Moon Hooch: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2014
- People ask me all the time to name my favorite Tiny Desk Concert. It's my desk and I've seen almost all of the nearly 400 concerts up close. So you'd think this would be easy. Moon Hooch have made it a lot easier.
Up there with the ear-shaking voice of Adele, the desk dancing of Gogol Bordello, the stripped down version of Phoenix - not to mention magic moments with Alt-J, Angel Olsen and Lucius and more - Moon Hooch blew me away with just two saxes and a drummer. Their music is a mix of the best jazz, EDM and rock have to offer. It's out there, it's danceable and you may find yourself feeling a sense of reckless abandon!
The band is saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen, and drummer James Muschler. They all studied in New York at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and every single moment of every song I've ever seen them perform has been full throttle. They call their music "cave music," taking the best elements of electronica - the brutal stops, starts and shifts - and performing those unnaturally precise hairpin turns organically by blowing on horns and banging on drums. This for the boldness in all of us. Embrace Moon Hooch. --BOB BOILEN
Set List
"Tubes"
"Number 9"
"Bari 3"
Credits
Producers: Bob Boilen, Denise DeBelius; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Denise DeBelius, Olivia Merrion; Production Assistant: Alex Schelldorf; photo by Alex Schelldorf/NPR 
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Every band should have a VLC player.
This joke is underrated.
I just loled so hard
Hahaha so great
that was fantastic mate
Loved the joke, good one dude
The drummer has all the answers. But he ain’t talking.
Toby 😂😂😂👍🏽
Lol he just did a solo show, I should have video of it up in a day or two. It's called "James Muschler Party".
So much to say ...
@@gangofgreenhorns2672 Imwaiting.
@@youribosque9832 my gf will wake up soon and let me use her laptop. lol sorry
The drummer is just compensating for the closed eyes of the sax players
Underrated comment
HA!
He’s on coke
He did not blink. not even once. I think he seees something we dont and cant take his eyes off it.
Absolutely
What you all don't realize, is the drummer is the only one here. He is hallucinating the other 2 so hard, we can see and hear them, too.
Mass hallucination through the internet?!!
yoo i went back after reading this and i cant unsee it
4.25min i can see where you're coming from
Bro this is and forever shall be the best comment on RUclips
😂😂😂
It's so good to see there are at least some young musicians out there who still play actual construction site safety materials.
hahahahaha!
Seriously! None of that garbage simulated synth construction material.
says the person whos backing up music thats not even realy an instrument. hahahah. computers dont count you hater. i dont see you rockin the fuck out with your mates enjoying life.
man I was about to leave a sincere comment haha.
Adam Morrison, I think i got cancer after reading that, you fucking idiot.
holy god damn fuck, they must pay that drummer in pure cocaine
Fooly Cooly L. O. FUCKING L.
lmao DEAD
peep
I love it when a band looks like they are struggling angrily to push the music out of themselves and into their instruments.
Can't stop laughing))))
I've never seen someone play the drums sarcastically before today.
The drums are playing him sarcastically
May be my favorite comment on YT yet.
Acid will do that to ya.
You put into words what I was trying to put into words
That's the most spot on comment of the week right there
The drummer can barely contain his energy. He looks like he wants to start a mosh pit the whole time. I love it.
my mans out here seeing sounds
moss pit
I feel it would still be appropriate if he broke out some blast beats randomly. lol
I mean he’s obviously coked out lol
@@leiladekwatro3147 synesthesia in sensurround
Legend has it they met on the street 18 years ago and have still never spoken a word to each other
They speak the language of music
lol this^ is a good take
RG, so I guess they met on the street at 3-5 years old
This legit makes so much sense
@Badger BadgerBadger beat me to it lol
What I have learned; I am a simple man, I see a cone out of a saxophone, I click
Hokiemon Productions ditto
So old...
You are a Wise man mate.
I see you too have watched conehenge
Admittedly why I'm here
Well it's good to know if this band doesn't work out the two sax players can get a job inflating life rafts in 5 minutes or less, and the drummer will just go back to his home planet.
ok, this one slayed me. bravo
PLS 💀
:D :D
😂😂😂 one of my favorite comments bravo
I would go watch you perform standup based purely on this incredible comment. My god.
Sax in pop: Plays the "right" notes.
Sax in jazz: Plays the "wrong" notes.
Sax in Moonhooch: SCREEECH.
Moonhooch: Plays "notes".
ftfy
actually screeching sax is not new, listen to Maceo from The J.B.'s band (James Brown). For example "Same beat" song
LIVE FROM NEW YORK!!!!
IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!
Sax in Moonhooch: Plays Didgeridubstep
Sounds like you need some Leo P in your life.
It's like a gaggle of geese dying beautifully.
& with exceptional rhythm
i laughed so hard at this oh my god
I'm not sure beautifully is the adverb I would have chosen. Maybe something more akin to a gaggle of geese suddenly becoming aware of their own existence and then throwing a party to celebrate.
a gaggle of geese being beaten to death with clubs, in style
Yes!!! Geese!
It's like the more obscure and better songs you've never heard the cantina band play
Oh you like Figrin Dan and the Modal Nodes? Name 3 of their songs
@@addledhead "That same song", "That same song" and "That same song".
Disney + coming at them with contracts
addledhead I’m more of a Max Rebo man myself, but Figrin Dan will always have a special place in my heart
they kidnapped the drummer from an orphanage in ukraine when he was only 12, now he's 13
how he's 13 got me
how he's 13 got me
Spectacular!
and his friend is over here screaming with a horn
BEST COMMENT I'VE EVER READ, EVER!!!
how is the drummer the most talked about person in a sax dubstep band.
because he's insanely good plus he's quite outstanding
@@youribosque9832 yes but... traffic cone SCREECHING
because he looks as if he was trafficking drugs by swallowing them, but forgot to put them in a bag.
@@bigbossskill23 i dont want to say you're wrong but i wont admit that you're right.
This comment made me laugh so much
what in the fuck. do it again.
The VLC player guy is so awesome
Hahahaha
fukken ded m8
LUL
Probably the best comment I've ever seen on RUclips.
You sir, just won the internet.
Didn't know them, trusted the Tiny Desk, WHAT A PERFORMANCE OH MY GOD THEY ARE AMAZING
Even better live friend ! Catch them sometime - I believe they got a new drummer or maybe the old one returned to netherworld.
5:56 is the precise moment the potions kick in.
The 2nd potion kicks in
my potions are too strong for you traveller
Now we know who the Potion Master gave his potions to…
The drummer hypnotized two highschool band geeks and turned them into music slaves. upon a key word, uttered over the phone, the two sax players leave their homes and walk days until they reach the show and play non-stop until the drummer sends them back. They have no idea they even play saxophone still, and neither do their families.
Drummer blinked on that comment one-time.
*sax slaves
Sax trafficking is a real issue.
The key word is oboe
Haha this is the only funny comment so far
Ya know...I was wondering what Ed, Edd, and Eddy were doing after the show was cancelled. I'm glad to see that they're okay.
Killerkiki313 GAHAGA
great comment
Killerkiki313 THIS SHOT HAS ME ROLLING
Killerkiki313 They would be playing music on the streets and Eddy would be wanting quarters from people so he could get jawbreakers lol
Killerkiki313 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha
That drummer can SEE sound waves
The drummer's not on drugs, he is drugs.
Dems good drugs thou!
Drugs are on he.
He is on the
Drugs the he on is
Drugs he
that drummer has A S C E N D E D
Brandon Szparagowski he's not even at the desk, he's in another realm
he's unreal.
such a dope comment
He no longer plays drums, he IS drums.
As an atheist i now have turned to a being a believer....This drummer is Holy...
This band is probably the only way I could quit caffeine.
Get addicted to traffic cone sax instead ;)
No caffeine left the drummer took it all
@@tedros6917 the drummer radiates caffeine energy like a wireless charger
i picked the wrong day to quit sniffing airplane glue!! so I'm snorting some MoonHooch!!
Legend has it their diet consists entirely of bagels and $1 pizza.
And moss
Your mom's boomer friends: "So what are you gonna do after you graduated?"
Me, a music school student:
I get the drummer, I’d also react that way if I took 6 tabs of acid and is having the ghost of Coltrane giving me head in the bass drum. Absolutely bless this band.
Jesus Christ I'm laughing so hard
Was looking for a comment like this. Expectations surpassed
whats crazy is he's like that in every video.... just like you
Sacrilege
Even more impressive that he can play so well even on 6 tabs of acid
0:19 "My potions are too strong for you traveler"
Hahahaha - yes!
Most underrated comment ever !
Whoever played the old Elder Scrolls knows exactly what I mean.
im dead
@@carl6167 i think its a refrence to potion seller the youtube video
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That transition from Number 9 to Bari 3 is INSANE
My favorite part was the do do doo do do doo do then they started doing this weird burrrrrr burrr burrrrr burrrr and like leaning into each other it was crazy and the drummer had crazy eyes it was unreal
A threesome , some may call it.
