Just two years ago, then-budding rock band Greta Van Fleet played a show in the lobby of F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre to a couple of hundred people.
But at that show, it was clear the Michigan-based band whose members’ average age was then under 20 was headed somewhere. Cocksure and astonishingly talented, the band cranked out a set of Led Zeppelin-soundalike songs from what then was its only record, the four-song “Black Smoke Rising,” and new songs it would release later.
Two months later, Greta Van Fleet played a side stage at the Rock Allegiance festival at BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, and not only stole much of the crowd from the main stage, but stole the show, as well. And six months after that, Greta Van Fleet sold out Philadelphia’s Electric Factory.
Now, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Greta Van Fleet will play sold-out shows at the 3,500-capacity The Met Philadelphia.