Shows/1984-05-18

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They Might Be Giants
Unknown venue in New York, NY
May 18, 1984

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This show's date was submitted by John Linnell to TMBW in late 2023, who said:

Another party in NYC. This one is memorable because I borrowed our former roommate Colleen’s accordion for the gig. The VERY NEXT DAY I went to We Buy Guitars on 48th Street and bought my first accordion, one of the dozen or so that they had moldering forlornly on a shelf.

Linnell had played the accordion at previous shows, but it was this performance that convinced him to adopt the instrument permanently. He recalled taking it up in a 1995 interview:

Somebody loaned us an accordion. We were living in this house, a duplex, with this woman who was going to art school with (John Flansburgh). She had played accordion as a kid, so she had this thing, and she perceived that it would be exactly the thing that we would be into. I spent a couple of weeks learning how to play it, to the point where I could play the right hand and sort of match the bass. We did a couple of shows, we played on the Brooklyn Promenade. It was around 1983, we'd been playing together about a year.
Then we did a party and we used the accordion sort of for convenience, because it was too much of a hassle to bring all the other keyboards. That was when it occurred to us that we could do a whole show with just the accordion. And it got a really good response.