CROOKED VULTURES FALL TOUR [US, UK, Germany]

[plutonic]

The show in D.C. last night was total Dionysus.
Every time I opened my eyes, I was surprised that everyone in the club was still wearing clothes.
It was absolutely molten.

Loved it.

Speaking of Mind Eraser, I totally spaced that Lara would be here. Who else went?

[sockii]

The show in D.C. last night was total Dionysus.
Every time I opened my eyes, I was surprised that everyone in the club was still wearing clothes.
It was absolutely molten.

Loved it.

Sounds like DC was as orgasmic as Philly was (speaking of which, any Dime folks out there who can send me a copy of the Philly show?)

Glad you got to experience it. I was seriously and unexpectedly blown away by them (daresay I enjoyed it musically quite a bit more than Springsteen last night, though that was an experience in its own right...but not my musical cup of tea the way TCV was...)

[conroy]

The show in D.C. last night was total Dionysus.
Every time I opened my eyes, I was surprised that everyone in the club was still wearing clothes.
It was absolutely molten.

Loved i
Speaking of Mind Eraser, I totally spaced that Lara would be here. Who else went?

There were several times during the show where it reminded of that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the people all come out to see the space ship. That's how awesome it was!

We were up front on the rail stage left. Where were you, Dan? I tried looking for you, but everyone behind me towered over me so I couldn't see very far back.

[TheEqualizer]

(daresay I enjoyed it musically quite a bit more than Springsteen last night, though that was an experience in its own right...but not my musical cup of tea the way TCV was...)

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Bruce Springsteeen & The E Street Band
Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
October 14, 2009

Disc 1
1. Thundercrack
2. The Ties That Bind
3. What Love Can Do
4. Hungry Heart
5. Working on a Dream
6. Badlands
7. Adam Raised a Cain
8. Something in the Night
9. Candy’s Room
10. Racing in the Street

Disc 2
11. The Promised Land
12. Factory
13. Streets of Fire
14. Prove It All Night
15. Darkness on the Edge of Town
16. Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
17. Sherry Darling

Disc 3
18. Human Touch
19. Long Walk Home
20. The Rising
21. Born to Run
22. Ramrod
23. Detroit Medley (Devil w/ A Blue Dress>Good Golly Ms Molly>CC Rider>Devil w/ A Blue Dress)
24. American Land
25. Dancing in the Dark
26. Short, trumpet version of Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) --> Rosalita

[sockii]

Am an idiot and tired. Never mind.

[TheEqualizer]

Am an idiot and tired.

Me too. I feel like posting that a lot.

[plutonic]

The show in D.C. last night was total Dionysus.
Every time I opened my eyes, I was surprised that everyone in the club was still wearing clothes.
It was absolutely molten.

Loved i
Speaking of Mind Eraser, I totally spaced that Lara would be here. Who else went?

There were several times during the show where it reminded of that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the people all come out to see the space ship. That's how awesome it was!

We were up front on the rail stage left. Where were you, Dan? I tried looking for you, but everyone behind me towered over me so I couldn't see very far back.

Close encounters! Nice.

I didn't get there until at least 8. So I headed straight for the Balcony. Grabbed a decent vantage point there. Sorry I missed you. I was totally spaced out getting there and after.

[conroy]

I was in my halloween disguise so you wouldn't have recognized me. I was sporting my thinkgeek halloween pumpkin LED t-shirt and my red and black flannel Elmer Fudd-esque hunting cap like this one here http://www.bmtc.shoppingcartsplus.com/c ... 771942.htm that I bought for three bucks at Rugged Wearhouse on the way to show.

ETA: A highlight of the show last night was seeing Dave Grohl's mom rocking out on the VIP balcony during the show last night at the 9:30 club.

[TheEqualizer]

Artist: Them Crooked Vultures
Date: 2009-10-15
Location: New York, NY
Venue: Roseland Ballroom

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Setlist:
01. Intro
02. Elephants
03. Dead End Friend
04. Scumbag Blues
05. Gunman
06. Highway One
07. New Fang
08. Caligulove
09. Bandoliers
10. Mind Eraser (No Chaser)
11. Spinning In Daffodils ->
12. JPJ Piano Solo
13. Interlude With Ludes
14. Reptiles
15. No One Loves Me (And Neither Do I)
16. Warsaw

Length: 91:08

From Rolling Stone:

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“It’s a lot of new music,” said Them Crooked Vultures frontman Josh Homme onstage at the Roseland Ballroom for the New York debut of his supergroup with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones last night. “It’s not often you get to hear a bunch of music that you have no idea what’s gonna happen.”

