Seen him a bunch of times before and this was easily the worst. Absolutely wretched. He showed the same kind of contempt for his audience that Ryan Adams displays most nights. The first 50 minutes were exclusively songs from the new album along with some songs that they just made up. Some of them were alternate versions of songs they had just played. There were two brainwash songs, two free coffee songs, two different bitch went nuts songs, two frown songs, and on and on it went. The music was ok, but the lyrics on the goof songs were sub 4th grade. After nearly an hour of torturing the audience with new songs and "fake" songs (as he called them), he thanked everyone for coming out to listen to "our new shit" and left the stage. They came back and ripped into some old stuff (Zac and Sara, Philosophy, Landed, etc.) and it seemed like we were going to be rewarded for our penance with a full set of what we actually paid to hear. But nope. It was actually a glorified encore. Played 5 songs and said good night. Total playing time was about 1 hour and 15 minutes with nearly an hour devoted to mostly crap. If you want to take bong hits and goof around with your musician friends, stay in the basement and try to refrain from charging $40 for your self indulgence.
