Wayne and Erika Pfeiler

The Counting Crows with the Goo Goo Dolls came to town and played a great show at Alltel Pavillion in South Raleigh. I found out about it some time near the beginning of summer, so I was able to get tickets with several friends.

A little about the venue:
Alltel Pavillion has a deal called a family four-pack where you pay a little extra for their lawn seats, but the ticket includes free parking, four $10 food vouchers and four lawn chair rentals. It works out to be a pretty good deal, especially if you don't want to pay $15 per car for parking. They also don't let you bring in your own lawn chairs if the seat is more than 9 inches off the ground. You can bring in unopened water bottles and cameras which don't have detachable lenses. This was a point of question with my camera. The security guy thought it looked too fancy, but I assured him the lense wasn't removable, and I was ok. Beers are expensive. I think a $9 24-oz miller light was about the best deal there. They say no alcohol in the parking lots, but we saw tons of smart fans pre-partying and tailgating there before the concert.

The Goo Goo Dolls played a good act. I remeber they played Name, Iris, and Broadway, but I didn't write out the set list.

The Counting Crows played really well. Their set list was:
Anna Begins
Hard Candy
Omaha
Catapult
Colorblind
Yellow Taxi
Miami
Perfect Blue Buildings
Time and Time Again
Long December
Hangin Around
-Encore-
Mr Jones
A Murder of One
Holiday in Spain

They set up video screens like most bands do now, with stylized video suiting the songs they played. They also showed a closeup of the stage so people on the lawn could see the band better. Apparently, they're collecting canned food to give to the hungry at the show this tour, but we hadn't heard anything about it. If you're going to see them play this tour, you can probably still bring something.