[DID NOT ATTEND: August 3, 2023] Kings X / Trope
I’ve seen King’s X five times, all within the last ten years.
I’ve enjoyed all of their shows although I started to find them a little samey. Nevertheless, I enjoy them and, since they’re all suffering from some kind of health issues, who knows how much longer they’ll tour.
So when they announced two shows near me, I thought I might be able to go. However, the first show was on the same night as the AJR show that I had tickets for. So that was not going to happen. The show sold out, though, so good for them.
I’ve seen the setlist that they played this night and I have to say they really aren’t mixing it up much at all these days. Which is a shame. I know that they have some songs that they “have to” play but there’s a bunch in here that they could switch out. I mean, I would like to see them once more, but I’d hope they’d throw in a few other songs next time.
Trope are a band I hadn’t hear of. Their blurb says
Trope is an alt rock band with progressive elements located in Los Angeles. The band formed in 2016 and spent the next couple of years writing and recording demos which became their debut album “Eleutheromania”.
I’ve listened to them and think they’re more of a heavy metal band than an alt rock band. They remind me a bit of Jinjer (without the growls) or Tool (without the theatrics). Vocalist Diana Studenberg has a solid voice and holds up to the heaviness very well. Strangely enough, none of the press info that I have briefly checked mentions anyone else in the band.
But good for King’s X for bringing along interesting bands with them and with some great female singers as well.
| 2022 Sellersville, PA | 2017 Sellersville, PA | 2016 Sellersville, PA |
| Groove Machine ♣ [5] | Groove Machine ♣ [4] | Groove Machine ♣ [3] |
| The World Around Me ⊗ [5] | The World Around Me ⊗ [4] | The World Around Me ⊗ [3] |
| Pillow φ [4] | Pillow φ [3] | Flies and Blue Skies φ [3] |
| Vegetable © [5] | Flies and Blue Skies φ [4] | Vegetable © [3] |
| Flies and Blue Skies φ [5] | Vegetable © [4] | Run ¢ |
| Believe © | Cigarettes φ [2] | Looking for Love ¢ |
| Pray Ø [3] | Pray Ø [2] | Pray Ø |
| Let It Rain ∇ | Black Flag ⊗ [2] | Black Flag ⊗ |
| All God’s Children ∇ | Lost in Germany ⊗ [2] | Cigarettes φ |
| Give It Up ∇ | A Box ¢ [3] | Summerland ⇔ |
| A Box ¢ [4] | Looking for Love ¢ [2] | Over My Head ⇔ [3] |
| Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something ⇔ [3] | Summerland ⇔ [2] | We Were Born to Be Loved ♥ [3] |
| Go Tell Somebody Ø [4] | Over My Head ⇔ [4] | encore |
| We Were Born to Be Loved ♥ [5] | Go Tell Somebody Ø [3] | Lost in Germany ⊗ |
| encore | We Were Born to Be Loved ♥ [4] | Dogman φ [3] |
| Dogman φ [5] | encore | King ∞ |
| Goldilox φ [4] | Dogman φ [4] | |
| King ∞ [2] |
| 2015 Sellersville, PA | 2014 Sayreville, NJ |
| Groove Machine ♣ [2] | Groove Machine ♣ |
| The World Around Me ⊗ [2] | Pillow φ |
| Pillow φ [2] | The World Around Me ⊗ |
| Vegetable © [2] | (Thinking and Wondering) What I’m Gonna Do ¢ |
| Flies and Blue Skies φ [2] | Vegetable © |
| (Thinking and Wondering) What I’m Gonna Do ¢ [2] | Flies and Blue Skies φ |
| Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something ⇔ [2] | Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something ⇔ |
| A Box ¢ [2] | A Box ¢ |
| Over My Head ⇔ [2] | Over My Head ⇔ |
| Over and Over ♣ [2] | Over and Over ♣ |
| Pleiades ⇔ [2] | Pleiades ⇔ |
| We Were Born to Be Loved ♥ [2] | We Were Born to Be Loved ♥ |
| encore | encore |
| Go Tell Somebody Ø [2] | Go Tell Somebody Ø |
| Dogman φ [2] | Dogman φ |
| Goldilox ∞ | |
| Mission ⇔ |
⇔ Gretchen Goes to Nebraska (1989)
¢ Ear Candy (1996)
♣ Tape Head (1998)
♥ Faith Hope Love (1990)
⊗ King’s X (1992)
© Manic Moonlight (2001)
Ø XV (2008)
∞ Out of the Silent Planet (1988)
I Just Read About That... 
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