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REVIEW: Spinal Tap / The Folksmen @ Paramount Theatre (Seattle, WA – – 4/20/09)
FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
(only a couple this time)
- Spinal Tap Unwigged/Unplugged (photo: Shannon Cottrell, LA Weekly)
As mentioned above, I only took a few pictures. I was in the upper mezzanine, aka nosebleeds. I tried out my new 60x zoom digital camera; alas, it wasn’t 600x. :)
The show was great. Christopher Guest (aka Nigel Tufnel / Alan Barrows), Michael McKean (aka David St. Hubbins / Jerry Palter), and Harry Shearer (aka Derek Smalls / Mark Shubb) played for an hour and 45 minutes – – a great mix of Spinal Tap tunes, The Folksmen / A Mighty Wind tunes, a Waiting for Guffman tune, a Harry Sheaerer comedy album tune, and some never released ditties.
Great in between song banter… I guess this was as much of a comedy show as a music show. Oh, and no drummer… for obvious insurance purposes.
Setlist:
- opening song with lyrics of “hair as brown as the finest stew”
- Hell Hole
- Never Did No Wanderin’ (CG on mandolin)
- Clam Caravan (CG on didgeridoo at end)
- Bitch School
- Loco Man
- Waiting for Guffman‘s This Bulging River
- Reading of the “Spinal Tap NBC Memo”
- All the Way Home
- Blood on the Coal
- (Listen to Me) the Flower People
- Cornwine
- The Majesty of Rock
- Harry Shearer’s Elvis parody All Backed Up
- Stonehenge
- “Aussie YouTube” snippet
- Q&A session
- Start Me Up (Rolling Stones cover as in A Mighty Wind)
- Cups and Cakes
- “Lego Video” snippet
- Old Joe’s Place
- Big Bottom
- The Good Book Song
- Rainy Day Sun
- Sex Farm
- Encore: Gimme Some Money
- A Mighty Wind
- The Colors of My Life
This past Monday was this audiences’ lucky bun-day… really big, full set. A+ show all around. I’m glad I got a chance to catch the show while randomly being in town on vacation.
The Appropriate Linkage:
- http://www.unwigged.com/
- http://youtube.com/tapunwigged
- http://myspace.com/unwiggedandunplugged
- http://spinaltap.com/
- http://www.theparamount.com/
The rest of the dates:
April 22: Oakland, Calif. (Paramount Theatre)
April 23: Santa Barbara, Calif. (Santa Barbara County Bowl)
April 26: Los Angeles (The Wiltern)
April 27: Phoenix, Ariz. (Dodge Theatre)
April 29: Denver (Paramount Theatre)
May 1: Houston, Texas (Jesse H, Jones Hall)
May 2: Dallas (Nokia Theatre)
May 4: Jacksonville, Fla. Florida Theatre)
May 5: Miami (The Fillmore)
May 6: Orlando, Fla, (Hard Rock Live)
May 8: St. Petersburg, Fla. (Mahaffey Theatre)
May 9: Atlanta (Fox Theatre)
May 10: Nashville (Ryman Auditorium)
May 12: Baltimore (Lyric Opera House)
May 13: Washington, D.C. (Warner Theatre)
May 14: Philadelphia (Keswick Theatre)
May 17: Columbus, Ohio (Palace Theatre)
May 19: Cleveland, Ohio (State Theatre)
May 21: Toronto (Massey Hall)
May 22: Mashantucket, Conn. (MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods)
May 23: Boston (The Wilbur Theatre)
May 24: Atlantic City, N.J. (Music Box at The Borgata)
May 26: New York (Beacon Theatre)
May 27: New York (Beacon Theatre) *review / pictures / videos from this show *
May 29: Detroit (Fox Theatre)
May 30: Chicago (Chicago Theatre)
May 31: Milwaukee, Wis. (Riverside Theatre)
June 30: London, UK (Wembley Arena)
~Dan – np: Celldweller – Celldweller
SPINAL TAP / THE FOLKSMEN PHOTOS
all pictures (cc) 2009 Daniel Temmesfeld,
you may use freely under a creative commons attribution
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Michel Gondry 2 DVD
SO… this is awesome…
