Papa Roach continues to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough album, Infest , with a North American tour that hit Los Angeles this weekend. As part of its Rise of the Roach tour, the venerable rock band performed at the Kia Forum in the L.A.
area on Friday, with stalwart punk outfits Rise Against and Underoath as support. In honor of Infest’ s release on April 25, 2000, Papa Roach’s set included such tracks from that album as “Broken Home” and lead single “Last Resort,” which has become a signature tune for the band and was the show’s final number. The group also played singles “Scars,” “.
..To Be Loved” and recent release “Even If It Kills Me.
” “Some people say that everybody in L.A. is jaded,” frontman Jacoby Shaddix told the crowd from the stage.
“I don’t fucking believe it. I see you got soul in this motherfucker. You got heart in this motherfucker.
You got passion in this motherfucker.” Before launching into a cover of Tupac’s “California Love,” Shaddix described his band’s roots in the state. “We come from a small town up north, a small town called Vacaville,” he shared.
“We came out the fucking bushes, you know what I’m saying? [In] 1993, said, ‘We want to start a fucking band.’ Now we’re traveling the fucking world, living the dream. Thank you, guys, for living in our dream tonight.
” Papa Roach’s performance of the song “Forever” incorporated a rendition of Linkin Park ‘s “In the End,”.