Setlist from Austin

Last week I took some time to pore deep in the history and archives of the world we all know as PLUMP. As it turns out, our show on Saturday was PLUMP show #161. Since we realized that, we in the band PLUMP have decided to remember the Austin show as the "Great 161st Show Spectacular". Hopefully, some day there will be some sort of documentary or DVD depicting the pageantry of this hallowed event.

As such, here is our setlist from Austin last Saturday night.

(#161) SAT NOV 27, Headhunters, Austin, TX (opening for Eric Tessmer Band)

Electric Netwerk Machine (of Rage?), Timequake, Day Tripper, Word Gets Around>Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Scarlet Begonias>Scar Funk, Memphis Soul Stew, Buddy Boo, Everybody Wanna Get Rich (Right Away), Harry Carrey

In other events, Andrew, Al, and myself went to watch the Ramones documentary called "End of the Century" last night. Very good documentary and definitely interesting characters in the band. I recommend. Actually, over the last 4-5 months there have been some very good music documentaries made. Here are the ones we have seen:

1. End of the Century (The Ramones)
2. Dig! (Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre)
3. Some Kind of Monster (Metallica)
4. Festival Express (Canadian Traing tour featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Band, etc.)
5. Lightning in a Bottle (Blues concerts)

Andrew is the only one in PLUMP who saw number #5. However, this movie inspired him to perpetrate what will forever be called the Angelique Kidjo incident. For further info, I suggest you contact Andrew. That is all.

Check it out now (Funk Soul Brother)

All right, we had a real nice time in Austin over the Thanksgiving holidays. We played with the Eric Tessmer Band, who are a bunch of really nice guys in addition to being a very tight band.

We are very happy to announce that we advanced to the finals of the Battle of the Bands in College Station, TX. We made the final along with two other bands: Volume and Clairmont. South Austin Jug Band will be the headliner for this show. So

IF YOU ARE IN THE BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA, YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE SHOW. It will be this FRIDAY, DEC 3. The show starts at 8 pm. The show will take place upstairs in that huge room in the MSC next to Rudder Auditorium on the Texas A&M campus. Its FREE!!!. So come on down.

Also, PLUMP will be playing this SAT DEC 4 at the Engine Room in Houston (1515 Pease) opening for REBIRTH BRASS BAND. This show will be BAD ASS!!!! We opened for them last July and was definitely one of the biggest shows we have ever played on. This Saturday proves to be a great night.

Setlists from last weekend

Here are the setlists from last weekend:

FRI 11/19/2004, Texas Jive, Denton, TX (with Thinking Plyers and BAGG)

Everybody Wanna Get Rich (Right Away), Timequake, Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, Day Tripper, Harry Carry, Buddy Boo*
*with Gaah(n) from BAGG on keyboards

SAT 11/20/2004, Jake's Sports Cafe, Lubbock, TX (with One Big Groove)

Blackout, Last Concert, Dub>The Heights, Word Gets Around, Scarlet Begonias>Scar Funk, Aslan, Last Mile, Memphis Soul Stew, Sophisticated Frothy>What's the Buzz (Reprise)>Sweet Leaf, Electric Netwerk Machine (of Rage?), Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, If I Had the World, Day Tripper, Oso Nova, Buddy Boo, Harry Carry

Happy Thanksgiving (and by the way come to Austin this Saturday)

PLUMP wishes you all a very happy Thanksgiving. To celebrate the holidays, we will be playing:

SATURDAY NOV 27 in AUSTIN, TX at HEADHUNTERS--which is located at 720 RED RIVER across from Stubb's BBQ.

We will be playing from 10:00 pm to 11:45 pm, and we play before Eric Tessmer Band, which plays a style very very very similar to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Very similar.

