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The Wallflowers Album, "Breach", was released on October 10, 2000!
Jakob is on the cover of the October 26, 2000 Rolling Stone Magazine
Jakob was on the cover of the Sept. 8, 2000 Entertainment Weekly, and there's a wonderful article inside.
On October 02, 2000 MTV aired The Wallflowers' "First Listen" special.
Congratulations to the Wallflowers for winning 2 Grammys!
I attended the Wallflowers concert at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, NH on November 24, 1997. Here it is from the beginning. The show was general admission, so we arrived an hour early. The lobby was filled with young teenage girls and their parents. Obviously, there was the usual cutting in line and those people who think they are so great by sneaking ahead of people. Well anyway, we got in and got our seats (no seat in that arena is bad). There were no chairs on the floor and all the teenagers ran to be near the stage (nothing I wanted to be in the middle of). I bought a t-shirt, only to realize later that it didn't even have Durham listed on it, I should have bought a program. The show started at 8pm and the arena was not even half f ull (I heard only about 2,300 tickets were sold.) I considered this very disappointing. The Wallflowers have sold millions of records and they can't get many people to their show. The first band, whose name I can't remember, played quite a few songs. I don't know their name, but will try to find out. They were average, nothing special. After them, there was a break. Then the Jayhawks played. I knew them by their song "Blue", which they played. Both bands seemed to play forever. The Jayhawks weren't too bad. Then about 10pm, the Wallflowers finally came out. They played the following songs: Tonight's the Night (as the opening), One Headlight, 6th Avenue Heartache, Bleeders, Three Marlenas, The Difference, Invisible City, Laughing Out Loud, Josephine, God don't make lonely girls. They also played a brand new song they just wrote, and some songs from their first album, including Sugarfoot. I have listened to their first album a lot, but not enough to remember the song titles when they played them. I just remember "Sugarfoot" because it is one of my favorites. The show ended around 11:15pm. Overall, I was fairly disappointed. I think it was a combination of the crowd, or lack of crowd, and I just expected the show to be so much better. The sound wasn't great, there were a mess of squeaks and that squealing noise that you hear sometime over the speakers. Jakob Dylan just has very little stage presence. I don't know, he just doesn't seem to show much emotion or interest. I know that we shouldn't judge the singer as entertainer, and that it should all be about the music, but it's hard to enjoy it if it doesn't seem like the singer is into it that much themselves. I still like the Wallflowers, but I must admit I was a little disappointed by this show. I do not regret going, and would probably go again, in the hopes that things were better next time. Jakob did talk a little, received flowers, and the band threw drum sticks into the crowd. I did hear a number of people say they enjoyed the show a great deal, so maybe it was just me???
Anyone who likes the Wallflowers newest album should pick up a copy of their 1992 album, it is also very good. The Wallflowers are my favorite band right now. Anyone wishing to write to me about the Wallflowers can do so by emailing: gwd4 @ comcast.net
Last updated 02/08/04