The following "next album" songs:

Bowling With a Genius

S.W.E. (The Na Na Na Song)

Natalie

Instant Insanity

The Live & The Lecherous

In the Name of the Lord

Anything from "City Jams"

Anything from "The Cusack-Loggins EP"

Anything from "Gardening In a Tornado"

The following songs from "Feezle Day":

Are You Listening?

Is It Evil?

Lovepig

Get Involved!

Gettin' a Gut

Leave Me Alone

Tim

My Pants

Winning Me Over

Vacation

Dandy

My Size

Under The Lights

You

Bughouse

Please do not request songs you've heard us do as featured covers, or covers of any kind.

Again, your request is due by Wednesday, May 12th.  See you on the webcast!

David, Kenneth, Dustin & Aaron

It's been a year and a half since "The Cusack-Loggins EP", and three and a half years since "Gardening In a Tornado", so needless to say, we're getting pretty darned psyched about getting a new, real studio album out for you.  In fact, Dustin and I have booked a couple of days of studio time in June with our good friend Kendall Combes (mix engineer on "Gardening") to start going over songs, deciding which ones we like, which ones need work, etc.  I could not be more excited about starting this process; making records is probably my favorite part of being in a band, and I can't wait to do it again.  It's our hope to have a new album of songs to you by year's end.

So here's what's up: consider partnering with us to make this CD possible.  Essentially, you'll be joining with other Little Weasels across the country and the world to make this record possible.  If you've ever wanted to help get some new music that you're excited about out into the world, this is your chance!  Read the rest of this email to find out all the perks and goodness you'll receive for partnering with us!

If you'd like to donate without using PayPal, send us an email at doctorpants@doctorpants.com and we'll work something out.

As someone wise once said, partnership has its perks.  We would never ask for your partnership and not give you something in return!  Below are some of your partnership options, and what you get with each level of donation:

The "We Have the Money To Save the Goon Docks" Level ($50):

With a $50 donation, you'll receive:

1. A copy of the new CD autographed by all 4 members of Dr. Pants, mailed to you 2 weeks before the official release date.

2. A Dr. Pants concert poster autographed by all 4 members.

3. Your name will be posted on www.doctorpants.com with all the other Little Weasels with expressions of deep gratitude.

4. Your name will be entered in a drawing for the "Ultimate Little Weasel Package", which includes:

--a. A brand new Dr. Pants song written and recorded just for you!  We'll send you a copy on CD, as well as post it online for free download.

--b. A private Dr. Pants concert webcast for you and as many of your friends as you want, with the ability to interact with us during the show via Skype.

--c. The Mega-Rad Dr. Pants Discography, including all our studio albums, rare, out-of-print material, side projects, and a hitherto unavailable CD of "City Jams".

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The "I Just Want One Rib...Got Change For a Hundred?" Level ($100):

With a $100 donation, you'll receive:

1. The choice to have one of the following:

--a. A brand new Dr. Pants song written and recorded just for you!  We'll send you a copy on CD, as well as post it online for free download.

--OR--

--b. A private Dr. Pants concert webcast for you and as many of your friends as you want, with the ability to interact with us during the show via Skype.

2. The autographed CD in advance.

3. The autographed poster.

4. Your name posted on www.doctorpants.com.

5. You'll be entered in the drawing for the "Ultimate Little Weasel" package, and if you win, you'll receive either the song or the concert (whichever one you didn't choose) as well, plus the Mega-Rad Dr. Pants Discography.

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The "You Know We're Gonna Be, We're Gonna Be The Band That's Workin' Hard For You" Level ($500):

With a $500 donation, you'll receive:

1. A brand new Dr. Pants song written and recorded just for you.

2. A private Dr. Pants webcast just for you and your friends.

3. The Mega-Rad Dr. Pants Discography.

4. The autographed CD, 2 weeks in advance of the release date.

5. The autographed poster.

6. Your name posted on www.doctorpants.com.

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The "Number That Goes After the Word 'Bee'" Level ($1000):

With a $1000 donation, you'll receive:

