we gotta do that

An old roommate put me onto a concept, an unrealized idea.

I think it was something in the general driftwardsness of The Parade Of Losers Tour.

And it would have been They Might Be Giants, Soul Coughing, Semisonic, King Missile, Dream Warriors, Pop Will Eat Itself, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Ben Folds Five, Pulp, Weezer and I think Billy Bragg and Counting Crows.

(I still remember Cody telling me about seeing them in the freaking entry back when we were both in high school, the guys carrying in their own gear, with a handful of audience members and Adam ‘freaking the crowd out’ with beatnik style poetry spontaneously in the middle of a “song.” Thank Goddess Cody had a fake ID and looked the part…and well, told me about it, huh?!?)

I somehow want to throw in Information Society, Faith No More, Better Than Ezra, Think Tank, the Honeydogs, Soul Asylum, the original Soundgarden, Alice in Chains with Layne, Uncle Tupelo with Brian Henneman out front trading off with Joe Ely, BrotherSunSisterMoon or Luminous or whatever it was called.

I used to imagine Kid Galahad joining up, and having little trouble convincing Bad Religion to come along once I showed the guys the choir from Reverend Billy’s Church of Stop Shopping that I intended to bring along to provide their oohs n aahs with extra oomph.

All this up in my head when Atmosphere were just more anonymous guys I might see at Bon Appetit once in a while, and Rhymesayers were still about to blow up. Thank you Dinkytown for giving us hiphop!

That’s just something you can chalk up to whatever’s the opposite of young age without being old either, and then when you’ve figured out what to call it, you can tell me what word you used, okay?

My slug, headline, subject, post title, whatever the hell that is up there, is from TMBG’s version of Yeh Yeh from Mink Car. Same album if I remember right Mike Doughty ended up guesting on. I almost said Yeh Yeh was Louis Prima, and I vaguely remember him doing his version of it, but on the page where I checked my ears and memory against the librarian types who populate the geekternet and provided the text without me having to type it in myself. Which is what we communally did with P Control from Prince before tGE came out, back inna day.

I keep adding bands to this list in my head and post or no post I will for the next few days at the very least. In closing I think it would be just about the awesomest thing ever to get Kevin from BtE and Mike Patton of FNM, Matthew Sweet, Rivers Cuomo, Adam Duritz sing with me.

“If you’ve got a blacklist I wanna be on it!
Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman!” – Billy Bragg