The group’s consistency across five albums has earned it a following, but the band remains on the periphery of mainstream acceptance. Opening the evening was excellent California folk and rock act, Dawes.įor the uninitiated, they certainly struck into the hearts and minds of the KOL die-hards. The free-form ebb-and-flow of the evening was a suitable set up for the evening’s climax of Sex On Fire, which sent a terrific crowd to the exits satisfied – and then some. It’s a number that still sounds as fresh and vital as it did nearly a decade ago.įollowing a tasteful and decidedly un-tacky acoustic set, which included Milk, Talihina Sky and the title cut from WALLS, the group jumped back into tuneful jam mode with both feet.ĭropping the red shears that gave the stage an old theatre feel, they let it rip with arena-size anthems and production in Find Me, Radioactive, The Immortals, Notion, and another sing and clap along of On Call, the crowd still with them every step of the way. Use Somebody had even the most casual of fans singing every word and dancing in the aisles.
While it’s true that there are many ways to be “entertained,” watching and listening to a solid rock and roll band that can really play is, indeed, one of them. Raw talent, real emotion and precise musicianship are sometimes sorely lacking in the all-show, no-go culture of many arena pop, rock and country acts in 2017. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.