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Last night (6/7), Deer Tick played a private show on the Rocks Off Concert Cruise boat The Jewel in celebration of their friend's birthday. Around 7 p.m., a line wrapped around the pier on 23rd street and FDR while approximately 200 close friends slowly began to board the boat for the surprise party.
The evening began with the members of Deer Tick playing backup for singer-songwriter Jonny Corndawg, who engaged the entire audience to the point in which everyone in sight began shouting along to the music and providing backup vocals for his song "Shut Up".
Around 9 p.m., Deer Tick took the stage- a very dimly lit area that took up the entire bow of the lower half of the boat. The theme for the night (aside from sailor hats and lei necklaces) seemed to be getting iced: John McCauley, sporting a gold tooth and straw hat, took a knee three times during Deer Tick's set to chug a Smirnoff Ice. McCauley began the set by singing the words, "I've got a cock that's hard as a rock/Every time I see my Johnny", a special song he wrote for the birthday boy.
"Let's do something stupid and maybe tomorrow we'll remember it." McCauley said before setting down his beer and beginning to play "Easy". Throughout the course of the 90 minute set, Deer Tick played songs from their previous two albums War Elephant and Born on Flag Day, as well as cover songs such as Lightnin' Hopkins' "Bring Me By Shotgun" and Tom Petty's "Breakdown" which provided a segway into a beautifully violent version of "These Old Shoes."
McCauley then stated, "We're going to do a cover song. Maybe you guys have heard of it..." and began to sing "Happy Birthday", which was followed by the birthday boy getting iced and the entire band shotgunning beers.
Towards the middle of the set, the noise began to mellow out with a slowed down rendition of "Diamond Rings 2007" with the lyrics changed to, "What good would fingers be/If it weren't for onion rings/Now I know you're leaving me/So I'm going to Burger King." However, things quickly began to pick up again, Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus joined the band for a song, and the audience went wild dancing and cheering as Deer Tick finished up their set with the appropriately chaotic "La Bamba".
The Jewel returned to the dock at 11 p.m., with no one completely content returning to land after such an amazing night on the East River.
Deer Tick's new album The Black Dirt Sessions is out TODAY (6/8). A track from that album is on the top of this post (Amazon is giving away the same song too) along with the track Deer Tick did for our Katrina and the Waves cover EP. They kick off a tour with shows at Maxwell's and Webster Hall this July. More pictures from the boat below...
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Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:17 PM
worst deer band
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:18 PM
happy birthday beach!
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:20 PM
posting tiger shirt guy on lookatthisfuckinghipster
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:20 PM
that deer tick show last year on the jewel was a total fucking blast.
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:39 PM
Best Deer band? Deer John, featuring members of the classic NBC TV show covered in deer blood.
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 2:41 PM
The last picture literally exemplifies our generation's antithesis of the "The Thinker."
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 3:03 PM
i once found a tick on my ball sack
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 3:17 PM
Ball Tick. Good band name.
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 3:19 PM
the sour patch kids were a nice touch.
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 3:31 PM
Word is that Colvin can really swig em down
Posted by jesselun | June 8, 2010 3:40 PM
i had a friend in college, in ohio, that found a tick on the head of his dick after a hike in the woods.
Posted by tick puller | June 8, 2010 4:02 PM
@ 3:03
ahahahahahahha
Posted by anonymous | June 8, 2010 4:16 PM
@ 4:02
Your friend must know exactly what this band sounds like then
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 4:34 PM
wheres tom yaps?
Posted by roedood | June 8, 2010 4:39 PM
who the fuck is johnny beach?
Posted by cargos4eva | June 8, 2010 5:15 PM
johnny Beach is Victor Portrenko's boyfriend... and a total TeePee
Posted by Anonymous | June 8, 2010 5:22 PM
jonny corndawg rules. caught him opening for David Allan Coe at MHOW last week. He brought the house down.
Posted by Anonymous | June 16, 2010 5:26 PM
Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were really good albums. Got them when they came out, still throw them on at times and think they're great. It saddens me when I hear bands from that era when I was a teenager and hear their new stuff and it's so clear how they've lost it, they sound desperate to recapture a sound/magic that they haven't had in 15 years (holy shit).... And then I realize that is not unlike a lot of us.
Posted by منتديات | January 21, 2011 8:01 PM
you dave haters can go fuck yourselves. bonnaroo 2010 was 4 of the best days of my life. the DMB and JayZ headliners at the main stage were two of the best shows I've ever seen, musically and production speaking. 2011 'roo is going to be amazing. Phish headlining?
Posted by وظائف | January 30, 2011 3:24 PM
they also played at a place called Tramps in april '99 losers. with qotsa. where were you? you guys sound pretty angry? go listen to something hip. whatever the fuck you think that is. why does james iha need to be in the band for them to be good? that makes no sense. so the band changed lineups. oh well.
Posted by يوتيوب | February 5, 2011 12:16 PM
they also played at a place called Tramps in april '99 losers. with qotsa. where were you? you guys sound pretty angry? go listen to something hip. whatever the fuck you think that is. why does james iha need to be in the band for them to be good? that makes no sense. so the band changed lineups. oh well.
Posted by صور | February 5, 2011 2:19 PM
If there is one thing that I'm glad is not being done anymore it's icing people. Good riddens.
Posted by Tony | June 22, 2011 5:04 PM