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-An early version (Spring/Summer 2003?) of Lucky Pineapple that never left the basement consisted of Matt Dodds, JC Denison, Jon Cook, Lee Banks and Joey Kelly.
+From www.luckypineapple.com :
-That was over before it began and the Pineapple seemed dead until JC and Matt reunited w/ Brian Sweeney to try it again under different circumstances.
+ 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
-William Benton was asked to join in Fall 2004 and Su Crocker came into the fold shortly thereafter.
+Stacy�? and then change it every time we played to something else like “Steve
+and Monica�?, “Tammy and Rick�?, “you get the idea.�?
-This version of the Pineapple performed (previewed?) at an IUS Battle of the Bands on (?) Fall, 2004. They won.
+ 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
-David was asked and agreed to join a few days before the Pineapples first "formal" show at Old Louisille Coffee on 11/27/04.
+two of us I bought an octave pedal to make my guitar sound more bass-like.
+ We wrote a couple of songs, tried out a couple of people to sing*, decided
+we needed to have better songs before we got a singer, never really accomplished
+that.
+ I knew JC because I had been in Haywire Act with him. One of the things I
+knew about him was that he had a keyboard and a sampler, so I talked Joey into
+getting him to do some keyboard and sampler things, regardless of the fact
+that he had never done this in a band and didn’t really know how to play
+the keyboard very well.
+ Jon Cook was living with my wife and I at the time, so he wandered downstairs
+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.
+ A couple of months, a dozen four-track tapes**, gallons of beer, scores of
+cigarettes, bags and vials of god knows what and a lot of noodling around on
+our various instruments later, we gave up.
+ Then nothing that has much to do with L.P. for a while.
+ 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.
+ JC figured he could talk Brian into playing with us, and apparently he did,
+so that made three of us in the dining room. And when you’ve got three
+people in a dining room working on some weird ass songs, you might as well
+make it four. So when Ben was telling me at a cook out that his band, Tyrone,
+was calling it quits, I invited him to come by and play with us as well. And
+he did.
+ 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.
+ I’m sure you’ll agree that if you’ve got two guitars, drums,
+keyboard and trumpet, you should probably also find a bass player. We didn’t
+have to look very long, or very hard. In fact I think we talked about getting
+a bass player for longer than we actually tried to find one. Ben’s brother,
+Dave, who plays bass in a different band with me, wanted to try playing bass
+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.
+ 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
+or 5 times, so we must’ve been either pretty badass or the judges must’ve
+been really wack. Maybe both.)

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