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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:

William Benton - Guitar, vocals, percussion, sampler
Susan Crocker - Trumpet, vocals, percussion
David Cundiff - Bass, vocals, percussion
JC Denison - Drums, other percussion, sampler
Matt Dodds - Guitar, vocals, percussion
Alex Molina- Percussion
Dan Moore - Trombone, vocals, percussion
Brian Sweeney - Keyboard, vocals, percussion
Drew Miller - Saxophone

Aaron Hodge - played bass for a few months in 2008

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

Matt Dodds - Guitar
Joey Kelly - Drums
Jon Cook - Bass, guitar
JC Denison - Keyboard, sampler
Lee Banks - Vocals

Releases:

The New Rainbow CD (self released)
VRKTM / Lucky Pineapple split 7" (Noise Pollution)
The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City CD (Noise Pollution)

Compilations:

Louisville is for Lovers Vol. 6
We Just Call It Roulette Vol. 1
Some kind of Brick House benefit compilation
Livewire Vol. 1

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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+|Record Labels: || [[Noise Pollution]] [[sonaBlast!]]
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+|Started By: || [[Matt Dodds]] and [[Joey Kelly]]
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+|Largest show: || ? people
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+|Last show: || ?
+|-
+|Reunion show: ||
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+|Number of Members:
+|Currently 8
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- First it was me (Matt Dodds) and Joey Kelly. He was going to play drums, I was going to
+Old World New Wave
-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.�?
- 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.
- 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.)
-Members:
+'''Members:'''
+*[[William Benton]] - Guitar, vocals, percussion, sampler
+*[[Susan Crocker]] - Trumpet, vocals, percussion
+*[[David Cundiff]] - Bass, vocals, percussion
+*[[JC Denison]] - Drums, other percussion, sampler
+*[[Matt Dodds]] - Guitar, vocals, percussion
+*[[Alex Molina]]- Percussion
+*[[Dan Moore]] - Trombone, vocals, percussion
+*[[Brian Sweeney]] - Keyboard, vocals, percussion
+*[[Drew Miller]] - Saxophone
-*[[Matt Dodds]]- guitar, vocals, percussion
+*[[Aaron Hodge]] - played bass for a few months in 2008
-*[[JC Denison]]- drums, percussion, sampler
-*[[William Benton]]- guitar, vocals, percussion
+There was an earlier version of Lucky Pineapple that never made it out of the basement, the line up being:
-*[[Brian Sweeney]]- keyboards, accordion, percussion
+*[[Matt Dodds]] - Guitar
-*[[Su Crocker]]- trumpet, vocals, percussion
+*[[Joey Kelly]] - Drums
-*[[David Cundiff]]- bass, vocals, percussion
+*[[Jon Cook]] - Bass, guitar
+*[[JC Denison]] - Keyboard, sampler
+*[[Lee Banks]] - Vocals
+'''Releases:'''
+*[[Lucky Pineapple:The New Rainbow|The New Rainbow]] CD (self released)
+*[[VRKTM / Lucky Pineapple split 7"]] ([[Noise Pollution]])
+*[[Lucky Pineapple: The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City|The Bubble Has Burst In Sky City]] CD ([[Noise Pollution]])
+'''Compilations:'''
+*[[Louisville is for Lovers Vol. 6]]
+*[[We Just Call It Roulette Vol. 1]]
+*Some kind of [[Brick House]] benefit compilation
+*[[Livewire Vol. 1]]
+'''Shirts/Merch:'''
+*"Bear-guy in the woods" t-shirt (Art by [[Matt Dodds]])
+*"Big Eater" t-shirt (Art by Andy Kopp)