Mike Doughty - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
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- Mike Doughty performs live in the KEXP studio. Recorded April 7, 2012.
Track list:
I Hear the Bells
Na Na Nothing
Day By Day By
Mike Doughty - Telegenic Exes, #2 (Astoria)
Host: John Richards
Audio: Julian Martlew
Cameras: William Anthony, Justin Wilmore
Editing: William Anthony
www.kexp.org
www.mikedoughty...
I saw Firewater and Soul Coughing in Cleveland back in 1997. I was pregnant 🤰 I went into false labor during the show.
There's just something about his lyrics and his voice that just hit me in all the right places.
Same for me ❤🎉
one of the most UNDER rated artists of our time. I never liked soul coughing very much. When I heard his solo stuff for the first time I was so happy he found his way. You killed it at the Aladin theater in portland oregon in 2003. changed my life. thank you Mike :)
He's back in Portland this October. Hope you can make it out to see him.
Holy crap this has been some of the best acoustic music I've ever heard. I love Soul Coughing, but I love the live Mike Doughty stuff even better.
Donovan Hively Agreed this Guy is the SHNOZ
I followed or listened to Soul Coughing coincidentally through some rough times, when I first heard The Only Answer and Sweet Lord in Heaven I was not only impressed but uplifted by what Mike Doughty is doing. I believe if more people truly listened to his songs, hell music in general, they would see the power. Fuggin missed him in Atlanta... Chattanooga would love him.
Been listening to Soul Coughing since 95, love his voice and his story. And John is a great interviewer. Always come back to this performance.
I don't have a lot of time to watch videos on TH-cam, but I took the time to watch this because I am such a fan of the man behind all of the music I have loved he and his bandmates have produced over the last decades or so. Mike Doughty, you are an excellent person. Keep up the good work buddy.
Mike is by far my favorite and most respected musician of all time. Was raised on soul coughing and as i got older continued to explore his fascinating and amazing music.
"It's like i woke up and i'm in the world, it's very...uh.. interesting".... You rule the world you just woke up in... Respect for your honesty... Best thing i've seen in a while
I loved soul coughing! Those songs were so perfect for their time and so much fun** At least if you were of course, having fun during the mid to late 90's. I have not read Book of Drugs though....sorry to hear it wasn't the case with them. Either way, I am grateful....without the music & those bands most people i know would have no recollection of life from about 1993 to 1999.
"Fuck Avenue Q, Heroin comes in baggies not jars." -Mike Doughty
Mike has been amazing for decades 🤘
Oh my god, Mike Doughty. This dude has been one of my favorite musicians over the past two decades. I wish he wasn't so bitter about Soul Coughing, though.
Still, love SC and love his solo stuff.
Thanks Mike. Appreciate you and the music. It’s special to see how songs build.
crazy great combo of a HUGE tune and incredible video work mike doughty is phenomenal. great radio. I hear the bells.
Nice add on...Mike your book was stellar.Much love from Upstate N.Y. See you at Legends in Albany...
Saw him in Santa Fe...I'm hooked now...plan to go to one of his Living Room shows...
I'm reading his book now and decided to give him a listen since I was totally unfamiliar with Soul Coughing (I chose the book because of the topic). He's fantastic (as is the book, so far).
Mike, your story telling is totally brilliant. I love the way you play with moments and emphasize them as claims. I've recently gotten back into story telling and coincidentally heard your new shit "keep your heart beating in the future" and i just so dig your style
Thanks for the great music and honesty Mike! Cheers amigo!
Great questions actually. As someone whose read both the Book Of Drugs and Bob's book, he kind of raised some of the things and questions I wanted to hear the responses to. Been a fan of SC & Mike's solo work since the Reading festival around '96ish (promoting El Oso), so I'm really grateful to have found this interview on TH-cam.
Skittish changed my life and for the better.
so happy to know Mike's music...he is so beautifully,,,HIMSELF....
I was on meth ("good" meth) for 16 years & have now been off for 10 years (& 3 weeks). I needed to hear some of this. THANKS MIKE!
He did an acoustic performance at Schubas in Chicago once and they sold CDs of that live performance. Somehow I lost that CD but this reminds me of that so thanks KEXP for recording this. Both as a solo artist and with SC, this has added something to the culture. Good stuff.
He did that about a decade ago at a “Question Jar” show in Pennsylvania & he signed my live recorded 💿 CDs from that concert. Phenomenal
@@Lesaly awesome I think my cd was stolen by either a prankster or a roommate. It was definitely a fantastic tour (the fact that we're talking about it so many years later). I wish him and Skip well.
@@isaiah794 What a wicked prank to pull, haha. Have you listened to his album ‘The Question Jar Show’? Phenomenal, makes me laugh every time, too!
