I am vindicated. Amanda Palmer played "Call Me Maybe." Instant four stars on that alone.
Not really. But sort of.
Solid concert experience. It dragged on a little more and was a little overblown in its own artistic self-importance, but entertaining and engaging. The level of musicianship was pretty much top notch, especially for the whole goth punk cabaret thing they've got going on. But while Steve Vai's (far superior) musicianship was numbing, the Grand Theft Orchestra's musicianship was enthralling. Probably because they were fun, witty, and musically concise. But then, brevity soul wit, so that's redundant. It shows that you don't really need the thirteen hour practice sessions for forty years to be an amazing musician though, so that was inspiring.
On the other hand, I think they were somewhat over distorted - the harmonics were often difficult to hear over the muddy layers - and Amanda is certainly not the best technical singer, though she is quite charismatic. She's a pretty good song writer when she's not being overly serious though, and her band carried the rest of the show.
"Pictures or It Didn't Happen" was the highlight for me.
Not paying her string or horn section was definitely the low point. Pay your f*&%ing musicians, lady.
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