Them Crooked Vulture Roll Call

[El Chris]

Gig was fuckin awesome man.. was about 3 rows of people from the front.

Funny story, some guy was angry at me for some reason and kept smacking me in the head really hard, so I turned around and smacked him in the nose... turned out he was a her and I pretty much broke her nose.. blood everywhere... funny that I don't feel bad heh...

Drama aside, that gig also blew my mind.. fucking hell man, I love JPJ.. .Dave Grohl is also a fucking BEAST. Josh Homme, well, he's just a sexy sexy man... (no homo)

[Some Bozo]

br00ts ! Even the riffs that seem a bit abstract and intellectual on the record, once you put them in a live situation it's total ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK and everyone's jumping up and down. Dave Grohl was a monster. Those rolls in the swirly part of "Elephants" were completely insane. JPJ played all kinds of instruments with crazy number of strings. What was that giant red thing he played slide on ? He even busted out a mandolin at one stage but you couldn't really hear it in the mix. Completely awesome show.

[ash]

What time did they come on? Any support act?

[Some Bozo]

What time did they come on? Any support act?

Just before 9:00 I think. We arrived after the support band finished, "Cairo Knife Fight" apparently...

[blackstratblues]

Just printed my ticket. I'm off!

[IkeKrull]

I went along, jumped around, sweated my ass off. left totally exhausted with my ears ringing. it was all good. Can't really see myself listening to them in a non-live situation, i find the music a bit dense and lacking 'hooks' - I guess it just has to be loud as hell.

But yeah they put on a great show and the crowd was totally into it, and everyone seemed to have a great time, possibly except for the chick that got punched. Personally, i'd feel totally shit about breaking a girls nose, at a gig or otherwise. Zero respect for that.

[Polar Bear]

That was just epic. The Stuff review is so far from the mark I threw up a little bit. Those in Auckland now will be fucking LOVING it. I can't hear anything still, but that was just amazing. What a fantastic show. The cheer that went up for JPJ may still not have finished. That band is as tight as a nun's nasty.

[slash-ed]

Wow. Stuff review was quite harsh. Can't have been that bad.

[Pakehendrix]

Homme is a talented guitar player but he has no personality in his playing; when he offers a fine line in blues-boogie or sharp rock there is no stomp or swagger to go with it.

Grohl is a competent drummer, in fact a very good rock drummer - and better suited to that position than any of his attempts elsewhere on a stage - but because he has led the very successful Foo Fighters and has made sporadic returns to the kit, he is seen as some kind of drum-god; heir apparent to the Bonham throne.

I'm sorry but this is incorrect.

What the motherfuck?

[thehenderson]

I see where he's coming from, live they are cool but they're so far from the bands that made them famous...

[Pakehendrix]

I don't get teh bit about Homme lacking personality in his guitar playing? You can tell he's playing guitar after about five seconds...that's plenty of personality, in my book.

As for Grohl...well, he's a damn fine frontman...I find this all very confusing

[Hot_Grits]

reviews aside, how was Auckland, anyone?

[TMG 03]

It was farking loud.

[Some Bozo]

Homme is a talented guitar player but he has no personality in his playing; when he offers a fine line in blues-boogie or sharp rock there is no stomp or swagger to go with it.

Grohl is a competent drummer, in fact a very good rock drummer - and better suited to that position than any of his attempts elsewhere on a stage - but because he has led the very successful Foo Fighters and has made sporadic returns to the kit, he is seen as some kind of drum-god; heir apparent to the Bonham throne.

I'm sorry but this is incorrect.

What the motherfuck?

It's not just a bizarrely wrong review, but quite poor writing style too. Just stopping dead in mid-thought like that, rather than carrying on to some conclusion or at least some supporting argument or examples ? Someone's getting paid to write this ?

[ash]

BADASS.

Is how it was.

That reviewer must have been on drugs or something. Hopefully some toss puched them in the nose.



Basically, it was The Dave Grohl Show. What a monster drummer that guy is. He was pounding them like a freaking gorilla from start to finish and nailed the grove the whole way. Super impressive performance in several ways from Grohl.

JPJ got a cheer and a chant and another cheer after his keyboard solo thing. And after every lick of his bass solo thing. It was good to see the crown hanging on his every flourish. I was dumbfounded to be standing there watching one of the dudes who toured to world about fifty times with Led fucking Zeppelin. Couldn't hear a lot of what he played, unfortunately. Sound was arse. Josh Homme was also plagued by the sound man. Shreiky guitars and no vocals at first, then shreiky vocals and no guitars. Poor old Alain Johannes was little more than stage fill much of the time. Couldn't distinguish what he did from what Homme did on guitar, except when Homme did nothing. Cool Delta bluesy solo spot from him, though.


Despite the rubbish sound, it was still one of the best gigs ever. Amazing that a brand new band can do that, even if they are all kind of a big deal individually.

Gear notes (as is my habit):

A couple of Badcat amps, some kind of retro/Gibson amp thing. Two dual 4x10 bass stacks with 4U racks on them. Something told me they were Mesa or SWR-ish. A few other things I couldn't see properly.

Homme - Blue maton, red Maton hollowbody, red telecaster
JPJ - Looked like a Peavey Cirrus bass, short and long scale 12-string basses, a huge keytar, a Rhodes-ish looking piano thing, an electric mandochello looking thing. some other freaky looking bass
AJ - Humbucker loaded Jazzmater, Tobacco-burst LP Std, Maestro equipped SG in cherry red, possibly a Maton or Italia bass, a little keyboard thing on legs.

I'm glad I went!