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GRACE HELBIG: Here I am at New York City's Lower East Side.
It's very funky.
It was once famous as the home for recently-arrived
immigrants and has now morphed into a mecca of cool.
Food, fashion, hipsters with tattoos, but above all music
are what make the Lower East Side such a vibrant
neighborhood.
Tonight we're coming at you from Pianos Music Club on
Ludlow Street.
Pianos has been putting on cutting-edge music shows for
years, and among the bands to gain early acclaim here have
been the Silversun Pickups, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and
A Place to Bury Strangers.
So let's start talking to some strangers.
What is it about live music that you love so much?
FEMALE SPEAKER: [MOANING]
MALE SPEAKER: The energy, the perspiration, the sweat.
I want to smell you.
I want to feel you.
I want to know that you are a human being.
GRACE HELBIG: What do you love about live music?
MALE SPEAKER: The sweating.
GRACE HELBIG: Do you really?
Do you want to smell them?
MALE SPEAKER: I do.
I want to smell you.
Lift your arm up.
GRACE HELBIG: No, no.
Bad choice.
Bad choice.
Sweating, really?
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah.
GRACE HELBIG: You like the sweating?
MALE SPEAKER: You get close to people, it's good.
GRACE HELBIG: Why sweat?
MALE SPEAKER: Why not sweat?
GRACE HELBIG: That's true.
That's so philosophically deep, my head just went psh.
All right, here we go.
We're going inside.
Come on, kids.
We did it!
We're inside.
And it's crazy.
There's no actual piano inside.
But it's awesome.
MALE SPEAKER: Do you know where the restroom is?
GRACE HELBIG: It's downstairs.
MALE SPEAKER: Downstairs.
GRACE HELBIG: Yeah.
MALE SPEAKER: I'll be right back.
GRACE HELBIG: Bye.
Let's go back this way.
That's where the music is.
So how much does an audience play into your
creativity on stage?
ELDRIDGE RODRIGUEZ: Well, if the audience is with you, the
band plays better.
But it's just being able to have fun and pull stuff out
that people aren't expecting you to do.
It's the fun of playing live.
GRACE HELBIG: OK, so to you, who is the sexiest
performer out there?
FEMALE SPEAKER: Maxwell.
I was absolutely in love, would have
married him right away.
Like, Pure 6-- the entire time, it was ***.
It was good.
GRACE HELBIG: And you're not pregnant.
FEMALE SPEAKER: Live music is everything that
it's meant to be.
It's energy.
It's fun.
It's wild.
It's crazy.
It's sex.
It's inappropriateness.
It's cupcakes.
GRACE HELBIG: What's been your most memorable live music
experience?
FEMALE SPEAKER: I went to the New Kids on the Block concert.
We got front-row seats.
And then when "Cover Girl" came on-- you know how Donnie
Wahlberg sang it?
GRACE HELBIG: Yes.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I don't know if you remember.
But he pulled me on stage, gave me a red
rose, and sang to me.
It was so awesome.
GRACE HELBIG: That's entirely not fair.
When you think of live music, this is what you think of.
What is it?
MALE SPEAKER: Maybe connection.
I like it when artists decide to come
down on the same level.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I like it, too.
I like it when artists decide to come a level.
It's cool.
GRACE HELBIG: I love when people walk into interviews.
Hi.
FEMALE SPEAKER: I'm really sorry.
MALE SPEAKER: My most amazing experience was at a free
concert in college.
It was the band Better Than Ezra.
MALE SPEAKER: I went to see one of my favorite bands,
Kaiser Chiefs.
They played a small venue.
And I shouted out the lead singer's name, Ricky Wilson.
He heard my English accent. and he's English.
I connected with him.
He reached down, shook my hand in front of thousands of
people, handed me the mic.
Me and my friends sang into it, sang the chorus for him.
GRACE HELBIG: What's the chorus?
MALE SPEAKER: Oh, "every day I love you less and less." I
can't sing.
You wouldn't want me to.
GRACE HELBIG: Did you sing it like that?
Did you really sing it like that when
you were in the concert?
MALE SPEAKER: [SINGING]
Oh!
Every day I love you less and less.
Is that what it is?
GRACE HELBIG: Here at My Damn Channel, we love music and
music stories.
The crazier, the better.
So join us next week from the R Bar in New York for more of
My Damn Channel's "Music Nights," presented by SoCo.