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The Fillmore July 25, 2003 Review by Jake Thomas I'm a huge fan of Ben Lee's 'Grandpaw Would' album as well as his work with his first band Noise Addict, but it's been pretty downhill from there. I came to this show in the hopes that I would hear some of these old gems, and that I did. Interspersed between new songs from his forthcoming record and a couple of cover songs (both good ones: Christina Aguillera's 'Beautiful', which I didn't even recognize until the chorus, and The Smiths 'Shoplifters' as his big finale), I got to hear a small selection of these tracks. Most notably was that he tried to play 'Red Slurpee', but since he couldn't remember the lyrics he invited a fan up from the crowd to help him sing it. She had trouble with the words herself, which I attribute to stage fright, so he just played the first part of the song twice while she sang along. The whole affair was pretty cute, and I'm sure she'll be telling all her friends about that for a while. All in all it was pretty great; some of the new songs were suspect, while others were decent, but won't have me rushing out to purchase the album. ©2003 playinginfog.com |