Third Eye Blind Doesn’t Pay Its Parking Tickets

What were you doing this weekend? If you were one of the 2,000 kids, many of them Penn students, lucky enough to have a ticket, you were rocking out at the Ben Folds/Third Eye Blind concert!

A few of you have emailed me to ask just why I’m picking on Ben Folds. (There have been quite a few fewer complaints about Third Eye Blind, natch.) Nothing wrong with Ben Folds, or even with Third Eye Blind. It’s just: Hello, Penn held a concert with two artists who Y100 played in about 1997. In fact, I saw Ben Folds at the 1998 Y100 Feztival. Y100 doesn’t even exist anymore, except on XPN, I guess. And the Internet, too. But even so, I don’t think Y-Rock on XPN (or whatever) even plays either band anymore.

What I’m trying to say is… wait, hmm? Penn kids weren’t quite as jazzed by the concert as expected. Hey, maybe these kids are a little smarter after all!

The show was plagued by a long wait, cramped quarters, speaker problems and, of course, swooning Third Eye Blind/Ben Folds fans.

“It was crowded - someone passed out on me,” College freshman Rose Feinberg said. “I think it could’ve been in a bigger location, but I noticed that a lot of people started to leave before it ended, so, by the end, space wasn’t an issue.”

In the end, though, the Daily Pennsylvanian says the show was pretty well-received. But the Philadelphia Parking Authority is, apparently, Everclear fans.

In the end, though, Third Eye Blind’s life was a little less than semi-charmed [boooo!—dmac] after receiving a parking ticket during the concert.

“They parked in a spot and we had it marked off for us, but I guess there was some confusion with the Philadelphia Parking Authority,” [concert organizer Matt] Mizrahi said. “We’re going to take care of that. They won’t [have to] pay the ticket.”

Dammit. I wish I was a, uh, celebrity. Or at least a mainstream alternative pop/rock band on a major label in the late 1990s. Then I could park wherever the hell I wanted to.

Mixed reviews for Fling show [Daily Pennsylvanian]