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Fun Fun Fun scene report: Weird Al is no joke
Having missed Weird Al’s show Friday night, I was certain I would see a flood of social media posts and reviews about how great the show was, and that these love letters would be born of irony and a desire to seem hip by digging the square. As it turns out, people did go wild, but they were seemingly earnest as hell.
Saturday I ran into friend Paul Ahern, former lead singer of great Austin ’90s-era rock band the Adults. He told me that the Weird Al show was “the best synthesis of comedy and music” he had ever seen. He also said that the show was not just the best show he ad seen in a long time, but one of the best he had ever seen in his life. We’re talking a couple hundred live concerts.
Ahern and I got split up but I sent him a message and asked him for more thoughts on the show. Below are some of his thoughts, edited for space”
“He knows how to work a crowd — even a gigantic one like he had Friday night — and not make it feel pat.
“At one point between songs Weird Al screeched, pro wrestler-style, ‘Are you ready to rock and rooooolllll??!!!!!!’ The crowd went insane for a moment, he waited a beat, sighed and said, ‘I was afraid of that. I mean, we’re about to play a ballad next.’ And then they started playing a song akin in feel to Extreme’s ‘More Than Words,’ whose lyrics had me crying with laughter, as he wondered aloud whether his significant other were beginning to fall out of love with him, on account of her poisoning his breakfast and putting a cobra in his sock drawer, among many other dryly-delivered violent crimes.
“I can’t remember ever having laughed that hard for that long, ever before in my life. Worth every cent of the FFFFest wristbands, without even having seen a single other act.”
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