The Music Tapes join Jeff Mangum for early leg of his 2012 solo tour; makes for a fresh Fool rendition.
"The final charm is Mangum himself. The man is awkward. His bittersweet songs and messages are bolstered by the fact that his privacy is neither reactionary nor a publicity stunt. His privacy makes his songs all the more personal. During his set last night, Mangum choked up a bit. “Playing that song [“Engine”] took my breath away… I put these messages in a bottle and sent them out to the world all those years ago. It’s amazing to see all the people they connected being here.” And it was an amazing thing to see. One man in the front row cried through all eight minutes of “Oh Comely.” When Mangum first invited everyone to move closer than their assigned seats, people tentatively gathered on the ground and sat before him like children at story time. Mangum sat too, but slouched, hiding under long, dark hair and a newspaper boy cap. The audience was silently attentive, and Mangum sang them stories." - Naomi Shavin
Full review: https://xpn.org/2012/01/26/recap-jeff-mangum-at-irvine-auditorium/
00:00 - [intro]/Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
05:52 - Holland, 1945
09:07 - Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
12:25 - Engine
15:58 - [messages in a bottle]/Ghost
20:41 - Little Birds
27:00 - [maybe]/The King of Carrot Flowers Pts 1, 2 & 3
32:33 - Naomi
37:29 - [tuning]
38:36 - Oh Comely
47:30 - Two-Headed Boy
52:08 - The Fool
54:05 - [encore]
55:10 - Song Against Sex
58:15 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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