Spin Doctors? c or d

When they were big -- I was like 11 or 12 -- I thought the singer and Alexi Lalas were the same person. I think they just melded in my mind as an archetypal "90s college kid," the kind of older guy who wore CO-ED NAKED t-shirts, played hacky sack, and practiced with devil sticks.

umm they actually are the same person

He's the Ess-dog, Sean if you wish

I knew it

Heard "Two Princes" last night for the first time in an eaon on ye' olde classic rock radio and had a major brain freeze moment not being able to remember the name of this band.

I racked my skull for nearly an hour trying to remember and it kept coming up Third Eye Blind or Seven Mary Three or Primitive Radio Gods- all I knew was wrong but that was what kept coming up out of the noggin. I could remember after a bit that the same band had a hit with "Little Miss Can't be Wrong" but the band name was lost.

I guess early senior moment...I of course had to check with the tech overlords when I pulled into the driveway at home last night.

That said, I was thinking that drum shuffle in "Two Princes" was pretty good and probably one reason it was a hit.

jesus christ, this must have been one of the first threads I ever started.

my brother saw these guys shortly before the pandemic at a hotel concert. he said it was pretty hilarious. but that everybody who went was allll about the singles. well, the two biggest ones at least. not the stuff like 'Turn It Upside Down".

naw... NAWW...

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ahmawannaluvvabehbeh, can't u see

ahh spin doctor's i reminisce..

The brother of the singer and I were roommates in Brooklyn for a while back in the day. He was a hippie too though we had a mutual love of Black Sabbath. I remember hearing him in the shower singing "War Pigs."

My most notable Spin Doctors moment was seeing their EP record release show at Wetlands.

My most notable brother-of-the-singer-of-Spin Doctors was when we were shot at coming back from a White Castle run at 3 AM.

I got nothing against the band or the singer's brother. The guy who shot at us? A little.

1 2
Bullets come right toward you
That's what I said now

(lol Soz. Any reason you were shot at other than pure randomness?)

It was probably a mistaken Greil Marcus.

i don't really have many thoughts about spin doctors except that they did this pandemic remote performance that i enjoyed for some reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPa0CiWeoOI

....and since this posting i have learned that the bass player is now a hardline anit-vax guy and they fired him

I felt pretty cool back in the day knowing where shinbone alley is

xp: damn, the H.O.R.D.E. to alt-right pipeline continues.

pocket full of kryptonite was one of the first handful of cassettes i bought with my own money.

how could you want him is the best song on the album and i had no idea it had a video until today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOGBcYN1Hu4

this duder is playing the venue attached to the restaurant where i work TONIGHT
and i am working so I will get to peek in if I feel like it/we're not too busy

i saw Spin Doctors at an amusement part with Material Issue when I was in early high school and secretly thought they were pretty good even though I did not become a fan.

also COMPLETELY forgot about
what time is it?
4-thirtay

Plate of shrimp. Wapo columnist Alexandra Petri is a rather niche "Two Princes" parody gift link

*um, "has"

It's supposed to say "Spin Doctors and Puppet Show."

while we're issuing corrections:

amusement *park

Geauga Lake to be precise

what time is it?
4-thirtay

it's not late. naw. NAW.

my brother and I liked them as kids and he saw them play a hotel a few years ago and he had a blast, though 75% of said blast was pure nostalgia and not because he loved "Cleopatra's Cat boopadobepbepbehbep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ql1eThR0aQ

Maybe I will employ this "what time is it" joke at work tonight and see if anyone gets it. as always, our reservations at the restaurant are directly related to who's playing.

Chris Barron was one of the most prominent dudes from the early 1990s who made it seem normal to grow a gross-ass beard. Here I am circa 1993 wearing a bucket hat that had been autographed by the Spin Doctors' rhythm section.

https://i.imgur.com/Pw6uDWT.jpg

i honestly assumed this revive was because of that Alexandra Petri piece, which, I'm utterly surprised whenever she's able to publish something this obscure

Are the lyrics to 430 a joke - like did he just take a massive bong rip 10 minutes prior and was just trying to ad lib

great photo, peace, man

"4-thirtay" gets a lot of love on the "60 Songs That Explain the 90s" episode on "Yellow Ledbetter," overall a pretty good episode IIRC.

Is there a substantive difference between "dud" and "flash in the pan"?

TS: Spin Doctors vs. Dave Matthews Band

Xp

i honestly assumed this revive was because of that Alexandra Petri piece,

Omg what a funny night. The tour manager sat in my section and I asked him what to expect from the show.
His answer: “greatness”
I asked him to be more specific and he said audience would hear all the hits.
I asked “even 4:30?”
He said “4:20?” And i was like no
Four THIRTAY
And we loled and then after my shift as I was about to hop on my bike and merch guy (who was at my table w manager) asked if I wanted to meet him (Chris B) and at first I was like I’m good then I changed my mind.
He did not remember playing at the amusement park w Material Issue but we had some real lols and I got him to say four thirtay and took a selfie. Decent and very normal guy.

I was at the show (a friend I was meeting up with anyway suggested going), and it makes me want to see more lead singers/songwriters of multi-platinum bands perform solo shows. It was dark!!

(Also was very happy to run into La Lechera!)

very glad y'all had a good night :)

Wow, nice

Bidibidibip

I asked him what to expect from the show.
His answer: “greatness”

LL, thank you for reporting this charming exchange. Instant classic.

Barron on the solo tour: "This solo project is really about learning and just expressing the broadness of my musicality. Because as a composer and a lyricist, I can’t fit everything I do into the Spin Doctors.”

You nerds are pretty much the only thing in the world that could come close to giving me FOMO for missing a Chris Barron solo show. But even then just barely.

gained some respect for this guy after his tweet about the origin of little miss can't be wrong (posted upthread)

Chris Barron was one of the most prominent dudes from the early 1990s who made it seem normal to grow a gross-ass beard. Here I am circa 1993 wearing a bucket hat that had been autographed by the Spin Doctors' rhythm section.

that's what I say now!

lol wtf I forgot I was the one who started this thread

i love that Jimmy Olsen is carrying around a pocketful of kryptonite like he doesn't realize it affects non-Kryptonian humans in harmful ways too.

p sure ol' Jimmy was speaking metaphorically there

xxpost You were an eetface, now a Neanderthal. Evolution.

xxpost so the kryptonite is his dick?

no, that'd be a euphemism, not a metaphor. uggh ogg ork

I remember playing it to my uncle Phil, "why is he going to murder Superman?"