Them Crooked Vultures @ The LC.
Thoughts:
- “Hey everybody, thanks for coming. We’re here to do a number on you.”
- Wow.
- In essence, they’re very, very Queens of the Stone Age-y. He may have some pretty famous guys onstage with him, but this is still most definitely Josh Homme’s band.
- This could have been the follow-up to Queens’ Grohl-featuring Songs for the Deaf.
- They seemed to genuinely enjoy playing together. Perhaps even more than that, they seemed to revel in the element of surprise that this tour affords them, playing a set full of songs that no one knows to people who aren’t sure what to expect.
- What we got was a variation on the Queens’ heavy desert stomp and slither. It’s big, loud rock music that should, for all intents and purposes, be dumb. But instead, it’s clever — even deceptively complex. And once you start adding in abrupt tempo changes, and (I believe) time signature shifts, it ends up feeling downright adventurous.
- It’s very hard to believe that the grandpa in the button-down shirt was in Led Zeppelin.
- John Paul Jones played a bass with significantly more than four strings. It also had blue LED’s running down the fretboard.
- John Paul Jones played a keytar. A keytar!
- While JPJ played the keytar, Josh actually (gulp) put down his guitar and danced.
- It was nice to see Dave Grohl back where he belongs, behind a drum kit bashing the shit out of things.
- No, seriously, he looked like Animal from The Muppets.
- There was no opener. There was no encore. Just an hour and a half of blazing rock and roll.
- Special thanks go to Craigslist for the less-than-half-price ticket.
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