I love his music so much
I can't stop listening.
This is great, so much insight on Mike. A whole new world opened up for me with this vid
SC is irrelevant.
Interviewer is irrevelant.
Recovery is irrelevant.
The music is FANTASTIC! Mike is Genius. Whatever path he took to get here doesn't matter, we just need to be happy he did.
LoVe this interview. It's epic.
Great stuff!!! Across the board,,,
One of a Kind voice! nice stuff.
LOVE HIM
@1:00 Nice that not only did he survive the band but they got back together and toured last year! Too bad the ticket prices were stupidly expensive.
Playlist
@2:18 I Hear the Bells
@13:08 Na Na Nothing
@29:19 Day By Day By
@37:58 Telegenic Exes, #2 (Astoria)
Saw M.D. with Moon Hooch in 2013, it was amazing. =)
Soul Coughing might have been tough on Doughty, but it was some of his best work.
Ruby Vroom is such a fukin great album
Man this is so good. Glad the guy making questions almost comes around. It seems in the beginning he wanted to challenge....but what won is the music. The music is very well done here
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting.
Really good music. I don't know if Mike Doughty reads these comments, but I want to mention to him that he might be interested in the books and videos of Eckhart Tolle.
This is great! I have apparently been missing some great musics.
I still love his work with Soul Coughing need time to see if I like this stuff is better or worse
While I'm not a fan of his music, I have nothing but respect for Mike and all he has been through. While I doubt he was completely innocent with the dissolution of Soul Coughing, I still think he has had a long journey to be where he is and I'm glad he is at least happy with what he does now.
+Michael Graham you have a lpt to learn...
you should read his book. while i agree no one is completely innocent, those guys REALLLLY fucked him over.
Thank you....people forget why they come to these you tube video's. Alway's have to be critical and ignorant.
i was when Mike Doughty was playing on November 23 in Webster Hall
"Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well"... "27 Jennifers"... the list goes on & on. You, good sir, are wrong on this one. Smofe & Smang was a great album as was Rockity Roll
That first track is amazing.
This is the best thing.
So I heard him on Seeryus Radio and have been wondering who this guy was for years. I used to get him confused with Jack Johnson! I remember Soul Coughing from the mid 90s. They were one of those bands who had an obvious Beatles influence. I got to check them out next.
Completely dig this cat.
Tune Tune Tune, Tun Tun Tun Tun, Tune Tune Tune the guitar!!!
He has stated he purposely plays some songs slightly out of tune.
Hey Mike, I watched this because you were formerly part of Soul Coughing.
i want kexp in my city!
👊🎶😎 you fucking rock
nice job Mr. Interviewer
Send in the Clowns homage--- Astoria---are you friggin kidding me crazy brilliant man!!
+jennifer blake so right.
Honestly I've always been able to hear similarities between Mike's music and Soul Coughing music. Even though he describes the two very differently, they're still all Mike's songs.
Completely concur!
word.
From the Doughty's words all the samples and the stuff was collected by him personally. So maybe Antoni was a talent but outside SC. Still love the band.
Sorry Mike is so Down on Soul Coughing. More power for being able to find a better life and write even better songs than in those days, but I always say perfection is never easy. The recordings Soul Coughing made are so perfect, so unique, so valuable to me and to so many fans. I'm in the sad position of asking if I'd rather have those albums or would I rather Mike been happy. If he hadn't struggled, I'd probably never have got "His Truth Is Marching" or "Unsingable Name". Maybe I'm not as good a person as I thought I was.
♥
You are building the dragon.
i love that the DJ acts like he is not talking about SCing even though he is.
I'm listerning it online in Russia, Yekaterinburg, you too can =)
I love the barking dogs
March at the Crocodile, Seattle.
I guess it got unspammed. Last month, saw Mike Doughty live for the first time, opening for Low at "The Space" in New Haven. Excellent intimate venue -- kinda like the Iron Horse in NoHo, MA used to be before they unwisely expanded into the "Wymyn On Fy-wah" bokstore and ruined both the ambience and the acoustics.
Doughty was fantastic, Low can hardly be anything BUT fantastic...
Love Soul Coughing, love Mike Doughty, but all I have to say is.......bitter much???
Does anyone know how he gets that jangly sound out of his guitar?
He's tuned down pretty low so it just sort of inherently happens since the strings are looser.
It happens too when you don't put the capo right behind the fret.
Na na nothin from me!
I don't think that this interviewer has ever heard Soul Coughing.
Many nights meth'd out listening to this song...
The second half of The Book of Drugs is probably the most triumphant, moving, and beautiful thing I've ever read.
Love Mike Doughty... oh God what a great story. But please let go of SC.... you are so much more than that.
