So, Julie and I went to the Ben Folds concert last night. It rocked! He's really good live. He did some interesting things - like putting stuff (tins, etc) ON the piano strings. It was cool. Did NOT enjoy the venue (SaltAir - I hate that place) and of coarse there were stupid people around. Utah concerts . . . We got to see the compassion of Utah drivers as nobody was letting people merge in order to clear out the parking lot. Boo.
We made it in time for one opener. He was ok. After a few songs, though - they all sounded the same. He did some funny stuff, though. He was having technical difficulties with his guitar during the first song, so he just held it up to the mic to catch the sound. However, he still needed to sing into the same mic - so he was trying to get his mouth and the guitar strings as close to the mic as possible. The result - looked like the hunchback of Notre Dame playing a guitar. Pretty amusing. He also sang a little tune about having a music video with Tiffany Amber Thiessen and getting to kiss her 5 times cause he is a lucky (well, I won't repeat his potty mouth . . . you can imagine). He kept pronouncing her last name as "Tea-sin" cause he's Brittish or retarded (I get those two confused). And, he did a "completely pointless instrumental solo" which is when "the band engages in something completely pointless for their own enjoyment." He pretty much ran the mic across the guitar strings and plucked at it with his teeth - sounded horrible but entertaining.
Yeah, so that was our concert experience. Ben Folds ROCKED. He can tickle those ivory very good! It is simply amazing to watch his hands literally FLY over the keyboard. I've never seen anything like it. His hands/fingers were just a blur - no kidding!! But Julie and I are starting to think that we're getting old. All the other concert goers just annoy us. However, it is worse at UT concerts than concerts out of state. Maybe that's a good reason to move . . .
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