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its Friday night, the Monkee
jrmerly known as The Theatre,
is with its first concert of the se-
ir, showcasing Tripping Daisy
he local hands Kid Fantastic
2th Egg Conspiracy,
le members of Tripping Daisy,
known for their radio song, “I
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t the changes the band has
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r than ever.
’eople who heard us five or six
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we’ve got going on now,” he
“The band really is the best it’s
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Njupi. 1 members are lead singer Tim
tighter, Wes Berggren (guitar
keyboard), Mark Pirro (bass),
p Karnats (guitar) and Ben Cur-
Irums). The band’s latest CD, Je-
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the skinny on Tipping Daisy and
Good Records and also features the
band’s newest music-promotion
scheme, trippingdaisy.com.
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site, but we eventually play the
whole album. It’s all mixed together
so you just never know what’s going
to come up. 1 don’t even know what
I’m going to hear.”
Daisy Radio is a source for music
lovers looking to find and buy new
music. Pirro said there is a link con
necting listeners to information on
PHOTO COURTESY OF TRIPPING DAISY
the songs played and where listen
ers can go to buy the CDs.
“There’s a lot of good music
out there that people would like if
they just had access to it,” Pirro
said. “So if you’re listening to
Daisy Radio and you hear some
thing that you’re not familiar
with, you can hit a window that
will tell you the artist and the link
where you can buy it.”
Nathan Mc-Kown, bassist for Kid
Fantastic and a senior industrial dis
tribution major, said Tripping Daisy
had a big impact on his choice to be
come a musician.
“For me 3t»d Tim [lead singer of
Kid Fantastic], Tripping Daisy was
the first concert at a club we ever
went to,” McKown said.
“We took his [Tim’s] mother’s car
and saw them play at the Agora Bar
with the Toadies and Adam’s Farm
when we were like fourteen years
old. It really turned us on to that type
of music, and 1 would even say that
before that show, neither one of Us
had really thought much about be
coming musicians.”
Pirro said fans should look for
ward to some old sounds, some new
sounds and even a little eye-candy in
the background to keep fans aes
thetically happy while listening.
“We’ll be playing music from Je
sus Hits Like the Atom Bomb even
though we’re no longer with Island
because we obviously still want to
turn people on to it,” Pirro said.
“We’ll also be playing songs from
our new record due out in January,
as well as some songs no one’s
ever heard before. We have a full-
on media show with a projector,
too. It’s always nice to have any
kind of visual stimulus.”
Sean Close, a junior mechanical
engineering major, said he has en
joyed watching the band in the past.
“The last time I saw them play
was at the Curtain Club in Dallas,
and it was the best show of theirs
I’d seen,” Close said. “They had
these big balloons up, and cartoons
and public service announcements
were being projected onto them.
“There were like twenty bubble
machines over the audience — it
was really cool.”
Doors open at the Monkee Bar at
8 p.m. 12th Egg Conspiracy will kick
off the show around 8:30, with Kid
Fantastic following around 10 p.m.
and Tripping Daisy closing out the
lineup at 11:30.
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