BPD member DaCrawDaddy wrote:
Sex, guitars, tattooed drummers, dark and moody looks, and disciplined raw power. Those are the rock and roll truths. Those are the Kings of Leon.Serving refreshments? Now that's quite a gig!!
The Kings are singer Caleb Followill, with brothers Nathan and Jared on drums and bass and cousin Matt on lead guitar: three sons of a preacher man and their cousin.
Kings of Leon is a throwback to the 1960s and 1970s, when rock and roll was the common voice of a whole generation.
So it goes with Kings of Leon, a nostalgic rarity, a fashionably out of date, traditional Southern American blues rock and roll band which has more in common with bands from a generation and more earlier -- The Doors and The Black Crowes.
This was garage rock on a grand scale. Hell, there was no mistaking the lack of pretense, cliche or posing from this band, right down to the DIY band- logo taped onto the bass drum.
"You guys still having fun out there?" teased Caleb mid-set. Everybody was already having a lot of fun and ready for more. The teasing line was followed by a challenge to his bandmates.
"How are you doing up here on stage? You having fun?" he asked, looking around.
That meant it was time for Sex on Fire, the KOL anthem and a contender for the rock hall of fame.
With the light show burning red and the fans singing along massively, Sex on Fire burned along -- and the night was officially hot. It had been hot all night with only Caleb's three visits from me (as the designated refreshment deliverer) bringing some liquid coolant a cause for worry.
"In the last few days, we've come down with a cold or something. I know I'm not supposed to drink, but................ Would you take care of us while we're out front?" he had asked me before they took the stage. How could I say no?
Three times, though? Maybe all that sexy sweat on the frontman was a cold and maybe that held him back. Maybe. He did spit on stage at one point -- and not in a Johnny Rotten, let's spew all over the fans way. Maybe not. The only one of the band to move around much, he has finely judged prowl to go with his sweetly strong growls.
Their latest album, Only By the Night, celebrates its first birthday later this week and the hits just keep on coming.
The lead single Sex On Fire was No. 1 on the "Modern Rock" charts forever.
The second single, Use Somebody, came along with a video that long since cleared six million views on YouTube. It arrived in the encore in last night's set, long after songs like Notion and Crawl.
Kings of Leon were mostly brilliant, that is if your notion of a solid rock concert is less-is-more.
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