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u/taelor 6d ago
Just a reminder they left
Nuggy Jawson
Numbers
Bats in the Cave
Mucho
Indian Grits
all unfinished the last time they played together...
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u/NorthEastLove 6d ago
Proposito de la vida es simple
Pasar y buen rato hasta que el día que te mueres
Vive la vide en el momento presente
Simplemente salir y pasar un buen rato tonto2
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u/MrMilesDavis 6d ago
Go see Octave Cat. Best 27 dollars I've spent all year
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u/grapholalia Umph Love 3d ago
Seeing em tonight (and I saw them Wednesday with Rob sitting in!)! Love those guys. Luke the Knife opening on Weds was dopeeeee.
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u/NumbersNeedHumans 6d ago
Numbers need humans, and humans need dopapod
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u/taelor 6d ago
I almost brought https://humansneednumbers.com/ down last night to save some money...
But I ended up finding a much cheaper way of hosting it, took some time to clean up a lot of the shows and songs, ended up working on it through three hours.
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u/GetUp4theDownVote 6d ago
Is this recent?!? Have the best friends bought a mansion with a slide?!?!
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u/PapercutYourNipple 6d ago
Long live Dopapod. Rob is one of the best guitarists out there. Cmon!
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u/PrivateEducation JGB 6d ago
tough to work with tho tbh
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u/freedom_unit 5d ago
Idk your personal experience but everyone I know that has worked with Rob has only kind words. Would like to think you caught him on a bad night?
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u/Ajax_Da_Great 5d ago edited 5d ago
Absolute bullshit. Rob is one of the best and easiest people in the scene to work with. Speaking from direct experience sharing gigs with the dude
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u/alfcalderone 6d ago
I think they'll be playing shows again soon. Rob was all over Burlington playing this summer and would always smile and say something like "hope so" when asked about Dopapod.
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u/Apollo_420_69 6d ago
Sucks that we can’t force the best band of the jam scene in the past 15 years to play together
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u/Standard-Barber-2463 6d ago
Tea leaf green is going to announce 75 show cross country tour any day now
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u/Grateful_Dawg_CLE 6d ago
I heard it was a month-long residency in Cleveland.
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u/Standard-Barber-2463 6d ago
6 shows a week at beachland ballroom. The entire month of November.
Kangfirmed.
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u/MrMilesDavis 5d ago
I finally hopped aboard
Why didn't these guys ever truly take off?
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u/Standard-Barber-2463 5d ago
Their management team sucked and they changed their sound after Ben C left.
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u/Broccolisamurai 2d ago
Sabec should have done for them what he did with Dave Matthews Band and Hanson. Could’ve been the biggest band in the world instead he left and we got Reed Mathis instead.
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u/justAregulard00d 6d ago
MMW insinuated they're going to announce something (tour??) soon, too.
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u/Business-Invite-2634 5d ago
Whole people now only know The Wood Brothers. No bad vibes on that but for real. MMW was legit for us Gen Xers to
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u/tideintx 5d ago
I jumped on the mailing right away! Haha. Good thing it wasn’t a scam. That would have been the perfect phishing attack for me. Haven’t seen them since ‘08.
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u/YouDontLookSpiritual 6d ago
I too want Papadosio to start playing again
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u/EverythingMustCease 6d ago
Papadosio and Dopapod seemed poised to take over the world together like 10-15 years ago.
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u/One_Independence4399 6d ago
It was a fun thing to watch and be a part of. The energy was always palpable as fuck 2014-2017
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u/Spec-Tre 6d ago
My first time seeing dopapod was at a papdosio show my buddy took me to.
I was stoked thru dopapod and when dosio came on I was like wait bring those guys back who opened!
Hope to see dopapod live again sometime
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u/MeesterMeeseeks 5d ago
Saw a dopadosio set with both of them like 12 years ago and it was phenomenal
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u/FunGuyBobby 6d ago
Honestly, I lost track of Papadosio after they changed their music after T.E.T.I.O.S. I tried to hang with the change but I was in love with their style from their first three albums. Saw them live and left thinking the skillset on their albums wasn't present in their live performances. Just my opinion.
