My favorite modest mouse song comes from the very first time I saw them
live, at Linfield College. There were only about 40-50 people there and the
mouse drove down after playing the la luna in portland oregon. They
proceeded to tear the roof off the place. It was by far the best mm show of
the 6 I have seen. My favorite part was when issac was playing harmonica
while stopping a rhythm on his guitar pedal and playing one note on the blue
guitar that got ripped off. He had the guitar behind his back and he'd
reach back with one hand to pick the string when the note started to die
out. In between harmonica riffs he made up a bunch of lyrics about being
able to do shit because he had a roll bar on his pick up truck, i.e. I can
get real drunk and drive real fast because I just got a new roll bar on my
pick up truck... It was just a fantastic show, they played for almost two
hours as well. Anyway I talked to isaac about it another time when they
played portland and he said the song didn't have a name, and he had made up
most of the lyrics on the spot. If anyone has a tape of a song that was
similar to this, or just includes isaac improving with the harmonica I would
love to hear.
bjorn
