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]

Penn Kids Spending Millions To See Stars Of 1999

Tonight is the first (albeit unofficial, I think) day of Penn’s Spring Fling, the annual weekend where Penn kids get drunk highly-organized activities instead of unorganized ones. The biggest event is tonight’s tomorrow night’s concert, which is headlined by Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind. (For reference, Ben Folds Five opened for The Roots at the concert in 2000.)

The tickets, naturally, sold out in about five minutes, and the group that organizes the show released a few more tix via a lottery. Oh, well, tough break for those who couldn’t get in, right. Uh, no.

Yes, one enterprising person set up a website to sell tickets exclusively for tonight’s Ben Folds/Third Eye Blind concert. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported tickets were going for prices between $35 and $80.

The site has since been shut down, but tickets are also on sale from Craigslist for about $80 each, and Penn police vow to arrest scalpers in front of the venue at tomorrow’s concert. Also, the group organizing the concert is full of snitches, as the co-director said “[w]e have reported it to the Office of Student Conduct.” This is the first year in ∞ the concert is actually popular and has scalpers, so naturally the group organizing it wants to shut that down immediately.

Meanwhile, you don’t want to know what tickets to a Matchbox 20 concert are going for.

pennbenfoldstickets.com
Fling 2007: Last chance for tickets - at $80? [Daily Pennsylvanian]
March 22: Penn Kids Gonna Party Like It’s 1999
April 3: Where Were Penn Kids Going Without Ever Knowing The Way

Where Were Penn Kids Going Without Ever Knowing The Way

While Penn kids are on the cutting edge of movie-piratin’ technology, music-wise they’re apparently still stuck back in the late 1990s.

For example, the annual Spring Fling concert this year is Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind. And, uh, apparently it’s really popular:

The about 2,400 tickets available to students for the concert - which will be held on Friday, April 13 in Wynn Commons - were snapped up in the first two days of sales.

Look for the May concert of Harvey Danger, Fastball and New Radicals to sell out Franklin Field.

SPEC releases more Fling concert tickets, reveals logo [Daily Pennsylvanian]
March 22: Penn Kids Gonna Party Like It’s 1999