Debuting in public seems like a coup in the age of instant leaks and message board spoilers. And Them Crooked Vultures got nothing short of a hero’s welcome for a show where the only material anyone knew was from spotty camera phone YouTubes and exactly 137 seconds of studio music floating around. They packed the enormous Roseland on name alone with tickets that went for $54.50; they sold tons of merch without a single leaked song to their name; they had a father and son team already running around in matching Them Crooked Vultures T-shirts.

Clearly the cult of personality loomed the largest. Homme, the only guy in the band who hasn’t had a record sell 10 million copies, did his best to humanize the event and defuse the tension with his dry banter. “This is Mr. Dave Grohl on drums,” he said to a rush of applause before quipping, “Oh, they’ve heard of you.” Homme seemed genuinely shocked after he got cheers for “Nobody Loves Me, and Neither Do I,” adding, “You know this one?” His intimate attitude was perfect because the band was playing it close, too. These weren’t rock demigods out to mesmerize a crowd with their oversized personalities and monolithic jams; these were a couple guys fresh from the practice space, still ironing out the kinks, still looking at each other while they play to figure out where they’re going. When they busted into a new set list addition, the alt-metal neck-snapper “Reptiles,” Jones had to face Grohl to keep its tricky scissor-kick rhythms from falling apart.

Otherwise they were tight as a button, if not a little indulgent. Six-minute space-blooz dirges still seem a little odd in the hand of lean popsters like Homme and Grohl, but consummate Zepper Jones felt right at home — and the crowd completely ate up all his art-rock affectations. He playing a completely ripping, honest-to-God bass solo in the middle of “Scumbag Blues,” his fingers running up and down the neck like a caffeinated 17-year-old who just learned how to play “Good Times, Bad Times.” At the end of the scuzzy, Kiss-like rager “Daffodils,” he played a two-minute barroom piano solo by himself, and the crowd went nuts. For the demented lounge of “Interlude w/ Ludes” he brought a keytar out from the side of the stage, which was maybe the first time a keytar has gotten applause at Roseland in 20 years.

Maybe even a little hyper-aware of all the jamming, Homme cut the tension once again by the show’s end. “You still love us now? Only four hours left.”

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[Larissa]

Thanks again EQ. Yet another wank from Rolling Stone though; Reptiles is hardly a new addition, they've been playing it the whole US tour. Perhaps they meant Highway 1, which actually debuted in Boston.

And btw, reviewer, the bass player faces the drummer not because they're afraid of screwing up; it's because they're the damn rhythm section. That's what they do.

[TheEqualizer]

From Rolling Stone

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The burning question that’s lingered since Them Crooked Vultures made their live debut August 9th at Chicago’s Metro has finally been answered: Rock’s newest supergroup announced today that they’ll released their self-produced and self-titled album on November 17th, a week and three months after the band of Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones first appeared onstage together.

After debuting in Chicago, the Vultures went a tour of European venues and festivals before returning to the states for a run of dates that concluded October 15th at New York’s Roseland Ballroom (read our review of the show here). The 13 songs that featured in the band’s live performances will appear in all their studio glory on Them Crooked Vultures, including opening track “No One Loves Me & Neither Do I.” The band is rumored to be releasing their official first single “New Fang” to radio October 26th, Blabbermouth reports.

The Vultures will embark on a brief tour of Germany in early December, then continue on to the U.K. for seven shows in eight nights. From there, they flock Down Under for six shows in Australia and New Zealand. Them Crooked Vultures promise to announce more dates following the album’s release.

Check out the Them Crooked Vultures track list below:

“No One Loves Me & Neither Do I”
“Mind Eraser, No Chaser”
“New Fang”
“Dead End Friends”
“Elephants”
“Scumbag Blues”
“Bandoliers”
“Reptiles”
“Interlude With Ludes”
“Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up”
“Caligulove”
“Gunman”
“Spinning In Daffodils”

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