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| |Record Labels: || | | |Record Labels: || [[Noise Pollution]] |
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| |Started By: || [[Matt Dodds]] & [[Joey Kelly]] | | |Started By: || [[Matt Dodds]] and [[Joey Kelly]] |
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| |Based In: || [[Kentucky:Louisville|Louisville]]
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| |Last show: || ? | | |Last show: || ? |
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| |Number of Members: | | |Number of Members: |
| | 6 | | |Currently 7 |
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| From http://www.luckypineapple.com/ :
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| First it was me (Matt Dodds) and Joey Kelly. He was going to play drums, I was going to
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| play guitar, and we were gonna call our band something like “John and
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| Stacy? and then change it every time we played to something else like “Steve
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| and Monica?, “Tammy and Rick?, “you get the idea.?<br />
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| Then we realized that wasn’t a very good idea so we decided to call it
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| Lucky Pineapple, and to play tropical sounding songs. Since there were only
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| two of us I bought an octave pedal to make my guitar sound more bass-like.<br />
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| We wrote a couple of songs, tried out a couple of people to sing*, decided
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| 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
| | *[[Dan Moore]] - Trombone, vocals, percussion |
| that he had never done this in a band and didn’t really know how to play
| | *[[Brian Sweeney]] - Keyboard, vocals, percussion |
| the keyboard very well.<br />
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| Jon Cook was living with my wife and I at the time, so he wandered downstairs
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| one day while we were showing JC some things I think and started playing bass.
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| Or guitar. I forget which one it was, but he started playing with us, mostly
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| bass, because we didn’t have anyone doing that yet. Soon after this Jon
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| met Lee somewhere and told her we had a band and asked if she wanted to sing.
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| Or maybe she offered, I wasn’t there. So we started picking Lee up for
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| practice too. And that was the first line-up of Lucky Pineapple.<br />
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| A couple of months, a dozen four-track tapes**, gallons of beer, scores of
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| cigarettes, bags and vials of god knows what and a lot of noodling around on
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| our various instruments later, we gave up.<br />
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| Then nothing that has much to do with L.P. for a while.<br />
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| Then JC moved to a place a few blocks from me and we were drinking and talking
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| about playing music together, the way that people who know each other and are
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| drinking often do, only we actually did start playing together, because I found
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| a tape that had the first few songs me and Joey came up with and JC’s
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| a really good drummer so I knew he’d be able to pull it off. So we started
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| re-learning the songs in his dining room.
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| <br />JC figured he could talk Brian into playing with us, and apparently he did,
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| so that made three of us in the dining room. And when you’ve got three
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| people in a dining room working on some weird ass songs, you might as well
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| make it four. So when Ben was telling me at a cook out that his band, Tyrone,
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| was calling it quits, I invited him to come by and play with us as well. And
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| he did.<br />
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| I had seen Su playing trumpet in Vaginal Ashtray and the Hate Basement, and
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| drunkenly hassled her a couple of times before I finally got her number and
| | *[[Lucky Pineapple:The New Rainbow|The New Rainbow]] CD (self released) |
| gave her a rough tape of the rest of us playing. Fortunately she took me serious,
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| or at least had nothing better to do, and so there were five people drowning
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| out the TV, stereo, and any other appliances JC’s roommates may have
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| been wishing to listen to.
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| <br />I’m sure you’ll agree that if you’ve got two guitars, drums,
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| keyboard and trumpet, you should probably also find a bass player. We didn’t
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| have to look very long, or very hard. In fact I think we talked about getting
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| a bass player for longer than we actually tried to find one. Ben’s brother,
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| Dave, who plays bass in a different band with me, wanted to try playing bass
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| in Lucky Pineapple as well. So he did. And a week after the first time he played
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| with us, we played our first real show at The Old Louisville Coffee House.
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| We had played some sort of battle of the bands at IUS*** a month or so before
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| Dave joined, but that doesn’t really count.<br />
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| So that’s about it, really.
| | '''Shirts/Merch:''' |
| | | *"Bear-guy in the woods" t-shirt (Art by [[Matt Dodds]]) |
| * (I feel that it is worth noting that one of the singers we tried out was
| | *"Big Eater" t-shirt (Art by Andy Kopp) |
| Thaniel Lee, who came up with an arrangement idea that we still use. Thanks!)
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| ** (I don’t know who ended up with most of these tapes, but if it’s
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| you, I’d like to get some copies!)
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| ***(IUS is Indiana University Southeast. We got first place in the band battling
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| and got a hundred bucks for songs we had only played all together as a band
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| 4 or 5 times, so we must’ve been either pretty badass or the judges must’ve
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| been really wack. Maybe both.)
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| '''Members:''' | |
| *[[Matt Dodds]]- guitar, vocals, percussion | |
| *[[JC Denison]]- drums, percussion, sampler | |
| *[[William Benton]]- guitar, vocals, percussion
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| *[[Brian Sweeney]]- keyboards, accordion, percussion
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| *[[Sue Crocker]]- trumpet, vocals, percussion
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| *[[David Cundiff]]- bass, vocals, percussion
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