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THE SEMI-CANONICAL THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
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"STUMP THE BAND" LIST V 1.0
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This list is an attempt to document the many "Stump the Band" songs that
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were played over the course of the "Don't Tread On the Cut-Up Snake"
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World Tour 1992.
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For those who are unaware of what "Stump The band" was, it was a feature
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of the They Might Be Giants Band (That is, TMBG with Tony Maimone, Jon
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Feinberg, and Kurt Hoffman behind them) where they would ask members of the
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audience to shout out song titles, and the band would choose a song and
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attempt to play it. They insisted on never playing the same song twice,
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and as a result the unique TMBG sound was adhered to timeless classics.
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Eventually, of course, the same songs kept being shouted, and eventually
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TMBG decided to switch to "Spin the Dial", where they would choose a song
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off the local radio stations. While this was interesting, I personally
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found the idea of the band performing songs whose titles were being shouted
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by the audience a much more alluring concept.
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Here then, is the list, as complete as it could be at the moment.
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Note that TMBG did not play "Stump the Band" at all their shows, and
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I'm still trying to track down people who went to all the shows.
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DATE LOCATION VENUE SONG
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05/06 London, ENGLAND Town & Country Club "Light My Fire"
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06/16 Northampton, MA The Iron Horse "Feelings"
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06/20 Asbury Park, NJ The Fast Lane "You were Always On My Mind"
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06/23 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre "Disco Inferno"
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06/24 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall "I Wanna Be Sedated"
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06/26 Pontiac, MI Phoenix Plaza Ampith. "Kung-Fu Fighting"
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06/27 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre "Yellow Submarine"
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06/28 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue "My Way"
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06/29 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre
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07/01 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre "Copa Cabana"
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07/02 SLC, UT The Coliseum
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07/04 Chicago, IL Grant Park *NO STUMP THE BAND*
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07/06 NBC-TV The Tonight Show *NO STUMP THE BAND*
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07/07 SF, CA Warfield Theatre "YMCA"
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07/08 Ventura Ventura Theatre "Truckin'"
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07/09 Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre "You Lost that Lovin' Feeling"
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07/11 Up. Marlboro, MD 'HFS-Tival '92 "Stand by Me"
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07/11 Washington, DC 9:30 Club "We Are the World"
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07/16 San Juan Cap., CA The Coach House "Superfreak"
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07/17 Tijuana, MEXICO Iguana's "Horse With No Name"
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07/18 Tempe, AZ Hayden Sq. Ampith. "You're So Vain"
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07/19 Albuquerque, NM El Rey Theatre "The Beat Goes On"
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07/21 Dallas, TX Majestic Theatre "The 1812 Overture"
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07/22 Austin, TX Liberty Lunch "Hernando's Hideaway"
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07/23 Houston, TX The Vatican *SHOW STOPPED BY MARSHALLS*
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07/24 New Orleans, LA Tipitina's
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07/26 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse "Don't Fear the Reaper"
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07/28 Richmond, VA Flood Zone
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07/30 Pittsburgh, PA I.C. Light Tent
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07/31 Philadelphia, PA Trocadero
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08/01 Morgantown, WV Nyabinghi Dance Club "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
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08/02 Amer. Pub. Radio Mountain Stage * NO STUMP THE BAND *
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08/04 New Haven, CT Toad's Place "Ring of Fire"
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08/05 New York City, NY Tower Records "Sounds of Silence"
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08/05 New York City, NY Beacon Theatre "La Marseillaise"
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08/07 Lenox, MA Berkshire Perf. Arts "Black Magic Woman"
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08/08 Montreal, CANADA Le Spectrum
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08/09 Ottawa, CANADA Porter Hall "Smoke on the Water"
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08/11 Toronto, CANADA RPM "Physical"
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08/12 Buffalo, NY The Icon "Sympathy For the Devil"
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08/14 Hanover, NH Dartmouth College "The Unicorn"
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08/15 Boston, MA The Avalon "I will Survive"
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Boston, MA The Avalon "We got the Beat"
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*** There is a gap here, because I have no tour mailings from TMBG ***
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09/02 Sacramento, CA Crest Theatre "AquaLung"
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09/03 San Francisco, CA Union Square (Free) * NO STUMP THE BAND *
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09/05 Portland, OR Melody Lane Ballroom "Burning Love"
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09/06 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom "Billie Jean"
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09/07 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
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09/10 South Bend, IL U. of Notre Dame "Tainted Love"
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09/12 Boston, MA The HatchShell * NO STUMP THE BAND *
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09/13 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
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09/15 Trenton, NJ City Gardens * SPIN THE DIAL *
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09/16 New Britain, CT The Sting
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09/18 Binghamton, NY SUNY Binghamton
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09/19 Amherst, MA Amherst College "Pictures of Matchbook Men"
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09/20 Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins U. "People are Strange"
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09/22 Durham, NC Duke University "Brown Eyed Girl"
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09/23 Charlotte, NC 1313
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09/25 Atlanta, GA Emory University
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09/26 Gainesville, FL Florida Theatre "Dancing Queen"
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09/27 Winter Park, FL Rollins College
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09/28 Tampa, FL Ritz Theatre
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09/30 Nashville, TN 328 Performance Hall
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10/02 St. Louis, MO Mississippi Nights
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10/03 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
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10/05 Milwaukee, WI Modjeska Theatre
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10/06 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue "Love Will Keep Us Together"
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10/08 Athens, OH University of Ohio
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10/09 Wheeling, WV Wheeling Jesuit "Rocky Mountain High"
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10/10 Cincinatti, OH Bogart's "Electric Avenue"
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From this point on, TMBG Stopped doing "Stump the Band", bringing a great
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era to a close.
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A VERY HEARTFELT THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING TMBG-HEADS:
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Christina Balacuit, Shannon Finley, Sadiye Guler, John Iacoletti, Emp1,
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The Mad Fishmonger, Kat, Constantinio Tobio, Chris Camfield, Scott Glenn,
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Ron Belmarch, NZinga, Permanent Lapse of Reason, Sbrine, Matthew Butcher,
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Hank Hess, Wade Sherfick, Jason Colton, Jsolon, Darryl Cater, Ka Chun Yi,
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Adam Kessel, Christopher Mullins, Jemiah Jefferson, Terry Jones, and Jason Specland.
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And a EXTREMELY SPECIAL Thanks to murph@athena, who sent me that WONDERFUL
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compilation of lots of mentions of the dates, and to John Iacoletti, who
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filled a lot of my gaps.
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NOTE: This only the beta version of this list! If you see a gap you can
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fill in this list, even if it's just dates I missed and/or info
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of cancelled shows, I'd like to hear from you.
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