FRI FEB 18 at Revolution

Surprisingly enough, the weather was warm enough for PLUMP to play outside over at Revolution in Bryan/College Station, TX. This was an unexpected, yet welcome, scenario - given that a mere two weeks before the southeast Texas region was covered in a deep freeze. Such are the delights of Texas weather. I had selected a special cd for the band to listen on to during the drive to College Station. The cd was "Histoire de Melody Nelson" by Serge Gainsbourg. Many of you may be very familiar with this wonderful cd. BUT, as some of you may not be quite so familiar, I will take a moment to provide background and color. Serge Gainsbourg was a kind of French Frank Sinatra; he was a superstar, and by the early 40's was starting to become a famous actor/singer/womanizer/drunk. This cd is a duet with Jane Birkin, who at the time was a teenage English model (who incidently spoke very little French). The cd is basically Serge doing spoken word talking about sex, love, and having sex with ladies; basically spoken word sex and moaning between Serge and young Jane. Now, I am not the type of person who gets all excited and obsessed by spoken word French sex talk on cd. Rest assured, my cd collection is not filled with this type of music. However, in the case of "Histoire de Melody Nelson" the spoken word is "spoken" over some bad ass led zeppelin/mahavishnu orchestra type music. A couple of the songs are just completely awesome. Jean-Luc Ponty plays the violin over it, which really and truly gives it that mahavishnu orchestra feel. The band (PLUMP) loved the music, and by loved I mean at least they tolerated it. I believe Al bought the itunes version of the album while we were listening during the the drive to Bryan/College Station, which should at least tell you something. (Incidently, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin apparently turned their spoken word sex-play into the real word sex-play, as they had a child together: Charlotte Gainsbourg. Charlotte, as many of you I am sure know, is an actress/singer. Two movies in particular I both remember her from and recommend are the Bob Dylan-based movie "I'm Note There" and Lars von Trier's "Anti-Christ". )

We finally made it to Bryan, TX. San Marcos' favorite son's Kabomba was opening for us over at Revolution. This was actually the band's first show with us with the moniker "Kabomba", as previous to this show (and to us) they were known as Helix. Apparently, somewhere out there in the wild blue yonder is another band named Helix, and this other Helix felt it had more of a claim to the name "Helix" than San Marcos "Helix" had to the name "Helix". Thus, San Marcos Helix felt it was more prudent to be "Kabomba". I think that we can all agree that the change from "Helix" to "Kabomba" was the clearest and most logical choice. Well played lads.

When we named the band "PLUMP", we looked around to see if there was another band with the same name. There was "Plump DJ's", but no PLUMP. A couple years ago, we noticed a band from San Diego named "Plump", but we didn't take any action - plus I don't think they played too much. We did once get a "hate" letter from one of their "fans" stating that we were "stealing San Diego PLUMP's vibe and good works by calling ourselves Plump" (His exact words). He's right--we noticed that there was a band thousands of miles away called PLUMP that played 2-3 times a year, and we collectively saw a golden opportunity to steal their vibes and good works) for our own PROFIT. Well played us!!! Just kidding. This San Diego superfan implored us to "be cool". What a maroon! I kindly invited him to "go fuck himself". (Actually, I didn't respond at all. I only typed the "go fuck himself" invitation above because it made me laugh, and hopefully it made you chuckle!!)

The show at Revolution never really got cold at all (thank God). PLUMP (Houston-PLUMP) played a nice tight set. We started with a little bit of the old "Ear Ache My Eye", with that patented heavy metal riffery that rocked Bryan, TX to it very core!!! The, we funked out the join. I think we had the crowd dancing the whole night. Ahh Revolution--thank you!

Please note: If PLUMP were ever forced by some other party to change the name of the band, we have a quick and easy fix all prepared, filed away, and notarized. The plan is really quite simple (and obvious)-- we would just add a "p" to the end of the word "plump", with the realized effect being "PLUMPP".

Why "PLUMPP" you might ask? Duh--the extra "p" is symbolizes the band's collective love of PALEONTOLOGY!!! Did you know that the diplotocus was the largest dinosaur of all time?