Not only do they/are they of the best band name in the world, but they now have three guitars on stage.
Recently they toured with the newly restored Camper Van Beethoven (who at times also have three guitars - when Jonathan Segel (Livingston Seagull?) puts down his violin) and the new group The Delusions (which includes Built To Spill guitarist Jim Roth) (who also at times have - you guessed it - three guitars) I saw the show five times - twice in Portland, Oregon and all three nights at the Showbox in Seattle. Camper and Built To Spill played wildly different sets each of the nights. The Delusions being brand new, only have an album's worth of material as yet - which by the way, is good enough that several of their songs should be getting some heavy airplay...
Listening to The Delusions during the second show in Seattle, I noticed a lyric about a UFO. I hadn't noticed it before. Suddenly I realized that all three bands refer to UFO or aliens in their songs at least once. Camper refers to these kind of things quite a bit - you cannot miss it. Built To Spill does so very subtly - but you also cannot miss it - From the quiet, nearly a cappella section in the middle of "Goin' Against Your Mind":
When I was a kid I saw a light
Floating high above the trees one night
Thought it was an alien
Turned out to be just god.
Anyone else notice this shared reference too? What is the significance of this? None?
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