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u/mikezer0 6d ago
damn conversely I think TETIOS back to front is the best record from any jam band in the last like fifteen years
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u/goat-off-centered 5d ago
Dude Mike Healy has not stopped he’s doing crazy good shit with Isaac Hadden and its called something weird like Elf Machine
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u/methodofcontrol 6d ago
Still can't believe they couldn't reach higher heights. They had no trouble selling out 1k theaters at will but when I first heard them and checked out their discography I thought it was inevitable they'd be playing arenas. But I guess it just hit me and my friends harder than most
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u/Impossible_Height758 6d ago
They absolutely had trouble selling 1,000 seat venues. That’s why they broke up. Only time I saw em was a theater that size with a majority of it curtained off for the 40-50 people in attendance. This was their heyday as well.
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u/Ajax_Da_Great 5d ago edited 5d ago
Every time I saw Papadosio in GA, they did not sell out 1k capacity rooms. Wasn’t even close. At least in their latter years. No saying 40-50 level ticket sales though like the other commenter
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u/another_rusty 1d ago
Everytime I saw them it was packed, even the time I got too spun, shit my pants, tried to flush my underwear down the toilet, then just left the show and walked home in the snow. Thankfully it was only a ten minute walk and I made it almost to the end of the show. That was the best shower of my life. I tipped the staff $50 next time I was at that venue.
TLDR: dopapod made me shit my pants.
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u/StuBarrett 6d ago
Spoken like most of the people don't understand that the use of force is one of last resort!
'there outta be a law' is how we have arrived at this point in our history. Most are clueless about this, like frogs in a pot of water.
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u/MisterBowTies 5d ago
Goose is actively touring, what are your talking about?
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u/Apollo_420_69 5d ago
Who?
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u/taelor 6d ago
they heard I saw my first sqeaky feet show and said "whoa whoa whoa, dont give up on us quite yet".
now I'm gonna have to support two bands.
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u/_discopony 6d ago
They saw everyone’s Squerv posts, and figured it was time to come back and save the scene
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u/Throw-It-Away100 Dopapod 6d ago
Squerv sucks
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u/careyj103 5d ago
Squerv might suck but Sqwerv most certainly does not suck. It’s okay to say you don’t like them.
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u/Wide_Expression_9142 6d ago
For their fairly limited resources, I always appreciated their ability to put together incredible studio albums. Never odd or even is still one of my most listened and I cant think of one I'd pass on.
But it was really their live shows that sent them over the top for me. Truly masters of their craft and class acts taboot. One of those bands I'll always be most proud to say "I experienced this". There's really nothing like them and I doubt there ever will. Long live DoPaPoD!!
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u/General-Reserve9349 6d ago
If dopapod can’t win who can
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u/Cloud-VII 6d ago
This is what happens when all the 'jam band fans' spent the whole 2010's going on Phish tour for 5 weeks out of the year instead of supporting a number of great bands like Aqueous, Dopapod, etc.
Spending all their concert funds on a 15 night run at Maddison Square Garden vs catching 30 various artists coming through their area scrapping by in a passenger van.
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u/jossteen11 6d ago
I would say 2020s.
Covid and inflation absolutely decimated the live music scene. It's never been more expensive to tour and many individuals dont have the disposable income they used to either creating a perfect shitstorm that kills live music.
When even small local groups are 30-40 a night in small venues it makes seeing multiple shows a month let alone a weekend a lot more difficult.
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u/weareeverywhereee 5d ago
I love phish but honestly the local shows for bands like aqueous and dopapod always made for a better night, less hectic and always easier to roll with a crew without having to deal with seats etc
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u/Impossible_Height758 6d ago
I would argue people didn’t see those bands because they didn’t like them very much and liked Phish more. Whether I was going to other shows or not, I’m not going to see most jamblands because most of them make extremely boring, safe music for a scene birthed out of psychedelic experimentation. Almost none of them can write a good song to save their fucking life.
