Beck - Gamma Ray - Napa, Live, Thurs. 10-20-11, front row, Uptown Theatre. After ~3 years, Beck is back! And he put the band back together from the Sea Change era.. Beck: "If any of you had the idea for us to play acoustic the 1st half, take a break, then come back and play... well" (audience cheers). Lately Beck has been a music producer who just performs at charity benefits with one-time warm-up shows like this one. He'll be playing at the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA this weekend, which is likely why there were so many acoustic songs performed this night. Other Tidbits: In addition to the setlist being taped to the stage, for the acoustic set, lyrics to two of the songs were taped to the speakers. One was the lyrics to 'Sleepless Nights', a song that Beck has performed with Norah Jones before, and Norah is also performing at the Bridge School Benefit. The other was 'Pocahontas' a Neil Young cover, who, yep you guessed it, is also performing at the BSB! Beck said during the acoustic set that he dusted off a lot of his songs and covers (the BSB concert is usually acoustic), and he joked that he was glad that he made it through them. That said, Beck did mess up on the lyrics to 'Lost Cause', a song from Sea Change, and he made light of it afterwards to a lot of applause and laughter from the fans. For the first set, the fans actually remained seated, to which Beck joked during the latter part of the set that "I promise that the second half of the show will ...
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