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Hawthorne Heights Los Angeles Concert reviews
Solid Night of Rock and or Roll but.......
Admittedly, I went into the evening more excited about seeing Hawthorne Heights again than Royal Blood... Both bands performed about the same, that being said... They pack a lot of punch for a bassist and drummer, if you haven't seen or heard RB, they will definitely impress you... However, they were a bit slow in their tempo compared to the show I saw them at a couple of months ago at the Newport.
Queens really did rock. I was definitely surprised when they lead with The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret and Go With Flow... I immediately thought "Well.... No One Knows will have to be the finale." Sure enough 15 minutes later they played that! A fair amount of people started exiting the show at that point, but I had heard enough from their albums to know I'd enjoy the set. They brought the rock with them, and I salute them for it. Onto Queens...
Now.... the BUT.... Holy crap the mixing for Queens was just atrocious. It felt like I was getting bombarded with a flat wall of sound, it was pretty much impossible to distinguish the different guitar sounds between the guy switching back and forth keyboard and guitar, the second guitarist, and the singer... And Josh Homme's vocals only made brief appearances throughout the show. This was my first concert at this venue, so it very much could've been the engineering of the venue itself (a small outdoor amphitheater, back wall probably needs to be about 5 feet higher). So there ya go, if you can catch this show at a club-like setting (Newport) or something similar, this show would probably be a 5, but if you go to a bleh venue, it drops down to a 3. Just be sure you're REALLY a fan of Queens' entire discography, they mix it up!