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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: azaghal1981 on December 05, 2010, 05:58:59 pm
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At some loft in BK called The Schoolhouse.
Setlist:
01 Oh Comely
02 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
03 Gardenhead
04 Engine
05 Ghost
06 King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
07 Song Against Sex
08 Naomi
09 Two Headed Boy
10 Two Headed Boy Pt. 2
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Half of the show -- audio/mp3:
http://www.internationaltapes.com/reviews/jeff-mangum-live-at-the-schoolhouse/
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Pretty fucking cool, if you ask me.
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hey azaghal, do you know who else played this show? i assume mangam's set was a total surprise.
i played (as thee ultimate vag) at the schoolhouse in 2008 with united bible studies and sharron kraus. it's basically run by mark dwinell of bright/nonloc. really great spot to see a show, whoever was there last night got a truly special event.
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here's how this went down:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/12/more_on_jeff_ma.php
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I wondered the same thing but couldn't find anything.
There must've been other bands scheduled to play with Mangum thrown on at the last minute.
Edit: nevermind.
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I'm curious, having been too young to know NMH when they were together, how big were they at the time? Were they popular then or did they become more popular after the band ceased to exist and Magnum disappeared from Earth?
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I wasn't in this area back when NMH were around, so I don't know where they would play around here. Where I lived (the SF Bay area), they played pretty small places, probably between the size of the RnR Hotel and the Black Cat.
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I'm curious, having been too young to know NMH when they were together, how big were they at the time? Were they popular then or did they become more popular after the band ceased to exist and Magnum disappeared from Earth?
they weren't any more popular than any flavor of the month band...
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They played the old Black Cat with Of Montreal in '98.
These "Holiday Surprise" dates feature most of OTC which was enough to sell me on the NYC show.
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they played Bottom of the Hill two nights in 1998. Were you there? oops nevermind.
I wasn't in this area back when NMH were around, so I don't know where they would play around here. Where I lived (the SF Bay area), they played pretty small places, probably between the size of the RnR Hotel and the Black Cat.
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One hint of how the the legend grew, or the impact of the music simply took time to digest, is that In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was ranked #85 in Pitchfork's original 1999 Top 100 Albums of the 90's. Four years later, they redid the rankings with NMH at #4. The Soft Bulletin, somewhat similarly, was unranked originally (although it had just come out in 1999) and was ranked at #3 in 2003.
First time I became aware of NMH was from the Dupont Circle Olsson's awesome staff picks wall which had tons of insightful recommendations (and barely changed over about 9 years, I think) . . .although the strangeness of the album cover, title and band name put me off for a while despite the Olsson's glowing review.
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i know they opened for the karl hendricks trio when i was in college. i was supposed to go but something came up
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four times at the Black Cat!
http://neutralmilkhotel.org/gigog.htm
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I've seen them once like back in 96 or 97. They played at this venue in charlottesville called Tokyo Rose. My friends knew them from back in college and was very excited that they were coming to Va to play. We got to hang out and everything. After the show I was like eh. Not sure what the big craze is about them either that or I was too drunk to remember the show. Maybe the latter ;D
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that village voice interview with ben goldberg is pretty funny. it really is ridiculous how people treat jeff mangum like he's a messiah. hey, i love NMH too, but he's just a dude. of course, a dude who has exceptional songwriting abilities and talents, but a dude nonetheless. i saw NMH many times in the '90s and got to talk to mangum a few times, and he was always very cool, if slightly aloof. from people i know that are close to him (the olivia tremor control and elf power folks), they all say he's just extremely private and really dislikes playing the music industry game. can't blame him.
this gigography page is great. these were the shows i saw:
8/1/96, knitting factory w/ supreme dicks, air traffic controllers (i had just bought "on avery island", also wanted to see ATC, which was gerard cosloy of matador's noise band)
4/27/97, middle east upstairs w/ olivia tremor control, alva (the day after the first terrastock, first time i saw OTC)
3/8/98, middle east upstairs w/ elf power, the music tapes (BEST NMH show i saw)
7/24/98, middle east downstairs w/ papas fritas, of montreal, marshmallow coast
to answer the question of what size were the venues NMH played, it was mostly 150-200 cap places (like the velvet lounge, black cat backstage, iota, etc). only on the last tour, after "aeroplane" had been out for a few months and was gaining steam, did they graduate to 500-cap rooms, and that was only in nyc/dc/boston from what i could tell. england might have been different, as i'm not familiar with the size of the venues listed. also, none of the shows i saw were even close to sold out except the last one. NMH were on the verge of blowing up and then mangum pulled the plug on playing live.
mangum did tour with the circulatory system in 2001, but as part of the band. i caught the ottobar and hole in the wall (richmond) shows, which were awesome.
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Looks like this E6 tour will feature all of OTC minus Eric Harris with Derek from Circulatory System taking his place.