Jeff Mangum perform a solo rendition of "Two-Headed Boy" at a Neutral Milk Hotel gig. Originally from their 1998 album, "In the Aeroplane over the Sea". Recorded live @ Store Vega in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 7th, 2014.
Two-headed boy All floating in glass The sun it has passed, now it's blacker than black I can hear as you tap on your jar I am listening to hear where you are I am listening to hear where you are Two-headed boy Put on Sunday shoes And dance 'round the room to accordion keys With the needle that sings in your heart Catching signals that sound in the dark Catching signals that sound in the dark We will take off our clothes And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine And when all is breaking everything that you could keep inside Now your eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their climb Two-headed boy With pulleys and weights Creating a radio play just for two In the parlor with a moon across her face And through the music he sweetly displays Silver speakers that sparkle all day Made for his lover who's floating And choking with her hands across her face And in the dark we will take off our clothes And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine And when all is breaking everything that you could keep inside Now your eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their climb Two-headed boy There's no reason to grieve The world that you need is wrapped in gold silver sleeves Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow And I will take you and leave you alone Watching spirals of white softly flow Over your eyelids and all you did Will wait until the point when you let go
People always claim that the whole album is super easy to play, but to keep up the strumming pace whilst singing throughout the entirety of this song is actually quite difficult
The people who say it's easy are fairly experienced guitar players with chops. This is nothing if you've played for a good amount of years. If your hand is hurting your probably holding and the guitar wrong in such a way that requires you to death grip all the chords. Press the guitar against your body with your stum hand more so that the leverage pushes the guitar into your chord hand, instead of putting all the pressure on just one hand gripping the bar chord
"I miss the ole Jeff Mangum Here in with flow Jeff Mangum Set on his goals Jeff Mangum I hate the new Jeff Mangum The bad mood Jeff Mangum The always rude Jeff Mangum Spaz in the news Jeff Mangum I miss the sweet Jeff Mangum Chop up the beats Jeff Mangum I gotta say At that time I'd like to meet Jeff Mangum See I invented Jeff Mangum There wasn't any Jeff Mangum And now I look and look around And there's so many Jeff Mangums What if Jeff Mangum Made a song About Jeff Mangum Called I miss the ole Jeff Mangum MAN THAD BE SO JEFF MANGUM That's all it was Jeff Mangum We still love Jeff Mangum And I love you like Jeff Mangum Loves Anne Frank"
not sure but he only ever used two archtop guitars during live performances. there’s some website called like equiplist or something where you can check.
He plays two arch-tops. The main one that he doesn't play anymore but he played in old NMH was a Gibson ES-125. The one in this video is a Silvertone 619 archtop acoustic.