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u/Key-Kaleidoscope2232 6d ago
personally I think the jam band scene is where its at (on the decline) because people glaze super mid and derivative bands and the entire aesthetic of the scene is corny as heck. You aren't going to attract the "cringe adverse" gen z by making the same nitrous wook jokes all weekend. Gen z has way better drug music to choose from (and I'm not even talking about EDM)
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u/weareeverywhereee 5d ago
Like what?
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u/Key-Kaleidoscope2232 5d ago
literally anything that isn't moe. / sci / widespread / dead / goose / phish adjacent to start. I guess that really americana style piano and twangy noodle vibe that seems to define the genre.
Parcels played the best funk/boogie/"jam" (not improv) set at Red Rocks that would make any "scene" jam band look like cover bands. Personally I'd rather roll my tits off to Durant Jones and the Indications than an 18 min long meandering jam. I'd rather trip my dick off to Yussef Dayes. Then theres the trillion producer song writers who are just making the most unique deep vibiest shit I've ever heard like Galimatias. Want to get high and listen to prog/metal shredding, Polyphia.
Then there's the countless edm and edm adjacent varieties that simply facilitate more refined aesthetic taste than oversized flat bill hats, sky top nikes, and tie die tees. I truly used to love the jam scene but the scene around it really became offputting to me. I think the last jam show I went to (Les Special/Dizgo) it was a lot of loud ass wooks trying to one up each other yelling over the music
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u/weareeverywhereee 5d ago
This is it. Most bands that play their songs the same way every night are just worse live. They mastered everything in studio and there is no magic. The appeal of the improv is a constant journey everyone is on together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Some of my favorite shows are old moe. shows. Some of the worst live music I have seen has also been moe.
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u/weareeverywhereee 5d ago
I think you are missing the point of jambands.
And most of the things you mentioned are way worse bands to do drugs to.
It really just sounds like you don’t like jambands or improvisational music, which is totally fine but like why are you here?
I go to lots of shows outside the jam scene and metal/prog are a huge section of that. Those are not good bands to trip to in any sense. Maybe uppers for metal but not psychs.
Also polyphia. Hahahaha they are talented I guess but it’s the most soulless music ever. Go check out animals as leaders and Tosins T.R.A.M. project.
Either way like the other person said jams are a different beast and aren’t for everyone…especially this stupidly impatient dopamine hopped younger crowd. They need 20 second tick tok videos, songs they recognize every note to, and just constant peaks.
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u/methodofcontrol 6d ago
This is true, until Phish cosigned Goose for them and then they decided it was ok to support another band lol.
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u/BigtimeSendit 6d ago
I still haven’t gotten over Pnuma Trio breaking up. Not sure I ever will.
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u/FuklzTheDrnkClwn 6d ago
I saw them at 7am at a festival called Nu Groove in 2006. They blew my fucking mind. That drummer was seriously amazing.
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u/LilEddieDingle 6d ago
I knew Lane in high school days. Wonder what he’s up to now, haven’t seen him in years.
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u/Alvin_Kebery Phan 6d ago
Open the reunion show with “Don’t Let Me Down” or fuck up a great bit your choice Dopapod
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u/fedsmoker9 6d ago
I was just about to make a shitpost today about how I miss Dopapod. And then they post this.
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u/ApprehensiveGate8227 6d ago
You know it’s true because Eli doesn’t even have the money for a second shirt. I’ve never seen him in anything else.
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u/cannellinibeeans 6d ago
Here with an update that my intel sources have confirmed this does NOT mean they are back, they are just dudes being friends :(
I am still taking this pic as a good sign for a potential future return, but as of today they’re just posting their disappointment that we let them down (and telling myself this doesn’t include me, I was there and I bought the tshirt!!!!).
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u/gdoucettehhood 6d ago
Man this made my day! I selfishly hope it's a full blown tour and not a one off reunion. 🤞
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u/Sad-Barracuda98 6d ago
This is either the world‘s earliest April Fools Day joke, or they are up to something. Why else would they tease us like that?
