The Bad Plus will be on Late Night With Conan O’Brien TONIGHT, Friday March 14th. If you want to know what I’ve been raving about over here on 1979 Semi-Finalist make sure to tune in.
I’m so excited to see them on television, and what’s better than Conan? Nothing I say. I’m also seeing them next Saturday at The Blue Note, so I’m feeling especially Bad Plus-y these days, which is a happy feeling to be having.
AND, in yet more Bad Plus news, I wrote to The Bad Plus a few months ago, asking if they minded that I’ve co-opted their song title (The 1979 Semi-Finalist, obviously) for my blog, and I got a nice note yesterday from Ethan letting me know that he had dropped by the blog, liked the comics, and was happy to let me use their song title. Whether they have some kind of actual complicated legal rights to the title I don’t even know, but I’m superfan #1 over here, so I mostly just wanted their stamp of approval.
Now that I’ve got that stamp of approval, you’ll be seeing a new blog header developing sometime soon. It won’t be anywhere near as good as the one I’ve got now, but the one I’ve got now is mostly stolen from genius James Jean and I’ve been feeling guilty about it for ages, so it’s time to move on.
Try not to be TOO disappointed when the new header premieres, okay?
-
Nice! Can’t wait till next week.
-
next week baby!!! getting you out of the house and out on the town…
-
I had never heard of The Bad Plus until I saw them on Conan; they blew me away and I’m listening to all their stuff on Rhapsody right now.
What was the song they played on the show? Do they have a new release out or were they still promoting Prog from 2007?
-
jamminjabber: I’m excited. Nervous too.
shiv: Crazy isn’t it…it might be a sign of the apocalypse or something…
Lerch: Glad you found The Bad Plus (and me). Their newest album is still Prog from 2007, but I think they were on promoting their stint at The Blue Note, a jazz club in New York, since they are there for more than a week I believe. I have tickets for Saturday night – and cannot wait. If you liked their performance on Conan, which I thought was good, but not really worthy of what it is like to see them live, you should definitely try a live show, they are absolutely AMAZING, hypnotic, and inspiring.
I think the song they played was Thriftstore Jewelry.
-
Cool that this post came up high on google search for “the bad plus conan”
I too am a big fan. They are very inspiring to listen to
We’re stoked ’cause we get to open for them when they play in Visalia.
Comments are now closed.
5 comments