How I went to a Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm concert and got a really big t-shirt (Part two)

Part two of three:
(For some reason, this is the hard part to write because I wasn’t taking notes, and I am going to have a hard time reconstructing everything.)
I was somewhat surprised as the concert started, because nobody, not even a cheesy local radio personality, introduced Paul and Storm. They just came out, talked to the crowd a little bit, and played their song, “Opening Band:”
We are the opening band

We are here to do five or six or seven songs

“Don’t go too long, and get the hell off the stage”

We are the opening band

We’re probably not the band you came to see tonight

But it’s alright, ’cause soon we’ll go away
They tour with Coulton so much, it’s kind of hard to see them as a traditional opening band. They almost seem like a double bill.
Interestingly, it was Paul and Storm’s first time in Richmond, so when they asked everyone in the audience to raise their hands if this was the first time they had seen Paul and Storm in person, lots of hands went up. (Myself included.)
They played for about an hour, including a lot of great songs, including “Cruel, Cruel Moon,” “Nun Fight,” “Nugget Man,” “Elvis Died Today,” and many others.
The songs are, of course, hilarious, but the duo proved capable of some great improv moments, too.
Early in the concert, Paul took to flinging water from his water bottle on the people in the first row. After a few times, they joked that it was turning into a Gallagher concert.
“If you see the watermelons coming out, run,” Storm told the crowd.
They came on stage carrying pieces of bread, because they said they didn’t have any paper before the show to write their set list on. Eventually, they tore up the bread and threw it to the crowd. (It did not multiply, and there were no fishes involved, for the record.)
Paul started making fun of a picture that was rotating on a video board throughout the Hat Factory. It was an ad for some event, featuring three people, one of whom was sticking his hand out with his fingers as though he was pointing across his body. This got referenced over and over throughout the night, as the “deuchebag pose.”
It got to the point where Paul would point at the board and the crowd would cheer.
In the middle, they played stylistic parodies from their new album, “Do You Like Star Wars?” of They Might Be Giants had they written a Christmas song called, “Christmas Eve Eve,” and one of Coulton, called “Live” about a sad mad scientist.
(Just for the record: For the same contest, Coulton wrote a stylistic parody of Paul and Storm, called “Big Dick Farts A Polka.”)
At the end, they played two “tribute” songs to other famous musicians, one was “If James Taylor Were on Fire,” and “If Aaron Neville Were Waiting for a Parking Spot at the Mall, but Someone Else Snagged it.”
They concluded with “Frogger! The Frogger Musical,” (Yes, it’s a song about a video game.)

(To be concluded tomorrow.)