Elton John & Billy Joel at Pepsi Arena — April 24, 2003
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals at Palace Theatre — April 24, 2001
Stone Temple Pilots at Onondaga War Memorial — April 24, 1997
Rush at Palace Theatre — April 24, 1977
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart at Palace Theatre — April 24, 1975
This was the Bongo Fury Tour — Captain Beefheart’s only tour with Zappa’s band, undertaken partly to help Beefheart through a period of contractual disputes. The lineup included George Duke on keyboards, Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax, Terry Bozzio on drums, and the Fowler brothers. The live tracks on the Bongo Fury album were recorded […]
Pharoah Sanders at SUNY Albany — April 24, 1971
Stone Temple Pilots in the spring of 1997 were a band caught between creative ambition and personal chaos — which, for STP, was always where the best music lived. Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop had pushed the band’s sound in unexpected directions: Beatles-influenced pop melodies, bossa nova rhythms, psychedelic textures that proved […]
Rush at Onondaga War Memorial — April 23, 1977
Alice Cooper at Rochester War Memorial — April 23, 1972
Alice Cooper was at the peak of shock-rock notoriety on the Killer Tour — boa constrictor, gallows, fake blood, and baby-doll dismemberment. The setlist included “I’m Eighteen,” “Under My Wheels,” “Be My Lover,” and “Dead Babies,” plus a preview of “School’s Out” months before the single would hit No. 7 in the U.S. that summer. […]