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Dan Deacon's Crowd Control

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 – running time 07:37
Baltimore's future-shock freak on music, Pop Tarts, and mind control.

Using a mix of social skills, trashed electronics and neon tape, Dan Deacon can turn a crowd o f adults into 9 year old spazzes cracked out on Pop Tarts & Nickelodeon . He re, he works his magic at UC Berkeley and lets us in on secrets of mass mind control.

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Highlights
Compaq computer ( 0:52, 0:52 ) sheet music ( 1:15, 1:15 ) lair ( 5:52, 5:52 ) edged sword ( 3:09, 3:09 ) Compaq computer ( 0:52, 0:52 ) sheet music ( 1:15, 1:15 ) lair ( 5:52, 5:52 ) edged sword ( 3:09, 3:09 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

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" I guess I was probably like twelve or thirteen or fourteen -- something and we got a Compaq computer and it came with this many programs. Committee's office. I was in the can really should be -- at the time but I am flight writing a lot of the songs night had a hard time today had to get my views and ideas across like I've played on base -- try to show like them born players. There are terrible -- midi program allowed me to like put it on sheet music and and they can just look on the computer screen. See it hear back exactly how it's supposed to be and I just started falling in love -- music that was like the possible to play. I can only exist on the computer."

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" You like six friends with the Baltimore. About. It's a fun place. Tight group of friends."

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" None of them are modified. A lot of people think that everything I have is modified but to tape mailings. Holds them down to the board and down and keep some things falling apart."

" inside the."

" Coming saying this let's look at those beautiful trees every -- read that no one point all of this was covered it as beautiful trees. There's a -- students out there of the bears' lair. Let's let's look over those trees -- ahead. Sing sing with a great reference to those hiding behind the road toward the sky. -- This evening and last season."

" Remember him being a little kid. It's like family functions being right. Doing stupid (%expletive) I think that's my mom my -- really do you getting large groups of people do things that. Otherwise they would really hate doing. Look above the crowd like right above their eyes like past their heads because if you looked him in the eyes and take a lot of people get like nervous. If you look like right above them they still think you're looking at them but you're not hand them. And just talk to people like. They want to be toxic Tokyo."

" And okay. Animals. Alone."

" I guess I was probably like twelve or thirteen or fourteen -- something and we got a Compaq computer and it came with this many programs. Committee's office. I was in the can really should be -- at the time but I am flight writing a lot of the songs night had a hard time today had to get my views and ideas across like I've played on base -- try to show like them born players. There are terrible -- midi program allowed me to like put it on sheet music and and they can just look on the computer screen. See it hear back exactly how it's supposed to be and I just started falling in love -- music that was like the possible to play. I can only exist on the computer."

" Is that we just there in the last don't think it really awkward -- And condolences and their arms around -- front but that is. -- you could -- Don't attack could get that power he can do it."

" There is going to keep yeah."

" You like six friends with the Baltimore. About. It's a fun place. Tight group of friends."

" Lot of assess their systems got shut down there's -- site today. Saturation. You know. Not only the people that are inside the news after the show -- and friends of my friends that you could just hear about and want to get involved there's just 1%. Tonight in double edged sword legacy of popular stop it."

" you can't guarantee you life I'm feeling great work really well he's. Hewlett real and it won't be part of don't you just gonna wait for the next person hey don't hurt my -- There you can."

" One history with many. Parts of that process my voice inside my generator and sometimes the keyboard the mailing out in myself. Or my band but some kind of goes to the -- harmonize their into the -- months later into the -- battled back in the next there's true. This oxen and return on and I -- off a girl in Austin cutter hands. And that shares -- blood all over it but generally play in the BK so the rest of the letters like. Come off this time I have the lightbulb sitting there once and -- it's. A function generator and there's an us later."

" in the garbage. And purchase."

" None of them are modified. A lot of people think that everything I have is modified but to tape mailings. Holds them down to the board and down and keep some things falling apart."

" inside the."

" Coming saying this let's look at those beautiful trees every -- read that no one point all of this was covered it as beautiful trees. There's a -- students out there of the bears' lair. Let's let's look over those trees -- ahead. Sing sing with a great reference to those hiding behind the road toward the sky. -- This evening and last season."

" Remember him being a little kid. It's like family functions being right. Doing stupid (%expletive) I think that's my mom my -- really do you getting large groups of people do things that. Otherwise they would really hate doing. Look above the crowd like right above their eyes like past their heads because if you looked him in the eyes and take a lot of people get like nervous. If you look like right above them they still think you're looking at them but you're not hand them. And just talk to people like. They want to be toxic Tokyo."