re: The Sharing Economy (Disco Biscuits content)

XI. Lagniappe

#1
Hot Air Balloon rock opera was first performed on December 31, 1998 at the Silk City Lounge in Philadelphia.
The debut was unannounced and fans attending the show were given a pamphlet containing accompanying stories for each of the songs.
The opera has been performed in its entirety eight times.
It was also performed on April 1st, 2002, but with "Aquatic Ape" replacing the title song, "Hot Air Balloon", as an April Fool's joke. However, "Hot Air Balloon" lyrics were sung during parts of "Aquatic Ape". In addition, the entire second act (and Eulogy) were played on February 2nd, 1999.
-December 31, 1998 at Silk City Lounge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
-January 24, 1999 at Center for the Arts, Natick, Massachusetts
-March 4, 1999 at The Tractor, Seattle, Washington
-May 11, 1999 at The Blue Terrapin, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
-June 12, 1999 at The Music Farm, Charleston, South Carolina
-October 23, 1999 at Ziggy's, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
-April 1, 2002 at Bogart's, Cincinnati, Ohio
-January 17, 2004 at the Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
-October 31, 2007 at the Orpheum Theater, Boston, Massachusetts

#2
Statistics, lyrics, and tabs for 200+ original Disco Biscuits songs: LINK.

#3
A list of all of the covers the band has played: LINK.

#4
What is the Akira Jam? How do you sync up the audio recording to the movie?
For the 2nd set on New Years Eve, 1999, The Disco Biscuits played along to Katsuhiro Otomo's anime masterpiece, Akira. Starting with just the setbreak DJ spinning, the band members slowly came out one by one onto stage dressed entirely in black robes. Behind them a on a projection screen, the movie played. This "Akira Jam" eventually falls into Basis For a Day to end the set.

As for syncing up the taped set to the movie itself, this is a topic under heavy debate among Biscuits fans. There are many theories as to where you should start the tape with the movie, so it might take you some experimenting to find the best sync. Although there is no real preferred method, these following tips were posted on Discuss Biscuits and are some of the best info if you want to get the sync up working:

"When the 1988 dateline appears, the first note of the DJ spinning should start up. When they first take off in the motorcycles, the beat should get noticeably more intense. When the kid is head-butted by the big Clown leader, the drum machines should stop completely, leaving just the vocal sample. When the first child subject screams after seeing his guardian shot, a phone should ring right at the time the store sign blows up (right before the windows all smash). Hope that will help line it up."

"when the first lick of barber kicks in, it should starting exactly during the scene when a man enters a fuzzy boat"

The helix tease occurs while there is a shootout with the police and yellow/golden helicopters are on the screen.

"I know there is one point in the movie when you see gunfire on the streets. Sam does these cool little snare drum hits."

To try it out for yourself, here's the Akira set on Archive.org