Line Out - Comments on The Spits: Puppets and the Nuge http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars The Spits play punk like pissed off puppeteers. They have no qualms about jumping down from their puppet-operating platform and totally cutting up the show. They land on the little fake Camelot set, crush the cardboard castle, tear up the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:30:16 -0800 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:14:41 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by dc Ah, the Spits; I recall stage managing at a local rock fest one year & they were on my stage... I was trying to find them to get them to go on, but they were out in the alley, which happened to be adjacent to a police precinct... they had started a small fire in the alley and were dancing around it. "What are you doing?" I politely asked. "It's the Spits Dance of Fire!" they earnestly explained... great show though.

]]> dc http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908538 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908538 Sound Check Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:33:07 -0800 Comment by Tante If the Spits can help us separate myth from madness, puppets from presidents--I'd say let the Spit fire burn bright so we can all see. Hearing is no problem.
Tante

]]> Tante http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908623 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908623 Sound Check Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:51:30 -0800 Comment by Indiana Lucas Trent Moorman interviewing Sean Spits is almost as good as the first time I saw Jaws.

]]> Indiana Lucas http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908767 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908767 Sound Check Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:38:29 -0800 Comment by Jeff The Spits are both stupid and fun and I love them for it.

No band in Seattle has as much fun onstage as the Spits.

]]> Jeff http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908905 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c908905 Sound Check Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:47:30 -0800 Comment by KELLY O Sean Spits hunting name is "Little Big Wind".
Call him that at the show tonight.

]]> KELLY O http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c909369 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/01/the_spits_hot_tubs_and_boars#c909369 Sound Check Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:14:41 -0800