Greg Richling, left, and Jakob Dylan of The Wallflowers Saturday in Freeport

The Wallflowers brought down the horse, uh, house Saturday. The Jakob Dylan-fronted band performed a free show at LL Bean’s flagship store in Freeport, Maine as part of the store’s continuing free concert series.

Kate and me attended, despite having spent the previous nine hours getting heat stroke at the Maine Highland Games. The grunts and howls of sweaty men in kilts throwing rocks, however, were preferable to the opening band. Let’s just say this band seemed to want to be uber-em versions of the Killers or the Cure, but whose actual sound is closer to what is emitted when you step on a cat. If you’re going to emulate anyone, just do it on-key.

The Wallflowers, by contrast, seemed understated, but that only worked to their advantage. They came off like the genuine thing, mixing newer material with plenty of crowd favorites. The Wallflowers played well, sang well, and didn’t need to put on airs to do so.

The Wallflowers perform Josephine

I decided to make this post part of an exercise in live micro-blogging. So enjoy the following Twitter composite (with all spelling and grammatical errors lovingly intact) that you probably ought to read from the bottom to top, unless you have something against chronology.

[Between sets L.L. Bean showed vintage cartoon shorts, but without any sound. We had to fill in the pieces as best we could, but the result was nevertheless akin to Garfield Minus Garfield.]