Cake Performs For 90,000 In Atlanta

08/01/2001 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss

(8/1/01, 1 p.m. ET) -- A free show by Cake at Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta drew more than 90,000 fans Friday (July 27), the largest crowd ever for the Sacramento, California group. The performance, part of that city's On The Bricks summer concert series, outdrew by approximately 40,000 the previous best-attended show of the series this year, which was headlined by Staind.

Others on the bill with Cake included the Josh Joplin Group and the Drive-By Truckers.

The massive gig followed the release of the group's fourth album, Comfort Eagle, which arrived from Columbia Records July 24; and a series of small, unannounced club shows in California surrounding the effort. Cake frontman John McCrea recently told LAUNCH that the group's sound was "built" for such intimate settings but admits that it might not make financial sense to implement that idea for a full tour.

"I don't know what we're gonna do to make a living," he said. "I suppose we'll have to play as large a room as possible that still sounds OK, but generally, if you talk to any musician the quality of the experience goes down directly proportionate to the size of the room."

Comfort Eagle features the single, "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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