Friday, January 9, 2009

Grant Lee Phillips - Aimee Mann’s 3rd Annual Christmas Show 2008-12-13

Aimee Mann’s 3rd Annual Christmas Show The Keswick Theatre
Glenside, PA 12/13/2008

Broadcast by WXPN-FM

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Grant Lee Phillips - 1st Annual Aimee Mann Christmas Show 2006-12-17

Grant Lee Phillips - 1st Annual Aimee Mann Christmas Show
Berklee Performance Center Boston, MA 2006-12-17
[Audience Recording]

Special guests:
Paul F. Tompkins - M.C., banter, and vocals
Fred Armisen - comedy sketches, guitar, drums, vocals
Grant-Lee Phillips - vocals, guitar
The Hanukkah Fairy - comedy, drinking, dancing, snowflakes

The Band:
Aimee Mann - vocals, guitar, bass. percussion
Duke Levine - guitar
Paul Bryan - bass, piano, vocals
Jamie Edwards - keys, vocals
John Sands - drums, percussion

Setlist:
101 Nutcracker Intro > Whatever Happened to Christmas (missing first 2 mins) (Aimee)
102 Calling on Mary (Aimee)
103 Aimee introduces Paul F. Tompkins
104 Winter Wonderland (Aimee and Paul)
105 Paul's banter with the crowd
106 Paul introduces Grant-Lee Phillips
107 The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth (Paul and GLP)
108 Raise the Spirit (GLP)
109 Fountain of Youth (GLP)
110 You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Aimee and GLP)
111 Billy Smith, Native American Comic (Fred)
112 Little Bombs (Aimee)
113 One (Aimee)
114 Fred Armisen's medley dedicated to Paul (Blackbird > Here Comes the Sun > Yesterday)
115 Going Through the Motions (Aimee, Fred on drums)

suggested disc split

116 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Aimee)
117 I'll Be Home for Christmas (Aimee)
118 Gift for Baby Jesus (Paul) > The Hanukkah Fairy sketch (Aimee, Paul and the Hanukkah Fairy)
119 The Dreidel Song > The Hanukkah Story (Ring of Fire) (Aimee and Paul)
120 Christmastime (Aimee)
121 You Do (Aimee and GLP)
122 Truly, Truly (GLP)
123 It's Not Going to Stop (Aimee)
124 Saddam Hussein sketch (Fred)
125 Humpty Dumpty (Aimee)
126 I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up for Christmas (Aimee)
127 Way Back When (Aimee) (edit during encore applause to switch to 16 bit)

Encores:
128 tuning problems
129 The Other End of the Telescope (by request) (Aimee)
130 Save Me (Aimee)
131 Christmas, Baby Please Come Home (All)

These are the original notes from when I prepped this for uploading two years ago. Never made it in time for Christmas, so here it is, just a little late. Here's hoping some new shows make it up here soon!! Somerville might . . .

Grant-Lee Phillips Live @ BBC London Radio Sessions, 2002-01-22 & 2002-03-05

Grant-Lee Phillips Interview and Music - BBC Radio [Thanks to Jay for sending this]
(2002-01-22 with Bill Bonk)

Same Setlist:
Intro and interview
Spring released
Interview
Humankind 
Outro