The Starting Line Band • Page 90

It's 19 & Direction is 17, it is what it is

 

Soooo they're both not 20... it's still time, Good News for People Who Love Bad News has just had its 20th anniversary and that feels more time-appropriate for my memory

 

I've traveled to Pomona, San Bernadino, LA, and Anaheim to see them. Before the rumors of this date got talked about I was trying to figure out if I could do WWWY to see them.

 

Got my pair! 7th time seeing them live!

tsl24

 

This thread made me realize that I only ever saw them twice despite listening to them since 03. Once was a show at my local venue (which I still can’t believe) pre-BOATS and another was at Warped Tour right after Direction (I even missed the first couple of songs because they played super early in the day).

I need to make it to a show one of these years even if I have to travel.

 

Same, saw them twice and once was at Warped

 

7 times for me.

2005
2005
2005
2006
2008
2023
2023

 

I've seen them 2 or 3 times. Last time was for the Say It Like You Mean It anniversary show but they don't come back to the UK often.

 

I’m still chillin on these 8. Would love to make it 9 with the left coast show this summer but I don’t really see it in the cards. Stoked they’re making it out this way though. Really cool that they continue to make stuff like this happen

Edit: this was a lie, totally forgot I watched them at the first WWWY. Make it 9 baby!

 

I’ve seen them a lot but have no idea how many times. Impressed by all your recall skills here lol

 

I use ConcertArchives, haha. If I had to go off top, I’d for sure blank on one or two

 

I really regret not making a Home Grown show. But I can't imagine they came much to the UK.

 

Exactly, that’s what I use. Makes it super easy to check.

 

Did you start using it ages ago? I feel like i’d forget everything trying to go back in time and add stuff now.

 

Yeah, probably not. A quick cursory glance shows NFG taking them over there in 2005, but I’m not seeing anything else. And to be honest, when I saw Home Grown again in 2005 (this time with Fenix TX), it was pretty bad lol. Adam was no longer with them and it was a bit bleak. Maybe better off you missed!

 

I feel like it was a couple years ago I went through and tracked it all. I was able to track all but a dozen or so shows and those were all super small or local shows. But I got the (at the time) 115 or so other shows logged. Use it all the time now.

 

I saw Home Grown in a random high school on Long Island with, then, River Fenix. Had to be 98/99, I picked up Act Your Age at the merch table.

 

I never turned off the email notifications on ConcertArchives, so multiple days a week I’ll get an email about how it’s been X years since I went to X show. It started out kinda fun, but now that it’s been over a year and I’ve seen them all it just makes me feel so fucking old lol. Coincidentally, today is 21 years since my first show ever, which was actually that Sum On Your Face tour from my post above

 

2005 Warped Tour
2005 Nintendo Fusion Tour
2012 SILYMI 10 Year
2016 Taste of Chaos
2019 20 year tour
2022 Post-WWWY

 

Off the top of my head here’s every time I’ve seen them:

2004 - Opening for Yellowcard, Roseland Ballroom
2005 - Bamboozle, Asbury Park
2005 - Warped Tour, Randall’s Island
2007 - Directions Tour, Toad’s Place
2008 - Bamboozle, Meadowlands (“last show”)
2012 - SILYMI Tour, Irving Plaza

I refuse to believe it’s been 12 years since I last saw them.

 

I think I saw Home Grown twice. Once as a headliner at The Downtown on LI and on the Drive Thru Invasion tour.

 

2007 - Warped Tour, Indianapolis
2012 - SILYMI Tour, Saint Andrew’s Hall
2019 - Music + Stories, Agora Theater
2023 - The Bluestone, Ohio Is For Lovers Fest, Underground Arts

 

Never saw Homegrown

 

I think i’ve seen almost every Drive Thru band? I’d have to look through their roster but basically everyone from Fenix TX on I think i’ve seen

edit: never saw Cousin Oliver, The Benjamins, or The Cover. Saw everyone else.

 

I've seen Dashboard, TEN, Fenix TX, Finch, Hellogoodbye, I Can Make a Mess, Midtown, The Movielife, NFG, Rx Bandits, Senses Fail, Something Corporate, TSL, and Steel Train

But have yet to see (and would want to see) Allister and Homegrown