05/07/1999 Staind (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)
Friday, May 7th, 1999This was the first time seeing Staind while actually knowing all the songs, and hands down it’s still my favorite Staind show. I was on the Staind bandwagon fairly early. Between seeing them open for Limp Bizkit (which I didn’t really remember), seeing them open for Kid Rock a month before this, and then buying […]
05/01/1999 Sugar Ray, Orgy, Run-DMC (Buffalo, NY @ SUNY Buffalo)
Saturday, May 1st, 1999This was a free show put on by UB, and was actually part of the MTV campus invasion tour. Needless to say, there were TONS of people packed into Baird Point. Sara, Danielle, Mary and I waited in what seemed like the longest line ever to get through metal detectors, but then A) I found […]
04/09/1999 Moxy Fruvous, The Push Stars (Rochester, NY @ RIT Clark Gym)
Friday, April 9th, 1999This started the string of mediocre or worse RIT concerts. The Push Stars were okay, light rock, but every song sounded the same. Chris Trapper was the main guy in this band, and apparently has a decent solo career. Moxy Fruvous was entertaining, but I think they probably worked way better as a lawn concert, […]
04/01/1999 Vanilla Ice, Dial 7, Skarhead (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Thursday, April 1st, 1999Of any of the concerts I’ve attended, this one ranks right up there for the “you saw WHO???” reaction. Couldn’t have happened on a better day either. April Fools Day! The genesis of attending this goes back to early in my freshman year of college. A buddy of mine called me into his room, plays […]
03/27/1999 Econoline Crush, God’s Children (Buffalo, NY @ The Tralf)
Saturday, March 27th, 1999I don’t recall a ton about this show, other than to say that this started Mary’s love of Trevor. I know we got in quite early and were no more than 2 feet away from the band all night. The band played all but one off of The Devil You Know, “Wicked” from Affliction, and […]
03/21/1999 Kid Rock, Staind (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Sunday, March 21st, 1999We knew the show was happening, but weren’t really planning on going as it was a Sunday night. Kid Rock did a signing at the House of Guitars earlier in the day, so I went for the hell of it, and got a pretty sweet personalized autographed poster. Considering it was only 8 bucks a […]
01/21/1999 Fuel, Velour (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Thursday, January 21st, 1999Ahh yes, the show that it feels like all of RIT attended. Everytime I talk to someone that’s into music that was in our incoming freshman class, I swear they all say they were at this show. This also marked the first time we’d come across our nemesis opening band… Velour. A local Buffalo band […]
11/27/1998 Deftones, Quicksand, Snapcase (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Friday, November 27th, 1998This remains one of my favorite all-time shows. Came back to school the day after Thanksgiving, mostly for this, but also to move my stuff into my new dorm room (At RIT, Gleason Hall had just finished renovations, so all of us Fish Hall residents got transferred). I met up with my fellow dorm-dweller Dave […]
10/09/1998 Reel Big Fish, Spring Heeled Jack USA, Frenzal Rhomb (Rochester, NY @ RIT Clark Gym)
Friday, October 9th, 1998The first of many “ehh, okay” shows that RIT would bring over my college years. Not being all that into pop-punk or ska, this was a “go just to go” type of concert. As we’d quickly find out every band that ever came to RIT was wont to do, Frenzal Rhomb kept making the interpreter […]
09/29/1998 Fuel, Ednaswap (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)
Tuesday, September 29th, 1998[There’s a Buffalo News article that also mentions Ruth Ruth, but I have zero recollection of that band at all.] The backstory and personal anecdotes for this show far, far, far outweigh the actual show and review. The nutshell version goes a little something like this: At this particular time, I’m still playing “trade petty […]
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