![]() ![]() I had seen the band early on, as they were still forming and storming, still somewhat of a southern rock version of the Strokes. So going into the show this weekend, I was definitely curious to see how much had changed in 12 years. I’d rather not dwell on this though as what it mostly demonstrates is that I’m getting older and memories, especially those made more than a decade ago are fuzzy at best. * I actually just looked it up and these two shows were a year apart, not a week apart. I then saw them maybe a week* or so later back home in Portland and this time, knowing more what to expect, I liked the show more. Their stage presence was robotic at best, stoic at worst, and for the most part they slammed through each song, doing their best to play near note-for-note versions of the songs as they appeared on the albums. The first time was in Boston and to this day I remember feeling somewhat unimpressed. I actually saw them back then, twice actually. ![]() The set’s second song was “ The Bucket” from their second album Aha Shake Heartbreak, an album that came out all the way back in 2004, which would now provide as a gentle reminder that Kings have been around roughly five years longer than it feels like they have been. They sounded amazing and the 24 song set admirably pulled evenly from the band’s seven albums. What it did come to is something I could best describe as a good news/bad news situation. No bus crashes or broken ribs this time and as parents of a 2 year old, we would be damned if this show wasn’t going to happen, one way or the other. We had tried to see them a few years earlier, but the show ended up being cancelled following a bus accident and KOL’s drummer sustaining some broken ribs. On Saturday night, a slight bummer weather wise given the recent run of summer-like weather we’ve had here in New Jersey, the Wife and I went to see Kings of Leon. Home › Music › Kings of Leon & Rock’s Last Days ![]()
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