Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Attendance Record

Today I'm updating an old post. These are the notable concerts I can remember attending:

High School Era (1993-1997)

Pearl Jam / Urge Overkill - Century II, Wichita

Winger / Blackfish - West Bank Stage, Wichita

Collective Soul - Kansas Coliseum, Wichita

Spin Doctors / Sponge - Sedgwick County Park, Wichita

Green Day - Cotillion Ballroom, Wichita

Foo Fighters / Ween - Cotillion Ballroom, Wichita

Bush / Goo Goo Dolls / No Doubt - Kansas Coliseum, Wichita

Smashing Pumpkins - Kansas Coliseum, Wichita

Stone Temple Pilots / Cheap Trick - Kansas Coliseum, Wichita

Smashing Pumpkins / Blues Traveler / Ben Harper / Barenaked Ladies
(H.O.R.D.E. Fest), Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, Oklahoma City

Undergraduate Era (1997-2001)

U2 / Smash Mouth - Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis

U2 / Third Eye Blind - TWA Dome, St. Louis

Third Eye Blind / Space Monkeys - Cotillion Ballroom, Wichita

Cake / Ben Folds Five / Jude - Starlight Theater, Kansas City

Postgraduate Era (2001-2003)

Weezer - Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Saint Paul

Bob Dylan - Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul

Ben Folds (w/ full band) / Citizen Cope - First Avenue, Minneapolis

Travis / Remy Zero - Historic State Theater, Minneapolis

Ben Folds (solo) / Divine Comedy - First Avenue, Minneapolis

Tom Petty / Jackson Browne - Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul

Ben Folds (solo) / Duncan Sheik - First Avenue, Minneapolis

They Might Be Giants / Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players / Dave Eggers
- Fitzgerald Theater, Saint Paul

Professional Scientist Era (2003-present)

Rufus Wainwright / Joan as Policewoman (instead of Shannon McNally) - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

Guster / Ben Folds (solo) / Gavin DeGraw - City Market, Kansas City

Secret Machines / Moving Units / Autolux - Bottleneck, Lawrence

Modest Mouse / Mason Jennings - Uptown Theater, Kansas City

Fiery Furnaces - Bottleneck, Lawrence

The Shins / The Brunettes - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

Rilo Kiley - Granada, Lawrence

Aimee Mann - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

Nickel Creek / Matt Pond PA - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

Tilly and the Wall - Bottleneck, Lawrence

Secret Machines / Death Cab for Cutie / Keane / Mates of State / Broken Social Scene (Bleeding Kansas Festival) - Burcham Park, Lawrence

The Shins / Viva Voce - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

Tapes 'n Tapes / Chuck Klosterman - Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul

Neko Case - Liberty Hall, Lawrence

The Polyphonic Spree - Gothic Theater, Englewood

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Granada, Lawrence (If I live to see tomorrow.)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

didn't you also attend a Travis concert w/ Phil and I in Minneapolis during your undergraduate years? at the Quest club, I think it was?

dn said...

No, Shawn, I didn't make that one. But I did go to a Tilly and the Wall show last summer, which I've inserted to update the list. That concert was the hottest (literally) show I'd ever been to, as the venue's air conditioning was broken.

The hottest until tonight, that is. The Granada was ultra hot and super steamy, and so was the rock.

Anonymous said...

I knew I had seen ween at some point in my life. Thanks, Dan, for reminding me when (approximately) and who they opened for.

Pat

Anonymous said...

You saw WEEN when you were in high school? That was Pure Guava era, right? ugh, I am jealous.
A few years back, I thought that a ween t-shirt might be sort of an asset in reeling in fine looking, interesting males... But the last time I saw them, I thought maybe it might only draw in hairy smelly males. I never bothered to get a t-shirt to test my theory. I think maybe the moment for the ween t-shirt lure has come and gone. If you can think of a tshirt that would have such power over fine looking interesting males, please pass it my way.

Barbara