Especially effective after the quiet sap-fest “Luckiest” (not that it’s bad, it’s just quiet and sappy). Narcolepsy– Maybe the best version of this I’ve heard. Lullabye (rest of the band stepped down for this and luckiest) Landed– Cameo by some tambourine player got major cheerage. You to Thank– Went to the 70s sounding keyboard to the side of the piano for part of the solo, and was actually playing tough parts on both at the same time, angled ninety degrees apart, for a bit. Played with a cake pan inside the piano, and a distortion pedal on some of the keys. Hiroshima– New song about falling off a stage in Japan and doing the show with a concussion.īastard– That vocal part in the middle (adjusted from the album to suit three people, still sounding like more) is ridiculousįree Coffee– New song. New Song– Didn’t hear the title or any of the words really. Setlist (I felt like a nerd writing the song titles down, and I probably was right in feeling that way) below. Also of note, t-shirts being sold read “I ed Ben Folds… before he sucked”. Overall, just a fast-paced, awesome show. Apparently, they just finished recording the new album didn’t say anything about release dates. Folds (as the New York Times would say), put on his normal, energetic show for about an hour and forty five minutes, adding new bits to established songs, and going back to the beginning of the catalogue, including seven Ben Folds Five songs, and playing four new songs. Granted, we had to sit through an equally ill-picked opening act (the same as muhlenberg), a solo guitar player/”singer” whose songs consisted of mostly playing the same chord over and over again arhythmically, droning on and on about there being “evil in the world” until the words had no meaning, all while basically looking like Sam Rockwell doing his best Crispin Glover impression. Reasoning for this is that the drumer and bassist add so much more to the sound, both instrumentally and vocally, and both of these past two shows didn’t require me to sit through rufus wainwright sucking the energy out of the crowd. I’ve been to six Ben Folds concerts now (since 2001 and most of them were relatively close to where i was at the time, but yes, it’s still a lot), and I’d probably rank this as the second best of them all, with last year’s Muhlenberg show taking the top spot. Quick (hopefully) post about last night’s ben folds concert at lafayette college in easton, PA. He didn’t mess it up last night, like in the clip, thankfully. There’s an aluminum cake pan in the piano as well as a distortion pedal. And then I went back down and played my show.Audio isn’t great, but it’s the best version of Free Coffee I could find. “We got to the top and ended up in this woman’s backyard and she called the police.
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