Personal Concert History - 2000s


2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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2000

date venueact companions
Jul 27 Corning Preserve,
Albany NY		 LoverBoy Mila
Aug 14 SPAC

Counting Crows

Live

 Mila

  • Really like both bands;
  • should have been inside;
  • watched from lawn seats
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2001

date venueact companions
Jun 8 SPAC

Aerosmith

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2002

date venueact companions
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2003

date venueact companions
Jul 12TUC

Styx

REO Journey
Aug 13ESP NRBQ,

Eric Burdon

, Burners UK
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2004

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2005

date venueact companions
Apr 14 Northern Lights

Collective Soul

 Chuck Rossbach
Jul 29 Pepsi Arena

3 Doors Down

Staind , Breaking Benjamin		 Clare Gaffey and Christina

  • First big concert with Clare
  • got up to front of stage at 17,000 seat arena
  • a little tight but fun time at a good show
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2006

date venueact companions
Jun 18 SPAC With Teeth tour Set List

Nine Inch Nails



TV on the Radio, Bahaus 		Tommy Zebrowski

  • Awesome concert, front seat balcony next to go go dancers
  • Just like his music is sonically different Trent's stage show was unique
  • Trent played behind store front security caging for pretty cool effect
Jun 22 Palace

Train

 Mila and Clare
Oct 21 Pepsi Arena

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

 Tom Zebrowski
Oct 29 Armory (Albany)

Alice In Chains

 Tom Zebrowski

Nov 25 Palace

Goo Goo Dolls

 Rachel

First big show with younger daughter Rachel
  • These old time Loews movie theater
    1. Palace Theater Albany
    2. Proctors Theater Schenectady
    3. Stanley Theater Utica
    4. Landmark Theater Syracuse
  • provide nice venues for acoustic, melodic, good vocalists acts like
  • Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, GooGoo Dolls, (early) Train , Melissa Etheridge, ..
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2007

date venueact companions
Apr 25 The Egg

Medeski, Martin and Wood

 Mark Abramson, OSC Coworker
Jun 27 Northern Lights Ted Nugent Tom Zebrowski
Aug 5 SPAC

Allman Brothers

 Tom Zebrowski
Aug 23 SPAC

Velvet Revolver

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Alice In Chains

 Tom Zebrowski

  • Really impressed with VR
  • each member of the band is a bonafide rock star
  • Wish I would have seen Scott Weiland with Stone Temple Pilots
  • Love his voice and he knows how to work the stage
  • just like Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Gordy (Tragically Hip)
Oct 19 Palace

Charlie Daniels Band

 Dean Funicello
Nov 10 Northern Lights

Chris Cornell

(Soundgarden lead singer) 		Dean Funicello
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2008

date venueact companions
Mar 21 Northern Lights

Third Eye Blind

 Mila and Clare
Apr 6 Palace

Widespread Panic

stream
Jul 16 ESP

Robert Randolph Family Band


NYS Food Festival ; 		Matt Zemeck
Free Show
The Band wailed some Hendrix - great show
Aug 1 SPAC

The Police

 Mila, Clare and Rachel
Aug 20 Northern Lights

Ted Nugent

Tom Zebrowski
(saw Ted at least 3 times at this venue)
Nov 5 Egg

David Byrne

 Hal Sossner

  • I attended as Hal's guest
  • Of course it was all Talking Heads material
  • What a great show
  • Thanks Hal.
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2009

date venueact companions
Mar 12 Egg http://www.bandsintown.com/event/1345610-george-thorogood-albany-the-egg-2009?artist=George+Thorogood&came_from=178

George Thorogood
May 13 Armory

Lamb of God

 Tom Zebrowski
Jun 9 Palace

Eddie Vedder

setlist 		Tom Zebrowski
Jul 27 SPAC

Cold Play

setlist 		Mila, Rachel and Clare
Aug 4 Palace

Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa

setlist 		Fun Concert.
They played the complete Apostrohe album.
Aug 26 Bethel Woods

40th Anniversary Tour for Allman Brothers

Widespread Panic

 		Hal Sossner, DMD

  • Two of the best guitar players alive -
    • Jim Herring, Widespread Panic and
    • Dereck Trucks, Allman Brothers.
Long, curvy ride home to Albany. Glad Hal was driving
  • Widespread Panic 08/26/09
  • Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel Woods, NY
  • 0: Let’s Get The Show On The Road, Love Tractor, Pickin’ Up The Pieces, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Party At Your Mama’s House > Ribs And Whiskey, Greta, Papa’s Home* > Drums > Papa’s Home*, Red Hot Mama**, Chainsaw City**, Imitation Leather Shoes
  • * with Danny Louis on keyboards
  • ** with Warren Haynes on guitar
Sep 27 The Egg

Robin Trower
Oct 15 The Egg

The Tragically Hip

Gordie is the consummate showman
and this was a comfortable venue to watch him work
Nov 1 Revolution Hall

Vertical Horizon

Clare and Rachel
Nov 12 TUC

Metallica

Lamb of God		Tom Zebrowski

Plenty of scary looking people at this show
The kind you wouldn't want to see in a dark alley
Moshers on the floor were seriously trying to hurt each other
Nov 19 Northern Lights

Joe Perry


 Tom Zebrowski

at this time Aerosmith was broken up due to Tyler's injury
Joe used a German kid to sing Steve Tyler - not bad, but not Steve

Note: I also saw Joe Perry Project show sometime in late 70s or early 80s in Utica or Syracuse.