glynnisjohns wrote:My band mangling "I Can't Escape Myself"

I am the douche on the right.

Nicely done, sir.

Yeah that's what I'm playing. It's makes a pretty good jazz box. It's does country/alt-country and at times it's an indie feedback machine.

Yes I agree. The singer kind of ruined it. And he had us practice the shit out of that tune. I tried to talk him into doing more of an alt-country version but he really wanted to try to cop Bing Crosby's vibe and, well.... he's no Bing.

The strings were a little pitchy also. I learned during that production that it's better to use 6 or 12 string players then 3. Trio's (unless playing alone) almost always sound pitchy with a band. The more players the more the slight intonation problems sound like chorusing. Unfortunately 9 more strings costs about 7k. But people who are serious about the string thing (like when bjork did it) usually will have 8-12 player sections.

Ah well live and learn.

Me reading poetry at a garden center in Austin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFmr31ApXeg

The dude who filmed this cut off my introduction, which quoted "Death or Glory": "I believe in this & it's been tested by research/that he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

Alberto the Frog wrote:Me ages ago pretending to play guitar on a children's TV show. I am the guitar-pretender who is not also pretending to sing.

I wish more American kids shows had rock on them. Yo Gabba Gabba is not enough.

Marsupialized wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:My best pal sent this to me. He was watching it and said to himself " Hey! I know that back of the head!"

Yeah I bet he does, bet he knows it like the back of his hand

Thanks for removing the subtlety of my joke.

-A

Interesting aside about Dr. Sphincter.
towards the end of Trekkies

he's the freak driving around in a homemade Captain Pike mobile.

amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DP4IG0-INI

i'm playing violin. it gets better after the first minute or two.

that dr. spinchter track was pure class.

I'm also noodling on guitar in the "Lathe Operator" larf.

I was using one of Jesse Johnson's guitars for this, a pink fake-strat with "Jesse" on the headstock. You can see it at the end.

Lookie here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnE63BR-OE

I am doing monitors at logan square auditorium for this 12 band all-ages pop punk new-screamo garbage festival. At 11 seconds, you will see me in the background, off-stage, giving a thumbs up to my pal Eric who is working front of house. I think I was giving the thumbs up in response to a text he just sent me saying something along the lines of, 'my this band is quite douchey' or something like that.

The National performing at Pitchfork '06:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uKF4gIWrYAY

I'm the bald guy in the audience, center right. Ear wax was apparently being secreted at the time.