The Mighty Beginas played a show at the IMU last night. I was at it, it was pretty cool I guess. If you’re into that kind of thing. Which I AM!!! Except they played a whole bunch of their worstest newestest stuff. And the sound was so-so. And they didn’t seem as tight as sometimes. BUT, Linnell was in a good mood, which was kind of the most exciting thing of all. When does Linnell ever look happy on stage? Yeah! (ALSO, we snuck around before the show and got to hear and peek at some sound checking, ALSO, we saw Linnell walking around out in public like a regular person before the show and long-distance followed him and at one point he totally looked at us and smiled but I got scared and looked away.)
Here’s some bootlegged footage an Anonymous Source supplied me with.
Birdhouse In Your Soul
(Note how you can’t really hear the double guitar solo at all. What’s up with that?)
Particle Man
A fun and fun rendition of that fun song! Sadly, for legal reasons, I am not allowed to air the portion of the song that reveals the full role played by one Mr. “Merv Griffin”. “Merv”. “Griffin”.
I get so much spam sent to this website now. Is it because the last post title was “Fuck”? Is that what caught your robot eye? Go away, robutt, nobody likes you, you are disgusting!
Flansburgh started de-tuning the pegs of Dan Miller’s guitar during that solo, and I thought it was kind of funny. You can almost see it in the video before your Anonymous Source turns the camera away.
Yeah, I remember that now that you mention it. Funny. Yeah. Yessssssss.
Who are these fellars?
Which now? They Might Be Giants, you mean? P’rhaps my clever parody of their name threw you some loops?* It is the band They Might Be Giants from Brooklyn, NY.! My musical idol/s when I was a tiny boy.
*I didn’t actually come up with “The Mighty Beginas” myself. People think of the craziest stuff in Jr. High, right? Yeah, right. But this one here, “There Must Be Giants” it’s called.
oh boy is there egg on my face. of course thats who it is. geez louise do i feel silly. and here I was thinking that was the best partical man cover I’ve ever heard. guess that makes sense now. Wow, they came to the IMU!!?