Lifehouse / Goo Goo Dolls @ Jones Beach
July 23, 2007 
Lifehouse / Goo Goo Dolls @ Jones Beach
Event type: Concert
Date: 2007-07-21
Let’s just start off by acknowledging just how beautiful Jones Beach Amphitheater can be on a warm, clear summer night. We’re talking perfect weather and even a family of swans swimming up to the orchestra seats between sets. Now that’s beautiful.
That being said, tonight’s concert felt like three separate parts that each probably would have worked well if they were part of different tours.
Colbie Caillat opened with a brief set while most people were arriving. In the time it took to buy a an overpriced Lifehouse hoodie or a Goo Goo Dolls t-shirt with a red cross on it, she and her band were done playing. And no one really knew who she was or what she had just sung about.
Lifehouse played a brilliant and inspiring set that really set the mood for the evening. They got the crowd involved from the beginning and played all their hit songs.
Watching them play brought back memories of why I liked the band in the first place. They were enthusiastic and genuinely into the music they were playing, which the crowd relished. “Hanging on a Moment” was especially good.
The Goo Goo Dolls, however, were a different story. They seemed a little disjointed and it took a while for lead singer Johnny Rzeznik to even address the audience, although when he did he brought the crowd right back into things.
“Name,” “Slide,” and other big hits got everyone on their feet and dancing around, but pretty much everything in between provided a chance to sit down and ponder why the other songs all sounded pretty similar. Its never a good sign when during a set you have ample time to wonder what the girl in the section next to you sitting in a wheelchair with her leg in a cast did to hurt her leg, okay?
As the momentum and excitment shifted from Lifehouse’s inspiring performance to the uneven and piecemeal Goo Goo Dolls set, I started getting a bit listless and ended up leaving before the encore, hearing “Broadway” on my way out to beat the traffic and totally missing “Iris.”
Tags: lifehouse, goo+goo+dolls, jones+beach, concert, live, best+buy+concert+series
July 24th, 2007 at 7:09 AM
hey man. . .
you must have missed more than you said
you got the set order wrong
iris was played before broadway
or maybe i was just too drunk to remember correctly…
peace