• My first big concert
• I went to this show to see CDB;
• I wore out the Fire on the Mountain album grooving on songs
• Caballo Diablo
• Long Haired Country Boy
• The South's Gonna Do It
• Orange Blossom Special
• Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way was cool
• REO was alright

Frank Zappa

Santana

Stephen Stills

Great American Music Festival

Rod Stewart and Faces

Rush, Kiss and Black Sabbath

Peter Frampton

Todd Rundgren

Electric Light Orchestra

Boston

Genesis

Animals Tour

Pink Floyd

• We initially headed north on 45 from Houston
• unfortunately Galveston is south of Houston
• We missed first part of show.
• Good show, great video and props (flying pig)
• Outdoor venue, Weather was good for the show but pouring rain on way home
• Saw VW Beetle spin out next to me on the 610 loop, a six lane highway

Song Remains the Same Tour

Led Zeppelin

• sold out; we snuck in when somebody popped a door;
• ran straight into Women's Room;
• It was general admission so no problem finding a seat (in the concert hall) enjoyed the show.

Aerosmith

Nazareth

Alice Cooper

• This was a special show for me
  • Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies was my first record album I bought it in Summer of 1973; I was 14 years old
  • as of this cocert date I had lived in Houston TX area for about half a year;
  • it was my first time away from home
  • My brother came to visit me
  Al had just flown out from my hometown, Rome NY.
• I worked in Houston and Lake Charles (Holly Beach) LA painting oil tanks for Chicago Bridge and Iron (CBI).
• I worked for Jim Webster who had migrated to TX from NY several years earlier.
• My family knew Jim's wife Fran, she was my former babysitter
• The CBI crew I worked with was out of Chicago - Mel and a couple of other guys
• We all went to the show in a van
• No trouble but many LA State Police inside the concert venue
• Maybe they were afraid Alice would start a zombie apocalypse.

Yes

Bob Seger

J. Geils Band/

Jethro Tull

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

• rode from Rochester to Syracuse with
• David Rybicky , Bill Caprice
• met a friend from SU
• slept well on the ride home

Genesis

The third stadium show on the Rolling Stones 1978 US tour was the US Independence Holiday show on the fourth of July. 
The Rolling Stones played to a sold-out 80,000 fans on 7-4-78, at Rich Stadium, Buffalo, New York. 
This was the best stadium show of the entire tour. The Rolling Stones played with ferocity and intensity–they just amazed the audience,
 despite the fact that they played very few of the crowd-pleasing stadium classics. But when the Rolling Stones refused to do an encore,
 the fans became aggressive and hostile. This was the rowdiest, most dangerous crowd of the entire tour 
(Mick Jagger asked the crowd to please not throw bottles at Keith as he sung "Happy"-- things were that wild)
 it was the fourth of July and they were very drunk, very loud, very rowdy, and when the Rolling Stones would not return to the stage
 to do an encore, they trashed the stage with garbage, beer bottles, and anything else that wasn’t nailed down. 
They tore down the mouth and tongue stage and almost destroyed it. 

Bruce Springsteen

• Darkness on Edge of Town
• album released several months prior to this show
• seven of the first nine songs were from this new album
• Great show, a lot of energy, you could tell Bruce was trying as hard as he could to please.
• Bruce fell (jumped?) off stage at one point and didn't get back up for about a minute
• probably a staged move but it added a bit more drama to the event.

Ted Nugent

J Geils

Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes

Rick Derringer

• Venue is about size of high school gynasium
• Sound man thought they were playing Rich Stadium
• Painfully loud concert experience

The Marshall Tucker Band

The Cars