Many underground music fans say that Dan Deacon is the last great performance artist of Generation X. Others say that Dan Deacon concerts are breeding grounds for organisms born out of the sweat of heavy-set men, overbearing 17-year-old female indie music fans, and greasy bros who like the crappy kind of electronic music.
Is it one of those things where ‘it used to be more enjoyable before every one thought they were supposed to enjoy it, but now it’s just better not to associate with?’
Dan Deacon Live Video. [He is an artist.]
Dan Deacon Theory #1: He was created for people who used to SKANK to ska music.
I think I just stop taking certain music seriously when the late-majority of ‘people who are into indie & alternative music’ feel passionate about it, and enjoy it too much in the live-setting.
I feel more comfortable when music is only appreciated by Innovators and Early Adopters.
If we attempt to apply this innovation curve to more aspects of blog-based music, we will better understand ourselves, festival culture, the rise and fall of bloghouse, alternative bros, mainstreamers, Justice, and every thing else under the sun.
[Photo by Red Slurpee]
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dan deacon live is the closest thing to heaven on earth. other than girl talk of course.
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hipster bastard. you would bring out the e.m. rogers chart… you’re a laggard and you will always be one!!
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The Dan Deacon LIVE experience is not overrated. If anything, it’s not praised ENOUGH. It’s like a fucking religious experience. I’ve seen him a bunch and one of the craziest shows was at the Whitney Museum. Who else is dope enough to perform there??
Maybe he’s gaining a lot of hype and all this attention is sky rocketing him out of the underground performance art obscurity but whatever yo. He’s the shit, and I bet you think so too misters and misses of hipster runoff.
If you haven’t seen Dan Deacon yet, go fucking do it. Stand right next to him, hold his green skull in the air, get pushed against his sweaty body and maybe you’ll even be lucky enough to get your picture taken with him and find it on some random blog the next day.
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Hey Carlos–
I am tired of The Old Thing. Can you tell me what The New Thing is so I can be ahead of the hipster curve? I read on perezhilton.com that trends predict HRO in two weeks=”VH1’s I <3 the 80's via gossip girl new media".
love,
lovelie.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vl5vcG9VI
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This is the absolute fucking gayest dumbest shit I have ever seen…I want to strap a bomb to my chest and blow this whole scene up. The world would be a better place without this mass epileptic retard seizure.
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Katy, are u the ugly AZN chick with closed eyes or the NGGR? Who the fuck wants to play a museum anyway?! That sounds like a low level gig to me…
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oh the irony of it all
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lol “a religious experience”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ves-XBzZUl8&feature=related
why would anyone want to associate with that
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most remarkably perceptive blog in blog-land
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@ anons, yeah that is some stupid ass dancing. whether or not dan deacon shows suck, who’s going to take a bunch of bigot assholes seriously? i know it’s just the internet, but come on..play nice
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justice always sucked
this blog is too self-aware ^_^
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I went to a Dan Deacon show once… I threw up before I really got to experience the LIVE Experience. But then again, maybe that was part of the experience I was attempting to experience. YA KNOW?
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fuck this, i’m going to start watching mtv and vh1 again, this is too hard
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I saw him at a gallery in Oakland last summer and while I love his music the show was just a little too intimate and sincere for me. Also if you’re close enough to see what he’s doing on that table, you’re close enough to smell him. Also I think I like it better when everyone is dancing in dark clubs than in broad daylight or with the lights turned all the way up. Most of the embarrassing hippy freakout going on in those youtubes def goes on at justice and cut copy shows, but thankfully in the dark.
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NERD HERD
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Your Bell curves are accurate and should be adopted by critical music theorists of the blog-o-sphere.
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18% of people who love dan decon also hate justice. It’s mostly because Justice is too awesome and attractive for zealously-awkward indie-kids.
52% of people who Love justice (and will always love justice) liked dan deacon before they were told 800 times how “FUCKIN’ RAD” his show is. (the other 48% had enough sense to be annoyed earlier)
98% of people who don’t like justice are assholes, the other 2% is our MOMZ
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blog more authentic self-aware musings.
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I saw Dan Deacon about five years ago, and it SUCKED. He kept telling really dumb jokes the whole time. I had to get outta there!!!!!
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DEAR “C.M.”,
IT’S PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT MAKES PORTLAND SUCK.
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dan deacon = rocky horror picture show for wipsters.
katy, don’t breed.
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id rather get a tugjob from that ugly chick off that show than go to that concert
that guy up the front totally sucks
and i don’t idolize fat bald men anymore after what happened last time
they resemble those kraazy christians at there weekly rituals
ly carles
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this is a good post. especially the E.M Rogers graph. Deacon sucks live. He basically sings over backing tracks that are playing off of his IPOD. The only thing that I can see making his live show so appealing is that his music is great on record and everyone who is easily impressed goes nuts when they hear it on a club PA.
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i look for any opportunity to rub against sweaty people who need to shower, it’s like ballin at the ymca!
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first thing is for sure after reading all these comments, many of you are in the ‘early majority’ and ‘late majority’ category. you would only be an innovator if you were an actual artist that is being recognized but isn’t being blogged about by someone who probably is also behind in the game of hipsterthon2k8. HAHA
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I only know one song by dan deacon and it’s Wham City. I like it, until i really listen to it. Then i’m like “this shits weird”
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Ahahaha…look at the fat bitch with the tiny Pashmina (sp?) scarf and sunglasses to the right of him @ 2:36. She is hilarious.
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Yes. There’s simply no musicianship to a live Dan Deacon show, let alone any other band/artist who “plays music” by pressing a button.
