Coming to Cat's Cradle Feb. 8th!! I didn't grow up around here, so I never got to see them when they were together the first time. Can't wait!!!

1/29/2007 2:59:04 PM

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIN THE AFTERLIFE

YOU COULD BE HEADED FOR SERIOUS STRIFE

[no gonads and strife]

1/29/2007 3:10:10 PM

Wow, didn't see this until now...they're also at the Birchmere.

I saw them once at the Ritz and they were great. I didn't realize they were still making music--and the picture on their website looks like the original members are all back.

1/29/2007 3:12:45 PM

do they have any other notable songs other than "hell"?

andddd, do all of their songs sound the same as "hell"?

1/29/2007 3:20:06 PM

^ Yes. And no, some of them are different. Songs like "Blue Angel" don't sound like "Hell" at all.

"Put A Lid On It" is a fun song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lf_pwxyOlXg

[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 3:28 PM. Reason : Oh, and I doubt I'm going, but I thought about it.]

1/29/2007 3:27:43 PM

^^ they don't all "sound like" hell, but they are mostly all big-band/jazz/swing sounding. That's just their style

[Edited on January 29, 2007 at 3:28 PM. Reason : .]

1/29/2007 3:28:13 PM

thats more of what I meant, if that "sound" was/is their style, not a gimmicky song they used to get on the radio

1/29/2007 3:38:22 PM

in 6th grade i think i wore a different zippers shirt every day of school

1/29/2007 3:41:04 PM

^haha I had the green chrysanthemum shirt in middle school

and I had tickets to this show

1/29/2007 3:47:02 PM

my uncle was their sound/tour manager so i had TONS of shirts. i think a bunch of them are in a closet at my moms house

1/29/2007 3:53:43 PM

wow, i didn't even know they were still together

1/29/2007 4:07:44 PM

holy fuck

i think i went to see them at Cat's Cradle last time they came

like a decade ago

1/29/2007 4:53:32 PM

here's a post i made a while back in the 'upcoming concerts' thread

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here's an excerpt from the N&O article

Quote :

"If Maxwell and Mosher are carrying on in the style of their old band, they're not calling themselves Squirrel Nut Zippers. Whalen and Mathus still own the name -- and they're actually talking about playing together again as the Zippers, without Maxwell and Mosher. After all that has happened, Mathus acknowledges it would be "awkward, but no more awkward than anything else." The motivation would be financial, to pay off their debt to Maxwell and Mosher. "We wouldn't be trying to re-form the group to make records and get on the radio," Whalen says. "It would be more about us surviving. The idea would be to do maybe three shows, probably just a couple of corporate gigs for some money. We'll be paying off that settlement for two more years, so it would be cool to play a few nights and just make that go away.""

from http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/439524.html

so no idea if maxwell/mosher are gonna be with them, though maxwell's son has been diagnosed with leukemia and according to his site, he and mosher are doing benefit shows to try to pay the hospital bills

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i don't see maxwell and mosher in that pic on their site...so i'm guessing it's not the full band

oh and i tend to gravitate more to their 1910s-1930s stuff more so than the 'big band' stuff they do

1/29/2007 7:57:02 PM

doesnt a girl sing put a lid on it?

she had a sexy voice

1/29/2007 8:21:05 PM

did you even bother to click on the video for "put a lid on it" above?

1/29/2007 8:34:51 PM

no dickhead i didnt because i was posting from work and i dont have that shit installed

1/29/2007 10:03:42 PM

reminds me

does anyone have a doug clark and the hot nuts cd they want to rip for me and send?

1/29/2007 10:57:39 PM

i'll be there.

1/29/2007 11:08:58 PM

EVERYWHERE OL' PRINCE NEZ GOES, THAT'S WHERE I GO TOO.

1/29/2007 11:12:04 PM

if anybody has tickets for the show (it's sold out), i'd be willing to buy them.

2/6/2007 11:33:58 AM

<--Excited

2/8/2007 6:37:47 PM

THE SUITS ARE PICKING UP THE BILL

2/8/2007 7:08:36 PM

Quote :

"<--Excited"

2/8/2007 7:25:18 PM

They rocked the house. I was very excited that they played Prince Nez and Low Down Man.

Which Magnetic Fields song did they play? I caught that it was off 69 love songs, but can't figure out which song it was.

2/9/2007 1:25:27 AM

Oh wow, great show! Prince Nez, Wash Jones, and The Ghost of Stephen Foster were definitely the highlights for me. The opening band, Old Ceremony, was pretty good, too. I ended up picking up both their cds.

2/9/2007 1:27:28 AM