The Special Goodness concert: 06/15/2003

The Special Goodness concert
The Special Goodness concert
June 15, 2003
Location	San Diego, CA
Venue	Coors Amphitheatre (Happy Stage)
Associated album	Land Air Sea
Other bands	Angsty Stage: Staind, Finch, Cold, The Transplants, The Used, Blur; Happy Stage: The Special Goodness, Trainwreck, Hot Hot Heat, Rooney, Pete Yorn;
The Special Goodness live show chronology
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The Special Goodness performed at Coors Amphitheatre in San Diego, California on June 15, 2003 for 91X Fest. Trainwreck, The Special Goodness, Hot Hot Heat, Rooney and Pete Yorn performed on the Happy Stage.^[1]

Setlist

Tour diary

Todays show was held at the very new, very big, and very way out in the middle of what really ought to have remained incredibly-beautiful-coastal-scrubland-but-didnt-so-now they-have-concerts-there Coors Ampitheatre. We rolled in late morning and loaded the gear into a small tent by the side of the side stage. With one very notable exception, to be expounded on shortly, the stages were roughly divided into the "Happy" [small] and "Angsty" [main] stages. [Actually there was a 3rd stage somewhere, which we werent even aware of - did we mention that this place is big? We'll just call that one the "Neutral" stage.] Our happy little stage was the home of Trainwreck [KG of Tenacious D's hysterical pseudo country outfit who include a cover of "Major Tom" in the set!], Hot Hot Heat, Rooney, The Special Goodness, and Pete Yorn. The Angsty stage had Staind, Finch, Cold, The Transplants, The Used and Blur, who were a decidedly un-angsty exception to the rule. We blissed out to Blur's "Tender", "Song 2", "Beetlebum", and many more before packing up and heading home that day. The SG set was very well attended by a pretty stoked crowd! Though overall attendance for this festival looked somewhat lacking, the side stage acts couldnt complain about the hundreds of spectators taking in the happy rock.

- Karl Koch