Their most recent release was their 2016 EP We Are Drugs and their recent full album release was 2015’s Dopamine. The band has enjoyed commercial and critical success for the better part of 20 years and their original hits are still hits to this day. The band’s roots are in independence and DIY old fashion rock/grunge variety. Jenkins talked about how they'd released an album titled "Screamer" last October and had booked a tour this year that pretty much sold out before they had to cancel the entire tour when COVID-19 put the industry on hold in March.The inception of the rock band Third Eye Blind came in 1993 and unlike most bands they stayed independent until 1996 after the release of their debut album.
Saturday's performance was the San Francisco alt-rock veterans' second drive-in concert of the weekend, following a Concerts in Your Car event on Friday night at Del Mar Fairgrounds. That meant the fans who came for the nostalgia got the chance to sing along to songs they sang along to more than 20 years ago while Third Eye Blind could be excited about sharing new material, which held up rather nicely in the company of early hits as contagious as "Semi-Charmed Life" and "Jumper." Phoenix show wasn't the band's first drive-in concert The set was drawn primarily from two albums - "Screamer" (after all, this was the two-day "Screamer" tour) and 1997's six-times-platinum mainstream breakthrough, "Third Eye Blind." They opened the encore with a surprisingly faithful rendition of Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," Jenkins channeling Diamond Dave's phrasing in places while wisely avoiding the urge to do one of those famous mid-air splits. It was one of two songs honoring the memory of a dead musician. The guitar sound in particular had some bite to it, which really came in handy on their cover of the Joy Division song, "Disorder," a post-punk classic they recorded earlier this year for the 40th anniversary of Ian Curtis' death by suicide. Third Eye Blind paid tribute to Eddie Van Halen When Stephan Jenkins and his bandmates left the stage after bringing the set to a dramatic close with "Light It Up," fans demanded an encore not by chanting "Third Eye Blind" so much as laying on their horns.Īnd that was nothing compared to the chorus of honks that applauded their encore performance of "Semi-Charmed Life."Īs Jenkins announced before sending the fans on their way with an understated encore-closing "How's It Going To Be," "Thank you all again for coming and sharing some of this weirdness together." What the drive-in concert experience was likeĪ lot of artists have been screening virtual concerts they've filmed in advance to show at outdoor venues, including recent Arizona screenings by Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, Metallica and Kane Brown. RELATED: Every drive-in concert playing Phoenix through the end of 2020 Others stood outside their vehicles, which had been spaced with social distancing in mind. Some people chose to stay inside those cars and tune in to the concert on a special FM station.
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Third Eye Blind rocked the opening night of a socially-distanced drive-in concert series in the parking lot of the Arizona State Fairgrounds, the stage surrounded on all sides by rows of cars.
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