Sunspot Live From Space!

Ben couldn't make our show in La Crosse on May 13th, 2011 because he was called on a mission to the International Space Station. But the show must go on, so we called some friends at NASA to set up a satellite link. Here's some of our favorite bits!

Sunspot Road Mania - Ep. 157

Adventures in Madison, Racine, Merrill, Elcho, and Marshfield. Hoyer Guitars, motorcycles, special videotaping to make sure that Ben can still make it to our La Crosse show, recumbent bicycles, tornado damage, all our love to Sean Kingston, and a special appearance by Leo Laporte from This Week in Tech!

Download the full SD version here.

Sunspot Request Page

So, with a bunch of all-nighter shows coming up, we often get questions about the set list and if we take requests and the answer is YOU BET... but we only take requests for Sunspot original tunes. Yeah, we're dicks like that.

Sure, we love a good cover tune and we always play our favorites. We adore bands like Radiohead, Metallica, Social D, Ramones, Pixies, Andrew WK, Queen, and Green Day and those songs are fun to play. We've learned a million songs over the years and we'll happily play the ones that we really dig. And for our friends' special events (like weddings or birthday parties) we'll even learn some because they gave us the honor of rocking one of their most important days on Earth. That being said...

#1 - We don't take requests for Creed or Nickelback. We've never actually heard of either of those bands, sorry.

#2 - Country? Sure, we'll play some country, but it's not going to be what you expect.

#3 - Lady Gaga or any disco song. Are you kidding me? Yeah, I've got a soft spot for ABBA in my dark heart, but c'mon now, we're a rock band. Would you go to an Elton John concert and ask for a Slayer song? (Come to think about it, a piano version of "Dead Skin Mask" might be badass.)

But, I can hear you say, I know some of your songs, but I don't know the name of my favorite. Well, we'll make it easy for you. We made a special Sunspot Request Page of all the original tunes we've ever played live. If you wanna hear any of our tracks live, just fill out the form and hit "send". We'll get the email and we'll do our damnedest to put it into the set. And if you get it to us at least 10 days before a show, we'll guarantee it's going to be in the set.

We love you guys and we wanna play your favorites at shows, so please use the form by clicking HERE and we'll get you those tunes live!

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