gin Blossoms

Alice Cooper

Sting

Jackson Browne

Dark Star Orchestra

The Black Crowes

• Loved this show; much better than their SPAC HORDE show
• They kicked ass in LOCKN 2013 too

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa

ZZ Top

Lynard Skynard

The Guess Who

• Barenaked Ladies
• a lot better in person than on the radio.
• GooGoo Dolls
• sound great both live and recorded

Joan Osborne

Collective Soul

Dave Mason

Dickie Betts

• Free "Alive at Five" show ( except for all the $4 beers I bought)
• perfectly scheduled and very close to next show
• what a great warmup concert
• to a fantastic closing act

The Wall

• Most visually impressive concert I've ever seen
• Seemed like a quarter of the arena was filled with computers
• and other hardware support devices.

Florence and the Machine

Fiona Apple

Melissa Etheridge

The Tragically Hip

Little Feat

Kansas

Todd Rundgren

Q-Ruption Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival

Alice In Chains

Janes Addiction

LOCKN

Widespread Panic

Dark Star Orchestra

Experience Hendrix

George Thorogood

Peach Fest

• The Allman Brothers Band
• Cabinet
• Trey Anastasio Band
• Tedeschi Trucks Band
• Gov't Mule
• Warren Haynes
• George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic
• Trigger Hippy
• Rich Robinson
• Big Gigantic
• The Soul Rebels
• Particle
• and others I didn't see

Pros

Cons

Chris Isaak

• Very personable entertainer
• with beautiful voice
• Wore a shiny outfit and joked that people
• thought he was a figure skater

Dark Star Orchestra

• free Alive at Five show
• played Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo closer as tribute to recently deceased brother Johnny

Counting Crows

• They played most of their new album,
• which has good songs, and they played some classics
• but their catalog of great songs is so big
• it's hard not being a bit disappointed when they skip many of your favorites
• August and Everyting After is an amazing album;
  • maybe the best lyrical composition of all time.

• an impressive cast of famiy and friends
• 
• Courtney
• famous for awesome breakfast burritos
• Bryan
• world class LOCKN Ambassador
• Tim
• knows music, guitars and
• is willing to drive 1000 miles

Dead and Company

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Jackie Greene

Dead and Company

Steely Dan

Alice In Chains

LOCKN 2016

Mountain Jam

Third Eye Blind

Soul Asylum

Cracker

Kings of Leon

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats

LOCKN 2017

LOCKN 2017 Concert Experience is covered more thoroughly here.

LOCKN 2017 Streams Available	Images	Set Lists
String Cheese Set Thursday Aug 24th
Wide Spread Panic
Bob Weir with Avett Brothers

The Wall

• Very cool visuals and the music was spot on
• Played most of the classic Pink Floyd tunes.

Yes

JJ Grey

Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown

Greensky Bluegrass

Greensky Bluegrass

Steven Wilson

Best show of 2018 for me

Disc Jam

Dead & Co

Mountain Jam

Imagine Dragons

Steely Dan & Doobie Bros

John Butler Trio

John Fogerty

LOCKN

LOCKN 2018

Outlaw Fest - Neil Young & Willie Nelson

Hot Tuna

Disc Horror

Disco Biscuits

Greensky Bluegrass

Umphrey McGee

Galactic

Railroad Earth

Candlebox

Disc Jam

TTB

Train/Goo Goo Dolls

AIC

Beck

LOCKN

LOCKN 2019 recap

Lynard Skynard & Doobie Brothers

Peter Frampton

Five of Seven (Jimmy Herring)

DSO

DSO

moe

Dweezil Zappa

Peach Music Festival

• Kitty Carlisle Hart Theatre:
• 982
• Lewis A. Swyer Theatre:
• 450

• 20,000 (typical July 4th fireworks attendance)
• The free concerts draw from 1,000 to 5,000
• ESP holds shows outdoors on the Plaza
• or indoors at the convention hall
• ESP is also home of the Egg
• Egg and ESP shows are unrelated