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Okay, so I never really wrote about Sexie. It was fabulous. Highlight of the night was Eddie doing an impression of Christopher Walken doing Shakespeare. I cannot tell you how hard I laughed. Unfortunately between my horrible memory and the density of material I had forgotten most of it by the time I got home. He was so funny I hurt myself laughing. But seriously there was so much material it made my head spin.
Tonight I saw Ben Folds. Ben totally rocks. He played Evaporated- I almost cried. He played Underground- it was weird and I missed Robert & Darren. Somebody in the crowd yelled, "Play the theme from Cheers!!!" and it started this whole bit from Ben. He didn't know the chords for the theme from Cheers so he started trying to figure it out. Then he started talking and it turned into Rockin' the Suburbs. Which help up surprisingly well live and acoustic. He also played a bunch of unfinished stuff from the new album. Awesome, absolutely amazing.
Edit: I forgot to mention. This is the first Ben concert in a while that I didn't feel the need to be up really close. We were about a third of the way back- in the first raised section. And we were sitting I've never sat down at a Ben concert before.
Also, side note, I completely forgot that the bridge in Army was originally a horn section. When Ben divided us up into "brass" and "saxes" I just kept going "You mean the Darrens and the Roberts..."
And finally, how interesting to sit next to A who has perfect pitch. When we sang the Ahhs for Not the Same, she decided to tell me what notes we were singing. It doesn't matter because I don't have perfect pitch. I'm not going to remember A minor to C major and be able to sing it because of that. Furthermore, it's funny because she doesn't know theory really (even though she plays piano...) because she described the chord in a weird way. This is probably of no interest to anyone reading this journal except maybe  bertie and I'm not even sure about that... She said, "It's a C major chord with an A onthe bottom." So I said, "What do you mean?" and she said, "It's A-C-E going to C-E-G." And I said, "You mean it's an A minor to a C major" and she said, "Well it's the same chord (insert me thinking: No, obviously it's not) except the first one has an A on the bottom" To which I respond "So it's a different chord."
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bertie
2003-11-03 08:37
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bwahaha
Okay, insanely jealous over the Eddie Izzard part, so I'm gonna make-believe like I didn't even read that. ;-)
Sitting down at a Ben concert ... now, that's an interesting concept. I can't quite comprehend it. I was wondering who you went with. (You probably told me and I, in turn, forgot.) I think I'll have to go see a show next year, once most of his new stuff has come out.
A is an odd cookie. And, yeah - I was reading along and saw "C major chord with an A in the bass". Interesting. Whoo, I almost wish I was there for that conversation. Wait. No, I don't. It probably would have been bad, bad, bad. I may have actually laughed at her. And, that would be wrong.(Reply to this) (Thread) |
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