Troubadour LA 11/28/08

[glen]

Dale's hula hoop
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=mMZHGIvdy4k&feature=related

wtf?  dale crover can hula hoop.   I am impressed.

[ijwthstd]

Great show. I wasn't even going to go until I got the MySpace bulletin about the Pancake Mountain TV Dance Party. I really had no idea what it was or what I was in for but I signed up and went. Turns out Pancake Mountain is a kid's TV show and the crowd consisted of about 10-12 little kids, their parents and me. The little kids danced onstage with the Melvins during their 20 min set. I could have went up there but I opted to stand in the middle of the floor. Also saw them do karaoke with a puppet named Rufus. Including band, camera crew, employees etc there were never more than 25 people in the building. Just an odd experience! Also saw soundcheck.

And since I went thru the trouble of getting down there I stayed for the regular show.

The kids were playing with the hoola hoops so that's how they ended up at the show.

[glen]

yeah but WHAT SONGS DID THEY PLAY AT THE PANCAKE MTN SET?!?!?!

[ijwthstd]

yeah but WHAT SONGS DID THEY PLAY AT THE PANCAKE MTN SET?!?!?!

Pancake Mountain (Jared singing Pancake mountain over and over again)
some instrumental
The Kicking Machine
The Kicking Machine
Nude With Boots

I Wanna Be Sedated (karaoke)

I don't have the soundcheck setlist but it also included The Kicking Machine

[glen]

sounds cool.  and I thank you for the response.

I wondered what they'd throw at the wee tykes that wouldn't be too "god awful" for their little ears.   in other words.. I was pretty confident charmicarmicat was not on the Pancake Mtn setlist.

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

Ha, I met ijwthstd once at a Throwrag show at the Knitting factory.

[norecess]

Ha, I met ijwthstd once at a Throwrag show at the Knitting factory.

"Hi, is your name ijwthstd?"
"Yes, that's me!"
"Oh hi, nice to meet you, I'm the bUTTHOLEmAN."
"The butthole man?"
"No, bUTTHOLEmAN"
"Ah, nice to meet you too."

[bUTTHOLEmAN]

 

[I am the Sun]

Porn's set was different?

I think the deal with Porn's set is that it's semi-improvised. Th second night's set was about 8 minutes longer than the first night. I noticed that there were similar parts during both sets, such as the guitar riff that Tim Moss played during the middle of the song, but a lot of it seemed to be kind of improv with guidelines. Someone mentioned on this board a few months ago the idea of Dale and Coady doing a Gene Krupa/Buddy Rich style drum battle album, and I think that if they recorded this Porn song it would pretty much be the equivalent, in that it's improvisation in the context of an overall structure so to speak.

[pinkyslim]

Ha, I met ijwthstd once at a Throwrag show at the Knitting factory.

Throwrag blows......