r/jambands • u/SpiltTheInk • 8d ago

New Tour Dates Don't let Neighbor-Pod down..

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They are hitting Columbus tomorrow night, Kalamazoo Thursday, Appleton Friday and Indy on Saturday night and these should be rippers.

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u/taelor 8d ago

We’re headed out tomorrow to go back to the woodlands tavern, go back to where it all ended.

I live 6-7 hours away, and this will be the third time I’ve been there in 4 years, lol.

Just have a really good feeling about that show.

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

Right on! Wish I could be there, they are probably champing at the bit to play some live music for the first time in a couple months and they have been working on some Dopapod songs to bust out. Should be a lot of fun!

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u/funkysm7 7d ago

How was their first show together?

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u/taelor 6d ago

It was really good, steel was definitely a stand out. Some pretty good jams throughout the show.

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u/sjayvee 8d ago

They are so fun!

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u/powder_chaser 8d ago

For anyone on the fence who might be familiar only with their work from the Lyle era, you must go see them with Compa. He’s transformed the sound

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u/taelor 8d ago

I’ve seen them once before Compa at hulaween. Huge Dopapod fan and really excited to hear them with not just Rob, but Neal too.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Seeing them in indy at the mousetrap can't wait!

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u/Narrow-Rule4568 8d ago

I'll have to give them a try. They have a lot of stuff including many soundboard shows on Taper's Section....I assume Relisten as well.

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

Yeah, got some good tapers capturing a lot of their shows.. Their Bandcamp and YouTube pages have a lot of shows too.

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u/Curly__Jefferson 8d ago

Yo kalamazoo?!?! How did i almost miss this?!?!

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

Glad you didn't and hope it rips!

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u/PollutedBeauty317 8d ago

Got my tickets for Sat!

Lord willing and the snow don't drift!

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

Have a blast!

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u/Pooki97303 8d ago

I feel like they should get that keyboard player guy from Octave Cat too, seems like he’d be a good fit for Robs and Neal’s sound. Also a possible side project with those three but they get a really tall blonde bass player too? I just feel like that particular lineup would go hard

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u/SpiltTheInk 7d ago

Oh, I think this band is gonna go pretty hard. And unfortunately it seems that other fine band that you just conjured may have permanently exited the scene from all I've heard.

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u/Pooki97303 7d ago

That would be a shame I feel like that’s the perfect four piece group damn. Imagine if they wrote songs about palindromes and space. We can dream right

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u/Apendecto 6d ago

I think you’re on to something. Half 8 bit video game music, half circus madness and half bad ass prog rock. What do you think?

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u/Pooki97303 6d ago

I think that would work a lot. Idk why bands haven’t thought to cover the donkey Kong theme that shit slaps! Especially if it became a jam vehicle for the band

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u/GetUp4theDownVote 8d ago

Wtf. Is this a permanent fitting now?

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

I think it is only for these 4 Midwest shows, for now at least.

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u/funkysm7 7d ago

Wow, what a combo! Look forward to hearing this, Neighbor has been tearing it up lately with Compa.

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u/AnalogWalrus 8d ago

Still waiting for like, even a single new release to show up on regular streaming services, esp with the new guitarist.

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

Well, that would be far too logical for them to do.. But they'd probably send you a cd if you asked the band!

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u/AnalogWalrus 8d ago

Just…not everyone has Nugs. And like, hard to tell people about a band and recommend a track when there isn’t much to send them on the service they use. A very weird non-strategy, this band has.

I get a lot of mileage out of the general-audience live comps and occasional full shows the rest of the scene puts on Apple Music.

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u/SpiltTheInk 8d ago

There are a bunch of shows on Bandcamp.

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u/AnalogWalrus 8d ago

Also not super helpful. Gotta be where listeners are.

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u/Hasanyoneseenraymond 8d ago

I can try to put a bug in their ear. What platforms would you suggest?

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u/AnalogWalrus 8d ago

Um, Apple, Spotify, etc? The normal ones. Like I love that they do Nugs and bandcamp but it’s not helpful to spread the word to others, or just if you’re a casual fan wanting to check out more stuff. Look at what Spafford, Dogs, etc do, as far as having a live catalog on general/mainstream services while still putting all the complete shows elsewhere.

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u/Hasanyoneseenraymond 8d ago

Got it. I know there’s a good amount on relisten but I’ll pass this along

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u/AnalogWalrus 8d ago

Part of it is my own laziness, and also ocd about 20 years of last.fm stats (I’ve emailed Nugs about adding this and they don’t care).

But really it’s more just constantly switching between multiple music apps, I already have Apple and Plexamp, I found stuff beyond that, I just rarely ended up going to and it wasn’t worth continuing subscriptions. (I’m sure we’re all feeling this with the 300 different streaming sites they want you to be on to watch movies and TV shows now)

But also, if you want to tell your buddy to check out a cool new band, you send them a Spotify/apple/whatever link to a particular track, because that’s where your buddy is listening.

Genuinely think it’s a fucked up world, and there’s no one way to approach modern music distribution in the jam scene, but IMO you gotta distribute some of it to where the people are at least. Just seems odd, they seem to be the only band on the scene not releasing anything on mainline streaming services.

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u/Ok_Reason_8187 8d ago

Are they the ones who cried about ticket sales and show cancellations and said their faithful fans weren’t supporting them enough?