There were great concerts thrown in the Buffalo Bills stadium because they would never stop selling tickets. Some were 100K or better since the field and seats were filled. This would attract a lot of big names that wouldn't come to the inside arenas there. My favorite concert there was a front band, then 2 hours of Santana, then 4 hours of Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young on a pretty 80* summer afternoon. I can still visualize the pretty lady swaying to Santana song in a sun dress they had on the jumbo-tron....

The other rock concert was at the Syracuse St. Fair grounds around Sept. '75. Missed the first band, then New Riders of the Purple Sage, the first tour of Jefferson Starship, America, Doobie Brothers, then the Beach Boys. The major issue is it went from a pretty 70* afternoon, to rain and 40* by the time the Beach Boys finished.

On the other end of the spectrum, I'm an old trumpet player/ big band fan. One of the top horn players (Maynard Ferguson) from the 40's-60's made a comeback in the 70's with a rock / fuzion jazz band. I saw him and a 18 piece band in a 1000 person night club. They did their signature finale of repeating a 16 bar theme for the big song of the tour - Macarthur Park this time, Hey Jude was another tour. The entire sax, trombone, trumpet sections would walk out in the crowd and play call and answer with Ferguson on stage. It was way cool to hear the first horn screaming above high C right behind your seat.

Great music is really inspiring.

Chuck