Remembering the Encores

Who: moe. When: March 2, 2001 Where: Landmark Theater/Syracuse, NY With: Ben, Adam Of Note: first moe. show!!!, the nine hours of driving it took me to pick up Adam From Remembering the Encores I went out with this boy Ben on and off for three years at the end of high school/beginning of college. Ben and I were young, impetuous, infatuated as you are at that age, and later incredibly destructive. We went on to become friends, until his next girlfriend didn't allow it anymore. (That always happens, right?) Anyway, Ben is also responsible for some of my live music obsession. Around the time we started dating, he lost God and found Phish. I suspect his parents blamed me for this, though, I really had nothing to do with it. Anyway, it was my freshman year of college. I was at UB and Ben was still in Corning. I went home one week-end to visit and when I walked into his house, he said, "Stop. You have to hear this. You are going to LOVE it." And, he pl...

Who: Sugar Ray & The Goo Goo Dolls, co-headlining When: August 28, 1999 Where: Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center/ Canadaigua, NY With: Holly Of Note: Mark McGrath's steaming hotness, Johnny Rzeznik's life advice From Remembering the Encores It was the summer before my senior year of high school and AIM was all the rage. While chatting one night, one of my high school friends and I decided it would be fun to go to a concert. I used my sweet AOL dial up to find out who was touring. So naive, I just started thinking about bands that I liked and searching "Madonna tour dates" and "Counting Crows tour dates". Holly, I believe, took a more geographical approach and we discovered the Sugar Ray (hot off the success of 14:59) and the Goo Goo Dolls (And I'd give up forever to touch you!) were co-headlining! And Fastball (don't you know that the road that we walked on is paved in gold...) was opening! And they were coming to Canadaigua...