Stabler Arena
is Lehigh University's 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, located on its Goodman Campus in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Opened in 1979, Stabler is an all-purpose arena, hosting athletic events, major concerts and children's events.
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Athletics
Stabler Arena is home to the
Lehigh University Mountain Hawks
basketball teams, who play in college basketball's
Patriot League. The conference has held portions of its men's tournament there three times. The
Lehigh Valley Outlawz, a team in the
Indoor 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 from
Pink 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, and
The Moody Blues.
Music videos from Stabler
Stabler has been the site for four
music videos. The video for
Whitney Houston's 1987 hit "
So Emotional" and two
Bon Jovi songs, "
Bed of Roses" and "
In These Arms", include footage from the artists' respective Stabler concerts.
The eastern
Pennsylvania grunge rock band
Breaking 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.
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 his
Lake Washington residence. This show has since become one of the band's most widely circulated
bootleg recordings because of its proximity to Cobain's death, representing one of Nirvana's final U.S. shows.
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.