Dave Weiser

While this not what makes the sound on the album... now I *really* want to hear this song played with a synth or maybe a Clav through a Tube-screamer, Vox Wah and analog delay pedals!!! If the Roots had to cover this on Late Night The Tonight Show w Jimmy Fallon, I'd like to think that's what they would do. Fixed. D'oh! I was on auto-pilot - thanks!

While this not what makes the sound on the album... now I *really* want to hear this song played with a synth or maybe a Clav through a Tube-screamer, Vox Wah and analog delay pedals!!! If the Roots had to cover this on Late Night w Jimmy Fallon, I'd like to think that's what they would do.

BTW If anyone with a PC3 needs to cover this song, check out program #988 Candy*O Sync - it's a dead ringer.

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In case someone liked this the first time I brought it up on this thread: Lake Street Dive is appearing on The Colbert Report tonight. We are psyched here in my little corner of the world because the bassist and principal songwriter, Bridget Kearney, is a native. Really talented band with outstanding vocalist. Looks like they are making a name for themselves because they are also on Letterman in a couple weeks. Just saw them on Colbert - I thought they did rather well. Guitar player could stand to move around a bit but otherwise good stuff.

I am now watching and listening to this and only this. All other music has been rendered meaningless. Behold! [Can't seem to embed this one.]

This. [video:youtube] This one has it all. I laughed, I cried.

YES! This one is unbelievably good!

Funniest thing I ever heard said to a musician after a set (it was the band opening for us)... "Man I liked what you guys were trying to do up there." Best thing I've ever seen uttered on stage (a friend's band)... Female singer introducing a song: "This next number, Mustang Sally, is by The Commitments...." Then interrupted by the male singer who angrily whispers a tirade into her ear, followed by a correction: "Oh actually this song was written by Wilson Pickettfool". [i know the song wasn't written by Pickett but the story still rocks my world.]

"I liked what you guys were trying to do up there" - From a blues cover band gig when I was in college. "Man that song was great - sounded like a funky James Taylor" - From a well-meaning (but disastrously misguided) fan at one of my old original funk band's gigs in Boston in the 90s. I endured my new title, "Funky Taylor", which my bandmates enjoyed to no end, for the ensuing next 6 months. And the best of all: "I play strap-on." - From a rather competitive, rooster-mullet-sporting keyboardist who was in an opening band in response to my question "what do you play?". I was young and at the time had not developed the necessary laughter-supression skills that such a situation demands. Afterwards, during our set, in between songs I may or may not have blurted out "strap on" into the mic in every imitative voice I had at the time, from GWAR to Fred Schneider to Frank Zappa.