Why don they ever play songs from Boces live anymore?
Since touring for the album in 1993 and asking David Baker to leave the band, they’ve rarely performed Boces songs live, with the possible exception of “Boys Peel Out”, which didn’t completely fall off setlists till the All Is Dream tour. Also, “Downs Are Feminine Balloons” was performed at least once since, in Los Angeles in April 1999. In a 1996 interview, Jonathan explained his apparent aversion towards the album: “Boces was really painful to make. There was a lot of drug abuse and alcoholism, just a lot of tough times making it. I love it a lot, but its kind of like seeing an ex-girlfriend where you had a really painful breakup, and its just not easy going up to her every night and saying, Hey, hows it going, hows your new boyfriend. Its one of those situations, so every once in a while well choose something off there, but we really gotta work up to it.
