Last March, I launched the Thunderegg History Lesson concert series at Freddy’s Backroom in Brooklyn. About three weeks later, they tore the place down. But tonight, in honor of my imminent departure for the West Coast (I leave Friday), the series returns at the fancy new Freddy’s in the fabulous South Slope.

Thunderegg History Lesson Part Two: Farewell to Thunderegg
Tonight: Tuesday, March 29, 9:00 p.m.
Freddy’s Bar
627 Fifth Avenue, between 17th and 18th streets, Brooklyn

To explain the History Lesson part. Like last time, I’ll be playing one song from each Thunderegg album, in chronological order, and then wrapping up with an assortment of newer stuff. But this set will be completely different from the previous iteration. That’s the beauty of Thunderegg History Lesson. It’s possible to do exactly eighteen gazillion COMPLETELY DIFFERENT song sequences. We had real math people figure that out.

Last year’s set list, and therefore not this year’s, was:

“Pillowcase” (Universal Nut, 1995); “Supergirlfriend” (New England Music, 1996); “Wilson Calls It Quits” (Personnel Envelo-file, 1997); “Christina Stopped Playing Her Violin” (Thunderegg, 1997); “Macaroon Muse” (Powder to the People, 1998); “Thanks for the Great Performance (in My Dreams)” (In Yanistin, 2000); “If I Went on a Diet” (The Envelope Pushes Back, 2000); “If You Knew Me So Well” (Sweetest One, 2004); “To See Things Begin” (This Week, 2007); “The Scheduled Show” (Line Line, 2011); “Astronauts” (Gazillion, 2012)…and then it got chaotic for a while, then came back to good ole “Christy Pickle” (Larry, 1994).

This year? Who knows? But it won’t be any of that stuff. Well, maybe “Diet.” You can’t deny your public the big hits. Do that too much and you become Talk Talk. What happened to Talk Talk? Exactly.