Tour nearing climax!
We’re down to the last four gigs of the tour. It’s all coming together together very nicely. I am performing a couple of songs with BT now, one of mine mine and one of his. It’s great when we’re on stage together, because the room in instantly united into a single fanbase! I am looking forward to being reunited with my family for the Holidays, and my kids will sneak into the last gig at the Canal Room in NYC.
BTW the tigers just got a $416 donation. I think next tour I should should have one on stage with me (like Roy? Not.)
In other news, we’ve just announced the program for the TED Conference 2007, and I’m proud to say we’ve landed Paul Simon, Tracy Chapman, and They Might Be Giants, for musical diversion. A major coup!
Also: Keyboard Magazine (Jan edition) will feature a big piece about me and BT. And I have a few invitations to play the NAMM Show in January, as well as SxSW in the Spring. Rock on!
Late night tour bus TV fare has included Little Britain, Eddie Izzard, ‘Kelly Shoes’ on YouTube (search for it!) and the uncensored version of Justin Timberlake’s hilarious SNL song, ‘Dick In A Box’. Now you know how low we have stooped!
Pic: Lunesse
What much of the world called “2006″ made vastly sparklier by official re-emergence of The People’s Dolby. Here’s to a great tour, great site, outrageously cool fanbase and much, much more!
I noticed the “tour history” post earlier today and was thinking to myself that you would be anxious to get home now that holidays are here and the tour is nearing its end. I hope this road trip was better than you had expected.
Welcome back, Thomas. All the best to you and yours in 2007 and beyond.
Randy
Bravo on a successful re-emergence into the spotlight Thomas. We will look forward to future visits (EXCELLENT news about SxSW!!).
Has Lunesse sprouted wings? How did she fly above you to get that shot??
Beech
If you are surfing skits on You Tube, you should check out this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Justin Timberlake was absolutely hysterical in two of his skits. If you search for “justin timberlake chipmunks” you’ll get a great one. However, the funniest skit of the night was under the search of “Justin Timberlake on SNL – Homelessville”. My wife and I were dying laughing.
Best holiday wishes to you, your family, and your entire crew.
Brian
I just checked the “dick in the box” and realized that was the skit we saw the other night. It was one of the best SNL’s we’d seen in a very long time. Thanks for sharing!
How bouts some podcasts of said duets? I was at the the anaheim show and remember you saying you were going to work on some things with B.T…..would love to hear it.
Congrats on a great tour. Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone.
Wow! You’re on the TED planning committee? Cool!
6am and I’m leaving Vermont!
can’t Wait!!!
Sorry Mr. D but I hate Little Britain, I can’t understand why so many people like it, I just don’t find it at all funny. But hey ho, just my opinion. Anyway, I think I might just have to buy that magazine you mentioned that you’d be featured in, and great news about the Tigers too.
Beechwood,
Lunesse took the photo from the upper level, from a room that was directly over Thomas.
My wife and I watched the “Dick In A Box” thing the other night, then I turned to her and said “Now I know what to get you for Christmas, baby.” See, I’m smooth like that. Of course I had to spend the night in the van that night, but oh well.
Thomas, one thing I’ve always wondered with Keyboard Magazine ever since I started reading it in the ’80s. At the beginning of the magazine they always listed a “Keyboard Advisory Board” with a big list of industry superstars. You, Wendy Carlos, Herbie Hancock, etc etc. Did this “Advisory Board” actually do anything, or was it just an honor roll? When I was in my early teens I had this vision of the whole group meeting together in a dark smoky room, planning the next decade of music technology.
Awesome! Can’t wait to see the show tonight! Big fan of Eddie Izzard (“Cake or Death?”) but Little Britain wasn’t quite as funny as I’d expected it to be, honestly. More of a Black Books kind of guy, m’self.
Well, if y’all have stooped low, we’re down here with you.
James and I were singing “Dick in a Box” while driving around Baltimore before the gig yesterday and giggling like idiots. Groundlings, unite!
