The Followills

The first time I ever heard the words 'Kings of Leon' was in the year 2003....maybe 2004? So maybe I don't remember the exact year, but I do remember it was a very long time ago. My super cool sister Ashley (shout out!) had an issue of Rolling Stones magazine and was showing me a layout of "this band of brothers, who are super sexy". I remember dismissing it, like, "cool, now let me get back to listening to Tim Mcgraw", or something of that nature. So later Ashley made a mix CD, I put it on my giant 30 gig ipod, and there it sat until Spring Break of 2006.
I was riding in the car on the way to Mexico when the song, 'Where Nobody Knows', came on my shuffle. It was love at first note.
The whole week in Mexico, I played that song over and over and over again.
When I got home I got to googling.
I didn't know any of the song titles, so I would type some lyrics into Google and then fetch the song name.
I printed off picture after picture of the band and glued them all over my school notebooks.
I watched video after video of interviews and performances on Youtube, until I had seen every single one.
I bought all of their music videos and put them on my Ipod.
I showed the video of The Bucket to my friends (you know those couple seconds where Caleb smiles so sexily).

Around this time I worked at Space Age, an auto paint store. I found out one of my co-workers, Albert, liked KOL as well. I was ecstatic. It was rare to find someone back then who had ever even heard of them.
We would sit on Myspace all day and leave comments on their page begging them to come to Arizona. And then in September of 2007 they finally came......and I missed it.

It wouldn't be until May of 2009 that I finally got to see them.

It was so strange finally seeing these people ten feet in front of me, who I had listened to for years and gazed at on computer screens (creepy much?).

They didn't play my favorite songs but I still loved it to death.

And to this day it's one of my favorite shows I've ever been to.

Oompa Loompas. Tristine did some weird things with her camera.

My sister Brittney looks beyond crazy in all of these haha
And that was the first time I saw Kings of Leon.

I'm trying to win a contest, but I'm starting to feel like I don't have a snowballs chance in hell ha.