Also got a picture with Scrap during the question jar tour a while ago. What happened to that guy?
He is still playing and kicking arse doing it!
Is he talking about Astoria OR, or Queens?
At 7:20ish minutes.... who is Bob___? Couldn't get the last name. Might want to read that book.
Thx.!
Bob Mould- from Husker Du, Sugar and a bunch of great solo stuff.
Can't get through this set because it's the most sour grapes discussion I've ever heard. The rest of the band never went on a tour blasting him & I'm positive that if you asked them, everyone has a different POV of those years, & would likely tell a different story.
i like soul coughing El Oso is very cool
What's the name of the other guy (autherqband) that the host talks about? Does anyone know? Bob what?
+אילי רשלסקי I think he's talking about Bob Mould!
x-files brought me here...whooo!
his book got me into his music
That's what I want to know. Open G, maybe?
No doubt Dropped tuning
16:43...Really?
7c9ND2el What did he say?
Mike de glie Antoni was the real talent behind the music, and THIS is the cause of their copyright feud.
Wow. That host. Smarm overload. I still much prefer Soul Coughing. It just didn't sound so one-dimensional. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that his solo music is so focused on acoustic guitar, whereas Soul Coughing branched out dramatically between albums. Super Bon Bon, Unmarked Helicopters, Rolling etc. put guitar in the background and brought bass and drums to the foreground. It just sounded cooler.
+meedily + up but only for the Smarm. Otherwise the guy is great and the music acoustic or not during this film was excellent and adult in comparison to SC. I came here for SC but now a Doughty fan more
+meedily While the Soul Coughing stuff is more eclectic, I much prefer his solo stuff as it seems much better put together.
Both SC as a band and Doughty solo are super great.
It has to do with the fact that his music is not only acoustic guitar but also pretty one-dimensional acoustic guitar and rather unsophisticated playing.
Ruby Vroom was to good a cd to ignore it was fun!So the abuse was in a sense worth it 👌 however as band hard to beat its groove obviously ALL had talent!Still keep on keeping on!
Ade Edminson
+Considerably MorePunxThanYou 'Answer that and stay fashionable so-called Vyvyan!' Good call!
Some weird camera work going on here at points.
mike's been through some shit. he's broken, but his soul is just so damn hardwired to produce beautiful fucking art that he has no choice but to push on. he needs to understand that hatred is not the way, though, and the callous view he has of others is so clear. mike, you need to stop hating on people in order for people to not hate on you
I picked up on Mike Doughty again after trying to find the song playing in my head. The song Circles. Since then, I've been listening to his music more. And as a newcomer to his music, I've heard some stories with him that got my interest, and hope nothing but the best for him. Soul Coughing is how I was introduced to him, and when I read up more about the band after listening to their albums, it was a huge bummer. Whatever he lived through in his life before and during Soul Coughing must have made him feel that kind of behavior. And it's something to learn from as I go through life.
@@leon4000 definitely. :)
Telegenic Exes = Send in the Clowns
SO I went through a brief history of Soul Coughing and Mike Doughty in a few hours here. Randomly listening to music in my collection, I hit upon an old favorite 'Screenwriter's Blues' and listen a couple times. A magically visual complete song. Go to TH-cam find the song again, find what I think might be Mike playing it again closer to 'now' and find this. I find out that he hates Soul Coughing, hates his old music, hated his life and of course I had to go see if he was even alive and found him, bearded and bald on Instagram with a Wallace Shawn interest. I would think he would like Wallace Shawn of course, who doesn't like Wallace Shawn, who doesn't like 'My Dinner with Andre' after all. Andre and Soul Coughing live in the same universe as far as I am concerned. There Mike Doughty is, alive, looking like a lumberjack, innocent looking Instagram fellow who murdered Soul Coughing in front of me, after the fact. Years ago. The songs here don't have the same zing that the ones I know do. It's almost a rule of the universe that a musician who shines bright like a shooting star when you first see them is never ever the same but I hear him in there. Ah, sucks getting old. Seeing age dull others. Eh.
likes are at "666". Can't mess that up...
Ever notice how Mike Doughty looks like a budget friendly Tom Hanks?
It hit a little after 5:00...
agreed & for NO REASON this is flagged as spam
man if that is so how come i can't enjoy his solo stuff?
so YOUR program is the right one? Let the man take his own time. Jesus H. I mean, unless YOU are perfect, in which case I apologize.
And...???
because SC was a great band that's been mining their music from improvisation a lot.
You just need to get the right parts together. Everything is important - smth more smth less.
You can consider - ther're no right parts now. that's why.
I was going to like this video up until 16:43. I love NPR because of the unbiased opinion...but this comment, I'm out.