Continuing the trend of digging through the CD archives, today I rocked out some Our Lady Peace on my drive to work.

It took about three seconds for me to think about when the band played at Susquehanna University during the fall of my sophomore year. Here’s my ticket stub:

If you’re not paying close attention, you may have missed the beautiful error I assume was made by someone working the Weber Chapel box office. Apparently Our Lady Peach was supposed to play. The question is, was it a bored work-study student who just made a mistake, or an adult who had never heard of the band in the first place? Hard to say. Unless of course you worked at the box office at the time, then please enlighten me.

“The sign said: a yoga class for cats” is a line from the song “Carnival,” which unfortunately was not played that night. My memory is not that amazing–I actually was able to find a set list from the show online. How did people live with those sorts of minor questions without the Internet? I think my head would have exploded with all of the “I wonder…” types of questions I’ve had over the years that would have been unanswered.

I do remember when they kicked into “Starseed.” I’m not sure it was actually on any of their albums, but it was on the “Armageddon” soundtrack. I also defy you to listen to it and not enjoy yourself. If you’re not familiar, here it is courtesy of our friends at YouTube.

According to the set list, it was the last song before the encore. That would have been a pretty good way to end the evening, but they decided to come back and drop some “Somewhere Out There” and “4 a.m.” on us. Good times.

It’s unfortunate that the opening act was so so so very bad though. You know you aren’t seeing Van Halen when only a few years later the band has changed its name and is no longer with their record label. They were Greenwheel. Apparently now they’re Go Van Gogh.

The next year things were a lot better. Fuel came to Selinsgrove, and brought Breaking Benjamin to open. Now THAT was a good time. Better than when Michelle Branch came? Hard to say really…OK, not that hard to say. Though the MB concert was entertaining for the fact that about 75 percent of the crowd was college students more interested in seeing opener Pat McGee Band, and mixed in were tweens and their moms there for Michelle Branch.

Good times.