Sunday's Best: Week 23, 2022

For our Sunday's Best this week... it's actually not best. It's the worst, according to folks who attended or performed at this year's Sweden Rock Festival. Apparently Kingdom Come were absolutely terrible. The comments on the Facebook post below are brutal, with many agreeing Kingdom Come's set was the worst performance they had ever attended. The blame is falling on drummer James Kottak. Seems like most fans thought he was drunk. It is quite ridiculous to play for thousands upon thousands of paying fans and not attempt your best. Things happen and people are sick or have off days. But just not caring enough to try and stay sober for a gig really sucks.

Don't even get me started on the fact that Lenny Wolf isn't in the band anymore and he IS Kingdom Come!

KINGDOM COME Blasted For 'S**t' Performance At SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL: The Event's 'Biggest F***up' https://t.co/EiU0KBQQCf pic.twitter.com/WuHnBD8FpU

— BLABBERMOUTH.NET (@BLABBERMOUTHNET) June 12, 2022

Here's a video from the Sweden Rock show. It's pretty bad.

Comments

[Him]

"Don't even get me started on the fact that Lenny Wolf isn't in the band anymore and he IS Kingdom Come!" And, starting at a certain point in time, around Hands of Time (1991), he WAS the band! Just had to add that, as the comment had me chuckling.

To be fair, I have heard this iteration (online) and they have sounded pretty darn good. But Kottak's demons got him booted from the Scorps too (not that his online rantings make him look level-headed and sober). And those demons seem to be the thing holding the band up in the clip above (though, to my untrained ear, it sounds like one of the guitarists might have shared a dressing room with Kottak before the show!). So, hopefully, he can get himself in shape if he--and the rest of the band--want to maintain some semblance of a career.

As Jason Bonham might say, a disregard for timekeeping!

[stu]

wow, i thought the internet was eating my cassette. not sure who lost the pace, but the rest tried to keep up … or keep down i guess. when i saw this version in a tiny club a few years ago the singer did not sound like a rejected muppet either.

[Roy Coson]

WOW! just WOW!