King Khan & the Shrines

King Kahn & the Shrines are practiced showmen. Their Mess With Texas 3 performance at Waterloo Park left no doubt of this. It only took a song before Kahn and the Shrines' guitarist and bassist jumped into the crowd. It only took a couple more before he invited the crowd to burn dollar bills as a prelude to "Welfare Bread." Several foolhardy audience members did just this. They were rewarded by lots of continued theatrics, including many slides around the stage. The beauty of the set was that none of the performance seemed forced - it provided an ideal backdrop to the energetic garage rock they blasted across the Waterloo Park lawn. What a blast!