Blossom Music Center's 10 most memorable concerts
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Pearl Jam circa 1992. Photo: Ebet Roberts/Redferns via Getty Images
This is the busiest summer at Blossom Music Center since the glory days of the 1980s, which is saying something for a venue that's hosted a who's who of music legends.
The intrigue: We're counting down the greatest concerts since Blossom began hosting rock and pop shows in 1968.
- Some set records, while others gave us one-in-a-lifetime reunions. Yet, they were all unforgettable.
No. 10: Future & Migos
On May 27, 2017, hip-hop acts Future and Migos drew nearly 20,000 people to Blossom, including LeBron James and members of the defending-champion Cavaliers.
No. 9: Lollapalooza '92
On July 29, 1992, the second installment of the Lollapalooza festival returned to Blossom Music Center for a muddy mess of a show.
No. 8: Blood, Sweat & Tears
Traffic woes at Blossom Music Center have long been documented — but Blood, Sweat & Tears' record-setting 1969 concert was on a whole different level.
No. 7: Green Day
The pop-punk band's popularity was at a fever pitch when the band arrived at Blossom Music Center on Sept. 10, 1994.
No. 6: Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell tour stop at Blossom Music Center on Sept. 6, 1978, was a celebration of Cleveland music history.
No. 5: Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin brought 1960s counterculture to Northeast less than two weeks after the Woodstock Festival.
No. 4: Pink Floyd
The frenzy surrounding Pink Floyd during the 1970s was perhaps never more apparent than the band's June 24, 1973, concert at Blossom Music Center.
No. 3: Lollapalooza 1991
Blossom Music Center had never seen anything like Lollapalooza when the inaugural touring festival pulled into Cuyahoga Falls on Aug. 5, 1991.
No. 2: Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails' reunion at Blossom Music Center on Sept. 24, 2022, was a landmark moment for a band founded in Cleveland more than three decades prior.
No. 1: Michael Stanley Band
In August 1982, Michael Stanley Band put on four concerts in six days, drawing an unprecedented 74,000-plus people to Cuyahoga Falls.