Spitball Army

Here is another video from the Halloween 2007 Josh Ritter in-store at Laser’s Edge.

Zack Hickman had just finished singing a song about his mustache while clad in a bright pink pajama suit (see, I told you it was a special night).  “Stuck to You” was the second-to-last song of the evening.  And there’s that girl again, who I last time refered to as the Glenn Gould of in-store performances, singing along with all of the fast-patter words.  Jonathan remembered her in a recent e-mail to me:

“That girl singing along in the front was an all time great attendee. Did you see…where Josh tries to get her to stop and then says he is just going to make up lyrics?”

It’s right here on the video.  Was Josh inspired to make up those lyrics about beer because of the pop-a-top sounds in the crowd?  You decide.

And here again is Brian T. Murphy’s recording of “Stuck to You,” which mercifully picks up little of Miss Gould’s sprechstimme, but is a document of our crappy little sound system that loved to drop out audio at the most inopportune times.

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Josh gives me a shout-out there at the beginning of the clip.  The response from those in attendance was humbling (thankfully, there were no cat-calls that I could hear).