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pleasure, and the high school boys
who thought they were real alternative
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baseball caps backwards would start
random, half-hearted pits.
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they attempted to do what any opening
act is supposed to do ? get the
crowd riled up. They performed songs
from their latest CD, Floored, as well
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Despite the overkill mainstream
radio gives to bands Sugar Ray
and 311, these two groups managed
to put on a decent concert Tuesday
night at the Carolina Coliseum.
But that was it ? decent. Nothing
exceptional was given to the audience,
and even some cheese was supplied
in the form of contrived
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not "Let's see how energetic we can
get" but, "Let's see if we can mess with
the heads of the kids who are tripping."
Sugar Ray opened up to a rather
empty floor and stands. The lead singer,
who must think wearing trashy sleeveless
white undershirts is somehow
sexy, jumped off the stage and ran
around in the crowd in an effort to get
them pumped. It worked... for about
15 minutes. The people who have made
Sugar Ray the financial success they
are were there and gladly welcomed
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am crowd
ciently, waiting until the end, of course,
to give the crowd what they wanted,
"Fly. Suddenly, everybody was happy
But the happy quotient was raised
considerably by the time 311 jumped
on stage. Of course, they played songs
off their fairly new release Transistor,
like the album's title song, "Beautiful
Disaster" and "Prisoner."
They did a slightly mellow version
of "Down" and "All Mixed Up"
from their self-titled album. Any 311
concert without those two songs would
be slightly incomplete.
The songs they chose from Grassroots
were a little disappointing, not
hecause "Silver'' and "Homebrew" aren't
great ?they're boisterous and fun to
get down and funky to?but the band
played them just a touch too slow, just
enough so the pits didn't get too excited.
They'd start, but when the guys
realized the tempo wasn't as fast as
usual, they would quietly die out, which
was uncool.
That same mellow attitude
seemed to pervade the whole show.
Things kind of picked up to the fast
pace 311 should have been at the entire
show with "Feels," but unfortunately
that was the last song before
the encores, and so was just too late.
311 doesn't belong at a large venue
like the Coliseum. Without the comfort
of a small, tightly packed sidestreet
venue, 311 loses some of their
raw energy and genuine feeling, which
is key to a great show.
If one can just roll one's eyes at
the commercialism surrounding 311,
and the too-young crowds that generally
end up at their shows, a sweaty,
aching fun time can be had. But, if
mainstream music is not your thing,
don't even bother.
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