I adore They Might Be Giants – congrats on getting them at TED. Perhaps you can get them to perform “Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)” ?? Science, baby. Actually, that would have been great to accompany Al Gore.
The show was great last night. Really just a blast. You’re almost done now. A good holiday, a little rest, and then, time to step over that line in the sand, no?
And now, a bit of musical interlude as we await the arrival of the TD and BT.
(To the tune “Christmas, Don’t be Late”)
“TD and BT will soon be here/ Time for fun, some food and beer.
Canal Room will be the space/ Get there early or lose your place.
The whole show should be a hoot!/ Me..I want some Dolby loops!
Hurry, hurry, we must wait! / Please, TD, don’t be late!”
I will be there sans Chipmunks at the Canal Room w/ friends.
Cheers and congrats on the success on this most interesteing, intimate and intermingling tour this year!
Hey Thomas. I just wanted to say that I am really very sorry I kept missing you while you were on this tour. I just know I will be able to come give my support on your next tour! For what its worth Sole Inhabitant is such a high quality, masterfully, performed piece that I almost feel as if I were there. Ive never heard a live album that I like until now! Im really considering picking up and moving out to California these days. My three favorite artists live there and play shows around there a lot. You of course are numbered in that list. Also I just want to say that I played you for this girl who had never heard you before, and she absolutely loved your new album, so much so that now she wants to hear all of your other stuff!! Please take care and have a wonderful holiday!
Tour Bus:-
Love the viewing comments. Little Britain are doing an Xmas special in UK which will no doubt get to you sometime. And Mr Izzard….. well… there is no finer tour bus foder than him, brilliant. What Izzard dvd was it?
A friend of mine was convinced on Saturday night that they were saying “Cock in a Box,” instead. I don’t know which would be better.
Elaine, why not have both? — it’s Christmas!
(Ah…one joke stretched over three minutes…)
May 2007 find everyone happier.
Elaine: I thought the same thing until I saw the uncensored version.
If you go to the TED speaker website, look at the video of Michael Shermer’s talk, you will see TMDR’s rig behind him during the talk.
Btw, Shermer talks at the end of his talk about Katie Melua. Her latest album was a huge hit in Europe, and would be here in the U.S. as well if the music industry here was more open and it could get airplay. If you want a real treat, check it out.
Hah! A friend of mine messaged me ‘Dick in a Box’ yesterday and I was laughing pretty hard. I another friend introduce me to ‘Little Britain’ a year or so ago and some of the skits are pretty damn funny. It’s amazing some of the things you can find to amuse you on YouTube.
Well, my wife and I are looking forward to the show tonight! I hope I can learn a thing or two by watching you.
Try bbc america it does re-runs of many of the the funniest brit coms and lil britn is just one of them . Saw TD last night in Philly world cafe he was a matured version of the guy I used to see in scotland with better electronic tools. Welcome back you techtronic genius. The only thing i did not enjoy about this concert is the non stop conversationalists who are really fn annoying. I like TD have been in the usa for 18yrs. and still can’t beleive the pissant flea like attention span of half the audiences of all the concerts i’ve been to in Philadelphia.
That aside I did enjoy your show and was glad to hear tom mention some of the underground bands of the 70s like throbbing gristle. Cheers. Happy new year!
just caught DIAB on youtube.. destined to become a new SNL classic (can’t forget Pete Schweaty)! it’s a catchy tune…haha!! now i wonder how many out there will actually try this since having seen it on tv ~ talk about the gift that keeps on giving?! haha!
on that note, have a wonderful Christmas, a rockin’ New Year and enjoy the much needed time off with your family! peace…
Very sincere greetings to Thomas Dolby and everyone who enjoyed his show in Baltimore on Wednesday night. I have to say it was very touching to see the photo of the young man I presume was your uncle, lost on a submarine during the war, at the conclusion of “One of Our Submarines.” Mister Dolby, you look just like him. Your performance is a remarkable memorial to someone your family lost. You have a great soul.
cut a hole in the box…..put your junk in that box…..
Step 3 – Have her open he box. And that’s the way you do it.