03/24/2000 Korn, Staind, Mindless Self Indulgence (Buffalo, NY @ Marine Midland Arena)
By Eric | March 24, 2000 11:59 pm
We had a pretty big group that headed down for this show, as Staind were starting to get big, and Korn was at the height of their powers on Issues. They called it the Sick and Twisted Tour, and I remember walking in half-way through Mindless Self Indulgence’s set, and being glad it wasn’t the whole thing, because I thought they were awful. Now granted, we were there for them as big fans, but Staind played an amazing show; obviously a bit too short for my liking. Aaron came out into the middle of the pit for Mudshovel. After waiting almost an hour, Korn came out and played a 22-song set, which made all of us happy. They ran through all the old favorites, naturally saving Blind for last. Not necessarily related to the show, but we got back home (to NT. thankfully) pretty late, and then woke up early the next morning to get to the Boulevard Mall to get tickets for the Toronto NIN show. Pics thanks to Mike Majewski.
Likely Staind setlist:
1. Raw
2. A Flat
3. Suffocate
4. Just Go
5. Crawl
6. Home
7. Spleen
8. Mudshovel
Korn setlist:
Falling Away From Me
It’s On!
Got The Life
Ball Tongue
Lodi Dodi
Twist
A.D.I.D.A.S.
Good God
Trash
Clown
It’s Gonna Go Away
Shoots and Ladders
Justin
Freak On A Leash
Let’s Get This Party Started
Make Me Bad
Dead Bodies Everywhere
Somebody Someone
Faget
Kill You
Encore:
4 U,
Blind.
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03/17/2000 Snapcase, Boysetsfire, Turmoil, Bughouse (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
By Eric | March 17, 2000 11:59 pm
Not that I was ever the biggest hardcore fan, but I knew enough to go see Snapcase when they came down the Thruway. It was only $10 to get in, and it’s not like we could legally drink in the bars yet, so it being St. Patrick’s Day didn’t matter much (we celebrated that later at the apartment, which is a whole other story). Rafal joined Mary and I for this one, and for our $10 we got to see four bands, not a bad deal.
Bughouse was a local Rochester band, and I recall not being into their set at all. Turmoil was a hardcore band from Philly, and the only thing I remember about them is what I said at the time, that the lead singer looked like he was straight out of a Abercrombie ad. Boysetsfire was decent (we didn’t really know anything about them either), and Snapcase played a great set. A lot of new stuff from the two-month old Designs for Automotion, but mixed in quite a bit of the old as well.
No clue on the exact setlist, but I Found some setlists from a month prior that were probably quite close to what we saw:
Energy Dome
Cognition
Caboose
Bleeding Orange
She Suffocates
Zombie Prescription
Ambition Now
Typecast Modulator
Incarnation
Target
Steps
Looking Glass Self
Harrison Bergeron
Drain Me
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02/19/2000 Chris Cornell (Rochester, NY @ Harro East Ballroom)
By Eric | February 19, 2000 11:59 pm
[Original post]
Mary was even more excited than me about this one… CC played an amazing set, almost everything off of Euphoria Morning, Sunshower, Seasons, Fell on Black Days, Like Suicide, Boot Camp, and even All Night Thing! Some dude with an amazing Badmotorfinger tattoo proposed to his girlfriend, and CC invited them backstage after the show…
[August 2013 re-visit]
This was the first time I’d been to Harro East for a show, and it was a great place for a show like this. I can’t remember if there even was an opener that we missed, or it was just CC. I do remember we got very close to the barrier, maybe a person or two back. It certainly was an amazing set, Chris was backed up by the members of the band Eleven (same as on Euphoria Morning). Definitely awesome to see/hear the (until then) non-album CC solo stuff (Seasons, Sunshower), a little Temple of the Dog (All Night Thing), and a little Soundgarden thrown in too (FOBD, Boot Camp, Like Suicide). I distinctly remember the guy proposing to his girlfriend, because I had seen him and noticed his tattoo earlier in the night. Wonder how the two of them are doing 13 years on?!
