http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqlK9OKiLU

so they brought the old SFTD banner back?

And anyone complaining about the setlist can go fuck themselves, do you understand QotSA haven't played a show in the US (other than LA) in 3 years, you people out there are so spoiled

Really not impressed with this setlist. Come on guys, rehearse some old stuff, I've heard EV too much.

Sounds good! Are you shootin' for pit? If so, what time are you getting there? A friend of mine just went by, and said there are about 20 people there already.

got a ticket, and I'm so excited!

So that you don't have to click on that link to view the picture:

Again, great review AK. This is one of the best live shows I've been to. So much energy...

Also, I caught Josh's pick, which was a pretty cool bonus.

interview with ludes began and josh looked oddly naked as he took the mic - and nothing else. I've never seen Josh without his guitar on stage, and i could almost imagine a guitar shaped indent on his figure as he put 'the shine' on the entire audience. He moved, shimmied, gestured, moved to the front of the stage, danced and basically - proved he could work a stage without his guitar. (I totally blame myself for the preconceived notion that he couldn't ) Josh sang, crooned, shouted - he's clearly comfortable manning this machine, and covering vocal styles from the high, to the low, to the Canned Heat - he's all over it.

I don't know if you recall, but CD's are better quality form of recordings that vinyl, hence the whole reason why CD's were created and the thing that most people including yourself are now forgetting now that vinyl is becoming cool again. By the way, I am a fan of vinyl, I am glad that it is making a comeback, but CD's on a good sound system are better sounding containers of music. MP3's on the other hand are a joke.

(set list remembered after the fact)

nobody loves me
dead end friends
mind eraser
elephants
scumbag blues
bandoliers
reptiles
elephants
new fang
caligulove
gunman
spinning in daffodils
warsaw

the show was fantastic - and I would have been so sad to have missed it!!! - well, i wouldn't have known what i'd missed; but sad either way.

they launched with nobody loves me, and my first thought was - 320 kbps internet leak, actual cd or not - no stereo is going to recreate this. I have the leak, and i hope the real recording brings more of the dynamic sound that the live show did.

it was an unrelenting ass shaking through and through.

gunman will always make me think of M.O.R. - but watching all four of them moving together, jamming - smiling at each other- made me smile, and for a minute i wondered what chris goss heard when he listened to this song, and if he was at the show tonight.

reptiles, live - takes on a much bigger sound, one i'm hoping that i can somewhat recreate on home stereo play. the jangly desert guitar riffs is some of my favorites from the album, and live - with jpj's bass/ the guitar interplay - is rad.

grohl is just a monster on the drums, - a blur of arms, hair - and shit i don't know how to convey in terms cus i don't know drums, - but new fang, and mind eraser and the double drum hits/beats - -whatever - make me glad he's playing drums again, with whoever, for however long.

jpj hung to the back enjoying the horsepower. the bass lines of elephants and reptiles was - triumphant - and happy. elephants, bandoliers, reptiles and gunman really light up with jpj's touch. when these guys groove - it's truly all encompassing.

alain's solo intro to scumbag blues touched on blues, soul and the exquisite - and almost too short, but when the rest of the band launched into the song it was just hip jarring goodness.

some parts of the show, alain was stage right doing his thing, while josh turned left into jpj and grohl and jammed- and i couldn't help but think that alain was the only thing tethering them...

interview with ludes began and josh looked oddly naked as he took the mic - and nothing else. I've never seen Josh without his guitar on stage, and i could almost imagine a guitar shaped indent on his figure as he put 'the shine' on the entire audience. He moved, shimmied, gestured, moved to the front of the stage, danced and basically - proved he could work a stage without his guitar. (I totally blame myself for the preconceived notion that he couldn't ) Josh sang, crooned, shouted - he's clearly comfortable manning this machine, and covering vocal styles from the high, to the low, to the Canned Heat - he's all over it.

