When the field started to fill up, we were just kind of laughing like, “You are (expletive) kidding me.” So, we were in really good spirits.Ī: Sherry Wasserman, who is the head of (Outside Lands promoter) Another Planet along with Gregg Perloff, gave us our big breakthrough gig, opening for Oasis, back in like ’96. And it made every single moment so immediate and new. So, (Nina) put a choir together and I guess we had about a 16-piece string (section) and we did a Bowie mash-up. And David Bowie had died a few months earlier. My friend Minna Choi is in (the Bay Area’s) Magik*Magik Orchestra and I just wanted to share this experience with them. And that allowed us to change everything up that day. We have kind of a swagger when we’ve been on the road for awhile. Get more of our music coverage on Flipboard.Ī: Oh, it was exactly that! My band is really cocky - it’s just a really good rock band. That performance must have felt like one big victory lap for you guys. It was nice to see such a huge turnout for the hometown heroes.Ī: We actually set the attendance record for that (stage) for the whole weekend. Q: The last time I saw you was on the main stage at the 2016 Outside Lands music festival, leading Third Eye Blind in front of a massive crowd of fans at Golden Gate Park. I teach surfing to Marines who have PTSD - and other service members as well. There’s some kind of essential life energy that I get from surfing.Ī: It’s also part of how I give. Surfing is how I find my real sense of, like, aliveness and presence.
My friends are surfers and we relate to each other through surfing. Q: Speaking of surfing, I hear that is a major passion for you.Ī: Surfing is really foundational to my life. Stephan Jenkins leads Third Eye Blind tour into San Jose Close Menu