Cool Beans

Last Weekend in Denton and Lubbock

Man, we had some fun this last weekend up in North Texas. We made the haul up to Denton first. I believe it was our 3rd or 4th time playing at Texas Jive, and we really did have a good time. It was great once again to be playing with our pals in BAGG. We invited Gaahn up to play with us on Buddy Boo, which was really cool. Man, that was definitely the most people we have had the chance to play for up in Denton, so that was a real treat. We also got to meet thinking Plyers for the first time (from Nashville TN). They are a really good band, and extremely nice guys, so it was great fun to hang with them as well as BAGG. We have a new song we have been playing just about every show--Harry Carrey. It is actually an old PLUMP song that we wrote totally new parts for--there is only one section that survived the changes. Anyway, it is a toe-tapper, and we have been getting really good responses from the crowd with it, and we are pretty stoked. We played it in Denton and Lubbock.

As we are prone to do while at Texas Jive, Jason and I knocked back a couple of the 24 ounce beers, and I must have had 5 too many of those suckers or something because I woke up with a pretty bad hangover. Grady from BAGG and his lovely fiance Jesse had generously allowed PLUMP to stay over, so I felt kind of guilty feeling extremely listless and green all sprawled out on their couch. Luckily, I was prescribed a couple wheat grass drinks by Jesse, and eventually I came around. We had some good greasy diner food with Grady, Jesse, and Thinking Plyers, and then we headed up to Lubbock.

We played at Jake's. This was probably our 5th or 6th time in Lubbock, but our first time at Jake's (Klusoz closed down). They have a really big room to play in, and the stage is big, and the sound guy Andrew really knows what he is doing. We had our buddies in One Big Groove from Lubbock open for us, and we had a very nice crowd that definitely got up and moving. We played one 2 hour and fifteen minute set, which was lots of fun. Our buddy Mike Madden let us stay over, and it was good to hang with him again. Watched a little Zoolander.

We woke up early on Sunday so that we could make it back to Houston at a reasonable hour. I forced Andrew to navigate us out of our way across town so that we could get Josie's breakfast burritos, which were pretty damn good. Let me tell you, that drive from Lubbock to Houston is long, long, long. We listened to so many cd's it was silly. Sadly, it was either foggy or rainy the whole way. I will post the setlists from the weekend's shows tomorrow.

Doug

Shows this weekend

PLUMP has two sweet shows this weekend. We will be in Denton, TX andLubbock, TX and we are ready to rock. Here are the particulars:

FRI NOV 19, Texas Jive, 1206 W. Hickory, Denton, TX (with Thinking Plyers and BAGG)
This is gonna be a real fun night. Three bad ass bands. The showstarts at 10 pm, and PLUMP will play 2nd.

SAT NOV 20, Jake's Sports Cafe, 5025 50th Street, Lubbock, TX 10 pmIts been a while since we have been in Lubbock. We are totallypumped up about the show. Our pals in One Big Groove will be opening for us, so we have that going which is nice. The music starts at 10pm.

Last Weekend's setlists

Here are the setlists from last weekend:

THU NOV 11, Headhunters, Austin, TX
Last Mile, Scarlet Begonias>Scarfunk, Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, Electric Network Machine (of Rage?), Sweet Leaf, Buddy Boo, Harry Carey, Memphis Soul Stew

FRI NOV 12, Battle of the Bands, Texas A&M Campus, College Station, TX
Last Concert, Oso Nova, Sweet Leaf, Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, Last Mile, Buddy Boo

SAT NOV 13, The Vortex, Beaumont, TX
Set I
New Waverly, Last Mile, What's the Buzz, Dub>The Heights, Last Concert, Timequake, Aslan, Scarlet Begonias>Scarfunk, Everybody Wanna get Rich (Right Away), Electric Netwerk machine (of Rage?), Word Gets Around

Set II
Blackout, Sweet Leaf>Sophisticated Frothy>What's the Buzz (reprise), If I Had the World, Buddy Boo, Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, Oso Nova, Day Tripper, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Last weekend!!

