Dismemberment Plan breaking up

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There used to be free sushi for bands and then that changed to discount sushi for bands. Whenever I put on a show there there was free sushi at least (since I payed). Free beer is always a plus. I missed the Calvin J. show. I sometimes stop over there on my way to my parent's house to eat some sushi and catch a show. No one understands how special that place is unless they've been there. I attended the nest wedding reception ever there.

― Carey, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Crazy. I've never eaten there. You probably weren't at any of the shows I played. My college band the Buddy System played our final show there (can't remember with who), then I was in my friends' band the Remotes for a few months and we played (can't remember with who), and then my current band the Id played there a couple of months ago with Order of the Dying Orchid and Vroom.
I was just thinking, I almost never drink at shows where I'm playing, but the two shows I've played drunk were both at Tokyo Rose.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

Oh well, there are other fish in the sea.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link

must you do this on every "break-up" thread? no, really?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:40 (twenty years ago) link

I've done it on all the ones I can find and I'm fucking pleased with myself. Hi jim!!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

However, your mature and disapproving tone makes me feel like a child who has just come down from a sugar high to find he has scrawled silly words all over a new copy of Where The Wild Things Are.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

oh dear...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

that's ok, i'm over it now

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 22 May 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

Remix album, "A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan", out Sept. 22nd (coincidentally my birthday...ever so bittersweet). Most of them fan-made remixes.

― Simon H., Friday, 23 May 2003 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

Revive: The Dismemberment Plan launched their farewell tour tonight at the Black Cat. As I said above, I didn't like the direction the new songs seemed to be going. However, as a live act, they're quitting at the top of their game. See them while you still have the chance.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 29 May 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Revive again: In spite of the weather, the Plan played their Fort Reno show, and mightily rocked the park. And because they were only able to play a 50-minute set (because of the rain), they promised to play another date in DC in 6 or 8 weeks.

Travis was throwing in new wave vocal flourishes left and right. And they played "One Too Many Blows to the Head" (which I don't think I had previously heard live)...complete with Travis playing the trombone (badly).

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:02 (twenty years ago) link

Jason accidentally hit his head on my video camera.

My feet are swimming in my shoes. All my clothes are absolutely 100% soaked.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 02:55 (twenty years ago) link

Setlist:

The City
Girl O'Clock
Ice of Boston
What Do You Want Me to Say
Academy Award
Do the Standing Still
Following Through
Time Bomb
Dismemberment Plan Gets Rich
Face of the Earth
You Are Invited > "I Hope You Don't Mind" (tease)
Gyroscope
One Too Many Blows to the Head
OK, Joke's Over > numerous teases

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

"I Hope You Don't Mind" = Your Song [Elton John], now that I think about it. Too many teases to enumerate offhand for Joke's Over, but it included some rap and even the theme to Sesame Street.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

This is turning into quite the long break-up...when are they actually packing it in?

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

They're going to challenge Kiss to the throne.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

The show kinda came off flat to me, the same way every show I've seen since last winter or so have come off a bit flat. Still great, but some sort of vital energy lacking, although I'm more than willing to ascribe that to the rain here. Maybe I'm just annoyed because my cell phone got really wet and stopped working. My friend, who'd never seen them, drove down from Syracuse for the show and was not disappointed. And the part where the whole band comes in on "You Are Invited" was still just amazing. (I'd put their actual peak as a live band somewhere around last summer, when the shows were just brain-meltingly incredible.)

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:15 (twenty years ago) link

J-lu (and other DC-area posters) - did you read the annoying-ass interview with T. Morrison in the Weekend section this past weekend? He comes across as really smug and obnoxious. This proves my point that the D Plan, although I love them, started sucking when T realized that he was a "sex symbol" and that if he wrote sensitive songs, he would get more underage chicks, which would place the start of their suckage somewhere between "Emergency and I" and "Change." (Note: this is probably all slanderous lies, and just an impression I have that is not based in any fact).

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Remix album, "A People's History of the Dismemberment Plan", out Sept. 22nd (coincidentally my birthday...ever so bittersweet). Most of them fan-made remixes.
-- Simon H. (samslic...) (webmail), May 23rd, 2003.

we have the same birthday, you should send me a present.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

All my clothes are still totally wet. Tom, I agreed with you that things sorta haven't progressed much since last summer until I saw the show last night. Now maybe it was because I was right next to the monitors the whole night, but I felt like they kicked the shit out of those songs like I'd never heard since when I saw them at the Ottobar last May. And the sheer insanity of Travis on the trombone (finally!) for "One Too Many Blows to the Head" followed by Joke's Over. Man!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 29 July 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

The Ottobar show last May was easily the best show I've ever seen them play and one of the best shows I've ever seen anyone play. And yeah, I haven't seen them bust out the trombone since the first time I'd seen them, at an American Legion Hall in Baltimore when I was 15 and they didn't have an album out yet. (I'd kinda thought maybe I'd just misremembered the stuff about the trombone.)

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link

Did anyone else do a remix? I did. It's on the remixes page linked from the main DPlan page, under the name Unpopular Science. They didn't pick it for their album. That's the real reason for the decline in my Dplan fandom.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:21 (twenty years ago) link

Selfish.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:32 (twenty years ago) link

It's as valid a reason as any.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

oh man, but were you guys at the 2 Black Cat shows in December? the 2nd one was insane...if not the best, then easily in my top 3 Plan shows (the other 2 probably being other Black Cat shows from 2 or 3 years back, and maybe that Ottobar show).

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

I was at the second Black Cat show; you sure we're thinking of the same show? Cuz I spent most of it wishing the liquid-dancing audience chumps would get off the stage. After "The Ice of Boston," you leave the goddam stage! It's an unspoken rule! Also, it kinda sucked that Radio 4 cancelled. Totally didn't even come close to that Ottobar show, as far as I'm concerned.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

I started to do a "The Jitters" remix. But I got totally stumped on what to do during the chorus so I scrapped it.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

haha, a friend of mine was totally dry humping some random girl by the PA on the right of the stage for most of the set after "Ice Of Boston". still, the show was fun, by the end of the night the band was really loose and enjoying themselves. probably not as good as the shows a couple Decembers before that, though.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

I wasn't crazy about Uncanney Valley but I've been listening to E&I and Change a lot the last few days and the truth is I miss these guys.

― papa don't take no meth (stevie), Monday, 19 March 2018 09:00 (six years ago) link

E&I and Change are downright classics. I remember their social media fb page was very active around the time Uncanney Valley came out, but having just checked it now they haven't posted since 2015. I wonder if they feel embarrassed about the reunion looking back. They rode the wholesome nostalgia wave so hard and then dropped a massive brick

― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 19 March 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link

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