It’s not that Greta Van Fleet are not good players, they are. Thankfully the band does get to grooving near the album’s end with third-from-last tune “The Cold Wind,” the best here. While “Watching Over,” sees some solid guitar work from Jake Kiszka but goes on way too long. “Evil,” the Howlin’ Wolf cover is short and blistering and probably works the best out of all the attempts here. The Zep-sounding alike is just too much for me on “Flower Power,” and the light remake attempt at John Denver’s “The Music is You” is a little too loose-y goosey to really stick together. Songs like the very noisy “Highway Tune,” balance between the brashest Zep and even have a sprinkling of The Darkness in them, and while “Edge of Darkness” has a cool chorus (and the first real use of melody) Josh Kiszka’s screaming just gets too much for me, as it so often does throughout the album. Sure, it’s cool that a younger band is wearing their influences so blatantly (on the front cover of this new live album the foursome pose Bohemian Rhapsody-style), still, there is nothing really all that interesting here in the songs or delivery.Ĭhampagne & Caviar, the band’s latest, was recorded in Osaka, Japan in January of this year. If I want to listen to music that sounds like Led Zepplin, Queen or any other classic band, I’ll listen to those classic (and quite frankly better) bands. But hey, maybe I was just spoiled a little too much last year haha.Sorry, but I just can’t bow down to the altar of Greta Van Fleet. Last year was so much more energetic and enthusiastic… also, the sound quality was pretty bad tonight in my opinion. Honestly, they just seemed quite lackluster today. I saw them last year too, in a much smaller venue, and I have to say they were a LOT better back then. To which Stormbernard replied “Hmm honestly, as much as I love GVF, I was a little disappointed in them tonight.
Thank you guys, keep up the good work and enjoy the caviar and champagne tonight” Hands down the best concert I’ve been to last year (including Muse, Foo Fighters, Mumford and Sons, Editors, etc).
I was amazed by how well GvF performed live. It feels like Led Zeppelin with some extravagant Queen aspects.
Till November 12th, today! Holy potatoes, the show was awesome. Sadly one of the bandmembers got ill, it was postponed. Shortly after I bought tickets to go see them in February. Someone I worked with tipped me… Shortly after (like a week or so) the new album came out. As Trapgat wrote: ” A year ago, I never heard of GvF.
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