lifestyle THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2015 Music & Movies Imagine this: Imagine Dragonsonce opened for a mime rammy winners Imagine Dragons will launch their sec- believe it,” Reynolds said. “It’s funny, I went home from the are- ond headlining arena tour this week, but they remem- na tour and my mom sat down with me, her first question was Gber the days when they opened up for anyone - includ- like, ‘So do people really come fill out the arenas to watch your ing a mime. “It was an opportunity,” bassist Ben McKee said in band play?’” “To my mom, a year and half before that, she a recent interview. “This was early, early on and ... we had the would come to see me at some small club in California and it opportunity to play with a mime at a junior varsity cheerlead- would be 10 people there.” The band, which also includes gui- ing squad at a shopping mall in Henderson, Nevada. We tarist Wayne Sermon and drummer Daniel Platzman, released jumped on it.” Bandleader Dan Reynolds recalls “literally like its sophomore album, “Smoke + Mirrors,” in February. It five people in the mall that day.” “They set up tons of seats debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. which makes it even worse,” the 27-year-old singer said. “That The Las Vegas-based foursome says life hasn’t changed too was maybe the lowest - that was the lowest low.” much, though they have topped the charts and won multiple Imagine Dragons have moved far away from opening for awards. “We didn’t have crazy lives before. We’re all pretty other acts on the road as the band launches its North much giant music nerds and we do music and the fact that we American tour Wednesday in Portland, Oregon. They had a get to do music on a stage with four people makes us really, successful run with arenas last year after their debut, “Night really happy,” said Platzman. “It’s just the crowds have gotten Visions,” continued to reach new heights: It went on to sell bigger.” “It’s a cliche thing, but literally, really, none of us got more than 2 million units and launched back-to-back hits with into music thinking we’d have money or wanting to have “It’s Time,” “Demons” and the group’s signature smash, the money,” Reynolds said. “My friends come over to my house I Grammy-winning “Radioactive.” The young band, which bought and they’re like, ‘This is your house?’” “And I’m like, released its debut album in 2012 and its follow-up earlier this ‘What is that supposed to mean?’ It’s like they’re expecting the year, has quickly risen to arena status. The stops on the Smoke ‘Night Visions’ mansion.”— AP + Mirrors Tour include the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York; Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee; and the Forum in Inglewood, California. Dan Platzman, from left, Dan Crazy lives Reynolds, Daniel Wayne Sermon Reynolds credits the band’s success with hours and hours and Ben McKee of Imagine of practice and the motto: “Say yes to every gig.” “I think it was Dragons pose for a portrait at pretty overwhelming at times for us to walk out and actually the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles. — AP Stones seeking new fans with ‘Sticky Fingers’ re-release eith Richards doesn’t keep a list of the Top 10 London haunts. date. Frontman Mick Jagger had warned that the Rolling Stones albums. But he’s happy to Richards remembers that studio as “a magical album might contain too many ballads for a tradi- Kplace “Sticky Fingers,” being re-released in a room” with a distinctive sound that made recording tionally up-tempo Stones gig. deluxe edition next week, near the very top. “I put it a breeze. “It’s a natural, no wonder so many great Richards, 71, said in his 2010 autobiography that up there,” he said in a recent interview. “I don’t No. 1, records came out of there,” he said by phone. “All you he is content to rest on his considerable rock ‘n’ roll No. 2, No. 3 them, but it’s somewhere in that jumble, had to do was stick a microphone up and it was laurels. But he’s got several goals at the moment - top four or five albums.” With its provocative Andy there.” The guitarist said he had been “iffy” about the including a consuming desire to get the band in a Warhol designed album cover and strong sax work industry trend toward re-releasing expanded edi- studio again after a lengthy hiatus. The last full stu- on classics like “Brown Sugar” and “Can’t You Hear tions of old classic material until the redone 2010 dio CD, “A Bigger Bang,” was released a decade ago. Me Knocking,” the album has long been a favorite version of “Exile” did surprisingly well, even topping “There’s always talk of doing a blues album, but I’m with fans who first heard it way back on its release the British charts some 38 years after its initial not so sure about that,” Richards said. “I’d be happy date in 1971. release. to get them back in the studio and record anything,” It was released at the height of what many “I forgot that basically a couple of generations said Richards, who recently recorded a solo album Jason Alexander, from left, Rosie Perez and Larry David pose for a photo on the set of regards as the Stones’ creative peak, a stretch that had gone by since the things first came out,” but has yet to announce its official release. ‘Fish in The Dark’ at the Cort Theatre in New York. — AP included “Beggars Banquet,” “Let It Bleed” and “Exile Richards said. “What I realized after ‘Exile’ was that “Sometimes we come up with our best stuff in the on Main Street.” The album catches the Stones in we picked up an enormous amount of new young studio. I’ll just be happy to get them in there.” — AP transition, with Mick Taylor stepping fully into his fans, because they thought it was a new record.” The prepares to role as the late Brian Jones’ replacement. The Stones band has toyed with the idea of playing the com- Jason Alexander also moved beyond their comfort zone, recording plete “Sticky Fingers” album on their current tour, several songs at the famed Muscle Shoals Sound offering a full version in a club date in Los Angeles sing ‘the music of Larry David’ Studio in rural Alabama rather than in their usual but then only a handful of cuts on their first arena hen Larry David was showing his old play, is about the rivalries and still-simmering “Seinfeld” pal Jason Alexander the angers that explode when a family gathers to Wquirks of his Broadway dressing bid farewell to their dying patriarch. The room, the discussion naturally went to the show has been a huge draw because of toilet. “You know what he said? ‘It’s a two or David, who co-created “Seinfeld” and went on three flusher,’” said Alexander. “He said, ‘Don’t to star and write “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” assume.’ I said, ‘Really? OK, I won’t assume.’” Theater-goers get to see him do a bit about But Alexander, who is about to take over from whether or not to tip doctors and be typically David in his hit play “Fish in the Dark,” fooled petty, vindictive and clueless. with the handle and discovered that he could The play co-stars Jayne Houdyshell and just hold it until the water cleared. “I went to Rosie Perez, but David has dominated the him and I said, ‘Listen, I don’t want to rock stage, with his usual exasperated, impolite your world but it’s actually less effort than routine. “I think the show with me will feel you’ve been making it,’” Alexander said. “Like more like an ensemble show than a star vehi- most things in life.” cle even though the character continues to Alexander is pretty much planning to do drive the piece,” said Alexander. “The upside is the same thing with David’s play that he did it’s not a deeply complex play. It’s a light com- with his toilet - mess around with the plumb- edy. So the trick is finding how you get the ing to find a more efficient way to tell the sto- laugh and finding the rhythms of the show ry. “It is possible that I will be better and he with the cast.” will be funnier,” said Alexander in David’s dressing room one recent morning. “If some- Drop the ball one saw both of us do it, if they laughed 100 Before David ever began the role, he times with Larry, they may only laugh 90 asked Alexander what he might expect in his Keith Richards performs at The Rolling Stones Zip Code (From left) The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick times with me but the takeaway from the Broadway debut. For one, he had no idea Tour opening night at Petco Park in San Diego. Jagger pose for photographers as they arrive at a central London venue to mark the 50th show will be ‘Wow, I actually went on that how grueling the eight-a-week schedule anniversary of their first performance. — AP photos journey a little bit.’”If anyone can do it, it’s becomes. “As most people do, he had some Alexander, who before “Seinfeld” was a Tony- misconceptions,” Alexander said.