Queens of the Stone Age 12/15/07

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San Diego’s Alternative radio station FM 94.9 used to put on an annual concert called the Holiday Hootenanny. There were a bunch of bands that played including hometown boys Louis XIV and Pinback (both excellent) but I was really there to see Queens of the Stone Age who was headlining the event and touring behind their stellar album Era Vulgaris that had just come out in June. I had only seen them once before when they opened for Nine Inch Nails and I was pretty excited to see them again. I don’t know which band members were different from the first time around but this incarnation seemed to be tighter and the overall vibe was way more energy. That could have been mostly due to the setlist but who knows? They melted the face off Donna and I that night.

Ahh camera phones in 2007…