Papa Roach Ignites the Stage at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre

By Lori Sapio

Photo by Bryson Roatch, Courtesy of LiveNation

Chicago’s own Rise Against opened up their set to a crowd full of explosive energy.  When they started their third song “Give It All,” they let the crowd know that they are Chicago’s own.  Rise Against had warmed the crowd up for Papa Roach by finishing strong with “Savior,” with pretty much everyone in attendance singing along.  The lights, the energy, the visuals, the crowd was in it at the start to their explosive set.  For the fourth song, “…To Be Loved” Jacoby called for an old school pit circle.  When starting into “Kill the Noise,” he asked to split the pit before going into “Getting Away With Murder.”

The crowd was ramped up and Jacoby started to interact with them.  A girl in the crowd was celebrating her 7th birthday, and he took a moment to sing “Happy Birthday” to her.  A woman got his attention to let him know she was celebrating her 40th.  After telling her that she looked good for 40, he sang a quick “Happy Birthday” to her as well.  Someone in the pit held up a sign that said they had wrote a letter about this being their 25th Papa Roach show.  Jacoby acknowledged he read the letter backstage, thanked her and the band started to play Snoop Dog’s “California Love.”  After Jacoby introduced the band, his son came out with a t-shirt cannon and shot a couple of shirts off into the crowd.  He shared with the crowd that Papa Roach has always combined Black Metal with Hip Hop before starting into “Forever” which he dedicated to his wife Kelly.

A tribute to Chester of Linkin Park, and the band played “Falling Apart” before a video was shown about suicide awareness.  They’ve partnered up with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  How sharing about mental health is a big topic of their songs, and they were making a donation in the name of Chicago’s show to the Talk Away the Dark Campaign.  Jacoby asked everyone to turn their phone lights on and said “Anyone in the dark, we will always leave a light on for you.  You are not alone.”  He then asked for a moment of silence for those we lost to suicide, and to those who were left behind.  And then the powerful first cords of “Scars” were played.  

Before going into “BRAINDEAD” they shared that the song just went #1 on the charts and asked to celebrate with a mosh pit and that they’ve been doing this since 1993.  Longer than most of the people in attendance have been alive.  Jacoby went into the crowd to sing along.  For the encore, they played a mash up of “Blind / My Own Summer (Shove It) / Break Stuff / Chop Suey” and ran into the lawn by letting us know that the encore was a nod to the Anger Management tour.  He called that tour the new metal sound machine.  For the last time machine throwback, the encore was ended with “Last Resort” and the pyrotechnics that were present for the whole show cued up to the beat until the last note was played.

9/27/25, Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, Illinois