Michael Penn "Study War No More/Out of My Hands" from Resigned Live at Café Montmartre Madison, WI Apr 16, 2005 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

In last week's Nine Inch Nails clips, you may have noticed very bright, prominent colors; in today's and tomorrow's Michael Penn clips, you'll see just the opposite. At Penn's acoustic set from last spring, there were barely any lights on and I didn't think the clips would be usable because they were so dark. Somehow, AviSynth managed to find something in there.

This is still the only show I've ever seen at Café Montmartre -- we went because my mother-in-law is a huge Michael Penn fan. She loved it, Emily was kind of bored, I thought it was decent enough but that Penn had a really weird flow. He spent a lot of time tuning and talking to the audience. This opening pair of songs, the first an old spiritual, set the tone for the whole set, a low-key and bare affair. Later on, somebody told me to stop recording, which is the only time that's ever happened to me.

[Psst! New Pornographers coming next week!]