User blog:Thebiggesttdifan/a few days ago I saw Guster and Ben Folds Five and the Barenaked Ladies

and they were really all pretty good. Guster's a pretty unknown band it seems, and I only knew one of their songs before going to the concert, but they did phenomenal. like, they were just a really good band. There was a guy who had a drumset that he played with his bare hands. I loved their performance.

Ben Folds Five was also pretty good. Ben Folds broke a string on his piano TWICE during the show because he was playing it so hard. Sadly I couldn't hear his voice too well over all the instruments that were playing. the only songs I knew that they played were Brick and Do It Anyway but it all turned out pretty well. My dad said Ben Folds is a terrible singer but he seemed pretty okay, from what I could hear.

The Barenaked Ladies don't have Steven Page anymore which was kind of a turn-off for me coming into the concert, but they still were great. (they also have like four other members that nobody has ever heard about.) they did a lot of their hits and also some songs I've never heard of. and Ed Robertson was really kinda cool and jokey about the whole thing--he made a remark once that there were these two guys around the front row of the audience that had really similar afros and sort of built a rap about how they could be doppelgangers. Near the end of the show they got some of the guys from Guster and Ben Folds Five back on stage (they had a little entrance theme for Ryan Miller from Guster, set to Can't Turn You Loose) and it kind of devolved into chaos. they just played different covers until the show ended.

my dad got the Guster CD and then we went home. great concert--I think they're all touring together at different places. go see Guster, Ben Folds Five, and Barenaked Ladies play together, if you can.