Check out the new music video by Cryns #3 called “Run. Run! Run!!! RUN!!! RUNNNNN!!!!!”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqPhTt2Y6xE[/youtube]
Disclosure: Toby Cryns is the editor of Lunch of Champions and has an obvious personal interest in posting this video.
Last night’s Ben Folds show at Orchestra Hall with the Minneapolis Orchestra was one for the ages. There was a moment I had never witnessed before in all my years of concertgoing – the audience refused to be denied a 3rd encore.
After his first encore, Ben came out and said, “It’s Miller time” for the band, and dispatched them to a well-earned and deserved break backstage. He then returned for a couple of songs to thunderous applause. After leaving the stage, the house lights came on – the standard way of telling the crowd, nicely, to leave. But the crowd stayed on and almost blew the top off the old venerable building. We applauded and screamed for what seemed like 10 minutes before Ben came back and quelled the Halloween-costumed crowd with “Rockin’ the Suburbs”.
During the finale, there was a surge of people (me included) who ran to the stage to lend our voices to Ben in awkward “Fuck”‘s as the song requires. I say it was awkward, because here we were in the bastion of propriety, Orchestra Hall, yelling “FUCK!” with the huge crowd, balconies and all!
Musically, the show had moments of brilliance, most notably on “Narcolepsy”, where Ben utilized the full breadth of the orchestra he had proffered for the evening. (See video below from an earlier stop on the tour)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeqqkhMpsUI[/youtube]
While many of the songs were simply the same old songs with strings behind them, songs like “Cologne”, “The Ascent of Stan“, and “Landed” really stood out as unique from their studio-recorded counterparts.