Archive for December, 2007

Mike Doughty’s Question Jar Show

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

The gimmick of the “Question Jar Show” is…well…the Question Jar. Once Scrap and Mike finished sound check, they put a big glass jar out on stage with the idea that folks could write questions on a piece of paper (almost wrote “scrap” of paper…oops…sorry Scrap) before the show. The jar was filled by audience members before both sold out shows, and they got very nearly to the bottom of the jar in the course of each 90+ minute set. It was a great way to create intimacy between performer and audience - at least it worked really well for MD.

This is *not* the question jar:

Atmosphere

Funny and engaging, both MD and Scrap took (more…)

Mike Doughty Plays Mississippi Studios

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I love working at Mississippi Studios. At least once a month I get turned onto somebody I shoulda already been turned onto. Or sometimes that’s how it seems.

Before the Show

Mike Doughty is well known as the front man for 90s indie band, Soul Coughing. He characterizes the demise of that band as “like (more…)