Big! Show! Tonight! Live! Hoboken! New! Jersey! Stop! By!
If you don't make it, here's what you'll be missing:
(if you don't see the youtube video, click on "view original post")
You'll also be missing some teeth next time we see you!
...we'll be playing a holiday show at our Hoboken practice space with lots and lots of special guests.
Warming things up is our good friend Andy Fuckin' Meagher. He's in town for his final senior recital before officially becoming a Doctor of Organs (pipe organs, that is), and will be showing off some of skills for us. If we're good boys and girls, we'll get to hear a good mix of classical tunes, holiday music, and gangsta rap!
Next up is the funniest man not in show business, the best music critic in history, and the greatest criminal mind of our time, Mark Prindle. He's bringing his wife Brenda, and drummer Jimmy Laakso and assist with the fancy rock stylings and nimble jump kicks. Just like the Rockettes!
Then it's the 1-2 punch from the most hated bands in Hudson County, Plowing Mud Forever and Torrential Downpour. Actually it will less of a 1-2 punch and more of a 3/4 or 7/8 time signature. Because we're outlaws!
Also performing all night will be BEER! Drink it! Norm's doing the lights so you can see the BEER! Here's a flyer! IT'S SO EXTREME THAT IT'S MORE THAN WORDS!!!!!!!!
There is going to be an awesome PMF show coming up in 4 weeks. Many, many special guests. Details will be announced soon.
This won't not be one to not miss!
EPISODE X. - The story of "The Night Report."
Sponsored by Jazzermeister (but not Frank Turner).
Kirk's wife recorded the footage of PMF playing their Babyhole show, and Kirk refused to hand the footage over to Rollie and his beard. Instead, Kirk and his beardless face decided to record and edit their own episode of Albumbling. An in-depth discussion of the band's performance, with visual aids, takes place. In your face.
We played our second Babyhole Comedy Show last night at the Lamp Post in Jersey City. Melissa Surach, the usual host, was allegedly out of the country (possibly just stalking Councilman Steven Fulop) so PMF Superfan Ralph Santiago took over emceeing duties. Our best performances seem to always be hometown shows, and we are very appreciative that Melissa keeps asking us back to Babyhole. I think I'm getting a little teary eyed.
Anyway, after a long night of playing, driving, and unloading equipment, I reflected on the night in yet another PMF Albumbling episode:
Once the Howle Productions Team comes up with show footage, we'll make with it.
We're pretty weird when the camera is on. We're even weirder when we don't realize we're being recorded. Episode 7 is what happened when PMF gets drunk and forgets to turn off the tape recorder after rehearsal. Most of the footage is stuff that didn't fit in any other episodes, so that makes it even more special. Yes, that kind of special.
IT'S ALL ON TAPE!
This PMF Albumbling Episode is so awesome that Sony bought ad space for it!
(Ok, not really. I put some music in the video owned by Sony that they automatically detected which gives them the right to throw ads all around the video... oh well. Fair trade, I guess.)
Stay tuned for more bullshit about another new song.
PMF is a democratic band in a lot of respects, but when it comes to the songwriting craft, it becomes more difficult to maintain that. All three of us write words and music, so we typically take turns introducing home-recorded songs to the rest of the band. Sometimes parts for other instruments are already written and sometimes there are just rough guidelines. Other times it's as open as "play what you want and we'll see what happens." There's really no formula for us, so occasionally we will run into a section of a song where we have three completely different perspectives. So who gets the final say?
Last night, Kirk heard something he wanted tweaked in "Dog Milk" that Ryan and I never really had issues with in the past. We had been playing a part of the song the same way for probably close to a year, but we weren't playing it exactly the same way. For one of us to add or subtract a single beat felt unnatural. For Kirk, it was important that Ryan and I were tight and synchronized. Sure, we outnumbered him, but we still owed the songwriter his vision (or at least his vision of PMF's vision), so we descended into an obsessive half-hour of counting madness over a two-second part of the song that never shows up again. The final tally was 3 beats followed by 5 beats and a lot of bruises.
Was it worth it? Sources say yes, but only Captain Kirk knows for sure. The funny thing is that he didn't even write the part in the first place! When the band played the song for the first time, I wasn't present, but I received recordings of the practice the next day. One of the takes featured either Wally or Ryan (I'll have to do some digging) playing a sped-up part at the end of one of the measures in the intro. It may have been an accident for all I know, but it was unique and worth learning for the next practice. We finally played it together, but I was the only one doing the part. The rest of the guys threw rocks at me until I was unconscious. When I woke up, Kirk decided the part could stay, under one condition: we must fight about it in a year's time and post it on YouTube. We shook on it.
Now please allow this close-up of my giant beard-garden to continue the story (I assure you there are finally other faces in this episode):