MICHEL GONDRY 2: MORE VIDEOS contains the following videos:
MUSIC VIDEOS:
1. Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules “Mad World”
2. Paul McCartney “Dance Tonight”
3. Thomas Dolby “Close But No Cigar”
4. Bjork “Declare Independence”
5. Steriogram “Walkie Talkie Man”
6. The Willowz “I Wonder”
7. Beck “Cellphone’s Dead”
8. The White Stripes “The Denial Twist”
9. Donald Fagen “Snowbound”
10. Cody ChesnuTT “King of the Game”
11. Sinead O’Connor “Fire On Babylon”
12. Queen with Wyclef Jean ft. Pras & Free “Another One Bites the Dust”
13. Radiohead “Knives Out”
14. Dick Annegarn “Soleil du Soir”
15. Sananda Maitreya “She Kissed Me”
16. Sheryl Crow “A Change Would Do You Good”
17. The Black Crowes “High Head Blues”
18. Leafbirds “It Can All Be Taken Away”
19. The Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”
20. Energy Orchard “How the West Was Won”BEHIND-THE-SCENES:
1. Behind-the-Scenes Of The White Stripes “The Denial Twist”
2. Behind-the-Scenes Of Beck “Cellphone’s Dead”
3. Behind-the-Scenes Of Paul McCartney “Dance Tonight”
4. Behind-the-Scenes Of Radiohead “Knives Out”
5. Behind-the-Scenes Of Steriogram “Walkie Talkie Man”
6. Behind-the-Scenes Of Bjork “Declare Independence”OTHER WORKS:
1. The Simpsons Parody Of The White Stripes Video
2. Booker T and The Michel Gondry’s
3. Michel Gondry Solves A RUBIK’S CUBE With His Feet
4. Michel Gondry Solves A RUBIK’S CUBE With His Nose
5. Jack Black Beats Michel Gondry WIth His RUBIK’S CUBES
6. Herve Di Rosa “Viva Di Rosa”
7. Conan & The Big Head
8. Paul Gondry’s The Willowz “Take A Look Around”
9. How To Blow Up A Helicopter (Ayako’s Story)
10. Forum Des Images “L’ Histoire De L’Univers”
Go get it now on Michel Gondry.com…
~Dan – np: Circle of Dust / Brainchild – Mindwarp
Mike Patton as a Decepticon
Thanks to Stubbadub for rescooping the MovieWeb scoop, because otherwise I wouldn’t have heard about it…
Apparently Mike Patton is confirmed as being the voice of a Decepticon in the upcoming sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He will be one of the seven pieces that form Devastator, likely Mixmaster. For more info, check out the MovieWeb post.
Meh, I don’t know much about Transformers mythology, but I guess I’ll at least Redbox the movie when it comes out simply due to Mike Patton’s involvement. He’s been getting a lot of movie-related gigs lately… Firecracker, Will Smith’s I Am Legend, A Perfect Place score, and the Crank 2 soundtrack (out soon). This year also “promises” another Fantômas record, the debut of Mondo Cane (Mike’s 50s Italian-pop band), at least one more John Zorn/Moonchild Trio collaboration, and maybe even Crudo (the Dan the Automator collaboration).
It may be a banner Patton year, if everything gets legs underneath…
~Dan – np: Buckethead & Viggo Mortensen – This That and the Other
Crank 2: High Voltage
The Crank 2: High Voltage Soundtrack comes out April 7th… Mike Patton is all over it like stink on a monkey…
Listen to some snippets over on the MySpaces.
Yeah, I’ll probably buy the CD and never see the movie. :)
~Dan
Seinfeld + Curb / Reptet Tour / OTC Tour / Jurassic 5 spin-off
Entertainment Weekly reported recently that Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards will have appearances in multiple episodes of (co-Seinfeld creator) Larry David‘s Curb Your Enthusiasm this season. Yay!
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One of my favorite jazz bands from Seattle, Reptet (part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern) is hitting the road again this spring.