1. Executive Producer credit on the new album.

2. A brand new Dr. Pants song written and recorded just for you.

3. A private Dr. Pants webcast just for you and your friends.

3. The Mega-Rad Dr. Pants Discography.

4. The autographed CD, 2 weeks in advance of the release date.

5. The autographed poster.

6. Your name posted on www.doctorpants.com.

I can't really describe what it was like to know that so many of you were out there listening.  It was really freakin' cool.  I think that it really helps alleviate the ache in my heart that originates from not being able to come play for all you fans that live far away.  It was a fantastic feeling.  The other guys in the band had a great time, too...I think poor Aaron is having a hard time keeping up, though.  At the end of the gig he said, "I think we'll need to edit a few songs out before it broadcasts", and I said, "Dude it was LIVE."  He had this "Oh s%#t" look on his face. Thanks, of course, to Jason for running sound and all his technical help, Jerry and CD Warehouse for putting us up (and putting up with us), and K.C. for adding her bass playing to two songs!

If you saw it and you liked it, please go to CD Baby or iTunes and order a CD or download some mp3s.  Your support will be the thing that eventually makes it possible for us to come out and see you in person.

For those who are curious, here's last night's setlist:

DOPPELGANGER ROCK

BOOTYFEST

BOWLING WITH A GENIUS

THE LIVE & THE LECHEROUS

THE HEXAGON SONG

DANDY

COLUMBUS

SWEET NATASHA

DONUTS

FEATURED COVER THEME

LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY

IF I WERE JOHN CUSACK

NATALIE

HEY ABE LINCOLN

UNDER THE LIGHTS

THEY WANNA CALL YOU WILLIS

KENNY LOGGINS

SHINE THROUGH ME

SARSAPARILLA GIRL

A GUY NAMED MATT

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It's been a little quiet in Pants-world as of late, but we're fixin' to change all that. As you may (or may not) know, I (David) am currently out on tour with K.C. (Clifford, my bride and partner in this craziness known as the music world), performing her music in venues across the midwest and east coast. I decided to attempt an exercise, a plan, a project if you will, to flex my creative muscles and to get some new Pants music out there to all our fans and friends. Thus was born "CITY JAMS", a group of songs, each of which is about a different city we are visiting on this tour. The best part? We're GIVING THEM AWAY FOR FREE. Each one will just be a little Garageband recording I make on this here laptop I'm typing on right now, but they are already shaping up to be some fun ditties.

What do you need to do to get them??

All you have to do is JOIN the Dr. Pants email list (up in the top right hand corner of this page) before September 1st and I'll send an mp3 of each one to you as soon as it's finished. First up is Minneapolis/St. Paul. You'll get the lyrics in the email as well.

It's that simple. Time to rock to some CITY JAMS.

More soon,
David, Dustin, Aaron & Kenneth]]> http://doctorpants.com/news.html#50 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Official Website - Dr. Pants - News http://doctorpants.com/news.html#49 ]]> http://doctorpants.com/news.html#49 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Official Website - Dr. Pants - News http://doctorpants.com/news.html#48
I (David) am from Oklahoma City, but back in high school and college (especially in college) I had a number of friends who lived in Tulsa. I used to go to Tulsa for a day or two on breaks from school--Christmas, Spring Break, etc.

My Tulsa friends were inspiring, to say the least. Most certainly a creative, hipster brand of people. One of them, Brian Byrne, played guitar in the first incarnation of Dr. Pants. Some of the stuff they came up with is classic and survives to this day (at least, in my mind it certainly does). Kenny Loggins "Craphat" is a perfect example.

The story goes like this: one night said group of friends were sitting at Village Inn (the 24 hour restaurant of choice). This was not an unusual occurrence. Whatever discussion they were in most likely reached a lull, and a man named Tom, out of nowhere pipes up with: "Hey, did you guys know that Kenny Loggins put out an album in the seventies called "Kenny Loggins-Craphat"? And that on the front cover he was literally wearing a hat that looked like it was made out of shit?" Outlandish as this tale was, it certainly pales in comparison to the fact that the rest of my friends present at the time BELIEVED HIM. I mean, had I been there I probably would have WANTED to believe him...Kind of an unlikely story, but not altogether implausible. I mean, some of the album covers from the seventies are pretty ridiculous, aren't they? Is the "Craphat" concept really that much more obnoxious than, say, "Sloppy Seconds" by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (go look that one up)?

