Iron Maiden at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium — April 10, 1987
Motley Crue at Broome County Arena — April 10, 1990
Motley Crue at Knickerbocker Arena — April 11, 1990
Judas Priest at Onondaga War Memorial — April 4, 1984
L.A. Guns at Saratoga Winners — April 4, 1990
Ozzy Osbourne at Glens Falls Civic Center — April 5, 1983
Metallica at Pepsi Arena — April 6, 1997
Metallica rolled into Albany’s Pepsi Arena on the Poor Touring Me tour behind their polarizing 1996 album Load — shorter haircuts, bluesier riffs, and a fanbase still adjusting. Corrosion of Conformity opened. The 18-song set leaned hard on the new material but still delivered the classics: “Creeping Death” opened the night, “Master of Puppets” anchored […]
Ozzy Osbourne at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium — April 9, 1982
Randy Rhoads had been killed in a tour bus plane crash just three weeks earlier, on March 19, 1982. After a two-week pause, Sharon Osbourne restarted the Diary of a Madman tour on April 1 with ex-Gillan guitarist Bernie Torme filling in on an emergency basis. The Buffalo show was just Torme’s sixth gig with […]
Judas Priest (w/ Great White) at Glens Falls Civic Center — March 27, 1984
Judas Priest on the Metal Conqueror tour with Great White opening at the Glens Falls Civic Center. The Metal Gods in Glens Falls.
Avenged Sevenfold / Bullet for My Valentine / Atreyu at Washington Avenue Armory — March 22, 2008
Taste of Chaos 2008 at the Washington Avenue Armory — Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine, and Atreyu on one bill.