Imagine hitting the stage, a few thousand people packed in to see you play. You grab your guitar to the roar of the crowd and immediately break in to a powerful chord…only the power isn't there. Your guitar keeps cutting out and the sound just isn't right. What would you do? Probably freak out.

For Chris Cheney, front man for Aussie rockers The Living End, it was an opportunity to play with the crowd. As things were being fixed, he actually came to the mike and asked the crowd to boo, letting them get the energy out. The crowd was being plenty patient, and though Chris didn't freak, he knew that the whole scene was so anticlimactic, and he might have been afraid he was losing the crowd or just simply felt bad that the band was having the technical problems.

While the crowd booed at Cheney's request, they definitely weren't doing it seriously. While in most cases, the vast majority of fans at a given concert are there for the headliner, for The Living End, this crowd at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center was as much theirs as Green Day's. Both bands appeal to roughly the same demographic and TLE have made plenty of inroads in the US by touring relentlessly and getting some quality radio play. The crowd was extremely forgiving of the glitch, and as soon as the boys were ready to play again, the fans were immediately ready to roar.

With the minor technical issue behind them, Cheney and his mates, drummer Trav Dempsey and bassist Scott Owen immediately dove back into the driving, pure rock they are known for. Nothing fake with TLE - it's guitar, bass and drums with Cheney's perfectly matched voice and Brian Setzer-ish good looks. It had to feel good for the guys to see the crowd immediately get back to rocking along with them and singing along to nearly every song, with an incredible rendition of their hit "Prisoner of Society" providing the high point of the blazing set. TLE truly display what a great rock show is supposed to be like.