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.
Lamb of God / Trivium / Machine Head / Gojira at Northern Lights — March 24, 2007
A brutal metal bill at Northern Lights: Lamb of God, Trivium, Machine Head, and Gojira — four of the biggest names in modern metal.
Metallica (w/ Queensryche) at RPI Field House — March 15, 1989
Metallica on the Damaged Justice tour with Queensryche opening (on the Operation: Mindcrime tour) at RPI Field House. Two of the greatest metal albums of the ’80s represented on one…
Metallica (w/ Queensryche) at Onondaga War Memorial (now Upstate Medical Arena) — March 18, 1989
The final stop on Metallica’s legendary March 1989 upstate New York blitz: Syracuse’s Onondaga War Memorial on March 18. Five upstate cities, five nights of Metallica and Queensryche.
Metallica (w/ Queensryche) at Memorial Auditorium — March 13, 1989
Metallica’s Damaged Justice tour hit Buffalo’s legendary Memorial Auditorium on March 13, 1989. The Aud — the same room where Frank Sinatra recorded a live album, where the Grateful Dead…
Metallica (w/ Queensryche) at Rochester Community War Memorial — March 7, 1989
Metallica’s Damaged Justice tour tore through Rochester’s War Memorial on March 7, 1989 — part of an incredible upstate New York run that also hit Binghamton (March 5), Buffalo (March…