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We walked inside a time-capsule on the 17th October 2023, and went to the 1970s for a couple of hours. Personally, it was my first time time-travelling so I am very excited right now writing these words to share my experience. If you have no idea what I’m talking about still, we went to see Greta Van Fleet in Dublin for their European Tour of their latest album “Starchatcher” .  As much as I have heard the name Greta Van Fleet, I did not know much about the band before going to their show. When Alex played “Heat Above” for the first time to me, the acoustic guitar reminded me a lot of Space Oddity from David Bowie. Then, I heard bits that reminded me a lot of Led Zeppelin and other classic rock bands. What made them so fascinating is that even though the sound is so vintage and 60s, they were so new and modern, as if they were a bridge connecting the older generation to the younger, keeping the “Classic Rock” alive in 2023.              ...

"When they hit the stage, they're the best rock band in the world. Nobody even gets close. There are amazing live bands that write powerful songs, like Rage Against the Machine. There are amazing live bands that can make the audience go crazy, like The Prodigy. But for musicality and as a musician, you sit and watch Queens of the Stone Age, and you're like, 'That's not fair, what the f*ck?’. Everybody in the band is a f**king badass, and they know it." Who better than Dave Grohl, frontman of the Foo Fighters and former drummer of Nirvana, to introduce the review of the Queens of the Stone Age concert in Dublin for the "In Times New Roman" tour? Probably Dave was slightly biased, having been the temporary drummer for QOTSA during the recording of the album "Songs for the Deaf." But there is no denying the influence and gratitude that even more successful bands (in terms of numbers) have expressed towards QOTSA and, in particular, frontman Jo...