The Rockefeller gymnasium was packed with 2700 people for a concert featuring the Goo Goo Dolls. This group had been nominated for two Grammy awards that year for their hit song, Iris.
At the Grammy Awards (February 24, 1999) they lost in both categories to Celine Dion for My Heart Will Go On, so that was pretty stiff competition!
Alisa Lively, Campus Activities Director, was responsible for bringing this event to campus. That evening they sang their top hits Name (1995), Slide (September 1998), and Iris (April 1998) for the appreciative crowd in Buckhannon.
The warm-up band that day was The New Radicals, who opened for the Goo Goo Dolls on this tour (which started on March 30). Their only album, Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too, had been released on October 20, 1998 and included the song You Get What You Give.
The New Radicals must have been having some internal conflict, though, because they ended up canceling their tour of the U.K. which had been scheduled to start on May 17. On July 12, they made the announcement in a press release that they were disbanding.
I don’t know what the New Radicals played on April 5, 1999 in Rockefeller Center, but here is the Set List from the Goo Goo Dolls!
Due to the magic of technology, you can enjoy the setlist from that April 5, 1999 concert in Rockefeller Center. Setlist.fm includes not only the list of songs that were played, but links to videos of the songs (although not necessarily from that night).
As I write this, it is April 2020. Social Distancing is important right now, and our campus is empty due to the pandemic. It is hard to even imagine 2700 people gathered into Rockefeller. But Click Here to Hear The Music From That Concert!