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Mike Keneally Band
DOG DVD
(Exowax Recordings)
Release year: 2004

NOTE: This DVD came with a limited run, 2,500-copy special edition of DOG. For information on the regular CD version of DOG, click here.

Personnel:

Mike Keneally - guitar, keys, lead vocals
Rick Musallam - guitar, bouzouki, vocals
Bryan Beller - bass
Nick D'Virgilio - drums, percussion

Relevant Track Listing:

There is so much material on this DVD that listing it all will just look silly. But I'll try anyway:

Video - Live In The Living Room
Choosing To Drown
Panda
Louie
Splane
Physics
Bober

Video - Live At Victor's
Hum
Raining Sound
Pride Is A Sin
Career Politicians Jam
Skull Bubbles
Nonkerchunk

Audio
Pride Is A Sin (alternate version)
Raining Sound (alternate version)
Splane (demo version)

The Making Of Dog (all excerpts, overdubs and/or basic tracks)
Physics
Bober
This Tastes Like A Hotel
Simple Pleasure
Gravity Grab

Totally Unreleased Material
Lizard Tongue
You Never Know

Equipment used:

For DOG sessions:
Mike Lull Modern Jazz V
Fender '51 Precision Re-Issue (on "Panda")
SWR Interstellar Overdrive Preamp
SWR Mo' Bass Amplifier
SansAmp/Tech 21 PSA-1 Programmable Preamp
Raven Labs True Blue EQ
TC Electronics SCF Chorus/Flange

For Live At Victor's:
Mike Lull Modern Jazz V
SWR Mo' Bass Amplifier
(2) SWR Goliath II 4x10's
SWR Bass Monitor 12"
Peavey DPC1000 Power Amp
TC Electronics SCF Chorus/Flange
Raven Labs True Blue EQ

For Live In The Living Room
Mike Lull Modern Jazz V
Fender '51 Precision Re-Issue (on "Panda")
SWR Mo' Bass Amplifier
SWR Goliath II 4x10's
TC Electronics SCF Chorus/Flange
Raven Labs True Blue EQ

It's kind of self-defeating to provide the "inside scoop" on a DVD, which is by nature a big old heaping helping of inside scoopage. What I can say is that this is a stunning amount of entertainment for one solitary DVD. There's a 15-minute short-movie-style section called "The Making Of Physics" that alone is well worth the price of admission. But that's before the world premiere of "Lizard Tongue," and four Mike Keneally's singing each vocal part of "Gravity Grab" all on one screen, and watching the basic tracks of "This Tastes Like A Hotel" go down, and…and….

For anyone who wants to know how the Mike Keneally Band works in its "rockin' quartet" form, this is an indispensable document. I can even live with the fact that I look like I swallowed a cannonball in parts of it. Yes, it's that good.

Click here for the official Mike Keneally website.

 
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