Review: Dashboard Confessional @ MSG
December 9, 2006 
Dashboard Confessional @ MSG
Event type: Concert
Date: 2006-12-08
What do you call a live concert event where the band plays all your favorite songs and is full of energy, but is over after an hour and 15 minutes?
I call it 3/5 stars in this review, but I probably should just call it what it is: a rip-off.
Sure, Dashboard Confessional was taping a for-broadcast concert event at Madison Square Garden on 12/8/06, which seemingly brought some better special effects to the show, but does that also have to mean the concert is so short that the train ride to get there was longer?
Don’t get me wrong — Chris Carrabba and the band played an excellent set and I was really into it for every song — but what a waste of MSG for a concert.
Maybe concerts should come with an approximate runtime from now on. Anything less could be considered false advertising.
If you’ve ever seen, say, Dave Matthews Band, No Doubt, The Rolling Stones, or Panic! At the Disco in concert (which I have), then you know what a real concert is all about. Its about the joy of music, artists communicating with fans, and providing attendees with something more than what they can get from listening to a CD album.
What Dashboard Confessional provided was just disrespectful to fans.
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