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311 Day returned to New Orleans this year. 311 played 63 songs in a 5 hour set. See the setlist here.
311 is currently writing and recording their next album.
Summer Tour 2008 is confirmed, with opening acts Snoop Dogg and Fiction Plane.
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| The 311 Name
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The name 311 has had many supposed origins:
- That 3:11 was the perfect length for a song.
- That a concert one of the band members went to had 311 as the seat.
- Or 3 plus 1 plus 1 is 5 friends making music.
- 3 is man, and 11 is magic, therefore 311 = Male Magic.
- It's a number dictated by a higher intelligence.
- "K" is the eleventh letter in the alphabet and 3K means KKK.
The inspiration for the name came from an Omaha police code for indecent exposure.
One night, back when 311 was still known as Unity, the band's original guitarist, Jim Watson, was arrested for skinny dipping in a local pond in Sarpy County. He was taken home to his parents, naked and handcuffed, and handed a ticket showing "311", an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. Later, bassist P-Nut suggested making that the band name, and they renamed themselves 311. The name has a sense of ambiguity; it tells you nothing about their music.
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| P2P 311 Songs
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One can find many supposed collaborations between 311 and other bands on file sharing networks like LimeWire. However, few are legitimate.
- "Enter Sandman" (live w/ Mighty Mighty Bosstones) — only Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
- "Feels So Good" (f/ various bands) — the Enlarged to Show Detail version.
- "Legalize It" (w/ Sublime) — only Sublime.
- "Tribute" (acoustic, live, w/ Incubus) — the Live! version.
- "What I Got/All Mixed Up" (w/ Sublime) — college a capella group covers.
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| Downstairs, Dammit!
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Which album was released first?
- Jim Watson plays lead guitar on Dammit! (seen on the cover and credited in the liner notes)
- Tim Mahoney plays lead guitar on Downstairs EP (the last track "C.U.T.M." reveals the (then) current band lineup: "Hexum, Sexton, Mahoney, and Wills")
- Mahoney is credited for playing lead guitar on every album since Unity
- Therefore, it is fair to assume that the album lineup is as follows:
- Dammit! (1990)
- Downstairs EP (1990)
- Unity (1991) and on..
- Though it is possible, based on the track listing, that Downstairs was released after Unity.
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| Nutsymtom
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Some mistakenly spell the song "Nutsymtom" with a p, perhaps because of the spelling of the word "symptom". A quick glance at the back cover of Grassroots (1994) will reveal the correct spelling.
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