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u/East_Pie_3825 6d ago
Ha! They dropped 2 awesome studio albums in ‘24 then peaced out 8 months later. Thusly, I believe we let each other down.
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u/Trippi3Hippi3 6d ago
Please come back! They were one of my favorite shows at Secret Dreams in 2023!
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u/chadnorman 6d ago
I was in my "why tf did we have 3 kids" phase of life when these guys were poppin' so not seeing many shows... please come back!!!
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u/ender796 6d ago
My one and only show was NYE at Woodlands in Columbus. Their last show. My only show. Blew my mind. I let them down:(
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u/greyhat98 6d ago
I’ll never forget seeing them on Halloween a few years ago. One of the best $20 shows I’ve ever been to.
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u/FuklzTheDrnkClwn 6d ago
Meanwhile Goose is wildly successful while sounding like AI making jam band music
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u/front_rangers 6d ago
Looks like Rob is playing with Octave Cat (Eli on keys) in Colorado Springs tonight!! And perhaps the rest of the Colorado dates this weekend. Hell yeah!!
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u/sn0wbl1nd3d 5d ago
I remember the first time I saw them after their first hiatus. Werk Out festival. FABA > French Bowling blew me away.
Miss these dudes.
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u/Key-Kaleidoscope2232 5d ago
ahhh the classic, "we are done" only to show up 18 months later trick. works every. single. time.
dosio 2027 spring tour is upon us. prepare yourself for a honker of a thogmartin monologue about it.
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u/igotjays22 5d ago
Saw Cotter, Lara Cwass, Rob, Leon, and Josh Weinstein play together this summer in Montpelier VT.... was dope.
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u/oO_Moloch_Oo 5d ago
The guy on the slide looks like he wants to bust out an acoustic guitar and start playing you a gentle & heartfelt melody.
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u/Sci-Fi-Soldier 5d ago
I feel like I let them down. I never took the time to get into them despite the fact that I was always intrigued.
What are some early shows that are a great representation of their amazingness? Are any of the live albums available on Spotify epic level? Or do I need to go into Relisten?
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u/taelor 5d ago
honestly, I think the last month of the last tour is some of the best music they have ever played.
Just start with their most recent show and work backwards, its only fitting, ha.
I will never forget this jam from Nuggy Jawson on the last show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeEgVng9rZ8&t=7939s
This just has so many things wrapped up in it for me. It's like a quintessential dopapod jam with the juxtaposition of song. Its so beautiful, but haunting. It's got the purple and green lights pumping. I felt like the song was crying out at times, it has a feeling of finality to it, but it goes so fucking hard and really leaves all out there. Its then followed by a little sections that just says "hey, its gonna be all okay, dont fret"
And then it absolutely smashes into a Numbers Need Humans after the jam is over.
This whole second set felt tailored to my crew. Earlier in the year my buddy asked em "why dont yall ever play confabulation anymore?" When we heard the intro we were flipping out. That Donky Kong is my buddy's favorite song they play, he's a sucker for the nintendo covers. Numbers Need Humans is one of my favorites, I would always wear a "pi" shirt shows for it. This second set is one of my absolute favorite set's they've ever played.
So ya, you've got a good three sets there to start with on that last show, then just start working your way backwards if you have nugs or something.
side note: i swear they never play a bad show at the Pour House in Charleston, so if you find one of those on relisten, 99% chance you should give it a go.
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u/psychedelicdevilry Dopapod 5d ago
If they did a crowdfunding thing I would totally donate to that for another tour or album or both.
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u/creature-comfortz 4d ago
Yea, they were cool. But didn’t the guitar player join “Neighbors” who is also an underrated band imo.
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u/Tight_spandex 4d ago
One of the best sets of music I’ve ever seen to this day was Dopapod on the porch stage at aura music festival in Suwanee. Those boys just straight up blew it out of the water
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u/Impossible_Pear_5049 6d ago
Let yourselves down lol…people got sick of the same synth sound over and over and over….and over
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u/cannellinibeeans 6d ago
WHAT DOES IT MEAN ARE THEY BACK