Can I hear some Pavement?

July 12, 2009 8:01 PM

Typically, does Stephen Malkmus play much Pavement at his shows?
posted by Wayman Tisdale to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Saw Malkmus March 2008 in Indianapolis. No Pavement tunes. I wasn't as familiar with his later stuff with the Jicks (although I played the hell out of his first solo album), but after seeing him live it grew on me in a big way. Go if you have the chance, just don't expect him to whip out the oldies.
posted by logicpunk at 8:17 PM on July 12, 2009

Not at the show I saw. In fact, it was mostly new stuff. This was earlier this year.
posted by proj at 8:41 PM on July 12, 2009

Seem to recall reading an aside in a Pitchfork interview that he doesn't play much.
posted by Beardman at 9:23 PM on July 12, 2009

I just saw him a few months ago at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. It was a solo Stephen Malkmus acoustic show and it was a whole lot of Pavement. It was amazing. That said - I've seen more traditional Stephen Malkmus shows with him and what ever band he has joining him and in those cases - no Pavement that I can recall.
posted by Wolfie at 9:47 PM on July 12, 2009

I've only seen him doing solo acoustic stuff, and it's had a fair amount of Pavement in the mix (like, four songs out of 12 or so). But those were weird Found/This American Life shows that my college put on, so it was likely not the normal set up.
posted by klangklangston at 10:37 PM on July 12, 2009

I saw him once a few years ago. He played no Pavement, which was sort of disconcerting - his voice is so recognizable as The Pavement Voice.
posted by lunasol at 11:24 PM on July 12, 2009

Ive seen him three times and he never played any Pavement tunes. He did play "The Milwaukee Show" here in Milwaukee in 2003, which was a complete set of Pavement songs...bummer I missed that one.
posted by fixedthefernback at 6:55 AM on July 13, 2009

I've seen him play with the Jicks, twice. No Pavement.
posted by hot soup girl at 11:33 AM on July 13, 2009