event That 1 Guy
Also Playing: Heatbox
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Sat Nov 7
9:30 pm,
That 1 Guy and Heatbox at Cabooze
Musicians with gimmicks often live in the shadow of whatever unusual tweak they’ve made to their instruments, lineup, or performance style. For That 1 Guy, a.k.a. California’s one-man band of Mike Silverman, it’s his 7-foot-tall homemade instrument called The Magic Pipe. It yields big, booming slap-bass rhythms and bowed melody lines, but it’s only half of Silverman’s story. Songs like the funky “Buttmachine” (which Ryan Seacrest memorably praised on E! Entertainment News) and head-scratching “It’s Raining Meat” happily indulge audiences’ “this guy is so weird” needs, but listen longer and catchy, complex melodies and toe-tapping rhythms become more prominent. There’s a reason heavyweights like Tom Waits have tapped him to sit in on recording sessions.
Cabooze 917 Cedar Ave S, Twin Cities, MN
Musicians with gimmicks often live in the shadow of whatever unusual tweak they’ve made to their instruments, lineup, or performance style. For That 1 Guy, a.k.a. California’s one-man band of Mike Silverman, it’s his 7-foot-tall homemade instrument called The Magic Pipe. It yields big, booming slap-bass rhythms and bowed melody lines, but it’s only half of Silverman’s story. Songs like the funky “Buttmachine” (which Ryan Seacrest memorably praised on E! Entertainment News) and head-scratching “It’s Raining Meat” happily indulge audiences’ “this guy is so weird” needs, but listen longer and catchy, complex melodies and toe-tapping rhythms become more prominent. There’s a reason heavyweights like Tom Waits have tapped him to sit in on recording sessions.
Updated 10/28/2009
