Ben Harper at Koka Booth

Posted on September 14, 2006 
Filed Under music

I’ll post a few pictures from last night’s Ben Harper concert in Cary. My brother and I got there so early we were the 5th and 6th people in line. While waiting, we drank mate drawing suspicious stares from fellow fans and psuedo-authorities, neither of whom seemed to know what mate is. Gates opened late because of electrical problems having to do with the incessant rain. We ended up with front row spots.

Whether it was because we were so close or due to some energy from the crowd, I forgot about the rain (sometimes). I was wet through and through by the end. But, I didn’t feel it during the show. Ben was on; the stage came alive with the first strike on the Weissenborn and it stayed that way through the two-and-a-half hours that followed. The highlight, the climax, the pièce de résistance was “Black Rain”.

Damian Marley, complete with Rastafarian-flag-waving-guy, was the opening act.

Set I:
• Steal My Kisses
• Burn To Shine
• Faded
• Homeless Child
• When It’s Good
• Gold To Me
• Ground On Down
• Waiting For You
• Morning Yearning
• Diamonds On The Inside
• Forgiven
• Please Don’t Talk About Murder While I’m Eating
• Black Rain
• Get Up, Stand Up

Encore I:
• Another Lonely Day
• With My Own Two Hands
• 11th Commandment
• Well Well Well
• Amen Omen

Encore II:
• Get It Like You Like It
• Glory & Consequence
• Suzie Blue
• Sexual Healing (with lyrics from “If I Was Your Girlfriend” by Prince interspersed)
• Heart Of Gold
• Better Way
–setlist compiled with assistance from BenHarper.net

About a week after the show, Julian, of Melody Makers, contacted me for more photos of Damian Marley. They’re here.

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