Monday, October 16, 2006

Killers goodness.

We saw the Killers last night at the Fillmore. Since the Fillmore is all general admission with no seats, we stood in line for four hours to ensure front row seats. After radio station winners and line bloat increased the number of people in front of us from 40 to about 200, we still managed to be only like two people back.

The show was amazing. Singer Brandon Flowers took a page from Bono's Mr. Macphisto character and just glammed and hammed his way through the entire set -- in a good way. He's a total showman who doesn't take himself seriously for a moment. During the first few songs of the show, he seemed flabbergasted that the crowd knew all the words to the songs from the new album that's been out for a little less than two weeks.

Since they are such a young band (they've only been around since 2004) they still don't feel comfortable opening up and playing their songs differently from the album version, but I'm sure that will change in the next few years. For now, though, they put on a hell of a show.

Here are some of the best photos from the CrapCam, because I am very excited about having a camera phone:





It's hard to tell, but Brandon was actually standing on top of his piano at this point.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ebeth..

Wow....GREAT SEATS!!!! There is no venue here in So Cal where you could get away with that!

Even I know some lyrics, thanks to the tireless repetition on KROQ:

They say the devil's water
It ain't so sweet,
You dont have to drink right now.
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while....

That's my fav!
Very Bruce Springsteenish!

Love you, Sweetie...Dad