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Got back from a show
12 years ago
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So I just got back from a Queens of the Stone Age concert at Red Rocks amphitheater in Denver. It was really something else, I have to say. Queens of the Stone Age is the first band I've seen live that wasn't related to school or Weird Al Yankovic (well, second with the opening act, but the opening act wasn't who I got tickets to see). I got a T-shirt and a CD for souvenirs, and I got a pretzel, a soda, and two waters (One for me, one for my sister and her friend) at the concessions stands.
The first thing about the concert was the opening act, Gogol Bordello. They were a really engaging band, with drums, two guitars, a space violin, and an accordion, plus occasional tom-toms or marching band bass drum. If you haven't heard of them, I'd suggest giving them a look. Unfortunately, I wasn't as able to enjoy their music as I might have been if I had found a person giving out earplugs earlier. Also, my sister thought that the sound balance was overall a bit off, with too much focus on guitars and gain and all that.
Then there was the headliner, Queens of the Stone Age. The experience was really good with them, with the creepy new visuals and intertwining of newer songs with those I was well-acquainted with, such as "Make it wit chu," "No one knows," and "Sick, Sick, Sick." I couldn't stay the whole time, since everyone was standing up all the time, and I felt my feet going numb a few times throughout the evening, not mentioning all the secondhand smoke coming from people's cigarettes or possibly blunts/doobies (I wasn't feeling any sort of a high, so they might not have been), but it was something new, something that I hadn't experienced, and I was glad I went.
Plus, there were these two chicks down front wearing low-cut skinny jeans and moderately skimpy tops dancing suggestively with each other. Tell me you wouldn't want to have seen that.
The first thing about the concert was the opening act, Gogol Bordello. They were a really engaging band, with drums, two guitars, a space violin, and an accordion, plus occasional tom-toms or marching band bass drum. If you haven't heard of them, I'd suggest giving them a look. Unfortunately, I wasn't as able to enjoy their music as I might have been if I had found a person giving out earplugs earlier. Also, my sister thought that the sound balance was overall a bit off, with too much focus on guitars and gain and all that.
Then there was the headliner, Queens of the Stone Age. The experience was really good with them, with the creepy new visuals and intertwining of newer songs with those I was well-acquainted with, such as "Make it wit chu," "No one knows," and "Sick, Sick, Sick." I couldn't stay the whole time, since everyone was standing up all the time, and I felt my feet going numb a few times throughout the evening, not mentioning all the secondhand smoke coming from people's cigarettes or possibly blunts/doobies (I wasn't feeling any sort of a high, so they might not have been), but it was something new, something that I hadn't experienced, and I was glad I went.
Plus, there were these two chicks down front wearing low-cut skinny jeans and moderately skimpy tops dancing suggestively with each other. Tell me you wouldn't want to have seen that.
