not feeling, you'd probably be asked to stop, but aside from this neccessity, it's a pretty open ended band. frequent instrument trading is encouraged, and pretty much everyone with functioning vocals chords should be on vocal duty. there is, however, a shirts for pants core band at the center of the performance who call themselves "free rim jobs." they actually practice before shows and write "almost-songs" to keep everything going on a rough structure to be improvised around. this is probabaly making S4P sound way too complicated than it is. although the band has this agenda to blend audience and band and encourage lots of improvisation, that's just a fancy way of saying they're unorganized (on purpose) and like to make shit up and be loud and fast and heavy and sloppy, and, of course, have shitloads of fun in what's generally a very short set.
back in april ('03), shirts for pants was conceived and had one show (...maybe two) with DFA and ESE in the DFA practice house. we also were supposed to play the huge It Like Is Though Fest that was meant to feature something like thirteen or fourteen ohsnap!-related bands, but that got shut down by like a million asshole police/firemen, who proclaimed the venue "unsafe," even though the few claims of theirs we could not instantly refute (i.e. "there aren't two exits! what if there was a fire?" >> "um, but there are two exits." >> "well... still!") were just incredibly silly, like, "that couch is a in fire-code violation! it could catch on fire." apparently a venue can't have anything made of anything but concrete and water, because anything remotely flammable makes for a death trap. yeah, i'll just stop now and save you all a lengthy rant.
ANYWAY, the shirts for pants name was created by creative mastermind sean morrill. such an amazing name for a band. such great imagery. i mean, wearing fucking shirts for pants! it's like this usually-unspoken thing that everyone's done and everyone understands, and it's silly and it rules and i don't exactly know why... it just does.
releases:
none, and i don't suppose their ever will be, although there might be something on the oh snap! dvd, tentatively due out late summer, 2003. |