It’s simply a matter of personal preference – either you go to live shows to be part of the scene/hang out/drink/pick up an alt bro or ho while listening to a drum machine…
OR you go to live shows to witness your favorite musicians recreate, a hand crafted, nuanced, and unique,
physical manifestation of their songs note by note.
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I love to skank… but i’m not that cool
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I saw Dan Deacon 3 years ago when he opened for ADULT. The whole crowd consisted of goth kids and snooty/elitist indie kids who were fastidious about synth music. Dan Deacon had the same set up as he had now (green skull, other blinking crap) but he really had to work the crowd into dancing. Goth kids don’t dance, and majority of people were either sitting on the floor or were busy smoking cloves and looking detached. I don’t think that the experience was all that memorable, but I’m glad he’s found his nitch with faux hipsters everywhere.
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dan deacon’s live show is freaking amazing. please go if you haven’t already.
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there are those who relish in their ‘hipsterness’ with class, then there are the wannabes who try to fucking hard and end up at a Dan Deacon Experience and call it the ‘closest thing to heaven’.
Sleep with a donkey, fine, show your anus on a part pixxx site, fine, infiltrate a trio of alt bros, questionable, but Dan Deacon is where I draw the line.
where have the HRO values gone Carles? where? whatever happened to the good ol’ days, when I came here from my feed and expected to see a Myspacer, you trashing on [insert blog or artist],worshiping the Teenagers or the occasional n00dz?
this shit is unfair.
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While I agree with the theories put forward here, your initial reasoning is faulted. Not only is Dan Deacon not considered a “last” great performer, but he is also CLEARLY not of Generation X. Me being a member of X, and also one who traveled to the college at which Dan booked shows when i was rugged with grey hairs in my beard and he was fatter and not admitting he was balding yet and clearly in college and part of generation Y, i can tell you that the cut off is being born in the 77/78 birth year cycle. If you are born in that year and you have a fatty face and prefer junk food to good food (even if you dont admit it) and you cant accept any kinds of criticisms, you are actually a Y-er.
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it is definitely true that most ppl that dont like justice are assholes.
they happen to be really good at making music
sorry if gay hs kids also found out
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But the graph is “real” in the respect that it is really a model that they teach you in marketing I. It’s kind of silly but so is everything in biz classes!
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dan deacon shits on me and i like it
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i dont agree, music is not trend’s slave.
Music has a hard relation with trends but trends are not the owner.
trends are just like a wave, is cool and funny but u just could listen to some music made years ago and still has a serious relation with actual life.
so judge music for the amount of guys listening is not so clever.
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there iz sum real deep stuff in this post. yay cmmntrs!
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I guess how you feel about Dan Deacon is best measured by how you felt about the kid who ate his boogers at your middle school…
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Dan Deacon is music for children of Grateful Dead fans..aka original fest bros
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Dan Deacon always shows up looking like the biggest jonesbird in the audience and then takes 35 minutes to start the show because “his iPod is fucking up. Jerry, can you go get yours from your car” and then it takes another 15 for “everbody get in a straight line, no I’m not fucking around actually do it, i’m not just an asshole with a microphone up here” yes you are Dan yes you are
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Dan Deacon shows were good when he came to your friend’s house and told you outrageous stories about worlds made out of hair but once he got to play at large bro-ho fests of laggards the live show lost its greatness.
Regardless, LV DN DKN > JUSTIC > GILK TALK (ALL)< FAUX DAFTPUNK SHOWS (MAD LULZ)
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Dan Deacon shows were good when he came to your friend’s house and told you outrageous stories about worlds made out of hair but once he got to play at large bro-ho fests of laggards the live show lost its greatness.
Regardless, LV DN DKN > JUSTIC > GILK TALK (ALL)< FAUX DAFTPUNK SHOWS (MAD LULZ)
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DAN DEACON IS THE SHIT….THAT HIPPIE BLACK CHIC IN THE PIC IS ME, AND LET ME TELL YOU…THE DOUCHE BAG ASSHOLE ON THE FAR LEFT WAS THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE…HE WAS HELL BENT ON BEING ALL UP IN THE MIX…TOO BAD WHEN I WAS FORCED INTO CONVERSATITION WITH HIM, HE TOLD ME HE THOUGHT MIA WAS GETTING READY TO PERFORM….DOUCHE BAG….THEN THAT MUTHA EFFIN ASSHOLE DOUCHE BAG GRABBED MY CAMREA OUT OF MY HANDS, TRIED TO FEEL ME UP, AND TRASHED TALKED ME WHEN I TOLD HIM TO CLAM THE FUCK DOWN…..
BACK TO THE STORY AT HAND… DAN DEACON IS THE SHIT…I LOVE HIM, BUT YOUR GRAPH…I LOVE YOU FOR TAKING IT THERE…..THEY ACTUALLY USE THAT GRAPH IN MARKETING
XX BANG BANG
AND BLESS YOU FOR CALLING ME A 17 YR OLD…I COULD KISS YOU
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i booked dan deacon to play my school’s outdoor carnival event, just to see what would happen. it was 5pm, everyone was sober, and there were maybe 5 people who already knew who he was. he got 80 people to dance in chains around carnival rides, sing with arms outstretched to a random bro passerby, and then bow to the sun. it was the most amazing thing i have ever experienced, and probably the best dan deacon show i’ve ever been to.
p.s. i heard someone stole his trippy green skull!!
p.p.s. he is so nice.
p.p.p.s. i think he might secretly be santa claus.
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application of the innovation curve = GENIUS.
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why do alot of black people communicate in all caps?
j/w….
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