Kings of Leon and We Are Scientists @ HOB SD
So I decided that I was living the mastercard commercial on Saturday night ($38.85 = concert ticket, $107.91 = hotel room in Vegas, $174.50 = RT plane ticket to Vegas, getting to see one of your favorite bands on the opening night of their tour = priceless.) Tonight’s show had a lot to live up to and it didn’t quite measure up, but it was a good show. If I hadn’t seen how great they were yesterday I would have said it was an awesome show. I’ve become jaded, I suppose. Anyways, set list first and then commentary....
Kings of Leon
HOB San Diego
10/12/08
Crawl
My Party
Black Thumbnail
Taper Jean Girl
King of the Rodeo
Fans
Revelry
Milk
For Kicks
Razz
Molly’s Chambers
The Bucket
Sex on Fire
On Call
Closer
Cold Desert
McFearless
Use Somebody
Charmer
Encore:
Knocked Up
Manhattan
Slow Night, Slow Long
I decided that I would skip the Stills tonight and just head there for WAS and KOL. So as I drove down a little after 7, I was listening to Hal on KBZT speak with Nathan (drummer from KOL) who was doing the Coup d’ etat. Sweet. He’s a good interview and played some great tunes from his i-pod. By the time I actually arrived at HOB, Nathan had already gone back down into the music hall, but I got to hang with Hal, Jermsy and Owen for a bit before I headed in for We Are Scientists.
We Are Scientists were their usual charming selves and didn’t pull any surprises with their set list (complete list if you rawk on). They were cracking me up because Keith was talking about how cold it was in Vegas (it was! I freaking froze my a$$ off while I was waiting for my hotel shuttle - good thing I had a sweater in my backpack.)
Between the sets, I saw the group of people that I had met last night in Vegas so that was pretty cool. I then planted myself near the sound booth and found myself surrounded by some hardcore fans. Very nice. I’ve decided that KOL fans only come second to the rabid devotion of NINnies. That says a lot about KOL fans in my book. I was close enough in the sound booth to be able to take notes on the set list once the show started, so as my OCD settled down, I got to really enjoy the show. The set list was basically the same; the order was a little different but we got “King of the Rodeo”. Caleb mentioned that they had a long night in Vegas and they had partied it up and made excuses for his voice. (I thought he sounded fine - maybe a bit rough but I found it to be charming.) I thought it was cool that he complimented the crowd at some point and said that he thought the show was gonna suck ("you never know with crowds in California"), but that he was pleasantly surprised and was actually enjoying himself. Very nice.
So after hearing the new material twice now, I am thinking my favorite new song live is “Use Somebody” (You know that I could use somebody/Someone like you/And all you know/And how you speak/Countless lovers under cover of the street...) Still disappointed that we didn’t get “I Want You”. But hey, a girl can’t get everything she wants all the time, can she? That’s probably a debate better left off the interweb. All that matters is that I’ve got show afterglow. It could pretty much light up the sky at this point.
And back to my original premise.....
$42.80 = ticket to a show
$20 = merch for me and someone else
$15 = sugar free red bull and a shot of jager
getting to see one of your favorite bands and having them tell you that your crowd was the best they’ve had in SD = priceless
Now I get to leave the charmed life and get back to my regular programming. Flying out tomorrow, see you guys back in SD on Saturday night.
