Since we've been discussing Fenway this week, it seems apropos to mention: we've got a show at Bill's Bar on Landsdowne Street on Friday night! Since we're in the thick of the baseball season, I figured I'd give you the starting nine reasons to come to the show on Friday:
1. The show is only $5. Five freakin' dollars! That'll buy you 3/8ths of a beer at Fenway.
2. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Keith has promised to grow a pencil-thin moustache and conduct all his between-songs banter en Espanol.
3. The show is part of the WFNX New England Product series. For reals, this is a great series that brings the best bands in town to your asses for a low low price. Good for lovers of rock music and cheapness alike. Go out and support these bands. (Mostly us).
4. Speaking of WFNX, New England Product host Dave Duncan will be more than glad to accept your offer to buy him a beer. He's good like that.
5. Former local rock and roll stalwarts The Halogens have decided to put aside the fussin' and a-feudin' for one night to have a one-off CD release of a whole bunch of previously unheard new material. Kick ass.
6. For once, Scamper will play a show without competing with (and soundly thrashing) the other bands on the bill. To be honest, all that winning started to make us feel a little bad. On Friday, we'll quickly revert back to the "lovable losers" persona we have spent the past few years cynically cultivating as a marketing tool.
7. Speaking of competition, on Friday Scamper will debuting a little piece of hardware we may have collected from a certain battle of the bands a few weeks ago. It's all hush hush at this stage, but let's just say: sometimes, to the bronze medalists go the spoils. More on this hot story later.
8. The opening band is called The Jumblies. Jumblies. That's another word for boobs. Heh heh. Boobs.
9. Nate and I have apparently spent way too much time synchronized dancing over the past few weeks. During rehearsal last night, we were screwing around and spontaneously pulled the exact same high kick move - which we have never done before, mind you - at the exact same moment during a song. It was downright frightening. We spent the rest of rehearsal just standing at our microphones, peering at each other awkwardly.
That kind of synergy - while scary to experience with another grown man - will light up the stage at Bill's like a Willy Mo warning track shot. See you there, fans!
1. The show is only $5. Five freakin' dollars! That'll buy you 3/8ths of a beer at Fenway.
2. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Keith has promised to grow a pencil-thin moustache and conduct all his between-songs banter en Espanol.
3. The show is part of the WFNX New England Product series. For reals, this is a great series that brings the best bands in town to your asses for a low low price. Good for lovers of rock music and cheapness alike. Go out and support these bands. (Mostly us).
4. Speaking of WFNX, New England Product host Dave Duncan will be more than glad to accept your offer to buy him a beer. He's good like that.
5. Former local rock and roll stalwarts The Halogens have decided to put aside the fussin' and a-feudin' for one night to have a one-off CD release of a whole bunch of previously unheard new material. Kick ass.
6. For once, Scamper will play a show without competing with (and soundly thrashing) the other bands on the bill. To be honest, all that winning started to make us feel a little bad. On Friday, we'll quickly revert back to the "lovable losers" persona we have spent the past few years cynically cultivating as a marketing tool.
7. Speaking of competition, on Friday Scamper will debuting a little piece of hardware we may have collected from a certain battle of the bands a few weeks ago. It's all hush hush at this stage, but let's just say: sometimes, to the bronze medalists go the spoils. More on this hot story later.
8. The opening band is called The Jumblies. Jumblies. That's another word for boobs. Heh heh. Boobs.
9. Nate and I have apparently spent way too much time synchronized dancing over the past few weeks. During rehearsal last night, we were screwing around and spontaneously pulled the exact same high kick move - which we have never done before, mind you - at the exact same moment during a song. It was downright frightening. We spent the rest of rehearsal just standing at our microphones, peering at each other awkwardly.
That kind of synergy - while scary to experience with another grown man - will light up the stage at Bill's like a Willy Mo warning track shot. See you there, fans!
37 Comments:
wow. that's better than when we were directly connected over im the other day.
We go on as the Sox game should be ending (10-ish). If you want to avoid the 35,000 person rush, come a bit early eh.
We're actually more like 11.
"peering at each other awkwardly"
Oof, phys. ed. shower flashback.
Oh man, I'm thinking out loud again, aren't I?
Well, then, seeing as I will be at the game, I have no excuse to not make my triumphant return to Scamperland from the dregs of Rhode Island. Now we'll see firsthand how far this shit has come from the Puzzlebusters...!
Now we'll see firsthand how far this shit has come from the Puzzlebusters...!
It's been downhill since that douche Mikey joined the band. Puzzlebustahs 4 EVAHHHHH!!!!
I defy Brendan to name one Puzzlebusters song.
The original version of Longshot.
The original version of Longshot.
oohhhhh
brendan, you're wicked smahht.
How about "Sophie" or "Oh Lucy"?
I almost said "other than Longshot," but I wondered if he even knew that. *halfhearted applause*
Sophie and Lucy were old Playfair Roland songs, but were on hiatus during our acoustic disaster.