So every second
No it was TOO REAL
The fact that this made sense
7:35 to be precise
this is exactly what New York sounds like.
Damn I wish I could live in nyc in that case
HAHAH on point
Omg you’re right
FUCKYES
At times
Why shell money for a bass sax when you can shove a cone into a tenor?
But then he pulls out the bari lol
@Armando Cerros so much same
For dat thumbnail
He’s using the cone to project/emphasize the lower frequencies of the sax while keeping the range. I’ve used a similar technique when recording with percussion and also recording a bass through a distorted guitar amp. 🤓
@Armando Cerros You can play tubes with a low A baritone but since Wenzl has a low Bb baritone, he had to use a traffic cone.
Just in case you want to search for the songs individually...
00:00 Tubes
04:11 Number 9
08:12 Bari 3
Thank you!!!
No! Tubes started at 00:00
@@cindyferris7498 👍
if i went 1/10th as hard at anything in my life as these 3 guys just went at this one performance...
im honestly not sure what i just witnessed but i loved witnessing it.
This is probably one of the most metal things I've seen on here lately.
Lucid Leaf soory Lucid, but it is not metal, it is wood !!! sax is a wood wind instrument !
cwb63 you must be new to the metal genre....
cwb63 troll much?
I play Alto Sax, Jazz & Bossa Nova mostly
+cwb63 One of my teachers at college always loves to play Bossa Nova. He plays Bossa Nova n' Nova n' Nova n' Nova n' Nova...
Came for the traffic cone, stayed for the crazy drummer!
El Efecto Mariarosa me too!! bahahahhaa!!
El Efecto Mariarosa Same.
He's fucking great
FACTS
I think i just see this video daily because of him and his face expressions, i wanna meet him in person HAHA
I just realized these dudes don’t need outlets to play cause it’s all acoustic instruments so they could literally set up and vibe anywhere that’s so rad
thats the best part imo
You should ride the NYC subway sometime.
@@Asdayasman I'm well aware of the existence of acoustic instruments and subway buskers in New York City but thanks for reminding me I almost forgot
5:55 that drum solo is amazing
Say what you want about the drummer, but he's a great player. Fast, precise and wild.
I've never seen a man less lucid than this drummer
4 hours of sleep in 6 days will do that to a man.
ugh, try 6 days of sleep in 4 hours. that'll do ya one harder even
Daniel Blake that's the secret to his power. He can only drum when he hasn't slept in a month.
On the contraty he was so woke
He can't sleep because some asshole keeps drumming all night: him.
Nothing I like more than watching two grown men angrily saxing at each other
They're so wickedly in sync with each other and their instruments by the soul.
Thats called "the pocket"
the energy in the music is ridiculous
I want to go to the drummer’s planet
start drumming. after a few years you will be on his planet :D
“Hey what scales should I use over these chords and how do I write a melody and what’s form in music?”
“I don’t know but look at this dope cone I found at that construction site back there!”
“Nice! Let’s go ask that guy over there collecting moss if he plays drums.”
“Yay!”
they've never actually talked, only played
The drums are stuffed with moss
You could write a whole cartoon about these guys.
@@isweartofuckinggod honestly, I half expect that these guys have stepped out of the same universe as the Gorrilaz
Fail
After all these years this is still my favourite NPR Tiny desk concert ❤
The drummer looks like he collects moss
incredible
Dude! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
r/rareinsults
Bruh it’s almost 2020, step your moss collection game up
Dude you killed him lol
people need spend less time on cell phone and more time on traffic cone, less time thinking about fort nite cell phone and more time thinking about traffic cone
Noah Baker less time on cereal and macdonal and more time on traffic cone
Back when I was young we drank traffic cone straight from the hose! You millennials have it so easy!
they always say "give me pumpkin spice latte" but they never say "give me traffic cone" :/
He actually uses a bass sax sometimes... then adds a cone ;)
@paperchasin23 This but unironically
The drummer is just something else, this band is something else. They’ve ascended
Y’all joking on the drummer. He went ham on his solo though. And buddy played the mess out that street cone
awesome.
The drummer looks like he's on... EVERY drug at the same time
He. Is. Drugs.
Looks like he's seeing things from another dimension.
He is THAT high AND still drumming like a mad man. Im sure most of us couldn't even handle a cowbell at that level of inebriation. :)
Carlyle Laurent When he follows the drum stick with his eyes HAHA
Carlyle Laurent Oh I dunno, he just looks like he's a good drummer who happens to be a little twitchy in the groove to me. Source: I have seen a lot of people actually on drugs.
