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Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:14 pm**

nathan's website has gotten a facelift... very cool.
check it out!
http://www.nathanmoore.org/

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:08 am**

Wow. Nice.

I love the interview/performance at http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2009/04/03 ... e-at-wnrn/. Interesting that Nathan is looking for a new name for Surprise Me Mr. Davis to go along with the new album.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:03 pm**

yeah, the name quest has been going on for awhile now...

personally i'm fond of smmd. just can't imagine them being something else...

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:28 pm**

When I first read that Davis might be changing their name I wasn't really upset. When I heard years ago that The Slip had thought of changing their name for Eisenhower I was outraged though. I guess I don't have as much attachment to the Davis name...

It is a bit long, and people in the know tend to shorten it to 'Davis' or SMMD but it is a mouthful whole. For example when someone asks me what band I am liking these days or what show I am seeing this weekend and I say "SurpriseMeMisterDavis" they generally are like "who?" and then I have to explain the bit about The Slip and the guy from ThaMuseMeant...

It will be a bit weird though if they actually go ahead with it. They better pick something good!

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:24 pm**

i like the name its unique and it actually has some meaning behind it
choosing something arbitrary wouldn't fit the history of this band...unless its a name that rivals the grateful dead ahaha

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:57 pm**

having to explain about the slip and the guy from thamusemeant will still happen even if they change the name, it'll just be further complicated because we'll also have to explain "oh, they used to be surprisememrdavis", heheh...

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:51 am**

what? why would they want to do that? What little name recognition they have will be lost. Once you release 2 albums and tour both coasts you shouldnt change your name. Plus SMMD has a GREAT story behind their name.

People are too interested in appealing to the lowest common denominator these days. Like the name for my band - it will never gain any mass appeal or become a brand or anything but I love what it means to me and some people seem to get that.

A part of me wishes that SMMD was still a side project; it seems to have jumped to the forefront of both nathan and the slip's priority list. Its really fun when they get together but artistically (and musically) i believe that BAM is better as the Slip and Nathan is better as a solo act. my 2 cents...

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:18 pm**

it doesn't seem that their two releases really qualify as "albums" in the larger sense, to them anyway.

i too was shocked when i first heard last summer they were thinking of changing the name. it's all about marketability, apparently. selling their souls? i dunno... maybe they just don't like it as much as we do. who knows.

personally though, i think the magic smmd has together is greater than the sum of the parts. i love the slip, i love nathan solo (and i loved tmm)... but...

yeah.

Posted: **Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:35 am**

I am happy with the amount of Davis. I am not happy with the lack of Slip. I could use a little more Nathan solo too.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2009 4:21 am**

well well, the slip we shall have to see, eh?

at least you will be getting a dose of nathan in the bay area post-bobolink. i, alas, will have to miss it as i'll be in another part of the country. oh the torture of bad timing...

Posted: **Mon May 11, 2009 11:09 am**

so a new friend of mine sent me this in an email after the trio show in mtl : "P.S. After the show, Brad made me listen to some new SMMD tracks he had been mixing in Boston during the day... Can't wait for that record, it's gonna be awesome!! He said they are seaching for a new name and are down to five that they like..."

i guess they really are changing their name, what a shame