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I was once misinformed about your intentions: Soul Coughing reunites

lincolnic

lincolnic

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Paging Dr. @Exposition Owl because THIS IS NOT A DRILL

They're really back and they're touring in September/October. It's impossible for me to overstate how important this music was for me in my high school/college/immediate post-college years. I am feeling some very complicated nostalgia right now.

I'm a little nervous that it might not be good, but at the same time I feel like I owe it to my teenage self who never had the chance to see them live to find out.
 
Exposition Owl

Exposition Owl

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WHAAAAAAAAAT

OHMYGOSH, I have got to get tickets for one of the shows in Brooklyn or Philly! Thanks so much for the heads up!
 
zonetrope

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Wow. I read Doughty's memoir a few years back, and based on like half of the book, I definitely did not see this one coming.
 
Kirin

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I know basically nothing about Soul Coughing, but Doughty’s occasional collabs with TMBG were always good fun.
 
lincolnic

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Got tickets for Brooklyn in October. I have no idea what to expect, but I'm looking forward to it!
 
lincolnic

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Last night was the concert and I'm extremely happy to say that it was awesome. Not only did they all sound great, but everyone in the band really looked like they were having a lot of fun too. Even Doughty was grinning every time he looked up at the crowd. They played for nearly two hours, all the hits plus some truly unexpected left field choices (I would never have guessed "Disseminated" would show up in the setlist).

One thing I was thinking about last night is Mark De Gli Antoni's sampler playing. In the modern age of Pro Tools where you can just place samples anywhere in a song without thinking much about it, it was a really refreshing experience to watch him actually playing them. Two of their three albums were made before digital recording was even a thing (and it was only in its infancy when El Oso came out), so it was a great reminder that a real human played a real instrument to make all those sounds. And also kind of surreal to hear all those samples I know so well from the records out in the real world.

I don't know what Yuval Gabay has been doing since the band broke up, but he's still swinging hard and churning out high speed drum 'n bass beats like it's nothing. Again, really inspiring to get to see him do all the stuff live that inspired me as a teenager. And Sebastian Steinberg continues to be one of the unsung great bass players of the past 30 years.

At risk of sounding a little hyperbolic, I left the show last night feeling like I'd been given a gift. If this reunion turns out to be just a one-time tour, I'm completely satisfied and grateful that I got the chance to see it.
 
Exposition Owl

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I wasn’t able to get tickets to come to one of the shows in person, so I was really grateful that the band offered an official stream of the Brooklyn show. First, I’ve got to echo basically everything linc said: it was both deeply weird and really cool to hear the kind of music Soul Coughing makes being played live in front of a crowd. It seemed to me like Doughty was maybe a little nervous at the beginning, so I loved seeing him relax and get into it as the show went on. It was really great to hear the (return of the original?) guest vocalist on “Janine”—it wouldn’t have been quite the just hearing her part as a recording. Finally, I was impressed with the way Doughty talked about the circumstances under which he wrote “True Dreams of Wichita.” I had never really heard it as a breakup song myself, but still, I had a lot of respect for him saying that the person he broke up with turned out to be a really cool human being, and that in her place he would have broken up with him, too. What a great show.
 
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