Postmortem 3

Continued recap of the PopCanon reunion show

Here are some other highlights from the June 19 PopCanon reunion show.

We played 25 songs, a solid hour and a half. We tried for a balance of fan favorites and songs we just like to play, so it was very similar to the setlist from the last reunion ten years ago with a few modifications.

My guitar stopped making sounds seconds into my guitar solo on “Arthole,” and Harry and Steve from Squeaky immediately jumped onstage to triage the situation. It turned out that the volume knob on one of my pedals was turned down so low that our rocking nudged it down to zero, but I didn’t figure that out until later. In the moment, we just reconfigured the cables to bypass everything except my Rat pedal and kept going.

We did a cover of the Squeaky song “Sticks and Twigs” with Ned playing the hook on bass. Then Adam Guthrie (guitarist from ’90s Tuscaloosa band Pain) joined us on stage for a cover of Pain’s anthem “In a Band.” Since we didn’t have the horn section with us, I covered the horn line on keytar. Adam stayed on stage for a “cover” of the song “Compartments” by my current band, David Hornbuckle and the Compartments, which Adam is also in. For that song, I handed the keytar off to Ned.

Sam Jones jumped on stage to join us for the big chorus of “Astral Projection.” We ended the show with a Semantics medley of “Little Green Men,” “Applying for Your Job,” and “Onion Man,” followed by the Clang cover “Thank You God” and finally “I Stole a Mantra,” which included a tribute to the Whoreculture song “Gootis.”

The show was filmed in its entirety by Jason Sadler, who is putting together a high quality DVD of the event. I hope to share videos from Jason’s footage at a later time. Look for it on the PopCanon YouTube channel.

Footage was also captured by Clay Wells who used the ocassion to kick off filming for a documentary on 30 years of Gainesville underground music.

Clay’s kickstarter is here. Please donate.