March 12th – Mississippi Pizza – Portland, OR
March 13th – The Stage Door – Mt. Shasta, CA
March 14th – Divided Sky – S. Lake Tahoe, CA
March 15th – The Zephyr Lounge – Reno, NV
March 16th – Don Quixote’s – Santa Cruz, CA
March 17th – Delta of Venus – Davis, CA
March 18th -Amnesia Bar – San Francisco, CA
March 19th – Cozmic Pizza, Eugene, OR
March 20th – Triple Door (Musiquarium) – Seattle, WA
I’m bummed, as when they’ll be here in Eugene, I’ll be up in their neck of the woods in Seattle. And when they’re back in Seattle the next day, I already got Spinal Tap tickets at the Paramount in Seattle. “Boo” for too many things on the same day. Anyway, they put on a great show. Check ’em out… it’s fun, frolicky, goof-off jazz wonderment.
http://www.reptet.com/
http://www.monktail.com/
http://www.myspace.com/reptet
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Jason Schimmel’s Orange Tulip Conspiracy put out one of my favorite CDs of 2008 and played one of my favorite concerts of 2008 is also hitting the road again.
May 1- The Comet Tavern Seattle,WA
May 2- The Tonic Lounge Portland, OR
May 3- The Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
May 4- Hi Dive Denver, CO
May 5- Knickerbockers Lincoln, NE
May 6- TBA Chicago, IL
May 7- TBA Buffalo, MA
May 8- TBA Boston, MA
May 9- The Studio at Webster Hall New York City, NY
May 10- TBA Philadelphia, PA
May 11- TBA Washington, DC
May 12- The Village Tavern Mount Pleasant, SC
May 13- Backstage Lounge Gainesville, FL
May 14- The Earl Atlanta,GA
May 15- Bo Bo Gallery Asheville, NC
May 16- Dragon’s Den New Orleans, LA
May 17- Rubber Gloves Denton, TX
May 18- Emo’s Austin, TX
May 19- Zeppelins Underground El Paso, TX
May 20- The Hut Tucson, AZ
May 21- Brick by Brick San Diego, CA
May 22- Knitting Factory Los Angeles, CA
May 23- Hotel Utah San Francisco, CA
I hope to hit the Portland show…
http://www.myspace.com/orangetulipconspiracy
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One of my favorite, now-defunct rap groups Jurassic 5 has a new spin-off. Solo albums first by Cut Chemist, Chali 2Na, and DJ Nu-Mark… Akil the MC has one in the works, too… Now Marc7 and Zakir (aka Soup) have formed a new group called Portable Payback. Sounds pretty smooth – which fits in with 7even & Soup’s style in J5.
Check them out on the MySpaces: http://www.myspace.com/portablepayback
~Dan – np: Ben Folds Five – Ben Folds Five
oh, sweet… Futurama’s on…
“Good news everyone…”
OK… so, Futurama might come back to TV. As was reported on Paste’s blog…
After being treated like a red-headed stepchild and mismanaged by the bumbling Fox network, Futurama, the sometimes uneven sci-fi comedy developed by Matt Groening, may return to the station’s line-up after all. The announcement comes by way of Billy West, who voiced Professor Farnsworth, Fry and Zapp Brannigan. [Read more over at Paste.]
Geeks who’d rather watch Futurama than do other things rejoice everywhere (warning: that link, while humorous, is not necessarily suitable for work). Futurama had four seasons on Fox before being canceled. Their run on Comedy Central’s Adult Swim and their recent straight-to-DVD movies have kept the dream alive, and as of now may make returning to primetime a good idea for Fox.
Bender’s Big Score / The Beast with a Billion Backs
Bender’s Game / Into the Wild Green Yonder
Speaking of geeks, also on Paste’s blog, Leonardo DiCaprio may bring back War Games (that 1983 chess-meets-world-destruction-meets-Keds movie that launched Matthew Broderick). Cool…
~Dan – np: Beck – Midnight Vultures
fright of the conchords
There’s no reason to be afraid of New Zealand’s 4th most popular comedy folk duo. They’re mostly harmless, and they’re back for both a 2nd season on HBO (or eventually on DVD for those non-HBO subscribers like me) and a second album as well.
The Flight of the Conchords… looking… longingly and forlorn…?
As reported in SPIN, the kiwis are releasing their 2nd CD this coming April on Sub Pop Records (April 14th to be exact). Australian singer (and Zero 7 collaborator) Sia guests on a track. Also, if you pre-order the album from Sub Pop, you get the singles right after they air on the TV show (as well as some songs not on the TV show).
