On Sunday, May 16, over 35,000 people crowded RFK Stadium for the DC101 Chili Cook-Off. The festival, which benefited the National Kidney Foundation, is a one-day rock festival that featured Niki Barr Band, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Puddle of Mudd, Papa Roach, Shinedown, Third Eye Blind and The Offspring.
The line up was the perfect example of why I fell in love with rock in the 90’s. Before rock was full of Ashton Kutcher looking, pretty boys, playing love songs, there were the guys who were a little rough around the edges. They were loud, with messy long hair cuts, their shirts a bit wrinkled paired with torn jeans, but damn it they were hot cause they knew how to rock!
Puddle of Mudd brought back old but never forgotten songs like “Contol” and “She Hates Me,” which the crowd sang word for word.
Once Shinedown came on stage, it was time for moshing and crowd-surfing. Everyone seemed to chant the lyrics to the song “Second Chance” as the official summer anthem for 2009. It’s just a feel good song about taking life by the horns, against all odds, against everything you know, and making the most out of it.
Of course I am a 90’s kid and Third Eye Blind was the soundtrack to my adolescence and yours, especially if you watched the teenage drama Dawson’s Creek. Even if you didn’t, you still bobbed your head to the songs “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Never Let You Go,” and “Jumper.”
We finished off the day of rock euphoria with The Offspring and every white boy from the not so white neighborhood claimed “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” as his song.
Once Shinedown came on stage, it was time for moshing and crowd-surfing. Everyone seemed to chant the lyrics to the song “Second Chance” as the official summer anthem for 2009. It’s just a feel good song about taking life by the horns, against all odds, against everything you know, and making the most out of it.
Of course I am a 90’s kid and Third Eye Blind was the soundtrack to my adolescence and yours, especially if you watched the teenage drama Dawson’s Creek. Even if you didn’t, you still bobbed your head to the songs “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Never Let You Go,” and “Jumper.”We finished off the day of rock euphoria with The Offspring and every white boy from the not so white neighborhood claimed “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” as his song.
Neither the piercing sun, rain, or flying sandals could thin out the crowd. We had good music, good company, chili, and beer.
Did anyone try the chili?
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