Here's a good review/synopsis that me and friend put together in case we ever want to do it again, I've got a chord organ now and my new idea is bring a small cassette recorder and the chord organ and play a DJ song and record it on the tape all on stage and then hand the tape out to someone after I draw a frog on it. How authentic DJ tribute can you get!? Just trying to keep the things we loved about Daniel in the first place alive and still freaking people out and touching their hearts at the same time...
ANYWAYS-here's the synopsis:
Dables Plays Daniel Johnston is a Daniel Johnston tribute performed completely in the character of Johnston, culled from his 80's-early 90's famously awkward and weird acoustic shows. Clean shaved, skinny, shaggy hair, wearing his own t-shirt, and promoting himself by full name constantly, Johnston was known for being extremely nervous on stage and talking awkwardly about his religious beliefs, or apologizing profusely after messing up lyrics to his songs, sometimes ending them early out of frustration. He would play the guitar a little too hard sometimes, or miss notes while singing and occasionally flub a lyric or two, and every know and then really appear that he is about to have a nervous breakdown right before your eyes, normally after he thinks he played "badly" in his mind. He often bows after songs, and says the titles and usually the year or album they are from and always kept his sets very short, 5-6 songs tops.
David Walker of the local grunge folk act Dables, tries to recreate all of this to maintain the awkward, emotional, yet funny and entertaining performances of Daniel Johnston.
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