From DrewMG on the .org:

All I can say is that I am totally blown away by his performance tonight.
This is my second Ben show, the first one being last October in Omaha with
Snuzz and Millard. This one was just Ben and a Piano (hence the name of
the Tour - Ben Folds and a Piano).

All in all I was a little surprised with the amount of Ben Folds Five songs
he played. It was a very long set, with tons of songs as you saw above. It
was more than twice as long as the last show I saw of his.

It started out pretty much as expceted with Boxing and Annie Waits. He
mentioned how much he liked the venue we were in... it had a goth feel
to it, and he liked it. He's recording a live album to be released in
October and said there's a good chance that he'd put something from this
show on the album simply because of the great acoustics of the room.

For Best Imitation of Myself, he explained that he wrote that song because
when he was first signed to a record deal, they liked the songs he'd written,
but after he was signed they didn't like the new ones he was writing. He
found out that all they really wanted was more of what he had already done,
and that in that, all he'd ever be doing was an impression of himself.
Hence the song title and lyrics.

Pest was a cover of some guy who'd been locked in a mental institution.
He said that he thought it sounded a lot like Best Imitation of Myself,
so he would pay a bit of homage to it.

Army was a real treat. He had half of the audience doing the trumpet
part and the other half doing the sax part. It came across very well, and
he even had us do it a few times more after the song so he could edit it
in if need be. He closed the song with "I thought about Your Mommy."

He then started playing The Luckiest, then cut himself off saying that he
wanted to play it perfectly so it could get on the album. He said he'd play
it a bit later on instead, but the crowd gave him shit for it, so he went
ahead and played it then and there.

Where's Summer B was another song he had us doing harmony for (The harmony
in the chorus). He explained that Ross was the name of one of their first
media critics, and he absolutely hated their stuff. Frank was the name of
the guy who owned a bar they played at, and he was a dick. So they wrote
them in as holding hands and now they have to listen to it all the time.
Summer, we found out, was actually the name of Darren's girlfriend.
(Hey, that's Darren's girlfriend!)

After Selfless Cold & Composed, he made a comment about his shoes being untied,
which he found odd since all he was doing was playing piano. Some guy in the
front row suggested he write a song about it, so he did just that. He wrote
about a 2 minute peice about his shoes coming untied all the time. It was
really farking cool. :)

Silver Street was one of the few songs I wasn't familiar with. He said that
he'd gotten a few requests for it before the show, but he wasn't even sure
if he remembered the words. He played it flawlessly, however.

In the middle of Narcolepsy, his voice cracked pretty badly, and he yelled
out "OH SHIT!" He finished the song up, then decided he wanted to do that
part of the song over again so they could use it in a recording if they chose
to. He taught us the "between the shores of joy and sadness" bit and had us
sing along to it.

Tom & Mary was another oldie he played that he wasn't sure if he'd remember
very well. Once again, he had no problem remembering it.

He explained Still Fighting It as a song about life's troubles. He said that
when you're a baby, everything is a challenge. How do you deal with the fact
that other people can spell, and you can't? How do you deal with being told
what to do? And even when you're 80 years old, life's still a challenge. You're
peeing in your bed, how do you deal with that? All this came to him when his son
was born.

The intro to Rockin' the Suburbs was great. He started off with "This is a
song I wrote for a band called Korn." He then explained that he had nothing
against bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn, and that they were very good.... at
what they did. Someone in the audience yelled "What they do SUCKS!!" and he
started nodding and said "Yeah... they're good at that... and...well, yeah.
It does. But what I've noticed is that they're very good at math. Everything
they do is digitally edited, they find every possible frequency, put it into
every bit of headroom available, and it just becomes noise. I've always liked
that Stevie Wonder was a black blind man born in the 60's, yet still wrote
joyous songs. I have to wonder why all these new guys write about how much
they've been screwed -- if anyone's been screwed, it's probably Stevie Wonder."
I have to admit, it was funny as hell, and listening to him play Rockin' on Piano
was a real treat.

He explained Not the Same as a song about the fact that everytime we get a
little older, we're not the same as we were. The guy in the start of the song
tripped on acid, climbed a tree, and decided to become a born again Christian.
He really wasn't the same anymore after that.

After that, the main part of the show was over. He left the stage, and after
a Standing Ovation, he came back out and went into Evaporated. This song was
performed absolutely wonderfully. After this, he explained the story behind
Song for the Dumped, and mentioned that since it was a sad song, it should be
in minor. He performed it in minor, adding in the words "You fucking whore"
into the bridge.

All in all, it was a really great show. Some guy in the audience kept screaming
for Video the entire time, and although Ben didn't play Video, he did acknowledge
the guy. He said he wished had lungs like that guy. He was born in the south, and
if you could scream the blues, you were cool. He couldn't, so he wasn't.

This was probably the best concert I've ever been to, at least it's tied for
the Counting Crows show I went to two years ago. Two thumbs and a shoulder up.