It's Almost Summer Already? Q101 Jamboree 1998 Soul Asylum A Concert Review Next Up: The Foo Fighters In Reverse: Barenaked Ladies Or: From the Beginning	May 23, 1998 The New World Music Theatre Tinley Park, IL A Review and Photos by The Dude on the Right More Photos of Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum, for me, was always one of those bands I wanted to see, but never got the chance.  I’ll tell you this much, I won’t let that happen again, although coming off the Barenaked Ladies set, Soul Asylum just couldn’t push the crowd to that entertainment envelope.  Don’t get me wrong, they sounded great, and Dave even played a kazoo, but in all honesty, most of the crowd, seemed like, “Oh yea, they played that song,” but couldn’t get into the performance.

Now, not seeing them before, I don’t know if the band is known for their lack of stage presence, but as intense as they were, they just didn’t connect with the crowd.  And what surprised me from the lack of crowd response was that the band did seem to do a great mix of intermingling their hits with lesser known and new songs.  I figured that in any case, the crowd would have at least done a little roller coaster ride of singing along, then not, then singing, etc.  But mostly the crowd just sat there.

I guess the Soul Asylum portion of this review will be short because there isn’t much to say about them other than they sounded great, and as intense as the band was, it just didn’t reach into the audience.  I’ll give them A SHRUG this time around, but even with that, I’m looking forward to seeing them in a smaller venue, with their fans to maybe help them along a little more.
 

The Bands
The Main Stage	The Second Stage
Spacehog Ben Folds Five Creed Scott Weiland Barenaked Ladies Soul Asylum Foo Fighters	Fastball Eve 6 Harvey Danger They Might Be Giants The Specials