~Dan – np: Criss Angel – System 2 in the Trilogy
PS- the new 3rd -gen Prius looks freakin’ rad…
Flight of the Conchords – 2nd season premiere (online)
The first episode of the second season of the New Zealand comedy Flight of the Conchords has premiered a month early on Funny or Die.
From Paste:
In the second season opener, Bret and Jemaine are quick to fire their affable manager, Murray. After the addition and swift subtraction of a new band member last season, Murray has spent much of his time with the Flight of the Conchords reject, who formed a new and rather popular band that Murray manages, Crazy Dogs. But the boys bounce back, scoring a job writing a jingle for a women’s-only organic toothpaste. In a Conchord first, Murray sings a solo ditty after Jemaine and Bret leave his (brand new, huge!) office. The tune is pretty painful, but overall the episode is predictably hilarious considering the very talented sources.
The show returns to the regular airwaves on HBO on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 10 p.m. EST, but you can watch it now at Funny or Die (click link below):
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS – SEASON 2 PREMIERE
~Dan – np: Auragami – Esoteric
http://www.myspace.com/auragami
Prop 8: The Musical
All the buzz today on my RSS feeder… then I finally watched it and saw why there was such a buzz…
Written (by Marc Shaiman) in one day, recorded the music the next day, and shot in a day… here is Prop 8: The Musical featuring Jack Black (as Jesus) with Neil Patrick Harris, John C. Reilly, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Margaret Cho, Rashida Jones and others:
(click pic goes to the funnyordie.com exclusive video)
~Dan – np: Hotel Lights – Firecracker People
Ron Howard as Opie & Richie Cunningham
Brilliant stuff… check out a new video of Ron Howard (as Opie with Andy Griffith & Richie with Henry Winkler) over on my friend J.Marie’s blog:
(click the pic)
I’d post it here, but WordPress(.com) doesn’t like many of the standard video embedding links.
~Dan
Flight of the Conchords – Live at Amoeba
Bret & Jemaine are Flight of the Conchords (formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo). A 52-minute in-store video from Amoeba Records (from April ’08)…
(click keytars for link to video… or just use the link below)
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/videos/flight-of-the-conchords.html
With poisonous gases, they’ll poison your asses…
~Dan – np: Frank Zappa – Joe’s Menage
Nailing Your Wife (with Nathan Fillion & Aria Giovanni)
OK… not suitable for work, though not porn… it’s a spoof with a somewhat predictable, but gruesome ending. It stars Nathan Fillion (from Firefly, Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Drive, Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, Desperate Housewives, etc) and Aria Giovanni (from porn). It was directed by James Gunn (from directory-type things, I imagine).
“Nailing Your Wife” (PG Porn) by James Gunn
with Nathan Fillion & Aria Giovanni
http://www.spike.com/video/pg-porn-pg-porn/3041858
(there might be a advertisement that plays ahead of the movie)
Update (12/19): There’s another one called “Peanus” (a take on Peanuts) with Belladonna:
http://tv.ign.com/dor/objects/14282753/james-gunns-pg-porn/videos/peanus_12_17_08.html
~Dan – np: Metallica – Death Magnetic
Sarah Silverman’s the Great Schlep
Sarah Silverman urges you in her usual offensive way… don’t be a douche nozzle…
(Paid for by the Jewish Council for Education and Research)
Thanks for the PSA, Sarah.
Only 3 more weeks until D-Day…
~Dan – np: Paul Brody’s Sadawi – For the Moment
Bill Maher’s Religulous
(click for larger poster images)
Well, I saw Bill Maher & Larry Charles‘ Religulous yesterday afternoon… and while it was the third weekend in theaters, there were more people in attendance than the opening weekend of Expelled (same theater in Eugene, same time of day). Hmmm…
Anyway, funny funny funny movie. Of course, considering the subject matter, there’s a wealth of comedic opportunity. While it is primarily making fun of religion by talking down at its followers; well, there are some good points made. Obviously, I’m biased, though… I like Bill Maher, and I tend to side with him in many areas. Meh… sue me.
