2020-06-24: On Your TV / Laptop

[Thurman Murman]

That was fun. Loved seeing Ed’s girls,

Yeah that was super cute.

Ed needs to stop dying his beard/mustache though....let it go grey man.

[VinylGuy]

That was fun. Loved seeing Ed’s girls, and loved seeing Mike put his visual artistic sensibilities to some use for the band. Mostly it just reminded me how great that song is, and that I’d love to hear this album live.

yeah, ed's girls was great. And Mike too! i forgot about his Boreland look. It was great.

What an awesome song.

[Monkey_Driven]

Good to see Josh Klinghoffer too.

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[johnnyfixer]

That was baller. Stone don't give a fuck!

i picture stone having a room in his house with that lighting at all times. he just chose to perform from there today.

Lucky us!

I think it's fair to say this whole thing was worth it for these couple of seconds of Stone centre-stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9dX55 ... u.be&t=250

[Jorge]

Lol they blurred Ed's mouth every time he sang "dicks"

[Iholdthepain]

Jeezus! That must be what it's like when a bunch of old burnouts think they vaguely remember what it was like to take acid 30 years ago!

Ed was lip syncing, btw.

Terrible!

[Jorge]

Ed was clearly miming yes but I don't think that was the album vocal. He must've recorded his part earlier. But honestly, what's the difference? This performance was never going to be live-live anyway.

[Iholdthepain]

Ed was clearly miming yes but I don't think that was the album vocal. He must've recorded his part earlier. But honestly, what's the difference? This performance was never going to be live-live anyway.

Why the hell not? Everyone else in the internet can sing live. I don't want dumb tricked up Ed thinking he's dazzling me with his fucking Zippo! What's so hard about just playing a song?!

[littlecomment]

Jeezus! That must be what it's like when a bunch of old burnouts think they vaguely remember what it was like to take acid 30 years ago!

Ed was lip syncing, btw.

Terrible!

[Iholdthepain]

Dumbest 'live' PJ performance ever!

[Iholdthepain]

Gush about it now, but tomorrow you're gonna wake up and realize the sheer idiocy of the Electric PJ Acid Test

[96583UP]

That was baller. Stone don't give a fuck!

i picture stone having a room in his house with that lighting at all times. he just chose to perform from there today.

Lucky us!

I think it's fair to say this whole thing was worth it for these couple of seconds of Stone centre-stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv9dX55 ... u.be&t=250

that's a pretty sick shot right there

[littlecomment]

Gush about it now, but tomorrow you're gonna wake up and realize the sheer idiocy of the Electric PJ Acid Test

Thought I was on acid for a moment there when Bill Gates introduced the band.

[96583UP]

Ed was clearly miming yes but I don't think that was the album vocal. He must've recorded his part earlier. But honestly, what's the difference? This performance was never going to be live-live anyway.

Why the hell not? Everyone else in the internet can sing live. I don't want dumb tricked up Ed thinking he's dazzling me with his fucking Zippo! What's so hard about just playing a song?!

i'd normally be the first person to 'hate' on PJ for this kind of thing, but i think given the need for vocal loops in that song and the way they have to piece these 'live' performances together anyway it was more enjoyable to see the hokey home music video production. he said it was 'take 3' ...maybe the first one or two were 'live' vocals and it just wasn't worth it.... with little ability to practice together, no 'sound man' to help him during the performance, and the need for layering, it's probably not easy to do that 'live' from home (and be worth something to watch)... plus they wanted to add klinghoffer in there too... because fuck boom, apparently

[Jorge]

This performance was never going to be live-live anyway.

Why the hell not?

Because there is a pandemic and they had to record their parts individually? That's what I meant by "not live-live". They can't be in a room together so they're recording apart; already there is some artifice to the performance. What difference does it make if Ed is actually singing on camera or off? Better this than some solo performance of "River Cross" with some extraneous noodling on top by the other band members

The bad "laser tag arena" aesthetic I will not defend

[96583UP]

i am totally good with the laster tag arena aesthetic. reminds me of back as kids when had a VHS camcorder and made shitty, shitty movies for fun. don't take my childhood joy from me, you ALWAYS TRY TO TAKE MY CHILDHOOD JOY FROM ME

[Bammer]

I’m about halfway through. Thoughts:

Mix A Lot is fkn baller.

Macklemore is not.

Brandi Carlisle can really sing.

The Black Tones are absolutely terrible how in the hell did they get on this thing?

Sleater-Kinney I never listened to and now I know why. Carrie was amazing on Portlandia, stick to acting.

All for now.

[Bammer]

I hope Kate Nickel was wearing a mask when she painted Mike up.

Nice touch with Klinghoffer. Isn’t he supposed to be opening for them on tour right now?

What brand of sedative is Matt on?

[Bammer]

Ok Macklemore wearing the Air Monarchs was pretty baller actually.