Ramones at Skidmore College — April 18, 1982
Deep Purple at Rochester War Memorial — April 18, 1987
The Smashing Pumpkins at SUNY Albany — April 18, 1994
Bob Dylan at SUNY Albany — April 18, 1997
Deep in the Never Ending Tour, and critically, five months before Time Out of Mind would drop — the album that won Album of the Year at the Grammys and revived Dylan’s commercial relevance. At the RACC on the SUNY Albany campus, Dylan opened with “Down in the Flood” and closed the encore with “Rainy […]
Ben Folds Five at Palace Theatre — April 18, 2000
Elton John at War Memorial at OnCenter — April 18, 2000
Elton John brought his solo piano show to the War Memorial at OnCenter — just Elton and the keys, no band. The setlist drew from across his catalog: “Your Song,” “Daniel,” “Candle in the Wind,” “Bennie and the Jets,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.” A soundboard recording of this Syracuse performance survives and circulates […]