I bet Alena can name 15 Puzzlebusters songs without batting an eye.
Alena's not doing too well.
Yeah I figured she'd be here immediately. Maybe Jason's kicking her ass today.
i believe work and a bit of picking up around the house were on her agenda today.
though, if possible, i'm sure she'd still be voting for our favorite american idol contestant.
Yeah, Jason has been in fact kicking my ass today. Here it goes (I'm not 100% certain that some of these were not crossover songs, so I included more than 15):
Karma D
No Soldier
In Search of Perfection
Uncle FaFa
Saturdays
Longshot
And the Moon be Still as Bright
Cauliflower Song
Secret Summer
Pink Lemonade
Alli Loves George
Blue Man
Bounce
Park Bench
Give Ginger a Dollar
Khaki
What's On
Connecticut & Q
They Say This is Winter
Thinking about these made me nostalgic. I wish you'd bring some of these back.
Thinking about these made me nostalgic. I wish you'd bring some of these back.
Not going to happen. I've officially destroyed all links to the "pre-Brendan" years of Scamper. I made them burn all their pictures of Marc Roderick. He never existed!
You didn't do too well destroying all evidence. He's still on my Scamper mug.
I'm stunned that you forgot Diving Into Air, while managing to somehow remember Blue Man.
Blue Man!
Holy fucking shit, that's like my most favorite song ever! I plead temporary insanity.
I woukd also like to add my other faves:
Black and White Truth
Soon as You're Gone
Huge bonus points if you had gotten any of the following:
The Last Day That Ever Mattered
Everything Won't Be Fine
Of Mice and Painted Men
Starstruck
I Demand a Memory
Wow, those were some atrocious song titles.
What about Standing Water Breeds Bacteria? Was that Playfair Roland?
Man, most people are probably VERY confused reading that last sentence.
They're on the same level as "Can I Borrow a Feeling"...
What about those Puzzbots? I think that chick Jill and I were the only ones.
That figures. I list 22 songs off the top of my head, and I miss out on huge points because I didn't list the other 5.
Bring back Test Tube Babies!!!
What about those Puzzbots? I think that chick Jill and I were the only ones.
I don't know what you're talking about, considering I'm the original puzzbot. I still use that email address, although now mostly for spam.
Are we going for a complete discography here? How about "Rockette".
ROCKETTE!!!
i still listen to that song and dance around my room
Let's be technical: "Rockette" was not a Puzzlebusters song; "Radio City" was.
Alena, I said bonus points because there's no fucking way you should have known any of those five songs. We never played them. Like, ever.
"Standing Water" was a very early joke Scamper song; there's a whole pile of those that don't belong here.
"Test Tube Babies" was a Combat Shock song.
We all forgot "Be Here," but there's ghosts of it floating around in a brand new Scamper tune.
Our friend Triumph here does have the distinct honor of having coined the term "Puzzbot," so he could argue that he was the first. And don't forget about Ivy's mom.
I love how these comments get so far off track.
He's Your Boyfriend
You and Your Red Glasses
Caramel
I didn't even think of Rockette, Caramel, and You and Your Red Glasses
Caramel as Puzzlebusters songs because you played them as Scamper. A lot of the songs are not clear cut. I wanted to put Part Three on the list, but Keith said it was strictly a Playfair Roland song. You should definitely bring back Part Three.
I bet Alena can name 15 Puzzlebusters songs without batting an eye.
It's unclear what the diggy meant. Could have been "Puzzlebusters-only" songs, which strikes a bunch of what was listed above, but I think it was fun to recall anything the two of us dorks played acoustically and duo-ishly way back when.
Caramel is 100% a Scamper song. And Y&YRG is 93% a Scamper song.
Add these:
Cook Street
Crazy Goddamn Elephant Lady
And according to the Wayback Machine, you've got Caramel dated in June, 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020322045933/puzzlebusters.net/music/lyrics/caramel.shtml
Does the internet archive lie?
It may have been written then, but I'm near certain that we never played it out as the Puzzlebusters.
This does not count the fact that, technically, our first show at TT's with Mike and Marc was a Puzzlebusters show.
Ah, history.
i think another fairy tale story is in order.
It may have been written then, but I'm near certain that we never played it out as the Puzzlebusters.
I don't buy it. We wrote a song in June 2000 but shelved it until long after June 2001?? We never shelved anything back then. We had no inner censor.
Wait a minute. That date is wrong. I didn't even meet Becky (the girl I wrote the song about, if anyone else is still trying to follow) until early 2001. So the song was probably written post-release of Mooncandy (March 01), and voila, debuted as a full band song with Scamper at Mars Music.
Plus I clearly remember writing that dumb opening riff on an electric guitar.
Pow.
That's fine. I was just going by that date.
I think we've driven away Brendan's readers in droves today.
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