Photos by Connor Hogsten of CTH Media
After a three-city, four-night Halloween run, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong are treating fans to a free rebroadcast of their Nov. 3 “Dead Hot Sgt. Peppers” show, featuring their own tunes as well as covers of The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Grateful Dead.
Filmed live at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse, the full-show webcast will begin at 7 p.m. ET Sunday on the Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Facebook page.
Check out a teaser of the show below. Over 24 minutes, the band blends together their own “Funk E Zekiel” with The Beatles’ “Drive My Car” and “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” as well as RHCP’s “By The Way” and The Dead’s “Shakedown Street,” before jumping back into PPPP original “Somethin’ For Ya.”
Watch:
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
November 3, 2018
Variety Playhouse, Atlanta
Set I: Poseidon > I Am The Walrus > Horizon > Eyes Of The World > Horizon > Funk E Zekiel > Drive My Car > Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? > Drive My Car > Funk E Zekiel > By The Way# > Shakedown Street > Somethin’ For Ya > The Liquid, Doc
Set II: J-Town^ > Give It Away > Slipknot > CWAlkabout* > The End^ > Dancin’ In The Streets > While My Guitar Gently Weeps% > Norwegian Wood > Slipknot > Su Casa, King Solomon’s Marbles > F.U., Zydeko^ > Hey Jude
Enc: Schwanthem, Suck My Kiss
Notes:
# with “Get On Top” tease
^ Unfinished
* Mashup of “Couldn’t We All” and “Walkabout”
% with “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” and “25 or 6 to 4” teases
4 Comments comments associated with this post
Mike L
November 12, 2018 at 3:29 pmSince we’re all divulging our ages.. I’m a 51 year old music/concert obsessed fan of all types of music. Especially the Funk as well as classic jambands like The Allman bros and The Dead but really so much more. As for newer jambands.. In the last 10-20 years I love KDTU, MMW, Soulive, Galactic and much more. I gotta agree with the first poster but only on Pigeons. I saw them this past summer at Peach fest and I’m sorry but I was bored to death during their set. Twiddle on the other hand blew them off the stage. It was my first time seeing both bands and I was only familiar with some of each band’s music but just like this video.. I feel like Pigeons playing Ping pong have absolutely no dynamics in their overtly white boy funk. It’s always at the same level when it comes to their pace, sound, volume and their originals as well as the covers they do here. And while I’m white and know white musicians can play Funk.. Esp MMW, Galactic etc.. These guys are so unfunky. To me there’s nothing more boring than a band that has every song sound the same. And though they throw in a bunch of cool covers here.. There’s absolutely no difference in tempo, dynamics and the rest I mentioned above. I think they’re talented musicians but they have alot of work to do. Check out Twiddle if you wanna hear a newer band that has their sound together and who knows how to incorporate dynamics into their music. Thank the lord that they headlined the first day of peach fest over these guys. I watched pigeons for about 45 minutes and had to take a walk I was so bored. Every tune sounds exactly the same. When Twiddle came on after them.. You heard the difference right away. There’s just no comparison if you like a band that knows how to use space, volume and tempos. I think or at least hope Pigeons will get better at that as they get bigger. Obviously alot of folks like them but it’ll be a while til I go see them again. They’re just way too much on the same sound on every song for me to get into. They need to listen to some Meters, some P Funk And some JB in order to learn how to not stay at the same volume and to play the Funk on the One rather than the 2/4 that all their songs follow. Maybe some of the time they hit the one.. But without dynamics and tempo changes there’s nothing to distinguish them from any other band that doesn’t have an original sound. They should lock themselves away for a few months and play along to The Dead, the Allmans, The Beatles, and the Chili Peppers.. To get a feel for real song writing and originality!
Jim H
November 12, 2018 at 1:00 pmAs a 66 y/o music connoisseur, yeah, I got you on that one, Mike 😉 one of the things I like best about many jambands is their versatility. I don’t feel that I have to like everything they do, although I think this is pretty cool. Saw PPPP a few weeks ago in Santa Cruz and really, really enjoyed the show, Sunny Day was hypnotizing.
onenightmike
November 12, 2018 at 11:31 amAs a 57 y/o music connoisseur i will have to disagree with the above comment. i couldn’t turn this off this morning as i should be going to work. maybe not their target audience but man this ROCKS!
Kafkahat
November 11, 2018 at 2:53 pmJust awful. This is why there are jokes about jam bands. Duke Ellington once said there are no music genres, just good music or bad music. This freaking awful music, as I tweak Ellington’s quote.