Up in the mezzanine - people were moving. I haven't been to many shows where people were so happy to be there, and just enjoy the show. The only issues I could see were the Wiltern staff trying to stem the flow of 'medicinal marijuana' ( not successful) and I also noted a lot of people with their kids, or ? with them. I had earplugs in the whole time and third song to the end took one out to 'gauge' the sound - LOUDLOUDLOUD - with the earplugs it sounded pretty much perfect.

Lock eyes from across the room
pound my drink and let the rhythm boom

Princess P, we will have fun on thursday!

When Mini Mansions were playing they had WAY TOO MANY posters to sell out, and then right after TCV they were gone in a second....wow

EDIT:
Anybody have any thought on Mini Mansions? This was the second time I saw them...first being earlier this year when they opened for The Dead Weather, and I must say it's fucking creepy hearing that voice come out of Mikey....anyone like him more or less now after hearing the band?

i didn't make it to the Fu show last night, and me thinks Rydman didn't either. rough stuff, but with the holidays looming it's really easy to forgo shows and just couch it....

i love live shows, especially small ones like at the troubadour. but, i had to bite the bullet and buy a plane ticket home for the holidays. talk about highway fuckin' robbery! i'm pretty sure I could have flown to London, and Amsterdam for the price I just paid to fly to Kenfuckintucky over the holiday week.....

amy winehouse.
such an amazing voice, and so young - maybe a bit of time in the desert with some music loving musicians will help her see the light. - she's got such an amazing voice

"Was that album really a big enough deal to be doing all that?"

yes yes and YES

one of my desert island picks for sure.

i won't be at the release party tho, have fun for me Stickman

I feared a bit of a let down after New Fang
Then everything went better and better the more it leaked - today was a great day
And as a whole, it's fucking brilliant.

Last night was pretty fun. I was pissed at first because a 45 minute drive took an hour and half because of traffic but the Coronet is across from the Beverly Center so what do you expect? Anyway, I had never been to Largo but had heard about its strict policies such as no talking and no showing up late and no photos so I was paranoid about not being let in so I got in second row which was cool. Jon Brion opened the show with a piano number and it was damn cool,. Greg is really funny and his opening skit on Coachella was cool. The first guest was some nameless guy who wrote "He's just not that into you" and he talked about bands and college and he was harmless since he was on for like 10 minutes. Rhyss Darby was really funny but I noticed a trend of Greg just talking about inane bullshit, nothing serious at all, which is fine but I knew Josh would fit right in and just blather about whatever like an Xrated episode of Seinfeld. Josh came out and he was really funny talking about the Desert, Coachella, Karoake (he does Sade ad Roy Orbison), and just tons of really off the wall things.Greg finally got around to asking about any new projects of his and Josh replied that he was taking his first break in ten years and it started that morning and ended tonight, so thats as serious as it got. After that he called Alain Johannes (still shaving his head) and for Troy to play with Jon Brion on drums. Troy did not come up but I saw him (in a sweet suit as always) and Serrina walking to the backstage dressing room across the anteroom in the place as I exited to my car. Josh and company played this bluesy, smoky, rocky kick ass song with a few whispered lyrics by Josh. Josh's guitar looked so small in his hands ad it looked like he could snap it in half but he was really in the moment with his eyes closed and dancing around. He traded guitars with Alain and played bass (!) for the last half of the song and I was really impressed by what a musician he is along with Jon Brion, who looked fucking awkward on the drums, but got the job done. I pulled out my iphone and turned it on and as it was searching for service they ended the song and the show was over, Josh wanted to do a ful bow to the crowd with Greg and everyone but he just moved away to finish the show and that would have been the extra 30 seconds I needed to get a signal and take a photo with my phone so I was sad I didn't time it right. Josh was wearing the same thing he wore to the natasha show back in august though so I have plenty of pictures of that. So all in all a fun night, but nothing revealed.

a live action Venture Brothers would suck ass. Season 4 on the other hand would rock!

It is a great album, kind of drags on at the end
but a fabulous effect.