Digging around on setlist.fm it looks like all of the solo headlining shows had the same setlist, so I’m fairly confident this is what we saw:
Sunshower
Can’t Change Me
Flutter Girl
Mission
Preaching the End of the World
Seasons
When I’m Down
Pillow of Your Bones
Fell on Black Days
Boot Camp
Moonchild
Sweet Euphoria
Like Suicide
Follow My Way
Encore:
All Night Thing
Steel Rain
I’m a little bummed these are the only two pictures we took, but it’s something!
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02/01/2000 Our Lady Peace, Stereophonics (Toronto, ONT @ Air Canada Center)
By Eric | February 1, 2000 11:59 pm
I recall being super hyped for this show, especially after all of the stories about the Maple Leaf Gardens show in 1997. Mary and I drove into Buffalo and picked up our Clumsy Congress friend Niki, and headed up to Toronto. We got to the arena way, way, way too early, finally got in and ran to the barrier. The Stereophonics didn’t leave much of an impression on us, being terribly impatient for OLP.
And once OLP came out, the crowd went nuts, as they opened with Dirty Walls! From then on though, I felt like it could have been any show, anywhere. Not necessarily a homecoming show. The band looked good, sounded good, the crowd was into it, but being in Toronto, we certainly thought there’d be something more special, or different tunes, just… something. For instance, the aforementioned MLG show had a very cool piano version of Julia that had never been played before or since, and I think we were hoping for something similar. Instead, we got what was essentially the standard issue Happiness-era show, which again, was good, but it wasn’t GREAT. Then to top it off, after dropping Niki off back in Buffalo, we hit some of the worst blizzard-like weather on the Thruway in Batavia I’ve ever driven through. The trusty Escort made it however, and we lived to attend more concerts!
Setlist:
Dirty Walls
Birdman
Automatic Flowers
One Man Army
Potato Girl
Thief
4am
Naveed
Carnival
Stealing Babies
Clumsy
Blister
Teardrop (Massive Attack) / Hope
Starseed
Is Anybody Home?
Superman’s Dead
Pics thanks to Rich and Shelly’s OLP site.
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12/20/1999 Splender, 5head (Rochester, NY @ Milestones)
By Eric | December 20, 1999 11:59 pm
Much like with the Watchmen, after seeing Splender at Edgefest and buying the CD, we got to see them in a tiny club in Rochester. This was a charity show as well; we brought a couple cans of soup for the food bank. Local ska-ish band 5head was on first, and they put on an energetic set. A good primer for the night.
Splender came out and played a great show, played just about everything off of Halfway Down The Sky, and presumably sounded good doing it. I say presumably, because this was the wrong show to forget wearing earplugs to. They were way, way, way too loud. We could barely hear Waymon Boone’s vocals over the guitars. Otherwise it was great time, and we even got to meet the band after the show. They came out, I got the CD signed, and one of the guys in the band remarked “I saw you singing everything, even ‘Cigarette’!! No one knows that song!”. So that was a nice little ego trip to cap off the night haha.
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12/07/1999 Oleander, Staind, Shelia Divine (Buffalo, NY @ Sideshow Music Hall)
By Eric | December 7, 1999 11:59 pm
Two Edge charity shows in a row! This show was roughly a month after the infamous OLP “turkey show”, and while there was a donation involved with getting these tickets as well, the story wasn’t nearly as involved… Mary and I simply donated to Toys for Tots and got our tickets that way. This show was also the first time we’d seen Staind since meeting them outside of Showplace that prior May. As if that “meeting the band” experience wasn’t cool enough, this time we got there pretty early, and along with maybe one or two other people chatted with Aaron Lewis for a good 20 minutes or so, even walking to the convenience store across the street from the venue with him! Staind still wasn’t huge yet (they’d played Family Values 1999, but Outside hadn’t been released yet), so that sort of thing could still happen!
