Long before “Harder to Breathe” and “This Love” settled on radio stations ranging from Top 40 to rock to “alternative,” four of the five Marooners were in a band called Kara’s Flowers, recording albums as teenagers and doing a little touring.

It was a bizarre, unwieldy number that didn’t seem to make much sense stylistically – the Splenda-coated vanilla pop of the Marooners clashing with the too-cool disco-punk of Scotland’s Franz Ferdinand, which did ditto with the Texas-bred roots-rock of Los Lonely Boys and the hyper pop-rap of Black Eyed Peas and so on.

In the middle of interviewing Maroon 5 for E!, Ryan Seacrest asked Marooner Adam Levine to spit out the gum he was chewing.

The tight Marooners (augmented live by keyboardist/vocalist PJ Morton and the Austin-based Grooveline Horns) got plenty of room to rock out on “Lucky Strike,” with Levine kicking giant balls into the crowd, as well as “Wake Up Call” and the Prince cover “I Wanna Be Your Lover.”

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