CBA’s special correspondent Angelina, attended the 100 Monkey’s concert Saturday at the new Hard Rock Cafe on the Strip in Las Vegas.  Here is her account and photos of Jackson Rathbone and the band:

I went to the 21+ show.  There were 2 bands before them (100 Monkeys).  The Rooks & Imagine Dragon.  They were pretty good.  Each band was very different in their type of music.  100 Monkeys came on a little after midnight.  They put on a great show.    Kept the energy going thru out the set even when he wasn’t singing lead.  I was surprised that Jackson sang lead on so many songs.  And how multi-talented he was.  I didn’t know he played the drums-keyboard-guitar and bass. I also liked how the other guys sang too.  Each taking their turn in the spotlight.  Very cool.  They stopped playing around 1:20ish and said they would be back for an encore. But then the HRC soundboard people came and started packing I think the gear that belonged to the Hard Rock.  That caused an uproar I tell ya. I guess at some point one of the microphones broke that Jackson was using and the soundboard man started complaining to someone else which lead the girls to go nuts on him and defend the band. I almost felt sorry for the guy.  After a few minutes the guys came out and started packing up their equipment.  They were their own road crew.  They started apologizing saying that the HRC weren’t going to let them do the encore.  Apparently they had had problems with the soundboard people all day.  The guys couldn’t have been nicer about it to the fans.   One of the guys mentioned they would possibly be back in February so we’ll see how that goes.

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Apparently these was a bit more craziness going on than normal at this concert. Here is another fan’s take on how Jackson and the band were treated at the Hard Rock.

http://jodieplatz.blogspot.com/2010/01/100-monkeys-at-hard-rock-las-vegas.html

the do do the encores usually… when they came to houston they took a 10-15 minute beather then came back out… hrc must have been giving them a very hard time. did you get to see jackson play the trumpet?! sexy!