So I saw Lissy Trullie on Monday night at Santos Party House. Lissy was wearing the Sophomore skirt I want and her huge high heels. The band played tight and clean through their usual set, and I had a great time singing along. Pleeeeease come out with an album soon.Speaking of new merch, the band finally has a tee shirt for sale, in collabs with Sophomore. It's a pretty sweet iron-on tee.
So it turns out that Adam Green came out to play a duet ("Just a Friend," holler!) with Lissy. Let's just say he wore silver patent-leather jazz flats, and a Jewish star on plastic "beads." The duet was cute, and then Adam had the chance to play some songs of his own while Mark Ronson manned the DJ booth.Adam started with "Jessica," but forgot his lyrics mid-song. He seemed pissed off at the non-commital hipster crowd, so he busted out "Kokomo."
(Aside.) Adam recorded his infamous cover of the Beach Boys' "Kokomo" with Ben Kweller on the B-side of the "Jessica" single. In April 2005, at his Bowery Ballroom solo show, Adam took requests from the crowd. One brave soul wanted "Kokomo," and Adam gave it so good he gave it twice. I believe his words were, "I'm hazing your asses with a double 'Kokomo.'" Scott couldn't handle it, and he left the concert early, but us true AG fans knew we were watching history, or something like it...
So Adam made his way to the very center of the stage and stood on top of some speakers, right where I was standing with Scott, Callia, and Arinn. He started singing the song and tried to dive into the crowd, but this crowd wasn't close, nor ready, so he kind of toppled to the ground, while trying to grab my friends' heads on the way down for support.
No worries, Adam got back on stage and began a new song. After 30 seconds, he stopped, and said he'd do "Kokomo" again, this time acapella, with help of Ronson's sound effects. Some kind person posted this video on youtube... so check it out for the awesomeness that followed. Scott threw out his back holding up Adam's deadweight 100 lb. body, and I couldn't use my camera for fear of Adam kicking it out of my hands, or worse, him plummetting to the ground and smashing his head open.
After that, Adam debuted his "Birthday Mambo." My favorite part of the whole night was when A-ron "the Downtown Don" came out to tell Adam to stop with the ceaseless mamboing because, you know, the show must go on, and Adam said something like, "Aaron, where's my beer? Bring me my beer," as he shoved him off with a limp wristed gesture.
Such a rebel........................................... love it!
