I Deconstruct My Thoughts At This Piano

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a huge Andrew McMahon Fan….

Jack’s Mannequin had a concert on Thursday at MSU, I had to go.

So, I headed out to East Lansing on Thursday afternoon to see this concert, smiling the whole way there. Every time I see them play live it gets better and better. This being the 4th time I’ve seen them live, I still was stunned.

The concert was at the Wharton Center which is very similar to Miller Auditorium here at WMU. There were 2 opening bands, “A Letter To You” – which honestly really sucked, and “Stacy Clark” – who I really liked, she sounded similar to a Michelle Branch. From being a Jack’s veteran I knew the exact protocol, they roll the piano out, everyone cheers, about 30mins later they come on stage. Like I said before the concert was great they played just about every song off of the “Everything In Transit” record and 3 songs off of the new unreleased cd, “Cellular Phone”, “Suicide Blonde”, and “Caves”. As always Andrew made sweet sweet love to his piano not missing one note (even though heavily intoxicated) this is something you really need to see inperson to understand, he really just plays the hell out of that thing, and ofcourse was funny as can be. My favorite quotes of the night were “This is a song about NOT killing the messenger”, and “Everytime I play a show on a college campus people seem to be twice as drunk as people at a normal venue, I find this ironic because they don’t sell alcohol at places like this…” *Crowd Boo’s* “…not like that would be unreasonable or anything…” He’s a very witty guy. The band also throws in covers of different bands during songs, this time they threw in U2’s “With or Without You” into “Dark Blue”, this to me and my friend Brian was awesome. For the well deserved encore he played “Me and the Moon” by Something Corporate which is one of my favorite SOCO songs and also my text message ringtone which I’m sure my roommate hates, so I had to record it for him. And then finally closed with his infamous cover of “American Girl” by Tom Petty where he came running up into the crowd right into our row, I was able to take a picture, check it out below.

This is really how close he came to us, it was really sweet. A kid asked me after the concert if I could e-mail him the picture, I looked at him and just laughed…

I can’t wait for the new album, and the summer tour.

P.S. – I love the blonde girls face in the full size picture…