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I don't have anything to show you yet but at least you have something to look forward to. We went to see Ben Folds in Tempe last night and it was awesome. We got some good video with the little camera but we got home late and didn't edit it together and stick it on the internet because we were too tired. I assure you it will be worth the wait.
The show was great! It was in the Gammage Auditorium at ASU which was the last building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyway, Ben Folds just might be the rockinest piano player of all time. Seriously, I'd rather see him than Elton John and Billy Joel put together. The only thing that might be cooler would be to see Jerry Lee Lewis circa 1950-something or maybe Scott Joplin circa 1900-something. He was very cool. He would talk about what the different songs were about and he even did a long spiel about how he put two altoid cans on the piano strings and then used a distortion pedal to make a cool sound for this one song. He played almost all of his new album, which is awesome, by the way, I highly recommend it. I think "Effington" might be one of my favorite songs of all time. Musically, it's amazing and beautiful, yet it it totally rocks. And the lyrics are hilarious ("Effington might be a wonderful effing place, I can see it from the highway and I'm wondering, are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars..."). He also played a bunch of songs from the fake album that he leaked on the internet (same song titles, completely different songs). He said the songs were supposed to be lame but they ended up liking some of them better than the real versions.
At one point during the show, he said they were going to play a bunch of new stuff and then pretend it was over, get off the stage and then come back and play a bunch of old stuff. All bands do that, but we thought it was funny that he gave us a heads up about it. We were a little disappointed that he didn't play more songs from "Whatever and Ever, Amen". We would've like to hear "The Battle of Who Could Care Less" or "Song for the Dumped" or "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" or even "Brick" but he only played "Kate" and "Fair", neither of which were singles. Great songs, but not what I would've picked. All in all, it was an awesome show. Pictures and video coming soon!
The show was great! It was in the Gammage Auditorium at ASU which was the last building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyway, Ben Folds just might be the rockinest piano player of all time. Seriously, I'd rather see him than Elton John and Billy Joel put together. The only thing that might be cooler would be to see Jerry Lee Lewis circa 1950-something or maybe Scott Joplin circa 1900-something. He was very cool. He would talk about what the different songs were about and he even did a long spiel about how he put two altoid cans on the piano strings and then used a distortion pedal to make a cool sound for this one song. He played almost all of his new album, which is awesome, by the way, I highly recommend it. I think "Effington" might be one of my favorite songs of all time. Musically, it's amazing and beautiful, yet it it totally rocks. And the lyrics are hilarious ("Effington might be a wonderful effing place, I can see it from the highway and I'm wondering, are they effing in their yards, effing in their cars..."). He also played a bunch of songs from the fake album that he leaked on the internet (same song titles, completely different songs). He said the songs were supposed to be lame but they ended up liking some of them better than the real versions.
At one point during the show, he said they were going to play a bunch of new stuff and then pretend it was over, get off the stage and then come back and play a bunch of old stuff. All bands do that, but we thought it was funny that he gave us a heads up about it. We were a little disappointed that he didn't play more songs from "Whatever and Ever, Amen". We would've like to hear "The Battle of Who Could Care Less" or "Song for the Dumped" or "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" or even "Brick" but he only played "Kate" and "Fair", neither of which were singles. Great songs, but not what I would've picked. All in all, it was an awesome show. Pictures and video coming soon!
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