- Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - The only one that really spoke out to me in any meaningful way this year. I am not big on the whole "emo" scene that exists out there, but Connor Oberst has a way with words that leaves me on the edge of my seat.
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| Favorite Live Performance of 2005 |
- I wish I had more time to get out and see bands. I did see Franz Ferdinand at the Tower Theater and they put on a snappy show from top to bottom.
Simon Posford at Camp Bisco for something completely on the other side of the spectrum.
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| Favorite On-Stage Moment/Show of 2005 |
- Sometimes Clay (our bassist) does really weird shit like find an old broken trombone and play it through a Kaoss pad in the middle of a show. We had Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips watching us play Radiohead's National Anthem at the All-Good Festival. He was really digging it too . until the stage collapsed.
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| Classic Album or Artist You Rediscovered This Year |
- Elvis. For Christmas last year I got two books about the King by the same author. One chronicled the rise and the other dealt with the fall. I read them both on our spring tour and I went back to listen to some of the tunes I was reading about.
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| Best New Gadget You Can't Live Without |
- I just got Rhapsody and I like that. I can't afford an iPod. Steve Jobs is a personal hero of mine. Some people just get it. He's one of them, obviously.
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| New Hobby Discovered This Year |
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As far as new hobbies go, we play a ton of Texas Hold 'Em at the band house when we are not on the road. Not everyone in the band plays, but we never seem to have a problem getting people over for a game. I'd say it's a toss up between that and erotic asphyxiation. Just kidding .
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| Guilty Pleasure of the Year |
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| Selection for Person of the Year |
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How about Bob Geldoff? Not only for the attention he brought to the Live Eight Summit, but for being the one guy in the free world who apparently has enough pull to get Pink Floyd to play music together again?
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| A Memorable Moment From the Road in 2005 |
- At Jam on the River in Philly our drummer Rick switched the dressing room signs for Bruce Hornsby and the Benevento-Duo. When Joe and Marco got there they actually thought for a brief time that they had been given the really plush room with all the good shit inside it. Hornsby's tour manager looked a little surprised when he walked into see them in there.
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