Oct162009
Them Crooked Vultures @ 9:30 Club
Filed under Music by Kim at 1:51 pm on Oct 16 2009
Like thousands of other folks on faith I signed up to go to this show with reasonably vague expectations and I am definitely glad I spent unreasonable sums of money to get tickets to this show off craigslist.
The personalities are larger than life but of course what is it really about? The music. I was worried I’d be bored or disappointed, right? I mean there’s no album, so what do we know? I came out of the club absolutely hungry for more. (Apologies for the crummy iPhone pic, I am not smart enough to know how to get a press pass to something like this just yet.)
I don’t have the knowledge required to say definitively that you can hear each contributor’s influence on the songs, but what I felt was that this sounded not a little bit like what a QotSA follow-up to Era Vulgaris would have sounded like. That is good for me, maybe bad for somebody else. The rhythms were so solid, and Grohl was on fire, practically invisible behind the kit but a massive presence nonetheless. Anthing I have to say about Josh Homme’s performance is tainted with bias.
John Paul Jones did whip out a keytar. Now, I didn’t write about this, but that makes a lot of keytar action happening in music I like.*
Anyways. There were several songs in the TCV set I really liked, I don’t know the names, but I can’t wait for the album rumored to come out next month. Check out this semi-helpful interview with Homme from Austin City Limits. For really good photos check out DCist’s post about the show. I agree with Francis Chung – the crowd seemed a little under-energetic. I mean I understand that is a stereotypical DC crowd, but come on! Stop giving dancing people the stink-eye; it’s good when the music moves you.
* I went to the Ram’s Head Live and saw Sonata Arctica and Dragonforce, and the keyboardists from both of those bands (who put on FLAT OUT FUCKING AMAZING live shows) (not that I would ever buy DF’s albums, ugh) came out in the middle of the show and had the most amazing keytar-play-off I have ever, and probably will ever, see. Jeez, I really should have written that show up. It looked a little like this.
1 Jenon 16 Oct 2009 at 2:49 pm
Seriously, what is up with people disapproving of other people dancing at concerts? Pfft.
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2 Aprilon 16 Oct 2009 at 5:02 pm
Oh man, I didn’t even THINK about Craigslist when I missed the pre-order window by sleeping through it. I’m glad someone I know made it there!
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