Taking Back Sunday Tops Favorite Coliseum Show List

Newsday's Glenn Gamboa recently wrote about the most memorable live shows at Nassau Coliseum this century and Taking Back Sunday's 2006 performance topped the list.

"...What separates a good concert from a great one is the element of surprise," Gamboa writes in the article.

1. Taking Back Sunday (June 23, 2006)

Emotions were running high, even before the Rockville Centre-based band took their hometown stage as headliners, as hundreds of fans overwhelmed security to jump the barricades and form the biggest moshpit in Nassau Coliseum history. The band rose to the occasion, as thousands shouted back every word and howled in appreciation that Long Island's own had made it. No one there will ever forget singer Adam Lazzara's shocked look during "Divine Intervention" as the crowd let loose. "I used to deliver deli food not too far from here," he said, during a lull. "This is pretty crazy."

Dummer Mark O'Connell is a 1999 graduate.