Because I must hit the pillow early each night in a somewhat fruitless attempt to arrive on time to work each morning, I tend to miss a lot of late night talk shows. The upside: I'm not forced to endure
Jay Leno. The downside: I miss those rare opportunities to see a few of my current musical heros kicking out the jams (Mmmm...jam). Thanks to the web, this no longer has to be the case. A tip of the mouse to my savior
Big Stereo who has posted both
a Quicktime video and an audio mp3 of
Antony & The Johnsons performing
You Are My Sister on
The David Letterman Show (and don't call Antony goth or I'll make you eat my clove cigarette). In the interest of Karma (which I don't even believe in), allow me to pay it forward: No sooner had I
given you what I believed to be a live recording of "
Huddle Formation" by
The Go! Team performing live at the
2005 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX (which I'd found at
NPR) when I discovered that this track was, in fact,
not live but a remixed studio recording already offered on a number of the band's various singles and the recent US-only edition of their debut cd. For shame,
NPR, for shame. You've made me into a fool in the eyes of the world. As a way of begging your forgiveness, dear readers, here is the
truly live recording of the 'Team performing
Huddle Formation on ABC-TV's
The Jimmy Kimmel Show last Friday, October 21st. If you'd also like to see the streaming video of the performance, click
here, but be warned: it's surrounded by an onslaught of beer ads and hemmed in by live clips on all sides from the likes of
Shinedown,
3 Doors Down and other bands taking alt-rock liberties with the word
down. If this is an indication of Kimmel's taste in music, can I ask why, exactly,
Sarah Silverman is sleeping with him?
Because I must hit the pillow early each night in a somewhat fruitless attempt to arrive on time to work each morning, I tend to miss a lot of late night talk shows. The upside: I'm not forced to endure Jay Leno. The downside: I miss those rare opportunities to see a few of my current musical heros kicking out the jams (Mmmm...jam). Thanks to the web, this no longer has to be the case. A tip of the mouse to my savior Big Stereo who has posted both a Quicktime video and an audio mp3 of Antony & The Johnsons performing You Are My Sister on The David Letterman Show (and don't call Antony goth or I'll make you eat my clove cigarette). In the interest of Karma (which I don't even believe in), allow me to pay it forward: No sooner had I given you what I believed to be a live recording of "Huddle Formation" by The Go! Team performing live at the 2005 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX (which I'd found at NPR) when I discovered that this track was, in fact, not live but a remixed studio recording already offered on a number of the band's various singles and the recent US-only edition of their debut cd. For shame, NPR, for shame. You've made me into a fool in the eyes of the world. As a way of begging your forgiveness, dear readers, here is the truly live recording of the 'Team performing 
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There's another video on Kimmel's site of The Go! Team performing Ladyflash. Only this time, it's the Pontiac Concert Series, not the Coors Light Concert Series. Be careful.
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