- Stabler Arena
Stabler Arena is
Lehigh University 's 5,600-seat multi-purposearena inBethlehem, Pennsylvania , located on its Goodman Campus in theLehigh Valley region ofPennsylvania , in theUnited States . Opened in1979 , Stabler is an all-purpose arena, hosting athletic events, major concerts and children's events.Athletics
Stabler Arena is home to the
Lehigh University Mountain Hawksbasketball team s, who play in college basketball'sPatriot League . The conference has held portions of its men's tournament there three times. TheLehigh Valley Outlawz , a team in theIndoor Football League , also play their home games at Stabler.Stabler also has hosted ABC's "Wide World of Sports" and the U.S. Women's gymnastics finals.
Music
Stabler is a regular stop for many major musical acts. Bands and artists that have performed multiple times at Stabler include
Bryan Adams ,Aerosmith ,Michael Bolton ,Bon Jovi ,Breaking Benjamin ,Bob Dylan ,Whitney Houston ,Fleetwood Mac ,Goo Goo Dolls ,Grateful Dead ,Billy Joel ,Metallica ,David Gilmour fromPink Floyd ,Queensrÿche ,David Lee Roth , Yes, and others.Because of the arena's reputation for exceptional acoustics and lively audiences, some musical acts have kicked off their U.S. concert tours at Stabler. These include:
The Cranberries , Kiss,Bette Midler , andThe Moody Blues .Music videos from Stabler
Stabler has been the site for four
music video s. The video forWhitney Houston 's 1987 hit "So Emotional " and twoBon Jovi songs, "Bed of Roses " and "In These Arms ", include footage from the artists' respective Stabler concerts.The eastern
Pennsylvania grunge rock bandBreaking Benjamin used footage of their February 11, 2007 Stabler Arena concert as their music video for "Breath", which reached number one on U.S. Billboard charts in early 2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3qJmgktS0] .Breaking Benjamin DVD from Stabler
Breaking Benjamin's first live DVD, released with their album, "Phobia", features the band's entire February 11, 2007 Stabler Arena concert.
Broadcast on
HDNet for the first time on March 4, 2007, Breaking Benjamin's globally-broadcast Stabler concert and the DVD of it were influential in propelling "Breath" and "The Diary of Jane " to two of the most successful U.S. singles of 2007.Nirvana bootleg from Stabler
The grunge rock band Nirvana performed at Stabler on November 9, 1993, less than five months before lead singer
Kurt Cobain committed suicide at hisLake Washington residence. This show has since become one of the band's most widely circulatedbootleg recordings because of its proximity to Cobain's death, representing one of Nirvana's final U.S. shows [http://www.livenirvana.com/dvd/1993/dvd_11-09-93b.php] .Kiss bootleg from Stabler
On October 1, 1992, the rock band Kiss kicked off their global tour at Stabler Arena. Kiss's Stabler concert was the first arena show on the tour, following smaller, warm-up venues in Europe and the U.S. It was the first show to use a giant, pyrotechnic mock up of the
Statue of Liberty that became the tour's trademark.Kiss's 1992 Stabler show has since become one of the band's most widely-circulated video
bootleg recordings because of its status as a kick-off date for the last tour the group played before their later 1996 and subsequent tours featuring a return to their trademark make-up and a reuniting of the band's original line up.External links
* [http://www.stablerarena.com/home.htm Stabler Arena Official Web Site] .
* [http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/16408 Upcoming Stabler Arena events at Ticketmaster] .
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3qJmgktS0 Breaking Benjamin's music video for "Breath", recorded at Stabler Arena] , February 11, 2007.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBf2cMv29rk Breaking Benjamin performs "The Diary of Jane" at Stabler Arena] , February 11, 2007.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYVzJpT2_5o Nirvana's performance of "All Apologies" at Stabler Arena] , November 9, 1993.
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