Mailing List Archive/2024-10-03
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JF here. Greetings from Australia!
We landed safely in Sydney the other day after two extremely long flights and have been practicing our roles in the next zombie apocalypse, wandering around cities disoriented and half-asleep. Everyone in our touring group got here safely from their various parts of the world, and we had a great production rehearsal where we got to run through a ton of songs. For folks coming out to the shows, anywhere we are playing two nights, this is the set up: Night one will be Show A and Night two will be Show 1. Both will include all of Flood, but the other half of the show, other than Lie Still, Little Bottle, will be unique to that evening. So the good news for the recidivists is you will get a whole set of different songs if you are to return!
So if you know anyone in Australia, tell them, or repost our social media stuff, and help us get the word out. We won’t be back for a while, so we want to rock as many folks as we can while we are here!
Yours in the alternative music
Yours in the alternative music
—John F. TMBG
A special taste of the Instant Fan Club
This week’s Instant Fan Club rarity: Home Movie Camp [vocal tracking]
This week’s Instant Fan Club rarity: Home Movie Camp [vocal tracking]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjzTstVEsDc
So today’s audio is a grand piece of ephemera drawn directly from a stack of unlabeled CD-Rs. It is a selection of outtakes directly from the 2005 (or 2006?) session we did for Home Movies' “Camp” episode. After a chance meeting with comic genius H. Jon Benjamin at a friend's show at a downtown nightclub, I expressed what a fan I was of the show, and he was gracious enough to invite us on to participate in an episode. A few weeks later, John L. and I drove up to Boston (not too far from where we went to high school). Of course, the process of putting the show together was an improv situation both with dialogue and music, with some small bit of guidelines to get us started. What I don’t think I anticipated was how much of it was simply blurting out an idea spontaneously, then scribbling down the best bits, somebody jumping in to suggest an amplifying bit, and then hitting it again 45 seconds later and doing it again for the final version. (To be candid, I felt more than a little bit of imposter syndrome, hoping that we were being funny enough and just doing enough in front of all these amazing improv comedy folk, all the while wondering if it was working at all.) The show’s creator Brendon Small, who is a bonafide Berklee College of Music-trained guitar shredder was the one actually playing the guitar, and later on explained he was just copping some Bowie song (Changes?), which explains its kind of epic feel. Some of this audio here was folded into the final, and other parts are the initial takes. Of course, their editing process formed it into a story that moved along, but in the moment this all felt quite mysterious and unknowable to us. We actually turned “Taste the Fame” into something of a proper song later on, and that appears on the Venue Songs CD and is streaming on Spotify here.
So today’s audio is a grand piece of ephemera drawn directly from a stack of unlabeled CD-Rs. It is a selection of outtakes directly from the 2005 (or 2006?) session we did for Home Movies' “Camp” episode. After a chance meeting with comic genius H. Jon Benjamin at a friend's show at a downtown nightclub, I expressed what a fan I was of the show, and he was gracious enough to invite us on to participate in an episode. A few weeks later, John L. and I drove up to Boston (not too far from where we went to high school). Of course, the process of putting the show together was an improv situation both with dialogue and music, with some small bit of guidelines to get us started. What I don’t think I anticipated was how much of it was simply blurting out an idea spontaneously, then scribbling down the best bits, somebody jumping in to suggest an amplifying bit, and then hitting it again 45 seconds later and doing it again for the final version. (To be candid, I felt more than a little bit of imposter syndrome, hoping that we were being funny enough and just doing enough in front of all these amazing improv comedy folk, all the while wondering if it was working at all.) The show’s creator Brendon Small, who is a bonafide Berklee College of Music-trained guitar shredder was the one actually playing the guitar, and later on explained he was just copping some Bowie song (Changes?), which explains its kind of epic feel. Some of this audio here was folded into the final, and other parts are the initial takes. Of course, their editing process formed it into a story that moved along, but in the moment this all felt quite mysterious and unknowable to us. We actually turned “Taste the Fame” into something of a proper song later on, and that appears on the Venue Songs CD and is streaming on Spotify here.
In stock and shipping today! It's a 45rpm 7" vinyl featuring Lazy, TMBG's recording of Irving Berlin's classic 1924 song made in celebration of WNYC's 100th anniversary.
All hail the Australian stick.
All hail the Australian rental drums!