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Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
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Sobro Summer Nights
Nashville, TN
7/23/2004
By: Lindsey M. Keen
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The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are by far the best art-rock pop band on this planet.
It all began when Tina Trachtenburg happened to come across a box of vintage projector slides labeled, "Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959" at an estate sale in Seattle. She brought them home to her eccentric husband/struggling musician Jason Trachtenburg who began to write indie pop lyrics to the quirky slides featuring the lives of anonymous strangers.
The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players, consists of Jason Trachtenburg, 33, (father, vocalist, pianist and guitarist) Tina Trachtenburg, 39, (mother and slideshow projectionist) and Rachel, 10, (daughter, singer and drummer) are an unsigned act that have sold-out shows in New York, appeared on Conan O'Brien, toured with They Might Be Giants and are featured in numerous publications.
Their performance is an abstract pop rock show that keeps the crowd on their toes and laughing the entire time to unconventional songs like "Look At Me," a tune about two nurses' frivolous lives in the fifties, "Fondue With Friends" and "Eggs," a hilarious song about a family's Easter Sunday.
Rachel stops the show and yells out, "I've got blisters on my fingers! Does anyone have a band-aid?" Jason laughs and says, "I've been waiting for you to say that famous Ringo line," (from "Helter Skelter" on The Beatles). The crowd is going nuts at this point and a listener runs up to the stage and hands Jason a band-aid. "It kinda hurts," says Rachel. "That's Rock and Roll," says Jason.
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