Check it out if it’s playing near you, or when it hits the DVD shelves.
If you like Bill Maher, you can get his HBO show Real Time for free as a podcast… check it out here (iTunes link).
~Dan – np: Goddamn Electric Bill – Topics for Gossip
PS- sidenote / unrelated…
Fox News has nothing better to talk about than magazine touch-ups, as they are effectively on the wrong side on the issues when it comes to the constituents… might as well talk about magazine close-ups of former beauty queens:
Jerry Seinfeld & Bill Gates
Happy Talk Like a Pirate, Friday! Here arrrrrr some funny guys…
Yeah, I don’t know how long these have been out. Who knows, it may be old news. Well, it was new news to me. :)
~Dan – np: Sigur Rós – Inní mér syngur vitleysingur (single)
Sufjan Stevens & Kevin Smith
Unrelated news…
Sufjan Stevens (pictured befro) is lending some music to Natalie Portman‘s directorial debut, EVE, due out in early 2009. By “lending,” the Paste article probably means “exchanged the right for cold, hard cash,” which is quite different from the standard definition of “lending”… unless the whole banking scandal of ’07 created a rip in the space-time-webster’s-definitional continuum. Or maybe he really lent it. Speaking of Suffie, why hasn’t he released anything since the Xmas box of ’06? Is he wrapping up his eastern states dodeca-boxset?
Clerks’ silentman-director, Kevin Smith‘s got a new Seth Rogen / Elizabeth Banks, R-rated vehicle coming out in late October called Zach & Miri Make a Porno. Here’s the red-band trailer (click the pic to go to the website with the trailer)… don’t worry, outside of language & innuendo, there’s no “porno” in the trailer:
It comes out October 31st or some dcate along those lines…
~Dan
Bill Maher on Larry King re: Religion
Bill Maher & Larry Charles’ religious comedy Religulous comes out October 3rd. It was supposed to come out in June (I mentioned way back in April during my review of Expelled).
Bill Maher was recently on Larry King…
Part1 – Also available for download at the RDF (warning: 17.5M)
Part2 – Q&A: Rick Warren, environmentalism, stimulus checks, etc…
Part3 – more Q&A: more religion & politics, cockiness, marriage, etc…
Best interchange from the Religulous clips (in Part 1)…
“It worries me that people are running my country who think, who believe, in a talking snake.” – Bill Maher
“You don’t have to pass an I.Q. test to be in the Senate, though.” – Senator Mark Pryor [AR-D]
*SIGH*
“Why can’t God just defeat the Devil and get rid of evil? Because then there’s no story… and no reason to pass the plate.” – Bill Maher
What we really need is a dense ecumenical bandana.
~Dan – np: Radiohead – In Rainbows
The Bad Veins’ Daytrotter Session
In pre-Bad Veins news… Seth Green (aka Oz aka Scott aka Chris Griffin aka Robot Chicken) is going to be in the upcoming Heroes season as a comic book geek (or so says Paste’s blog).
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OK, now on to the lovely Daytrotter Sessions news… The Bad Veins, a fantastic lofi-meets-songwriter, indie rock duo from Cincinnati, is the latest installment from the Daytrotter in-studio sessions. Four songs, live in-studio… FOR FREE.
Go here for the free music:
http://daytrotter.com/article/1386/bad-veins
1) Fake Baby 2) You Kill 3) Found 4) The Lie
http://www.badveins.net/
http://www.myspace.com/badveins
A bunch of interview vlogs on Uncensored Interviews
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing The Bad Veins a couple of times when I stomped around Cincinnati. Very fun songs, well written, indie cred… the may blow up soon, if their suitors in NYC or elsewhere come through…
Past Daytrotter Sessions I’ve blogged about (and dug):
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
Amazon.com mp3 downloads
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A Musical Commentary to a Musical ?!
Wait, why didn’t I know this before? There are two commentaries to Joss Whedon‘s brilliant Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog DVD… and one of the commentaries is a musical, in and of itself. Hell yeah!
RAD! We just got it in the mail today (thank you, Amazon wishlist feature), and we are sooooo watching it this weekend…
~Dan – np: Celldweller – Take It & Break It Vol. 3 – Switchback Remixes
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