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While it was warm in 2008, IÂ traveled the United States with a crew of friends directing promotional videos for Rock Band 2, a rhythm and timing-based video game that came with guitars, drum kits and vocal mics. We traveled with modified Xboxes and prototypes of the instruments.
The appeal of these sorts of campaigns was that we could dash across the United States, conjuring surreal adventures. Swimming in the Ozarks with catfish grabblers. Hanging off murdered out choppers from Sturgis to the Devilâs Tower. Squishing our way through red clay of a riverside land trust that members of the Elephant 6 Collective had moved into outside of Athens, Georgia.
Johnny Knoxville had a batch of ideas to shoot back home in Tennessee, so we drove deep into the profoundly corrupt Cocke County, Tennessee. We crept past cement infrastructure inexplicably built in the undeveloped woods. Highway exit ramps that werenât connected to any highways. Contractors being paid to build sections of bridges over no actual gap. Money being siphoned and kicked back as we tried to find Parrotsville, TN.
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If you can go one dayâŠgo!!! I will never forget SUV, Joker Lips, or Toontown live. I felt happy the whole night and the crowd and band were both so good. It was a concert that I wish never ended. Many dudes with hats and facial hair holding beer were in attendance. Also, in the one photo I took I like to imagine he forgot how to hold a guitar.
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Hard to pick just one song from MJ Lenderman's Manning Fireworks (which Lance Bangs wrote about for Perfectly Imperfect) but Joker Lips is definitely a favorite. It's packed with some of the best Lendermanisms of the whole record
KahlĂșa shooter, DUI scooter
With a rolling start on the hill
This morning's tryin' to kill me
This morning wants to kill me
It also came with a perfect music video from uncle_hesh which elevated the experience for sure.
It also came with a perfect music video from uncle_hesh which elevated the experience for sure.
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đži love a little alternative country moment! i really like the tounge-in-cheek, referential lyrics and the kind of dirty guitar tone. lenderman is a great lyricist and musician, and yes, iâve got my houseboat docked at the himbo dome. super excited to see him live in january!!
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I get the most out of âWristwatch,â with its descending riffs giving way to Xandyâs pedal steel on top of the guitar lead. The lyrics open with âSo you say Iâve got a funny face/It makes me moneyâ which conjures up a character misquoting Quiet Riotâs 1983 cover of Sladeâs âCum on Feel the Noize.â Lenderman excels at characters that come across as guys not getting it right, low-key committed to not quite understanding. A denseness, a hapless but easily seen wrongheadedness. Doubling down on not wising up.
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