I'm out of breath just watching these guys.
I will never forget the happiness this video made me feel the first time I watched it.
when you collect bugs as a hobby but youre also a drummer on the side
Is this acoustic dubstep? All that's missing are some jawharps and didgeridoos
Pocket Picker that would be an avengers level threat
If you like jawharps and didgreridoos check out Cari Cari.
cave music
Pocket Picker no, no it is not
Autistic dubstep
Drummer is the love child of Zlatan and Mesut Ozil
DAMN RIGHT JACK
Good call, sax player looks like George North
hahahahah yes also ugly as fuck
hahahahahahahahaha
Sam Manuel n
Came to the comments. They did not disappoint. Made every point. Still a killer groove
A Young Eddy Guerrero Playing the Sax ....just Amazing!!!
If you haven't check out Leo P
Only other saxophone players will realize how difficult it is to play something like this. Notice how the left tenor play player has to breathe a huge amount after only playing a few notes. Also, playing that high on tenor as the guy on the right does with that much control is almost impossible. P.S. I want some of whatever that drummer's been doing.
+Tim P. G That's a bari sax....notice the size and neck twirl....
+nathan B at the beginning of the concert he plays a tenor with a cone in it
+Tim P. G It's probably having to blow through that ruddy great big cone! But cone or not, yeah it's exhausting playing this stuff!!
+Tim P. G I know right? This makes me want to break mine out and get back to it haha. He just flawlessly hops in and out of altissimo, throws growls on high register, and rips through scales. And the Bari/Cone player must have incredible lung capacity, because I've tried to do the cone in tenor thing, and it takes way more air than I can supply haha. Especially to still play in tune
+Tim P. G seriously though. what is that drummer on ? lol
I feel like these 2 guys met saxophone battling on the subway.
That's actually not far off. They met at a jazz music school, but got their start busking in the NYC subway.
@@conraddoud9975 I once ran into these guys playing in a Manhattan subway. It's one of those times you ask yourself "how much of a hurry am I in, really?" Just imagine how great this is with the acoustics of echo-neverending.
Like coinciDance for dubstep jazz
they are still battling today
This was the first NPR tiny desk I had ever seen 6 years ago. Can't even remember how I ended up here but every now and then I come back for the possessed drummer and the guy making a tubax out of a traffic cone
That drum break was incredible
legend has it the drummer never closes his eyes
and tenor sax never opens his
The drummer does close his eyes at that awesome break at 5:55
Legand has it that he sold his eyelids to afford his drumset.
@@lukecherchenko5930 otherwise he will lose it by blowing out
I love that it has all the flow and style of EDM/dubstep but played on actual drums and horns...it’s essentially modern jazz.
Its jazzstep or thrash dubjazz
They call it acoustic techno
I've only heard sax screeching in two places. Here, and in jazz.
@@taylorbarrow453 and in funk
Acid brass
They're creating pure groove that just makes you want to flip a table and jump out the window.
“sax is such an attractive instrument... it just makes people sexy"
"idk man... guitarist who sing get all the girls" -- sees cone sax
"oh now I know..."
That switch into Bari 3 was life changing
These dudes jam hard.
And the comments on this video are outrageous. Dying of laughter.
Ok I just loved this. The interplay between the three guys, the energy, creativity and talent are just off the scale.
This is the greatest band of all time. I have no idea how this video found me... but bless it!!!
re: all the comments about the drummer: drummers aren't right in the head. it's in the job requirements.
This is truth!
Truth
Whats the difference between a drummer and a big pizza?
Abso-bloody-lutely!!!! I dated one for a month, that was more than enough)))
I am one and I can confirm
By far my favorite tiny desk concert. 50% talent 50% crazy drummer faces
I literally want these guys to be my first concert I see when this pandemic is over. I saw these guys at house of blue San Diego, they opened for unwritten law. I kid you not, it went from a punk show to a full on rave because of these guys. I can’t wait to see them again some day 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They opened for Beats Antique when I saw them. The only band I've *ever* seen that makes a crowd dance as hard as Beats Antique.
In like 2014 they opened for they might be giants, I was too young at the time to realize how good they were haha
Superb. I don't care if they have all hallucinated themselves into existence: this is a sublime sonic tsunami.
