Yo La Tengo Swing State Tour Revue?

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Eugene Merman's kinda funny.

― Trollstyle, Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that the Berkeley Musicologist? I thought that char was pretty funny. "The real heroes that day - was music."

Also, YLT tore the place down with 7-piece band this time around.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought that was the stand up guy's name. I really drink too much.

― Trollstyle, Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It *was* his fake name I think (Unless you saw a diffrnt guy) .. that was Fred Armisen from SNL.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just looked at the website .. apparently you had a different standup guy. And a different band too..

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen SNL since P Hartman died. Matter of principle. The guy up there had black hair, was a little rotund, tall, a bit of a beak nose. Most of us drunks couldn't stop laughing. The music could've been less sloppy, though. Nine people on stage doing "Nuclear War" wasn't the greatest.

― Trollstyle, Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oooh. They spared us Nuclear War .. The band was blasting away when I saw them last week - one of the best shows I've seen them do.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

saw this. note to ylt: I've loved you since high school but packing people in a small bar (Rather than playing the more logical club and refusing to acknowledge the claustrophobic antsiness of the crowd and balladeering away is a serious invite to chatter ("Nuclear War" was great in our context cuz it had clapping). Also the 250 people in this town who paid 16 bucks to see you MOST LIKELY are all Kerry supporters, Ira, so if you're gonna give a speech don't bother with "I think Cheney was wrong to say a vote for Kerry is a vote for terrorism." We know that.

Nice covers, though. And while maybe Fred Armisen would have worked the crowd more than Doug Schramm did, his solo on "Little Eyes" made that the only original that was better than the recorded version.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and you guys letting Doug Schramm and Sue Garner sing one song each (YLT No Limit Soldiers already) does not equal revue.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dave" Schramm innit?

Sue sang two last week - but you're right.. I thought incorporating the guests' songs into the set was great - because people paid more attention to them than if they had been a warmup act .. But they shoulda featured them a lil more.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 30 September 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Schramm, sorry, yeah.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 30 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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