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They were so down to sing, it didn't matter if they did or did not know the words. The opposite of the Tori fans were the Rufus Wainright fans we encountered at another show, in Portland. 'Don't worry,' we said to each other later, 'We don't.' Once when we saw Ben open for Tori Amos, we got to be right up against the stage because our loud singing was so horrifying to the Tori fans that they cleared a place for us while one muttered under his breath: 'I hope they don't know any Tori songs.' We've sang along with Ben in Seattle, Eugene, Portland and Jessie even saw him at Coachella 10 years ago when tickets were only $100 and you didn't have to spend a grand on a hipster outfit just to be let in the gates. Jessie and I have been seeing Ben together since we weren't even old enough to buy alcohol at the shows. I went to Tuesday's show at The Mountain Winery with my long-time Ben-loving friend Jessie as my photographer.

So that's fine if you're old and wealthy but not if you're too serious. Not that I have any problem with the older, more serious and wealthier than me, but if there is one thing about a Ben Folds concert it is: you have to sing a long. Even though the Barenaked Ladies were the headliner and I would say they cater to a slightly older, more serious crowd than Ben, I was surprised by how old, serious and wealthy this crowd was. So get there early and have a picnic!)Īnyway, the venue is amazing but definitely caters to a different crowd than I am used to seeing at a Ben Folds concert ('used to' in the sense I haven't been to one in seven years 'used to').

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Pro tip which I did not know: you can picnic outside the venue and it is for real a mountain winery, with a crazy view, trees, picnic tables and fresh air.

(Have you been to The Mountain Winery? Oh my god, if you can afford it, you should go. But I have never seen such a stark example of living through your cellphone versus living through your brain as Ben Folds at The Mountain Winery. At weddings, parades, birthday parties, graduations and concerts, it often seems like people are more interested in letting other people know they are there then in actually mentally being there for real. I only mention this because the majority of Ben Folds concerts I have been to-well, ALL of the ones I had been to before Tuesday night-happened before October of 2006. It isn't exactly a novel idea that smart phones are removing us from experiences it is now officially socially acceptable to whip out our phones at any 'important' event and document it to death. I got my first Ben Folds CD in 2001, five years before I got my first phone that could take pictures that I could share on Facebook.