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PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ I was supposed to go backstage and meet the guys in STP after their set was over. That would have meant missing part of the RHCP performance, but I didn't mind, having just seen them at the same venue a few week before . However, the meet & greet never happened. When STP came out for their performance, singer Scott Weiland mentioned to the audience that someone from their record company, Atlantic Records, had just embarrassed them in front of their friends, the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It seemed like a pretty harsh way of calling out someone. For the meet & greet, I had been told by a rep from the label to go to a certain location in the amphitheater as soon as STP had completed their performance. When I did, though, the rep told me in a very agitated tone of voice that the meetup was cancelled. I found out later that the label rep had told the guys in STP rather loudly backstage that the bill should be reversed and that RHCP should be openin...

The Saint, Asbury Park, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Bicentennial Park, Miami, FL..... A local radio station festival called Zetafest.Scott Weiland of STP was just out of jail after being locked up in 1999 for multiple parole violations after a drug conviction. I was interested in seeing STP, but mostly I wanted to see Local H, Vercua Salt, and Filter. Deftones was interesting for a few songs until watching sweaty suburbanites mosh became excruciating boring. They had two side-by-side stages set up and were alternating between them to make the changeovers quick, and some of the aggro-rock bands were so generic it felt like one band was running back and forth between the two stages. A quick change into a clean shirt and voila! More screaming into a mic from the left of the crowd instead of the right. Vercua Salt was a lot of fun, and Local H was enjoyable--although nowhere near as dynamic as when Joe Daniels was still drumming.  Stone Temple Pilots setlist: Crackerman Vasoline Tumble in the Rough Wicked Garden Piece of Pie Big Empty I...

Asbury Park Festival Area, Asbury Park, NJ..... I was at this show, but didn't see much of it. I was broadcasting live reports for WHTG from the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel overlooking the festival area. some of the WHTG crew with Sum 41 in the broadcast hotel room I did interviews with Long Beach Dub Allstars & Sum 41 (Dickie of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones was scheduled to do one; he showed up saw all the people hanging out, mumbled something about going to get some food, and then fled the scene without returning. In between reports, I was able to watch the show from perhaps 8 or 10 stories up, often with the simultaneous sound of two bands playing on the multiple stages. We had hung station banners out of both windows in our corner room, and show promoter Tony Paligrossi later remarked that our banners lent that year's Warped the vibe of a South American revolution. Also floating around the FM 106.3 Party Room was station staff Tod Lewis, Brian Cotter, Kara, Carly, freaky Bob...

PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ..... The Red Hot Chili Peppers have always between an intertwining theme throughout my radio career. The band emerged right as I began in college radio, in 1984. They headlined the very first concert I ever MC'ed. They made the transition from underground to way-above-ground rockstars right around when I started at my first full-time radio gig in 1991. And their 1999 "return to form" album, Californication, was released as I was making the transition from being just a DJ to actually running a radio station. So the announcement that the Chili Peppers were going to be playing two shows in the summer of 2000 at the PNC Bank Arts Center, about one month apart and with a different major opening act for each (the Foos and Stone Temple Pilots ), was a very welcome one. At the time, WHTG was in the process of being sold and that at some point, probably in the fall, we were all going to lose our jobs. So during that summer, I did my best to do wh...

Birch Hill, Old Bridge, NJ sorry, Mike has not yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Surf Club, Ortley Beach, NJ.... WHTG's Surfstock 2000.   me making stage announcements at Surfstock 2000