Counting Crows Coming To Drillers Stadium
May 18, 2007 - Texas League (TL1)
Tulsa Drillers News Release
The Tulsa Drillers, in conjunction with JAM Production and DCF, announced today that the popular rock band, Counting Crows, will perform in a major concert at Drillers Stadium this summer. Counting Crows will headline the Rock 'n Roll Triple Play 2007 tour. The concert is scheduled for Wednesday, August 8 and will also feature Third Eye Blind and Collective Soul.
Tickets for the concert will go on sale at 10:00AM on Saturday, June 9. All tickets will be general admission and will be priced at $50.50. Kids, age 12 and under, are free. Tickets can be purchased online at GetTix.net, via telephone by calling 1-866-443-8849 or in person at the Drillers Stadium Ticket Office.
Drillers' season ticket holders will have the opportunity to pre-purchase tickets for this major concert. Details will be released soon.
Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals and piano), Jim Bogios (drums), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), David Immergluck (guitar), Dan Vickrey (guitar), and Millard Powers (bassist).
Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut album August And Everything After and the hit single "Mr. Jones." Subsequent albums include Recovering the Satellites (1996), which included the hit song "A Long December"; Across A Wire: Live in NY (1998); This Desert Life (1999) and Hard Candy (2002), which featured the band's Top 10 cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi". In 2004 the band released their first ever "Best Of" set Films About Ghosts, which featured songs from every phase of Counting Crow's recording career, followed by the live album *New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003, which appeared in 2006 and was greeted with universal awe and acclaim (This is Adam again. Okay, I admit I added the end of that last sentence. It just sounded better that way).
The band's most recent successes include a # 1 hit with the song "Accidentally In Love," the opening theme for the movie Shrek 2, which aside from selling over a million records, garnered nominations in 2005 for a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award (none of which we won, which still pisses me off-sorry, Adam again). Counting Crows has sold over 20 million records worldwide (I didn't write that but it's cool, huh?).
Formed in the early 1990's, Collective Soul has enjoyed major popularity as a successful rock band for over a decade. Since the release of their first album Hints Allegations & Things Left Unsaid in 1994, Collective Soul has sold over 10 million CDs worldwide and has had 19 singles reach the Billboard charts including such hits as "Shine," "Gel," "Better Now," "December," "The World I Know," "Heavy," "Why Part 2," "Where the River Flows," "Precious Declaration," and "Listen."
The Rock 'n Roll Triple Play 2007 Tour will visit 26 minor league baseball stadiums this summer. It is being presented in Tulsa by the same promoters that brought the Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan show to Drillers Stadium in 2005.
July 22 Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, DE
July 24 Classic Park in Eastlake, OH
July 25 Consol Energy Park in Washington, PA
July 27 Fifth Third Field in Dayton, OH
July 28 Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, MI
July 31 Jerry Uht Park in Erie, PA
August 1 Dunne Tire Park in Buffalo, NY
August 3 Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville, KY
August 4 Victory Field in Indianapolis, IN
August 7 GCS Ballpark in Sauget, IL
August 8 Drillers Stadium in Tulsa, OK
August 10 Sedalia, MO - without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 11 Principal Park in Des Moines, IA
August 14 Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD
August 15 Harry Grove Stadium in Frederick, MD
August 17 MerchantsAuto.com Stadium in Manchester, NH
August 18 New Britain Stadium in New Britain, CT
August 21 Blair County Ballpark in Altoona, PA
August 22 First Energy Park in Lakewood, NJ
August 24 McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, RI
August 25 Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, NY
August 27 Syracuse, NY - without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 28 Allentown, PA- without Live/Collective Soul or TEB
August 30 Memorial Stadium in Ft. Wayne, IN
September 1 Midway Stadium in St. Paul, MN
September 2 Newman Outdoor Field in Fargo, ND
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