2013-04-04 The Jinx (Savannah)
Setlist
Banter
- A day may come in your life when you have to ask yourself the question: must I show mercy to these Diaz Brothers? Show them! Show them the mercy they deserve! (The Diaz Brothers)
- I have. [doing a wrestling bit, presumably] FINALLY! THE MOUNTAIN GOATS HAVE COME BACK TO SAVANNAH GEORGIA!!! [crowd goes wild] That's not actually true, we've never played here before, we've waited a long fucking time to play here. [many woos!]
- This is a song about how when you least expect it, when you're feeling that things are going well for you, you might turn around and find that I have come up behind you, and will surely stab you in the eye with a foreign object. (Foreign Object)
- Now I'm alone. [unintelligible] What if that was a thing, we get to the solo break and I become really morose. I try to stay cheerful during the [unintelligble] for my friends. But we're all sad. Don't tell them. I think that would be the funniest shit because if you did that with a straight face on tour for two weeks...it's the weirdest thing! His band is up there and he's all happy and jumping up and down, and then they leave for three songs and he looks like somebody kicked him. And just hangs his head and mopes, and his forelock grows two inches and covers his eyes. It's [all/a whole?] scene, man, his hair turns black, it's very...a whole thing. (Going to Queens)
- Audience member: going to georgia!
Other audience member: We're already here, man!
[unintelligible audience rumblings]
JD: I like how he yelled it and then dissension broke out among the troops. I got the idea while I was working on the setlist to try this song, which I haven't practiced or played in a long time, so I don't really know for sure that I know it. [unintelligible, probably related to more unintelligible audience yelling] Never. But I am going to - listen up, I'm talking - Genesis, chapter 19, verses 1 and 2. (Genesis 19:1-2)
- This next song is a song I play on both guitar and piano, so I'm trying to decide what I wanna do. It feels a little different, textually, on whichever instrument, so I gotta decide. Piano. [woo!] The lovers of piano know they must speak first. [unintelligible joke] This song is a melancholy song about a bunch of friends of mine, the ones I don't know for sure are dead, or what became of them. (Steal Smoked Fish)
- Peter: [unintelligible off mic, presumably about the fistfight that just went down]
JD: I assume they're still mad, but maybe a little relieved, I dunno - one of them might be, I don't wanna look over there in case he gets mad at me. When people get violent with each other, it's a little triggering for me. It's like, oh, I'll just watch, and make sure it's not heading in my direction. [shuffling, audience yelling for songs] I know what I'm gonna play, and I'm pretty excited to play this song. [off mic discussion] Peter pointed out that I didn't actually know what I was playing. [Peter plays a knowing note] I was rushing ahead, 'cause I got excited about the one after this one. But I like this one too. (The Ballad of Bull Ramos)
- I'm excited to play this song. This is a dance number. Seriously, I mean it, this is a dance number. (Blood Capsules)
- [JD and crowd yell YEAH!!! at each other] This is a song about how, in our time of need, when the darkness is doing a sort of screen-shrink kind of deal and you picture your face in a decreasing amount of light, like the end credits of a movie, everything else right before, you in the middle, and the darkness all around, then you turn you head, and there's somebody else to your side, and you say, game shows touch our lives. (Game Shows Touch Our Lives)
- Sorry for the long conferral. Unlike all those poser bands, we don't write our encores. A band comes out and already knows what they're playing for an encore, they're a bunch of people who [unintelligible]. We come out, we know we're going to play one of THE songs. But we don't know which ones. [audience: play it all!] Naw, we can't play all of them. That would take a long time. [audience objects loudly, presumably to the concept of time] This is a love song. [woo!] Yes, I've been in love. Yes I know this song. It's a song by Refrigerator. [??] But, [unintelligible] that night when your love doesn't seem like it used to be, and the pain in your lower back that you're pretty sure is your liver [ed. note: no that is not your liver] but you've never actually seen your liver, so you can't be sure, so you tell yourself that you maybe threw it out hauling stones down to the basement. This is a love song about hauling stones down to the basement. (No Children)
- We're gonna attempt one more. We've got a couple, old reliables that we could pull out, but instead, we're gonna play this one that we've never played before as a four-piece. I don't know if Matt's even ever heard it. But it's the song that's in my heart. Because the stone has been rolled away, and there's nobody in the cave when there was somebody last night, when vampires walked the earth, seeking the blood of innocent victims, converting them one by one by one. Heretic Pride