Also this drummer makes me feel real awkward, but I'm compelled to enjoy the music just as much as he is. He's on a whole nother level though. Like sax dudes are playing the music, he's living the music.
i can’t count the number of times i’ve watched this, and how into their music they get always gives me tingles. especially the drummer doing his drum face. anyone who’s played an instrument will know you unconsciously make a face when you’re in the zone
AKA stank-face
Yea i drum and i notice i bite my lip
Right! I still watch it! That’s why I have it saved
I just found it 😂👏🏻
@@tjsimmons8008 welcome in. This is probably my 50th time watching it, we saved you a seat.
I feel like I'm staring back into the past; at the very creation of what it is and what it means to be...madlads.
And just like that, everyone at NPR was pregnant.
cant afford the bari sax, stole a traffic cone
John Adams they have a Bari sax they just aren't using it in this video
John Adams he moves to Bari after the first song
jeez, no one can just laugh, everyones gotta be a know it all
장진호 I think it's funny
Alfred W. why thank you Alfred
I hope these guys donate their bodies to science so we can see how they evolved four lungs.
Shaidyn watch the video where he shows cyclical breathing. It’s intense!!!
@@janelbahr3753 circular
HAUAHAHAHAHAHA
Have ya seen leo p?
hahaha
The drummer is insanely skilled, and wired to the moon.
Wow. They was monstrous. Very entertaining. The sound Made me think of the “Voodoo Glow Skulls”
Ive never had so much sax in my life
I wish we had the dimensions of the cone so more people could take up the fine art of playing the saxocone
I believe it is 36" exactly with a 2" tape and rubber insert (to make it seal better) I measured it before. Just start with 40" and then slowly cut off more until the Bb fingering plays a D an octave below the low D--with tenor.
@@gangofgreenhorns2672 I know my low A pipe for my bari makes low B stuffy and out of tune, in addition to dropping low Bb to low A. Does having a pipe as long as this one also make low C and C# play badly, or is it just tuned to D out of key signature choice?
Gang of GreenHorns y’all are the best!
@@sreeser3512 I have talked to my friend Lucas--who has covered their song--about it, and he said the cardboard tube they used made it play stuffier on the low end. The wider bore of the cone, might help that a little. Never asked Wenzl how it played.
Nah you gotta figure it out yourself for the proper authentic sound
"The Saxy Twins and All-Knowing Drummer"
God and the two Cosmic Elephants
This is the closest band kids will ever come to being cool. Love it. Nerd pride
Playing music, jazz, and marching ARE all cool.
@@AncientRe nope
Band kids have always been the cool ones... What type of highschool did you go to?!? Everyone else was always caught up in social hierarchy and mainstream fashion, we litterally just partied and diddled each other
@@SirGarthur i try to tell people that the Flute girls were actually just as crazy as in American Pie but nobody but other band kids believes we were getting laid which is hysterical
In fact, an issue was that drugs were too popular with the band. Its one things to drink and smoke trees, but lots of the upperclassmen were abusing other stuff too.
This kind of music reminds me of a bunch of pasta noodles flailing around in the wind
This comment need mor like
XD hahahaha
This is the best commet tbh
A regular Tuesday afternoon for me 🤷🏼♂️
Dude, I am the tomato with your basil in the spaghetti of images you made in my mind.
drummer is having vietnam flashbacks
What ?
Sean Clarke it’s fucking Afghanistan man
nah he's just channeling that pure shambling crackhead energy into his drum set
LMFAOOOOOOOOO
Jahahahahahahahaahvahahavahahahahahahahahahahaha loloooooool
God bless the drummer who has allowed himself to go along with this insanity
Clicked for the traffic-cone-sax in the thumbnail, stayed for the music!
the drummer has seen some shit dude I swear
pell yell sadly he has..
drummer has diagnosable crazy eyes
*CONSPICUOUS PASSION
Ralph Waldo Picklechips he is most definitely on something
Whatever helps him focus. That drum break at 5:53 is fantastic. He's got some chops!
Ralph Waldo Picklechips what drummer doesn't
isn't he a progerian?
Come to Norway and take my money!! Wildest thing ive heard and seen
Came for the music, replayed multiple times for comments, stayed forever transfixed by the all encompassing enthusiasm of the drummer.
That was fuckin awesome! Love how the drummers headlights are stuck on bright! Masterful timekeeping!
And then they all died of a simultaneous brain aneurysm.
I used watch these guys play all the time in Washington Square Park. This doesn't even begin to capture the intensity of that experience.
Así como no hay una persona igual a otra, no hay una banda igual a otra. Gracias NPR por compartir todos estos hermosos videos.
Music that's athletic enough to be an Olympic event. These guys are incredible!!!