So who were all those people on stage?
It seems quite a few people have been asking that exact question. So to clarify, here were all the people you saw on stage during Peeping Tom’s performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Mike Patton – Lead Vocals
Rahzel (Roots) – Beatbox
Imani Coppola – Backing Vocals/Violin
Dan the Automator – Mixing/Effects
Rob Swift (The X-ecutioners) – Turntables
Joel Hamilton (Book of Knots) – Guitar
Stuart Brooks (Dub Trio) – Bass
Joe Tomino (Dub Trio) – Drums
Update June 3rd: I mistakenly credited D.P. Holmes, Dub Trio’s guitarist, as being on stage with Peeping Tom. Joel Hamilton, Dub Trio’s producer/engineer, was the guitarist for this performance. Thanks for the correction mauro.
May 29th, 2006 at 11:01 AM
I was wondering…
Why was Imani Coppola there? And why did she sing half of the first verse?
In her myspace-blog, she says that she only learned that she was singing with them the day before the show…(oh, and she explains that it’s some band with Dan the Automater and Dub Trio…)
Did Patton catch a cold or something, so he needed someone else to deal with the falcetto?
…I don’t know, maybe I just think too much…
May 29th, 2006 at 10:47 PM
I wondered the same thing, but honestly I really liked her singing, and her violin sounded perfect. I wished Patton was a little louder, but it was still great.
May 30th, 2006 at 12:22 AM
Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to say anything bad about Imani’s, performance, she was great, and fit right in… including the violin, which I thought was a strange idea, when I first saw it, but it worked like a charm
Oh: and the rest of the band were great too
May 31st, 2006 at 12:50 PM
the guitar player was actually Joel Hamilton from Studio G in Brooklyn. He’s also in the Book of Knots and Players Club.
June 1st, 2006 at 8:38 AM
As I understood it, it was always the plan to have another singer(Miho Hatori) on the show. Apparently Miho became ill, and there you have Imani.
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:37 AM
yeah pattons voice was WEAK prob to much FANTOMAS/ZORN…not many people can do that shit…and appears to be taking it’s toll…album sounds good(but that’s all PRODUCTION)..think he’ll need all the help he can get if they ever tour with this band.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:03 PM
anyway aside from all the bitching… WHAT A PHENOMENAL LINEUP.
June 5th, 2006 at 12:40 PM
Imposter – what’s with all the negative comments? All production?!!!!!!!!!
June 21st, 2006 at 1:34 AM
It’s down to the live mix, not vocal weakening – gimme a break!
June 21st, 2006 at 4:18 AM
I really like the lineup .. I hope that this or similar will be the “touring Band” version of Peeping Tom. I would guess that Imani will be doin the female vocals for the 2 tracks that have them and doing backup for the rest. Can’t just have her standing around for 9 of the 11 songs or whatever … I thought that she was an added bonus on Mojo and look forward to hearing PT live.
I wouldn’t put too much in to the sound quality of that vid … Its a LQ DL and the sound always suffers.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:21 PM
Yup, roll on the Astoria on 17 July!!! I’m taking my camera – it’ll be worth getting my head kicked to fuck by security!!!
August 6th, 2006 at 11:33 AM
just saw Peeping Tom in Mpls. a few days ago and was quite impressed. Plus Rahzel did some solo beatboxing that just blew the crowd away. They were opening for Gnarls Barkley, I wish I could have seen a full set… did seem like they were on the stage for a while though, I guess it was just so good I didn’t want it to end.
I think I have listened to the c.d. at least 3 times and some of the individual songs more, and I have had it less than a week… good stuff.
I’ve been trying to find information about who else was up there with him besides Rahzel and Norah Jones(pretty sure that was her?). Any info on the tour line-up? Is it changing at different stops or the same for the whole tour?
Thanks!