So, fast forward to 24 hours later when said group of folks is back at (you guessed it) Village Inn once again. Tom breaks it to them that he made it up. This, of course, makes it all the more awesome and brilliant.

This is how I remember it...and I heard it second hand to begin with, so people who were there for real may want to add addenda to my story. Go for it. But this urban legend simply must be retold, and simply had to be immortalized in song. Hence the third verse of "Kenny Loggins", from our new release, THE CUSACK-LOGGINS EP. Enjoy.]]> http://doctorpants.com/news.html#48 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Official Website - Dr. Pants - News http://doctorpants.com/news.html#47 IS HERE!! As previously announced, we will be celebrating the release
of this fabulous piece of goodness by playing a really fantastic show
for you on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST!! We are holding this fantabulous
shindig at CD Warehouse at 4001 N. Penn. There will be some cheap
refreshments, and it will be a rocking good time. The new CDs will be
$8 each, and it will be $5 to get into the show. We've decided that
if you think you're going to want to sit and listen, instead of stand
up and rock out, you can bring your own chair (those snazzy camp
chairs that people bring to outdoor gigs and so forth should work
great). Full info is below!

Meanwhile, starting next week (Sunday, October 25th), you'll be able
to listen to the whole EP on doctorpants.com!! At this time, two
tracks are streaming on our MySpace page (www.myspace.com/drpants5),
on our new Facebook music page (they don't really give you a succinct
URL for those...Just go on Facebook and do a search for "Dr. Pants"
and you should find us) and on our Sonicjive.com page
(www.sonicjive.com/drpants). We hope that if you are not already our
MySpace friend or Facebook fan that you will become both! Also, go to
Sonicjive.com, which is our new favorite music networking site, create
your profile and become a Sonicjive fan of Dr. Pants!!

We really hope you'll make the show, and that you'll bring friends.
Forward this on to as many people as possible and let's pack this one
out! See you there!

David, Aaron, Dustin & Kenneth

P.S. For you out of town folks, the EP should be available through
CD Baby by the 11/1 release date, as well as on iTunes and other
digital music services shortly after that. I'll send out another
email when these things are up and running.


Saturday, November 1st, 2008
CD Warehouse - http://www.cdwarehouse.com
Release Party @ CD Warehouse!! - 8:30 pm
4001 N. Pennsylvania
Oklahoma City, OK
USA
Price: $5

CD RELEASE PARTY FOR THE CUSACK-LOGGINS EP!! IT'S GONNA BE THE MOST
AWESOME THING EVER!!]]> http://doctorpants.com/news.html#47 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Official Website - Dr. Pants - News http://doctorpants.com/news.html#46
It's taken me a long time to arrive at the place in my life where I "get" this record. I'm there now, and I can't really explain to you why I "get" it now and I didn't before. The thing that changed for me is so abstract I can't even put it into words. This is what makes me start to doubt things, to doubt that our culture has anything right about how to engage something as abstract as music...At the very least, the entire school of rock criticism starts to seem completely ludicrous. Those guys sit there and make totally subjective judgments about a piece of music, try to explain to you in some quasi-objective manner why they do or don't like it, when all they are really doing is making a sad attempt to justify to the rest of the world the fact that they did or did not connect with a certain piece of music. What a complete waste of time. Now, mind you, as soon as I say this, I realize that many of the so-called rock critic types have many times influenced my decision about whether to buy a certain record or not, but really, for the most part, all that's happening is me observing a certain consensus among writers who have some taste in common with me, which gives me the confidence that I might connect with that record they all like, and so I go for it.

This much I can say...If you have always had trouble with Daydream Nation, the way I did for so long, keep at it. You may eventually come to the place I have come to.]]> http://doctorpants.com/news.html#46 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 Official Website - Dr. Pants - News