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|Record Labels: || [[Better Days:Better Days Records|Better Days]]
|Record Labels: || [[Noise Pollution]] [[sonaBlast!]]
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|Started By: || [[Matt Dodds]] & [[Joey Kelly]]
|Started By: || [[Matt Dodds]] and [[Joey Kelly]]
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|Largest show: || ? people
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From http://www.luckypineapple.com/ :
Old World New Wave


First it was me (Matt Dodds) and Joey Kelly. He was going to play drums, I was going to
play guitar, and we were gonna call our band something like “John and
Stacy? and then change it every time we played to something else like “Steve
and Monica?, “Tammy and Rick?, “you get the idea.?<br />


Then we realized that wasn’t a very good idea so we decided to call it
Lucky Pineapple, and to play tropical sounding songs. Since there were only
two of us I bought an octave pedal to make my guitar sound more bass-like.<br />


We wrote a couple of songs, tried out a couple of people to sing*, decided
'''Members:'''
we needed to have better songs before we got a singer, never really accomplished
*[[William Benton]] - Guitar, vocals, percussion, sampler
that.<br />
*[[Susan Crocker]] - Trumpet, vocals, percussion
 
*[[David Cundiff]] - Bass, vocals, percussion
I knew JC because I had been in Haywire Act with him. One of the things I
*[[JC Denison]] - Drums, other percussion, sampler
knew about him was that he had a keyboard and a sampler, so I talked Joey into
*[[Matt Dodds]] - Guitar, vocals, percussion
getting him to do some keyboard and sampler things, regardless of the fact
*[[Alex Molina]]- Percussion
that he had never done this in a band and didn’t really know how to play
*[[Dan Moore]] - Trombone, vocals, percussion
the keyboard very well.<br />
*[[Brian Sweeney]] - Keyboard, vocals, percussion
*[[Drew Miller]] - Saxophone


Jon Cook was living with my wife and I at the time, so he wandered downstairs
*[[Aaron Hodge]] - played bass for a few months in 2008
one day while we were showing JC some things I think and started playing bass.
Or guitar. I forget which one it was, but he started playing with us, mostly
bass, because we didn’t have anyone doing that yet. Soon after this Jon
met Lee somewhere and told her we had a band and asked if she wanted to sing.
Or maybe she offered, I wasn’t there. So we started picking Lee up for
practice too. And that was the first line-up of Lucky Pineapple.<br />


A couple of months, a dozen four-track tapes**, gallons of beer, scores of
There was an earlier version of Lucky Pineapple that never made it out of the basement, the line up being:
cigarettes, bags and vials of god knows what and a lot of noodling around on
*[[Matt Dodds]] - Guitar
our various instruments later, we gave up.<br />
*[[Joey Kelly]] - Drums
*[[Jon Cook]] - Bass, guitar
*[[JC Denison]] - Keyboard, sampler
*[[Lee Banks]] - Vocals


Then nothing that has much to do with L.P. for a while.<br />


Then JC moved to a place a few blocks from me and we were drinking and talking
about playing music together, the way that people who know each other and are
drinking often do, only we actually did start playing together, because I found
a tape that had the first few songs me and Joey came up with and JC’s
a really good drummer so I knew he’d be able to pull it off. So we started
re-learning the songs in his dining room.


<br />JC figured he could talk Brian into playing with us, and apparently he did,
'''Releases:'''
so that made three of us in the dining room. And when you’ve got three
*[[Lucky Pineapple:The New Rainbow|The New Rainbow]] CD (self released)
people in a dining room working on some weird ass songs, you might as well
*[[VRKTM / Lucky Pineapple split 7"]] ([[Noise Pollution]])
make it four. So when Ben was telling me at a cook out that his band, Tyrone,
*[[Lucky Pineapple: The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City|The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City]] CD ([[Noise Pollution]])
was calling it quits, I invited him to come by and play with us as well. And
he did.<br />


I had seen Su playing trumpet in Vaginal Ashtray and the Hate Basement, and
drunkenly hassled her a couple of times before I finally got her number and
gave her a rough tape of the rest of us playing. Fortunately she took me serious,
or at least had nothing better to do, and so there were five people drowning
out the TV, stereo, and any other appliances JC’s roommates may have
been wishing to listen to.


<br />I’m sure you’ll agree that if you’ve got two guitars, drums,
'''Compilations:'''
keyboard and trumpet, you should probably also find a bass player. We didn’t
*[[Louisville is for Lovers Vol. 6]]
have to look very long, or very hard. In fact I think we talked about getting
*[[We Just Call It Roulette Vol. 1]]
a bass player for longer than we actually tried to find one. Ben’s brother,
*Some kind of [[Brick House]] benefit compilation
Dave, who plays bass in a different band with me, wanted to try playing bass
*[[Livewire Vol. 1]]
in Lucky Pineapple as well. So he did. And a week after the first time he played
with us, we played our first real show at The Old Louisville Coffee House.
We had played some sort of battle of the bands at IUS*** a month or so before
Dave joined, but that doesn’t really count.<br />


So that’s about it, really.


* (I feel that it is worth noting that one of the singers we tried out was
Thaniel Lee, who came up with an arrangement idea that we still use. Thanks!)
** (I don’t know who ended up with most of these tapes, but if it’s
you, I’d like to get some copies!)
***(IUS is Indiana University Southeast. We got first place in the band battling
and got a hundred bucks for songs we had only played all together as a band
4 or 5 times, so we must’ve been either pretty badass or the judges must’ve
been really wack. Maybe both.)




'''Members:'''
'''Shirts/Merch:'''
*[[Matt Dodds]]- guitar, vocals, percussion
*"Bear-guy in the woods" t-shirt (Art by [[Matt Dodds]])
*[[JC Denison]]- drums, percussion, sampler
*"Big Eater" t-shirt (Art by Andy Kopp)
*[[William Benton]]- guitar, vocals, percussion
*[[Brian Sweeney]]- keyboards, accordion, percussion
*[[Su Crocker]]- trumpet, vocals, percussion
*[[David Cundiff]]- bass, vocals, percussion

Latest revision as of 16:17, 14 October 2011

Lucky Pineapple Stats
Record Labels: Noise Pollution sonaBlast!
Started By: Matt Dodds and Joey Kelly
Largest show: ? people
Last show: ?
Reunion show:
Number of Members: Currently 8

Old World New Wave


Members:

There was an earlier version of Lucky Pineapple that never made it out of the basement, the line up being:


Releases:


Compilations:



Shirts/Merch:

  • "Bear-guy in the woods" t-shirt (Art by Matt Dodds)
  • "Big Eater" t-shirt (Art by Andy Kopp)
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