A 3 Doors Down show isn't the social hive it was in the past. The likes of rock-spiced country performer Jason Aldean, who sold out the Roanoke Civic Center last month, are the ones who bring in not just hard-core fans, but also those who are going because that's the hot show these days. So, as 3 Doors Down has moved further in time from its biggest chart successes, "Kryptonite" and "Love Me When I'm Gone," its crowds have grown smaller. On Wednesday at Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum, the band was many seats short of a sellout, even in the venue's half-hall configuration.
Greg Upchurch was on vacation with his wife in Hawaii, watching the Olympics, when he first heard the song "Kryptonite. And then he heard it again.
Random trivia: If 3 Doors Down is coming to play Roanoke, it must be a Wednesday. The band played Roanoke Civic Center Coliseum in 2005 and 2009, and both shows happened on that midweek day.
A lot of entertainers wait until relatively late in their careers, after the roar of the crowd and the demands of making it big have subsided, before they start giving back through charitable work. But not the members of Mississippi-bred rock quintet 3 Doors Down. The band, which has sold more than 15 million records and enjoyed such hits as "Kryptonite" and the National Guard tribute "Citizen/Soldier," was still establishing itself in 2003 when it began its Better Life Foundation, named after their first record, 2000's Memphis-recorded The Better Life .
PORTLAND - Acclaimed Universal Republic rock band 3 Doors Down topped the Billboard 200 chart last week for the second time in its career. The self-titled effort, "3 Doors Down," the band's fourth studio release, is a more-than-worthy follow-up to its multiplatinum 2005 album, "Seventeen Days," which also debuted at No. 1. The band - which has also clinched the No. 1 spot on the Top Current Rock Albums and the Current Alternative charts with the latest release - will play the Cumberland County Civic Center Wednesday, July 23.
Roanoke is not "Kryptonite" for 3 Doors Down. The Mississippi-based pop/rock band is coming to the Roanoke Civic Center on Oct. 12. Opening acts are Theory of a Deadman and Pop Evil.
Doors Down, "3 Doors Down" (Universal Republic) ** Fist-pumping arena rock is a favorite target for critics, who remain baffled by how these bands continue to fill major venues and play upward of 300 shows a year.
Guitarist Chris Henderson might not have said it in these exact words, but he feels that if fans want to hear 3 Doors Down in a form that truly reflects the band's talents and musical interests, its new self-titled CD would be the best place to turn. No one person writes all the songs here," Henderson says. "It's always everyone in this band that writes. And I think this record just more so solidifies that than anything else. It's a pretty good cross section of what everybody's capable of doing individually and then putting it together and making it one thing. That's why we named it '3 Doors Down.'
This was to be a story about a great chef who was cooking up amazing dishes at 3 Doors Down Bistro in downtown Colorado Springs. And Joel Wittenmyer is still a great chef.
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