Dismemberment Plan enacts plan

I saw my last D Plan show this saturday, well unless I go to DC July 28th for the last show of the farewell tour. It was a great all request thing. It was sort of funny watching them play musical chairs with their instruments as people requested songs with different instruments. At one point Travis, the lead singer/guitarist, said the audience would have to do a little work as well and try and group songs with similar instruments together. An appeal that was largely unheeded. Towards the end of the show when everyone gets to go up on stage with them they had the largest group I’ve seen on stage yet, I’d guess 30 or so people. It’s kind of impressive to watch them play the song as people are hugging them and they are posing for pictures with fans.

At one point Travis took time to thank the promoter who put the show together and how sane, and easy to work with she is compared to lots of other ones. He’s a pretty outspoken guy so it wasn’t really surprising when he said people like her make the Clear Channel radio grab irrelevant. An issue he’s written about and that kuro5hin has more details about citing Travis’ website in the writeup.

I think a highlight was when he broke into “Tomorrow” and “It’s the Hard Knock Life” during one of the D Plan songs. This was after the group dance session when he remarked on one of the fans looking like Annie meets Yves St. Laurent. Listening: The City - Dismemberment Plan Feeling: still buzzing