Apparently there are Jewish Australians. Thats cool.
Went to the Ben Lee concert last night. . I'd never been to the Troubadour before, nice place. Don't see why they need so many bars in one small building though. I counted three. One to the left when you enter, one in the back of the main room, and a small one against the wall of the main room. The opening act was New Buffalo. It was some solo artist Australian girl. She looked like she wasn't all there mentally. Either that or she was on some major depressants or something. She was a good singer, but her music sucked. Imagine The Postal Serivce, but playing at half speed, and with a girl singing the lyrics to one of those songs as drowsily sounding as possible for every song. It was kind of like that. I kept expecting her to speed up and play some rock stuff, and rip off her strange, glorified mental institution jacket and reveal that she was clad in some strange, kinky S&M stuff, but she didn't. For one song she had her drummer come out. The drummer, unlike the singer, looked like she was hopped up on some stimulants. She kept making this odd toothy smile, and would occasionly make some weird facial expressions that led me to believe she got sexual pleasure out of playing drums.
Finally they finished and Ben Lee and his band came on. They were really good. It was cool because they don't act at all like they're famous/known/whatever. When we first went in, my sister and I were waiting for my dad to get some wristband thing showing he was an adult, and Ben Lee just walked by out of one of the bars and was like "Hi!", and we were like "Hi...", and thren he went on in to the main room. At one point he decided we should all sing "Happy Bat Mitzvah" to his niece, so he had his keyboardist record us. While she was trying to figure out how to turn on the camera she tripped on a cord and knocked out all power to the stage, so it took them a couple minutes to fix that. We then went on to sing the song. Later he told us about this time these two brothers some how snuck into his dressing room and were teling him about how they're huge fans of his and want to start their own band and wanted to play a song for him. He said they then went on to form a band called "Good Charlotte" and became fairly succesful, and that he'd like to invite one of them on stage now. Then Benji from Good Charlotte came on and played a song with Ben. The keyboardist recorded this to. I didn't notice she was until I noticed someone walked next to me, turned to look, and she was standing there recording it.
Other highlights include two very drunk girls occasionly shouting unintelligible things at him (they were annoying), and watching Ben and the guitarist (who was closest to us) reactions. The guiatarist nearly fell over laughing at one point. then another time some guy yelled "GREAT SONG!" when Ben said what he'd be singing, and Ben forgot the lyrics. He changed the lyrics of "Catch My Disease" to include "Playing on the stage of the Troubadour", and the keyboardist gave him this confused look and said "What about She drank beer with coca-cola?", so he then quickly added "and beer, Coors light!". (think that was the beer he said). He also takled about kissing David Hasselhoff on the lips.
During part of it, this really annoying photographer was leaning nearly on top of me taking pictures, so I leaned away from him. Some reason he took this as a sign to lean closer opposed to "Dude...get off of me", which is closer to what I meant it to say, so he leaned even more on top of me. Finally he spotted a gap closer up and moved up. Unfortunatly for him, he ended up behind the previously mentioned drunk fans. They had fun purposly getting in the way of his shots. I'd say how much I love Karma, but I don't know if Karma deals in personal grudges. Now that he left a gap next to me some girl moved into it. She was kinda ___ (you know what I want to say...still haven't found a good synonym for it). She also seemed semi-catatonic. But in a ___ way.
Thats about it for summarizing that concert. Doubt any of you read through that long of a summary of a show none of you were at/cared that much about. If you did, goodjob. Gotta do hw now, till next time...
(Music-I believe it's self-explanatory)
Finally they finished and Ben Lee and his band came on. They were really good. It was cool because they don't act at all like they're famous/known/whatever. When we first went in, my sister and I were waiting for my dad to get some wristband thing showing he was an adult, and Ben Lee just walked by out of one of the bars and was like "Hi!", and we were like "Hi...", and thren he went on in to the main room. At one point he decided we should all sing "Happy Bat Mitzvah" to his niece, so he had his keyboardist record us. While she was trying to figure out how to turn on the camera she tripped on a cord and knocked out all power to the stage, so it took them a couple minutes to fix that. We then went on to sing the song. Later he told us about this time these two brothers some how snuck into his dressing room and were teling him about how they're huge fans of his and want to start their own band and wanted to play a song for him. He said they then went on to form a band called "Good Charlotte" and became fairly succesful, and that he'd like to invite one of them on stage now. Then Benji from Good Charlotte came on and played a song with Ben. The keyboardist recorded this to. I didn't notice she was until I noticed someone walked next to me, turned to look, and she was standing there recording it.
Other highlights include two very drunk girls occasionly shouting unintelligible things at him (they were annoying), and watching Ben and the guitarist (who was closest to us) reactions. The guiatarist nearly fell over laughing at one point. then another time some guy yelled "GREAT SONG!" when Ben said what he'd be singing, and Ben forgot the lyrics. He changed the lyrics of "Catch My Disease" to include "Playing on the stage of the Troubadour", and the keyboardist gave him this confused look and said "What about She drank beer with coca-cola?", so he then quickly added "and beer, Coors light!". (think that was the beer he said). He also takled about kissing David Hasselhoff on the lips.
During part of it, this really annoying photographer was leaning nearly on top of me taking pictures, so I leaned away from him. Some reason he took this as a sign to lean closer opposed to "Dude...get off of me", which is closer to what I meant it to say, so he leaned even more on top of me. Finally he spotted a gap closer up and moved up. Unfortunatly for him, he ended up behind the previously mentioned drunk fans. They had fun purposly getting in the way of his shots. I'd say how much I love Karma, but I don't know if Karma deals in personal grudges. Now that he left a gap next to me some girl moved into it. She was kinda ___ (you know what I want to say...still haven't found a good synonym for it). She also seemed semi-catatonic. But in a ___ way.
Thats about it for summarizing that concert. Doubt any of you read through that long of a summary of a show none of you were at/cared that much about. If you did, goodjob. Gotta do hw now, till next time...
(Music-I believe it's self-explanatory)