Them Crooked Vultures @ The Sound Academy, October 9

Last week, I saw a band that thousands of people are craving to see, although it has no more than 3 minutes of recorded audio. This band is Them Crooked Vultures. If you didn't know them, they are a super group made up of some of rock's greatest icons. The lead singer and lead guitarist is the front man of Queens of the Stone Age and co-founder of Eagles of Death Metal, Josh Homme. On the drums, is Dave Grohl, the drummer of Nirvana. People call them The Beatles of the new generation.

Grohl is also the leader and front man of one of today's biggest rock bands, The Foo Fighters. The bassist is John Paul Jones, who happened to be a member of a little band called Led Zeppelin. If you are a fan of rock music, you would know that these three men create the most serious line-up in a band, ever. The band was announced in early July this year, and played their first show at The Metro in Chicago on August 9th. Since then they have played around 25 shows, which have all sold out in less than 5 minutes. My dad, my brother and I were lucky enough to get tickets to what could be the most legendary concert in Toronto of all time.

We got to the Sound Academy right when the doors opened at 7, bought our t-shirts and ran to the font to get a good spot. There were no openers so we had to wait there for two hours until they got on stage at 9. The fans at the show were clearly dedicated fans of at least one part of The Crooked Vultures because they either got tickets right when they went on sale, or paid way over face value for them.

The age of the crowd was really ranged. There were a lot of men in there 40's and older, who who were probably there for John Paul Jones. There were also a lot of fans in there 30's, 20's and even some teenagers my age. At the end of the day, when they did go on, they just walked up on stage like any other band, picked up their instruments and played. They only have 40 second clips of three songs they recorded, which they released, and other than that, all the songs they played nobody knew. However, they were really good songs, so the crowd was very pleased.

The person I was most looking forward to see was Dave Grohl playing drums. Although drumming isn't his day job anymore, he is one of my favourite drummers because of the intensity and power he puts into it. To see him play drums live was just magical. For the whole hour and half, he would lift his arms above his head for almost every stroke. What an incredible sight. Dave was my favourite, but Josh Homme and John Paul Jones blew minds as well. Josh Homme looked slightly drunk, but it seemed to work for him as he blew everybody away with his technical slide guitar solos.

As for John Paul Jones, I don't know what to say. The man's 64 and he's playing the bass like a teenager, smiling the whole entire night. To see a member of of the most legendary band of all time next to the Beatles and The Stones was just incredible. When they finished, there was no encore (I'm guessing because they played the entire catalogue), but everybody refused to leave and kept cheering even when all the instruments were being taken away. I've never seen that before--a crowd that refused to leave! Unfortunately, the crew closed the curtain so there was no chance to see anything else.