Don Lennon - Real Dave Matthews
Emma told me to cheer this up a bit and show that I wasn’t always depressed. This will be tough, because I was often depressed, and actually I had this one queued up before she said that, but I’m bumping it up in the queue, and also I just undertook an exercise to find about 5 cheery songs that are also from my past, so I’m gonna sorta mix it up a bit for a while. Also I’ve queued a good bunch of these so you should see like one a week for a good while now.
Don Lennon. How to explain Don Lennon. I’ve spent weeks wondering which song best encapsulates Don - do I post something from the “parties and friends” era? One of the punk hommages like “The Mekons are in Town?” Something from his standup comedy era (singing about standup comedy, that is, not performing actual standup). In the end, though, the Dave Matthews era seemed to be the best. It captures the absurdity of Don Lennon, and the smooth musicality.
Ha. Who knows. I recommend you dig in to Don’s oeuvre. Start with Downtown, then Maniac. Maniac is awesome. There are so many great things on Maniac. So many great songs about parties and friends.
Don was a weird time in my life. When did the Don era start? I don’t know, exactly. One day I was meeting all these new people - Elin and Anuja first, and then Don, through Sean. Sean started producing Don’t first album. Anuja and Don started dating. Somewhere in there I lost a rubber tree that i really loved. I pressed Maniac at my job at the CD manufacturing place. Don’s shows were always totally hilarious - from the one man band routine up through the full band. I loved it all. I loved “Dance Music” and the fake a capalla techno and resonating filters.
Don still performs, I think, once in a while. I try and see him when I can, mail order the new CDs when they come out - he’s been on Secretly Canadian for years now, which is kind of awesome. Looking now I see that Don Lennon has a <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lennon”>wikipedia page</a> - that is pretty awesome. And I See that 2010 brought another Don Lennon album. Must buy it.
