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Queens of the Stone Age is not an arena band. This fact became much clearer to me after sweating, elbowing, screaming and head-banging Monday night at the Queens concert here in Bakersfield. I first saw the Queens two years ago at Allstate Arena in Chicagoland. The band played with Nine Inch Nails, and while the Queens show was great, it was obvious that NIN frontman Trent Reznor’s solo act was more suited to the mega-space. The anonymity and disconnect of a big arena complement Reznor’s own slightly off-putting personality and angry electronica. You don’t want to talk to your fans, Trent? You’d rather we just look at the cool video screen or your muscled biceps? That’s just fine, we wouldn’t expect anything else. The Queens, on the other hand, have an appeal that has always been more raw energy and charisma than projection screens and props. Their kind of rock is meant to be intimate and skin-on-skin sweaty, and it comes across clearer...
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