King's X Live in Asbury Park, NJ
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Friday, March 7, 2003 @ 5:42 PM
King's X Live at The Stone Pon
REVIEW BY: Slam68
King's X played another great show at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. I swear that this is becoming like a micro Grateful Dead thang because people came from many miles away for this gig.
For those of you who don't know, The Stone Pony is a venue that holds around 1,000 people packed.The night started with a local band called Friends Of Bill Wilson. This band is a 3-piece that plays a nu-metal type of sound. Their guitarist/lead singer has the approach in his vocal delivery that goes from soft and slightly moody to the nu-metal scream and back again. The rhythm's were nice and crunchy and they sounded very tight.
Next up from Detroit was Zug Izland. Zug Izland is on tour with King's X and they are signed to Psychopathic Records, which is Insane Clown Posse's imprint. These guys are very diverse in their sound and have a cool look. They have the uniform thing going on ala Slipknot and
Mushroomhead. They were interesting, but unfortunately the audience was not responsive towards them.
Then I thought King's X was going to play. I was wrong. The next band to perform was a band called Hat Trick Of Misery. Let me tell you -- these guys flat out rocked!! A 5-piece band in the dual guitar, bass, drums, and lead singer hit the stage as if they were on a mission. Great energy and repore with the crowd. This band is from Asbury Park, NJ and they truly brought it on this night. High energy, relentless ass kicking music...reminiscent of NWOBHM meets the sounds of today's metal. The crowd loved them and were very loud after each song showering the band with applause. I picked up their demo, which they gave away. Excellent recording and the songs are very good. There is even a cover of "Parasite" by KISS on this demo.
Well now what you came to read about, The Almighty King's X!!!! The boy's came on at 11:45 and played until 2am. I was in heaven. The set opened up very mellow and worked its way up from there. These guys are like fine wine. It was amazing!! To watch truly gifted musician's in their element is such a treat. There were peaks and valley's in the set that hit you like waves it is truly an experience seeing King's X. Here is the set list:
Groove, Train, Little Bit Of Soul, Talk To You, Believe, Cigs, Static, Dog, It's Love,
The Big Picture, Johnny (new song), Vision's, Vegetable's, We Were Born To Be Loved, Jam with Doug on drums Jerry on guitar and Ty on bass, New Song (not sure of the title), and Over My Head.
Forbidden - 3/16/2003 5:14:21 PM I had the oppertunity of Seeing King'sX with Galactic Cowboys in Houston in '96 (Still kicking myself that I did not go!)..
the_looney - 3/15/2003 1:28:13 PM Someday I will see these guys, they put out some truly incredible music. I particularly like Faith Hope Love, the textures on that album are tremendous. Anyway.......
SaintBastard - 3/15/2003 12:57:54 PM I never could get into this bands songs. I'm not sure why, perhaps they were just overproduced for my taste. I know they're all good players though. I guess I'm just not their target audience.
Totem4life - 3/15/2003 9:44:24 AM I could namw 10 bands that put this band to shame, Zeppelin, Rush, Yes, Sabbath., The Who,Van Halen Maiden,Queen,ELP,In Flames.
zeppelinesque - 3/15/2003 4:21:00 AM I have heard a multitude of top-flight(and famous)musicians name check KING'S X as their favorite band,listen and decide for yourself...
webmeister - 3/13/2003 6:44:24 PM Kings X is great. Truly one of the most underrated bands of all time. NOTE TO KNAC: Try running the reviews through a spell check before posting them.
shawn_36 - 3/11/2003 7:45:06 PM Hey I didm't see kingsx this time.but last year I saw them at the beabodypan in Portland Oregon and saw them at the party next day on saturday at tower record.they were awsome great sound of all.Keep on rocking for a while.doug,jerry and ty.
digi_aussie - 3/11/2003 6:12:46 PM I would like to see Kings X live in Australia.
Sigismundo - 3/11/2003 1:51:18 PM King's X is the big-daddy of all bands that consider themselves "rock." There have been more popular bands, and bigger selling bands, but none, NOT ONE, from Elvis through to Whoever Thinks They Rock Now, can touch King's X. If you haven't seen them live, you have not seen anything worth seeing. GO! NOW! Do not pass go, or collect 200 dollars.
dasani - 3/10/2003 9:07:37 PM POWER TRIOS ROCK GRETCHEN!
PeterNorthGod - 3/10/2003 2:17:27 PM Aint it kinda sad to see how everybody who mentions this band showers them with praise but they dont sell any records and arent really huge stars? It's just wrong how groups like Limp Bizkit get all the attention and these guys are damn near obscure.
nemesis511 - 3/10/2003 12:26:02 PM Ty tabor is a sick guitarist, i saw him with DT, i got 85$ pit tickets and was about 1 foot away from ty tabor his whole set, he is fucking flawless, very great player! i cant really say too much for their drummer though unfortunately, cant really remember the singer/bassist, i didnt reall get into their shit, but i remember ty tabor bein a bad ass. infact my friend got given ty's strings by one of the guitar tech's
lemmy999 - 3/10/2003 7:28:33 AM Everyone should go see KX at least one time. They are a terrific band.
egodog1 - 3/9/2003 7:00:43 AM I recently missed both their Lombard (IL) and Key Club (L.A.) shows and feel like hell for it. Buying the new album, though, to SHOW THE LOVE!
El_Jeef - 3/8/2003 1:49:30 PM Saw them in Houston on march 6th. As always they were great. Awesome music and great live presence, hope these guys keep rockin for a while.
