ICYMI: Dashboard Confessional, et al.

As I mentioned in the last post, Dr. Daughter and I had a great night earlier this month, at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, for a triple bill of The Maine, All-American Rejects and Dashboard Confessional.

I finally wrote the review, with photo slideshow, of Dashboard, for my AXS.com column and it would please me mightily if you would check it out.

Since I didn’t write much about All-American Rejects, I’ll take this moment to say that I was surprised I actually knew four songs by the band, which I had thought of as little more than one-hit-wonders.
(I will now give you a moment to see if you can name some AAR songs. Are you ready?)
“Dirty Little Secret,” “Move Along,” “Swing, Swing” and “Gives You Hell.”

Tyson Ritter is the band’s strutting rock star frontman – lots of f-bombs and exhortations for the crowd to get wild – which would be really annoying if he didn’t also seem to be self-aware about how ridiculous that role can be.

Anyway, since The AARs didn’t get any photo love in my review, here are a few pics of them in action:

 

That’s all for now. Thanks for dropping by!

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We Get Out – The Maine (et al.) at Wolf Trap, 8-10-17

Dr. Daughter (the PhD) asked if I could get us tix to see Dashboard Confessional at Wolf Trap this summer and, thanks to a gracious publicist friend who works with the band, we were able to attend this past Thursday night. It was a lovely summer evening and the Filene Center is a gorgeous open-air venue. With the place about two-thirds full, it was also easy to move around, get snacks, use facilities etc. too. Winning all around.

I’m going to do some kind of story soon about Dashboard, maybe with some thoughts on All-American Rejects, too, but will probably not be talking about The Maine, who opened the three-act bill. I knew little about them going into the show, except for the fact that my musically-omnivorous nephew is a big fan.  As I won’t be reviewing The Maine’s set (a half-hour long, entertaining, no great revelations), I thought I’d at least share some photos since it’s been Way Too Long since I’ve done anything here on the site. Enjoy!