Archers Of Loaf - What Did You Expect? Live At Cat's Cradle

A note from the film's director...
Greetings,

To me, the Archers of Loaf were the single greatest band of the 90s. They saved my love of music after The Replacement broke up, and I truly felt no band would ever fill those dirty Converse All Stars.

I will always remember the first time I saw the Archers live at a CMJ showcase at Tramps in NYC. Within 30 seconds I knew I had discovered my new favorite band. And that's never changed. I do honestly believe WEB IN FRONT is the greatest song ever written. Ever. It makes me happy. The band makes me happy.

But of course all good things must come to an end as they did in 1998. A true story: I knew the band, and knew WHITE TRASH HEROES would be their last album. The day it was released I drove some 45 minutes to pick it up, and listened to it blissfully for the first time on the ride home, having to pull over as the last song came on, because knowing it was the last new song I'd ever hear from them I began to cry. I sat in a bank...

great band and great show
great show and fun interviews by top band of the 1990s. thanks for reuniting. if they tour again they are a must see.

Gorman Bechard, Champion of AOL Nation!
I was pretty damned sure that I was the greatest Archers of Loaf fan of all time, considering that ever since I first recorded Last Word and All Hail the Black Market being played back to back on an indie rock radio station in Boston, I pretty much eat, shit, and breathe everything Eric Bachmann releases.

When I was still living at home, I would have private concerts in my bedroom, where I would sing along to my favorite AOL songs at the top of my lungs to no one but my mother who would pace outside my closed door, ready to punch a wall. I have been to so many AOL shows that all four members of the band recognize my face when they see me and greet me by name. I have countless signed records and CD's, rare t-shirts, pictures of me with the band. I could honestly say that when it comes to Archers of Loaf, I was the man and it filled me with enormous pride and tremendous ego to wear the crown of "Greatest Fan" It did, that is... until I met the director of this film,...

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