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Dashboard Confessional For as long as I can remember, Dashboard Confessional concerts were intimate affairs where no more than 2,000
For playing at such a large venue with a crowd that massive, it was a pretty good concert, but it just wasn't the Dashboard concert that I had been used to in the past. I had expected that with Summerfest. What I did go to hear was his new song from the Spiderman 2 Soundtrack, "Vindicated," which he played as the first song of his encore. As his only "rock-out" song of the night, it was truly a great way to end the night for me, and even though it is getting mucho MTV exposure, it's still a rockin' song. XROXX Concert Rating: XXX (3 X's out of a possible 5 X's) Jillian Marx
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people crammed into a tiny space and screamed their lungs out while the focal point on the stage with the acoustic guitar barely had to make an attempt to play because the crowd knew the next word as well as he did. When Chris Carraba stepped onto the stage at 10 p.m. on Friday night, the large crowd that had gathered screamed and cheered and to me, it sounded remotely like the echoes of the Jessica Simpson concert a few nights before. The crowd was 80% under 18, and many of these kids had never heard of Dashboard Confessional until A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (which most die-hard DC fans consider the turning point when DC goes to the MTV crowd). 
The people that I have surrounded myself with at this concert are a mix of old school die-hards and never been DC concert go-ers. He performed old favorites like "Again I Go Unnoticed" and "Saints and Sailors" flawlessly. Yet at the point in the songs where he would usually pause to let the audience takeover and sing, the at least 5,000+ people could not carry the lyrics, and Andy (my new Dashboard Confessional
concert friend from Cedarburg) and I felt proud that we were they only people around us that actually knew the lyrics to genuine Dashboard Confessional songs. Seventy percent of the crowd that had come to see DC at Summerfest could not sing anything from Swiss Army Romance or Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. For them, however, he did include songs from A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar, such as "Hands Down."