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And you're working for no one but Triangle Man. - Thursday, May 1 2003, at 16:27

Last night was TMBG concert #3, and while it was better than last night, it still wasn't as good as Monday. Just as I was leaving I had the great idea that I should borrow Mike's camera (the one we use to take snowboarding videos) to just record videos and capture the banter that way instead of scribbling notes like mad. But I called Mike and he wasn't home, and I didn't have time to walk any further away and pick up a camera, so I ended up filling up an entire sheet of paper (front and back) with notes, which was twice as much as last night. Hopefully by the next time TMBG comes around I'll have a nice new little camera which I can use for recording.

The opening band was Common Rotation, and when I first heard they were opening I thought the name sounded familiar. Before Common Rotation came on, Danny Weinkauf (TMBG's bass player) came out and plugged Common Rotation, and mentioned that Dan and Dan and John Linnell had played on the new album, and that it had been produced by Danny and TMBG's sound guy. But when they came on stage I was surprised to see Adam Busch (he played the character Warren on Buffy) standing there. Regardless of the fact that it was Adam Busch, Common Rotation was surprisingly good. I enjoyed them so much that they now have the honor of being the only opening band I've ever bought the CD of at the concert. I even got the insert signed by Busch and the rest of the band.

Anyway, I still don't know why the name was familiar, because I might have heard of them because of TMBG's involvement, or I might have heard of them as Busch's band. I have no idea.

They actually covered TMBG's Don't Let's Start in their set (they also covered it on the album), which I thought was a pretty damn brave thing to do when opening for TMBG, because if you fuck up a song like that, the fans will hate you. But the cover was well done, and all was well in Common Rotation land. Busch introduced the song by saying, "this song is about what it's like to open visually and sonically for tmbg."

A few other quotes from Common Rotation:

"This next song is about where we come from, which is Hollywood CA."
-- adam
cheers from the audience.
"There's no reason to applaud that. This song, like the others, is vaguely sarcastic."
-- adam
"I just wanted to comment that there are some very snappy hairstyles out there... and thanks for coming out for us."
-- common rotation's bass player
"So says the guy in the hat."
-- adam