Once inside, we got through the Shelia Devine (I was never really a fan of them), and then it was time for Staind. I recall them playing everything off of Dysfunction, and just generally sounding great. We were right at the barrier so we got some great pictures as well as generally going nuts. There were plenty more people there to see Staind this time around than at Showplace, so that made for a better atmosphere as well.
The night’s headliner was Oleander, and we were pretty excited to see them for a full set, up close and personal, versus the huge stage playing 5 songs to people that couldn’t care less as the first opener on the Creed/OLP tour that we saw in Syracuse. I have no idea on the setlist, but I’m guessing it was probably all of February Son. Guitarist/lead singer Tom Flowers played the intro to I Walk Alone while he was literally inches from our faces, as we’d been singing along all night. That helped out later, after the set, as we got recognized, chatted with and got autographs from Doug (the bass player) and Rick (the guitarist). Another super fun show in an era full of them!
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11/17/1999 Our Lady Peace, Velour (Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theater)
By Eric | November 17, 1999 11:59 pm
This show is one of my all-time favorite concert stories, and it has much more to do with obtaining the tickets, rather than the show itself. And the show was nothing to sneeze at!
So in order to get tickets to this one, the Edge was asking people donate turkeys to the food pantry by taking them to a “secret” location, which was announced right when the ticket giveaway started. Mary and I bought two frozen turkeys the night before, and so I had two turkeys (two tickets) in the trunk, and drove into Buffalo at like 8 in morning from Rochester… only have the DJ’s be bastards and tell us they’d announce the location at 1pm! AARGH! (Thank God it was a day with no classes!) I milled around town for a couple hours, and then went to my strategic starting point, the Wegmans parking lot on Amherst St. in Buffalo. Close to the 198, so I could hit either the 90 or the 190 in a quick hurry. So they announce that the turkeys would be collected at… Delaware Park, on the corner of Parkside and the 198! SCORE! I seriously couldn’t have been any closer. I rushed over and got my tickets, I think I was the 6th or 7th person there.
Fast forward three days. The show rolls around, we get there super early and got to talk to Jamie Edwards (the touring guitar/keyboard player) for a good long time, and then Raine parks his BMW right behind my car (adorned with 2 or 3 OLP stickers at the time, mind you)!! I was getting something out of the car, and he walks by, and I’m like “Hey Raine, what’s up?”. So that was something new, and I can’t say that anything like that has happened to me since! So we finally get inside, get a barrier spot, and watch a great show… We got to hear a couple more of the tunes off of Happiness live (we’d seen OLP open for Creed about a month before in Syracuse) Raine was a little sick, so the set was a touch short, but the band sounded great, and to see OLP at a place that small at that point in time (little did we know about the Tralf two years later) was like a jackpot for us. Our favorite concert nemesis Velour actually went on *after* OLP, so we heard half of one song and split.
Setlist:
Happiness & the Fish
Naveed
Superman’s Dead
Automatic Flowers
Potato Girl
Is Anybody Home?
The Birdman
Blister
Consequence of Laughing
Lying Awake
Starseed
One Man Army
Clumsy
4am
Stealing Babies
Encore:
Waited
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10/08/1999 Creed, Our Lady Peace, Oleander (Syracuse, NY @ The OnCenter)
By Eric | October 8, 1999 11:59 pm
This show was a huge triple threat for us at the time. Mary and I were nuts for OLP, we really liked the Oleander album a lot, and Creed had just put out Human Clay and were one of the biggest bands in the country (and Scott Stapp hadn’t alienated everyone yet!). As college students with favorable class schedules, we got to the arena around 3:30 in the afternoon to try and meet the bands. And meet the bands we did! Tom Flowers, the lead singer of Oleander walked past us a couple of times, and we didn’t realize it was him because he looked nothing like the picture in the February Son liner notes! We met Rick and Doug from Oleander a bit later and when we asked them to apologize for us, they chuckled, saying the record company actually made them re-shoot some promo photos because of it! They also hooked us up with a couple of stickers, so that was pretty cool. We met everyone from OLP, spending the most time with Mike Turner, especially talking about the Clumsy Congress, but all of the guys were fantastically nice to us. We even met the Creed guys for half a second, Mark Tremonti was probably the nicest of the bunch. I also remember them all wearing these really nifty Maple Leafs varsity jackets.
