My favorite concerts.......

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Buffalo's 97 Rock is doing a countdown of the top 100 concerts in the Buffalo area this week. Sadly, I missed many of them. View the countdown on their web site.

I really should make a scrapbook of all the programs and ticket stubs of all the concerts I've been to. Here's what sticks out in my mind (in no particular order, other than chronological):

* Asia (with opening act Chris DeBurgh) at the Aud, 1983. My first concert, not counting when Buddy Rich and Maynard Ferguson played at my high school.
* Frank Zappa, Shea's Buffalo, 1986.
* Peter Gabriel, UB Alumni Arena, 1986.
* George Carlin, Melody Fair, 1988. "Dukakis: sounds like a disease. He's got Dukakis!"
* Emerson Lake & Palmer (Black Moon tour), Riverbend Music Center?, 1990?.
* Yes (Union tour), Ervin J. Nutter Center and Cincinnati Arena, 1991?.
* Styx and Kansas, Riverbend Music Center, 1994?.
* Billy Joel & Elton John, OSU Stadium, 1994. Some young women, tired of the lines for the womens' room, used the mens' room to pee.
* Pat Metheny (Imaginary Day tour), Fraze Pavilion, 1997?.
* The Rippingtons, Fraze Pavilion, 1998?.
* John Tesh, Fraze Pavcilion, 1998? It was cold that night.
* Spyro Gyra, Fraze Pavilion, 1998?.

And one I wish I went to:
* Rush (with opening act Marillion), 1983.