Ozzy Osbourne at Rochester War Memorial — April 10, 1982
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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 […]
Grateful Dead at Onondaga War Memorial — April 8, 1982
The Dead brought their spring 1982 East Coast tour to the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse — a mid-sized arena that fit the band’s early-’80s circuit perfectly. This was the Garcia-in-transition era: between studio albums, keeping the flame alive through live performance. The second set opened with a Playin’ in the Band, wove through Uncle […]