Whoa. We did a lot of driving last weekend, but we really did play 3 kick-ass shows. Thursday night was in Austin. Man, Austin (and Headhunters) has been very good for us as we have played our 2 nicely attended shows there our last two trips to Austin. It was good to see quite a few old friends there as well. Both Headhunters and The Vortex (Beaumont) share one common attribute (cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon) and I love both places for that. VERY VERY COOL. We made it back to Houston at 4:15 am, and I made it in to work at 8:30 am. That kind of sucked. Then, we left H-town at about 5 pm and headed to College Station.

The Battle of the Bands at on Friday night at the College Station campus went very well. Our pal Jim Owsley joined us the entire show on the organ--and we jammed for a very nice crowd in some pretty cold temperatures--low 50's--for outside music playing. The deal with the BOB is that they have been featuring about 15 bands over the last 5-6 weeks. The top 3 bands will advance on Dec 3. (We are in competition with all of the bands, not just the ones we played with on Nov 12). So, we will know in about a week whether we advance to the finals--which will be held on FRI Dec 3. We will let you kow as soon as we learn any results.

Saturday night we headed back to The Vortex in Beaumont, TX. The people at the Vortex are awesome, and we really love hanging out there and eating pizza and drinking pabst and what have ya. We had some people up and dancing, which was very nice. Always good to chatn with our buddy John Fulbright and his people, and we are looking forward to getting bak there in Jan/Feb.

Reminder

Just a reminder for those in Austin to come check us out tonite at Headhunters (720 Red River). We will play from 10 pm to 11:45 pm.

In addition, for the big Battle of the Bands tomorrow night, we will be playing the show with Jim Owsley (of Jim Owsley Quartet fame) on the piano and organ. Should be very sweet. Jim is a pilot and student at A&M, and was kind enough to drive in last night and practice with us for about 4 hours as we taught him the songs we want to play at the BOB!!! Should be funky--it sounded really cool last night.

Last weekend's setlists

Here are the setlists for last weekend's shows:

FRI NOV 5, CAFE BRASIL, HOUSTON, TX
Set I
Jam>Sweet Leaf>Voyage of the Dawn Trader, Blackout, Dub>The Heights, Buddy Boo

Set II
Timequake, Sophisticated Frothy>What's the Buzz Reprise>New Waverly, Harry Carrey*, Memphis Soul Stew

Set III
Day tripper, Electric Netwerk Machine (of Rage?), Scarfunk, Oso Nova, Freedom Jazz Dance

*First time played with new arrangement
This whole show was played with our buddy Patrick on trumpet.


SAT NOV 6, REVOLUTION, Bryan, TX (Sugar-Free All-Stars opened)
Aslan, Everybody Wanna get Rich (Right Away), Blackout, Dub*>The Heights*, Word Gets Around, Scarlet Begonias>Scarfunk, Electric Netwerk Machine (Of Rage?), Memphis Soul Stew*, Sweet Leaf*, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Bumbo Klot, Day Tripper*, If I had the World, Harry Carrey, Varmint Poontang>Freedom Jazz Dance, Buddy Boo
-E- What's the Buzz
*with Chris Wiser from Sugar Free All-Stars on organ

Updated UH Daily Cougar article link

Now that the Daily Cougar has archived the Nov 4th version of the paper (containing our article), here is the new link:

http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol70/53/arts/arts4.html

THU-FRI-SAT

We have some really cool shows this weeke that we want to tell ya about.

1. We will be back in Austin this THURSDAY (NOV 11) at Headhunters. Headhunters is located at 720 Red River right across the street from Stubbs BBQ. We will be playing from 10 pm to 11:45 pm, and there is no excuse for you Austinistes to not come check us out. BE THERE!!!

