"OK No." -Michelle

[slightlyoffaxis]

Okay, this needs to be settled because right now it's me and Michelle vs. Jesse.

Who thinks that Dan Miller should replace Andy Duncan?*

Things to consider:
*Is it a promotion or a demotion?
*Average cuteness/hotness of both bands
*General surliness of Andy
*Toothpick vs. knit hat
*Fingertips vs. C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips

*If you know who both

Comments

This will settle nothing

[rockmarooned]

Dan Miller should stay put. Of all the non-Johns in TMBG, he's clearly the one who enjoys it the most. TMBG are in a good place right now in terms of independence, both financial and artistic. OK Go is still going to be dicked around by their label for another few years, and then probably get dropped. In the meantime, they'll probably have to subject themselves to touring with Jimmy Eat World or Starsailor or something. DM wouldn't get to do anything new in OK Go and he would severely weaken the TMBG Dan Alliance. Plus he'd have to learn all these dance moves. Plus it would give you guys more excuses to prefer OK Go on purely superficial grounds. Plus it would lower the chances of a Lincoln reunuion.

In conclusion, Chris Temple should replace Andy.

Lincoln ain't coming back (Hey! Get over it!)

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I'm just saying I'd like to see DM get out of the "backing band" ghetto. Even within that ghetto, he was part of the "Band of Dans" and not really owning the spotlight. TMBG is the John/John show, and even if he is on the albums, I think he could do more in OK Go. Like dance. And OK Go probably needs him more, musically :/.

Plus, he's cute enough to be in OK Go :P. And that's a hard club to break into.

Lincoln never went nowhere, except when they broke up

[rockmarooned]

But is anyone in OK Go going to shout "DAN!" before his guitar solos??

[sparklyfabulous]

To clarify my original position:

I don't necessarily think DM has to leave TMBG as part of this deal. Especially because it's hypothetical and not ever going to happen. But anyway, it's not like TMBG are being super-prolific and toursome right now (actually neither are okgo, but bear with me), so DM could totally do double duty and not break up the Band of Dans.

Also, the number of TMBG-likers (intentionally not saying "fans") who know the difference between the Dans is probably similar to the number of OK Go fans in the world. Who would immediately know DM and would probably start screaming his name all the time with very little coaxing.

Go, Dan Miller! Your fortune awaits!

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The Band of Dans is already broken up! One of the Dans, I can't tell you which one, is already gone. So now there is, as Jesse pointed out, a two-John, two-Dan equilibrium, plus one other guy. It is time for DM to own his Dan-ness and break out of the "band of Dans" mold.

I like the idea of him doing double duty, though. He can be the Ben Gibbard of the dorky set. Except that Ben Gibbard is already of the dorky set, but you know what I mean (different dorks).

[rockmarooned]

Dan Hickey, the drummer, who actually predated the other Dans-- he was touring with TMBG when the other two Dans were still in Lincoln!-- is the one who left.

I would *consider* a sharing situation, but I don't think it's realistic as Michelle implies. True that TMBG are not doing an heavy-duty touring/recording right now (although they are putting out another children's project), and the Dans are probably only really needed for rock recording/touring. But OK Go, as a younger band, is subject to a more grueling schedule. Once they start touring and the album comes out (presumably in mid-05), they'd be doing promo and tour stuff for the better part of a year. So yeah, TMBG isn't doing that right now, but they probably will be between now and February 2006.

So maybe he could do freelance Danning for OK Go on tour or in the studio, but being in two bands at once is probably v. taxing.