They MIght Be Giants

... live from the Braintree Borders. The Johns played a mix of new songs from their toe tapping children's album and also old school favorites from Flood, such as 'Particle Man' and 'Istanbul, not ...' The last time I saw the band I was around 16 and trekking into The Orpheum was a big thrill of 11th grade. I remember that they had red Fez hats for sale. The Borders show featured about 100 young un's sprawled out on the floor before the band. I will spin them for any future kids of mine instead of Raffi anyday. Interview snip from their web site: What were you guys like in high school? What did you do for fun? JF: We wrote for the newspaper, and were basically on the outside of most social things. School spirit was definitely at an all time low, and there wasn't even an "in" group because all the cliques just hated each other so much. Our little crowd had a fun spirit though, and a lot of the manic energy that our friendships generated is reflected in the spirit of the band. We were very interested in rock music, underground comics and fringy pop culture, and fancied ourselves to be pretty clever, as most adolescents do.

tmbg Originally uploaded by bkerr.