OK. 2005 sucked ass, huh? Not for us.
In 2005, the Smoking Section caught Neil Young's historic gigs at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, polished off a bottle of Crown Royal with Dave Grohl on a private jet, sang drunken karaoke with Coldplay in Tokyo, saw Bob Dylan eight times, was mistaken for a male porn star by Perry Farrell, drank Scotch at Roger Waters' ridiculous Manhattan apartment, sat poolside at the L.A. Four Seasons with Al Green, surfed with Jack Johnson and late on the night of June 25 ultimately overwhelmed Lars Ulrich in a marathon pingpong match at his Bay Area mansion.
But of all our thrills, nothing compared to time spent with two bands: the Strokes, with whom we played poker in the wee hours (and listened to the earliest versions of First Impressions of Earth), and Kings of Leon, with whom we capped a year of mind-bending debauchery by slamming icy shots of Patron to ring in '06. To all, love from the SS.
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