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Before they were big. Take a look back at Bob Dylan in a Saratoga Café, Bruce Springsteen at Union College and Led Zeppelin in Schenectady to name a few.

Capital Region native David J announced his first ever headline tour on Monday. David will play a total of 13 shows in April, including a stop here in Albany!

The official video for Whitney Houston's song, Didn't We Almost Have It All, was filmed at this Upstate New York concert venue.

Mayfest at SUNY Albany, SUNYA, Albany State or whatever else they had students call the school in those days, was one of the best college events on the campus. In the days, before uptight administrators and faculty took "learning how to have fun responsibly" out of the college curriculum, events like Mayfest and Fountain Day put that college campus, sandwiched between Washington and Western Avenues, on the map.

Sneak in a VHS camcorder and try not to get caught, that's the way we bootlegged in the 90's. Luckily for our viewing pleasure, quite a few people did just that at some Albany shows.

On Friday, the Nassau Coliseum turns 50 years-old. Every major musician from Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Paul McCartney, to Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, U2, Matallica, Billy Joel and some form of the Grateful Dead 44 different times, targeted a concert run at the Nassau Coliseum. It's an intimate venue to play with 14,000 of your best friends.