Weenie Roast Info!!!  Here were the players Roasts 1 thru 10...

 

Weenie Roast #1

September 23, 1995

Blockbuster Pavillion

 

Buffalo Tom, Jewel, 7Mary3, The Innocence Mission, Dragmules, Green Apple Quickstep, Dandelion

 

Weenie Roast #2

September 14, 1996

Blockbuster Pavillion

 

Spacehog, The Nixons, Self, Lustre, Stabbing Westward, The Verve Pipe, for squirrels, Super 8

 

Local bands: Major Nelson, Laburnum, Loadstar, Magpies, Hazel Virtue, Running from Anna, Violet Strange, Muscadine, Sugarsmack, Mary Sunshine, Doubting Thomas, Brian Keenan, John O'Gorman

 

Weenie Roast #3

September 13, 1997

Blockbuster Pavillion

Hosted by special guest Larry Bud Melman

 

Faith No More, The Nixons, 7Mary3, Goldfinger, K's Choice, Bloodhound Gang, Gravity Kills, Cowboy Mouth, Kara's Flowers, Leah Andreone, Our Lady Peace, Maypole, Athenaeum

 

Local Bands: Sunny Ledford, 5XDown, Latino Chrome, Sugarsmack, Peralta, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13

 

Weenie Roast #4

September 5, 1998

Blockbuster Pavillion

 

Creed, Better Than Ezra, Dishwalla, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Athenaeum, Everything, Jolene, Far Too Jones

 

Locals??????  Help a sista out, it wasn't on the poster!

 

Weenie Roast #5

September 19, 1999

Blockbuster Pavillion

Kristen 8 months pregnant produced this show.....

 

Bush, The Verve Pipe, Sponge, Econoline Crush, Marvelous 3, Cake, Luscious Jackson, Moby, Joydrop, Jact

 

Local/Regional Bands: Justincase, Leisure McCorkle, Sheva, Collapsis, The Tender Idols

 

Weenie Roast #6

September 16, 2000

Blockbuster Pavillion

Some say, the best ever......

 

The Cult, Everclear, Eve 6, Fuel, Everlast, Papa Roach, Stir, Dexter Freebish, Collapsis, Angie Aparo, Peter Searcy, 2 Skinnee J's, Missing Persons

 

Local/Regional Bands: Chief Joy, Smithwick Machine, Wichita Caravan, Jennifer Nettles Band, Jam Pain Society

 

Weenie Roast #7

(we had called this show Lucky #7...didn't turn out that way.......God Bless all who lost loved ones on 9/11)

September 15, 2001 (All of the bands and over 90% of our listeners decided the show would go on......)

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

 

The show opened with a giant flag the size of the entire back of the stage dropping while we all pledged allegiance.  Mark Kano of Athenaeum then sang the National Anthem.....not a dry eye in the house.  I am tearing up just writing this...

 

3 Doors Down, The Crystal Method, Dave Navarro, Athenaeum, The Fixx, American Hi-Fi, Nickelback, Good Charlotte, Stroke 9, Seven Channels...Poe and Prime STH were scheduled to appear but because of all the airport shutdowns, were unable to make it.  Angie Aparo and Butch Walker filled their spots on amazingly short notice.

 

Local/Regional Bands: ??? Again, help a sista out....it was a crazy day!

 

Weenie Roast #8

September 22, 2002

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

 

Nickelback, Filter, Default, Our Lady Peace, SR-71, Doves, Andrew WK, Butch Walker, Goldfinger, Berlin, Greenwheel, Epidemic

 

Local/Regional Bands: ???? Ummm, yeah, I know they were there...I just don't remember who they were....Help!?

 

Weenie Roast #9

October 5, 2003

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

 

Staind, Dokken, Trapt, Sevendust, Eve 6, Socialburn, 3 Days Grace, Kill Hannah, Shinedown, The Rising, LoPro

 

Local/Regional Bands : Elevator Action, Etheric, Status Flow, Ten Missing Days, The New Blacks

 

(we didn't have a Weenie in 2004....we just couldn't get a big enough line-up together for it to make sense....)

 

Weenie Roast #10 - The last Weenie!!!!

September 11, 2005 (we really didn't want to do the show on that date....but it was the only one available)

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

 

The show opened with a tribute to the true heroes of 9/11.....fire, medic, and police were all represented on the stage.  The colors were presented, a brief prayer was read by a non-denominational minister, and we all said the pledge of allegiance.  Brent from Shinedown then sang the National Anthem to open up the main stage!!!  Again, not a dry eye in the house!!!!

 

3 Doors Down, Staind, Shinedown, Alter Bridge, Silvertide, No Address, 30 Seconds to Mars, Illbreak, Top of the Orange

 

Local/Regional Bands: Bellglide, IN-V, Closet Pop Junkies, Scapegoat, Psycle

 

And that concludes our tour of Weenie

xoxo

K