Morrison attempted a in 2011, they just sold out a solo career that stopped major NYC venue two days before it started when the in a row – and everybody online music publication knew all the words! It was Pitchfork slammed his 2004 really incredible.” album. Now he sings in a With the tour now a church choir in downtown wrap, The Plan is slated Manhattan. Axelson has to play the Roots Family played with a group called Picnic in Philadelphia in Maritime and another June and the Pitchfork called Statehood, which Music Festival in Chicago also featured Easley. Caddell in July. After that, it’s tours with his current band, anybody’s guess. If the group Poor But Sexy. is pondering additional “We still are four nerds projects, no one’s talking. who love music and love “Everybody’s busy, so to bounce it off each there’s not really time,” other,” Caddell told NPR said Axelson, who insists in January. he isn’t trying to be elusive. But The Plan remains “We haven’t closed that the tie that binds. Since its door. We’re taking it day official breakup, the group by day.” has delighted die-hard fans In addition to Pearl Jam with periodic performances, and Death Cab for Cutie, including two reunion The Plan spent a decade shows to benefit the health Top, left to right: Members of The Dismemberment Plan – bassist per forming with bigEric Axelson ’94, drummer Joe Easley, frontman Travis Morrison, needs of a friend. And, in a and guitarist Jason Caddell ’93 – played Chicago’s Metro in February. name bands like Weezer twist of fate, Pitchfork, the The sold-out show was part of the band’s recent reunion tour. and Brainiac; touring in publication that so quickly Bottom, left to right: Travis Morrison, Eric Axelson ’94, and Jason Europe, Asia, and the Caddell ’93 share the spotlight onstage in Chicago. quashed Morrison’s solo United States; and putting career, gave a perfect 10 rating to The Plan’s recent re-release out albums. They were lucky to have done it all once, said of its popular 1999 album, Emergency & I. The resounding Axelson, who considers it a bonus to have experienced The excitement fueled the rousing reunion tour, which was Plan’s renewed popularity, not to mention the success of the launched this winter by an appearance on Late Night With re-issue of Emergency & I, nostalgically done on vinyl-only – not pink – but possibly still a collector’s item. Jimmy Fallon and wound its way through D.C., Philly, Boston, The color of the records the guys created nearly 20 years and New York, then moved on to Japan, and looped back ago seems to have tinted Caddell’s memories of the alma to Chicago and Seattle. mater of so many who contributed to The Dismemberment The Washington Post covered the group’s final pre-tour Plan’s success. warm-up show, an invitation-only affair held at the Galaxy “I guess you think back to your college years, and they Hut in Arlington, Va. And a January performance at New seem rosier than they really were,” he said, “but I tell you York’s Webster Hall prompted this post on the Ticketmaster what, that whole time [at Mary Washington] was really, website: “I saw them a million times when I was going to really terrific for everybody.” d Mary Washington College and in D.C. in the ’90s. … Now,
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