Grateful Dead at Rochester War Memorial — April 16, 1984
The Police at Carrier Dome, Syracuse — April 16, 1982

The Police brought the Ghost in the Machine Tour to the Carrier Dome with staggering numbers: 32,396 tickets sold for a gross of $320,970 — the highest single-show gross of that entire tour leg. Black Uhuru opened. The band brought a horn section called The Chops to replicate the brass-heavy sound of Ghost in the […]
Todd Rundgren at JB Scott’s — April 16, 1982
38 Special at Landmark Theatre — April 16, 1981
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Grateful Dead at Rochester War Memorial — April 15, 1983
Aretha Franklin at SUNY Albany — April 15, 1972

The Queen of Soul was riding one of the most creatively fertile stretches of her career. Three months earlier, she had recorded Amazing Grace over two nights in Los Angeles — a live gospel album that would sell over two million copies and become the best-selling gospel record ever. By the time she hit SUNY […]