PLUMP in Dallas and Denton

We just came off a great run of shows this weekend up in North Texas. It was great hanging out with our pals in BAGG--what a good time. Both bands commented that it was the biggest crowd either had ever had in Dallas, which is nice indeed. I really like Club Dada. The set list for this show is as follows:

8/13/04 Club Dada, Dallas, TX (Opening for BAGG and Jones Thing)
New Waverly, Last Mile, Buddy Boo, Sweet Leaf>Word Gets Around, Everybody Wanna Get Rich (Right Away)*, What's the Buzz Reprise*, Oso Nova
*Featuring Chris Holt (of Olospo) on guitar

This show was lots of fun. The highlight of course was Chris sitting in on the WTB Reprise. It was a monster jam. Al confided in me later that 8/13/04 will be remembered as the day Chris took Al to school. That being said, I thought Al also wailed.

Saturday we slept in, ate a bad ass breakfast at a diner call Nick's, and then went and saw the movie "Garden State". That movie is incredible, and I highly recommend everyone check it out immediately. Do not pass go, or collect your $200. Then, we drove to Denton, had some coffee, did some people watching, and then headed over to Grady's house (BAGG's drummer) to listen to music and drink beer with Grady and his girlfriend Jessie. Grady has a very impressive vinyl collection, and we sampled many of the albums. By far the best was the George Duke/Billy Cobham Band recorded live in Europe in 1976. That was some funk madness. I really hope I can find this recording on cd, because it is the shit. Then, we headed over to Texas Jive, ate some really good pizza, and played a show:

8/14/04 Texas Jive, Denton, TX (opening for BAGG)
Timequake, Scarlet Begonias>Scarfunk, Sophisticated Frothy>Aslan, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Electric Netwerk Machine (of Rage?), Day Tripper*, Varmint Poontang*, Memphis Soul Stew*
*Featuring Gaah(n) from BAGG on keyboards

This was a cool show. Second time in Denton, and we have been fortunate to play in front of a good crowd that is very receptive to our music both times. We have a new section in Sophy that we debuted tonite--as well as transitioning this into Aslan. It was obvious to us that it was the first time to do this live because the new part and the transition were choppy to say the least. The highlight of the show for me was playing with Gaah(n) on the keyboards again. Varmint Poontang is my favorite song right now, and it totally rocked. BAGG rocked again. These guys are really good, and some really nice guys. I really like hanging with them. Al and Jason were playing percussion with BAGG for the last 30 minutes of their show (and I even joined in at the end during their version of Cross-eyed and Painless). Very cool. The night before BAGG played a version of Up on Cripple Creek that totally kicked my ass. I really like those guys. We should be playing with them up in Lubbock in September. Some people had a keg after the show, so we partied till about 4 am and then crashed, and then woke up early to book it back to Houston to watch the Simul-cast of Phish at Coventry. It was an action packed weekend to say the least.