Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters
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...