2. We will be in College Station this FRIDAY (NOV 12) for a BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!! 4 BANDS ENTER, ONE BAND LEAVES. Incidently, bands will not be judges by music, but by our kung-fu and hand-to-hand fighting skills. Wish us luck. FOR THOSE IN THE BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION AREA: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO COME TO THE SHOW AND SCREAM AND YELL FOR PLUMP. THE BATTLE STARTS AT 8 PM, AND EACH BAND PLAYS FOR 45 MINUTES. THE TIME SLOTS ARE NOT DECIDED UNTIL 7 PM ON FRIDAY, SO MY ADVICE IS TO GET THERE EARLY AND VOTE FOR PLUMP OFTEN. THE BATTLE WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE MEMORIAL COMMONS AREA OF A&M CAMPUS NEXT TO RUDDER AUDITORIUM. (wow, that's a lot of capital letters).

3. We will be making our triumphant return back to Beaumont, TX on Saturday NOV 13. Once again we will be playing at THE VORTEX (2930 11th Street), and they have been very good to us every tme. We are looking forward to hanging out with John Fulbright and company and I will be honest with you, I love their policy of dollar cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Diagnosis: Delicious. So, Beaumont, there is no excuse for leaving your dancing shoes at home on Saturday night, because PLUMP is going to come a-calling!!! PLUMP starts around 10 pm.

That is all

Last Weekend

Well, we played two awesome shows last weekend, and had a fine time in the process. For the uninitiated, we were at Cafe Brasil in Houston on Friday night. This was the Funk Jazz Friday normally hosted by our pals in Drop Trio, and we were filling in for a Friday with some instrumental madness. For the occasion, we brought in one of Jason's good friends, Patrick, on trumpet to play with us. This guy is a total bad ass as we observed (and were told by most members of the audience). I feel like I can safely predict many future sit-ins with PLUMP in the future. The music and crowd were great. The down side is that some homeless dude (apparently in bitterness from not receiving any money while he was panhandling) slashed one of Andrew's tires (as well as about 2 other patron's tires). If you ask me, that's no way for the homeless to act. They should really be more jolly and should offer to wipe my windows with some sort of filthy rag, not tire slashing--that's no way to earn a buck or two.

Saturday we rolled down to Bryan, TX to Revolution for the One-Year Anniverasry. What a bad ass party. Our pals Sugar Free All-Stars were there and they played real well. We had Chris from Sugar Free play organ with us throughout our 2 hour set. That was probably the coolest show we have played there in a long time--I think we had the throngs up and dancing the entire show. The highlights was definitely this jam we played while in Sweet Leaf--that was unexpected and bad ass. Also, we finally re-configured the song Harry Carrey, and debuted the new version both Friday and Saturday night. That song really jams now.

Sorry, I forgot to bring the set lists from both shows, but I will post them tomorrow.

FYI: in the car to and from Bryan this is what we had: a cd Jason taped containing PLUMP jams from a practice about 2 weeks ago. Then, we had the Best of the JB's (Al choice). On the way back, we had the most recent Peter Gabriel album--I think it was "UP" (Andrew's choice), then a funky Beck album "Midnight Vultures" (Jason's choice).

Article in the Daily Cougar--what a damn fine paper

I think we can all agree that the finest of all the media sources in the greater Houston area is the University of Houston paper--the Daily Cougar. This forward thinking periodical as shown the foresight to write a little article about PLUMP. Check it out: (copy this link to your browser if you have to)

http://www.uh.edu/campus/cougar/Todays/Issue/arts/arts4.html

P.S. Our buddy Sandy at KPFT 90.1 in Houston wanted me to remind everyone that next week is pledge week, so please support KPFT, and in particular the Dead Air program hosted by Sandy. Check it out at www.kpft.org

Cool beans

Get ready to rumble

We have a couple cool shows we wanna tell ya about. We will be playing this Friday (11-5) night over at Cafe Brasil at the corner of Dunlavy and Westheimer. This is Funk Jazz Friday at Cafe Brasil. We will realy bring some heat, so come check us out.

In addition, we are playing at revolution in College Station this Saturday night (11-6). Its the One-year anniversary for this place, so its gonna be a real shindig. Please bring your dancing shoes.