So the show! We finally got inside, and I don’t think we ever went to our real seats (probably 15-20 rows back I think). I’ve never been fond of seats on the floor at an arena, but Syracuse has a law regarding it. We were pretty far back for Oleander’s set, which was about half of the album. Enjoyed it, but not as much as we would have up front. Given other setlists from this tour we most likely saw Where Were You Then?, Shrinking the Blob, Stupid, I Walk Alone, Why I’m Here, Down When I’m Loaded.
For OLP, we’d be a little more determined, and somehow, some way, we managed to get to the front barrier as OLP started (I still don’t know how we did it) for our first live glimpse of some of the Happiness songs. We had our usual raucous time up front, and got some good pictures.
OLP Setlist:
Automatic Flowers
Is Anybody Home?
Superman’s Dead
Waited
Lying Awake
Naveed
Clumsy
Stealing Babies
One Man Army
Starseed
We ended up milling around the arena, bouncing from row to row for Creed (there was no way we’d get barrier again, they started cracking down for the headliner!). They sounded really, really good, and we had a great time during their set. They played a lot of the “rock” songs still, without getting too bogged down in the sappy ballads until the end. It was a pretty decent mix of old and new songs as well.
Are You Ready?
Ode
Torn
Beautiful
Illusion
Say I
Wrong Way
My Own Prison
Wash Away Those Years
Unforgiven
What If
With Arms Wide Open
Faceless Man
What’s This Life For?
Encore:
One
Higher
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10/01/1999 The Watchmen, Caroline’s Spine (Rochester, NY @ Milestones)
By Eric | October 1, 1999 11:59 pm
After seeing them at Edgefest, and subsequently obtaining Silent Radar, Mary and I figured we should probably go see The Watchmen since they were playing a tiny place in Rochester. Starting things off, Caroline’s Spine impressed the hell out out of us! We had never even heard of them, and we were captivated for their whole set. “Attention Please” had only been released for about two months, so I’d imagine the set was heavy on those tunes. Then The Watchmen played an amazing show, and despite only knowing the Silent Radar songs, we had a great time. Brighter Hell was definitely a highlight, and they closed with Stereo.
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08/29/1999 103.3 WEDG Edgefest: Econoline Crush, Splender, The Watchmen, Showoff, Shades Apart (Buffalo, NY @ LaSalle Park)
By Eric | August 29, 1999 11:59 pm
Ahh, the illustrious Buffalo Edgefest. For a couple years, LaSalle Park was the place to be every summer, as the Edge would usually get at least a couple bands I’d want to see. This year Econoline Crush was the big draw for us. Upon our arrival, Splender was first up, and we were fairly impressed by them. For only knowing “Yeah, Whatever”, we liked what we heard of the rest of the set. The girls thought the bass player was hot, and also thought their guitar player looked like Trevor Hurst from EC. Showoff was okay, a typical punk-pop band from that era. We saw Shades Apart on the other stage while waiting for EC, they were okay too, even though most people (like me) only knew Stranger By The Day at that point. Then, Econoline Crush came up, and it was “the return of Trevor”, who was supposedly in his finest “liquid sex” form that day, according to the ladies. EC played an awesome set (couldn’t tell you what they played, unfortunately). We had met Ziggy before the show, and then met the whole band at the autograph tent; Mary got a picture with Trevor. We caught most of the Watchmen’s set while in line for autographs, and we were impressed by them as well.
Apparently Kottonmouth Kings, The Verve Pipe and Moby were on this bill also. Totally forgot about that, totally didn’t see them.
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