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Wedding receptions offer an ideal opportunity for friends to get wasted, break out the guitars, and play silly, half-remembered covers. And-- according to a report from the Nashville Scene-- that's exactly what happened at Pavement mascot Bob Nastanovich's reception last Saturday at Nashville's The 5 Spot. At one point during the night, all the members of Pavement except Spiral Stairs were briefly on stage together making music-- Stephen Malkmus, Steve West, Mark Ibold, and Nastanovich didn't do any Pavement songs, but they did do "Rock This Party", which is even better under the circumstances. This isn't the first time a wedding reception has brought a famously defunct band back together. Back at Sting's bash in 1992, the Police put aside their differences for sloshed versions of "Roxanne" and "Message in a Bottle". Then, 15 years later, they made the reunion official. So, long suffering Pavement fans, if that wedding-reception-to-reunion timeline holds, looks like another decade and a half of "Pavement to (Maybe) Reunite" Pitchfork headlines! Get pumped.In a recent interview on this site, Malkmus addressed the constant reunion rumors with typical class and reserve: "Well, I don't think about it too much. It's sort of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind type thing. It's just standard question #10 on the interview circuit...I usually just say 'No, it's not happening.' People say stuff about Pavement, and I say that I'm really honored and proud that a lot of people at the show are into Pavement, and there wouldn't be as many people there, we wouldn't have the dialogue, or play the same venues, frankly, if we were just a new band. So I'm happy about it. But I'm into the new thing." So there you have it. Pavement almost reunited, but the event certainly sounds like a haphazard one-off rather than any kind of calculated maneuver. Which makes sense considering this is Pavement, a band that lived to be off-the-cuff and random. Depending on which Nashville Scene commenter you read, the reception's vibe was jovial and fun ("Bob was handing out hugs and kisses to random strangers (me included)!") or awkward and annoying ("I had to cut out early from a reception of a wedding that I ATTENDED because of a crowd that should not have even been there"). So there was revelry, arguments, booze, weirdness, and a "Love Train" cover. Sounds like a wedding reception to us.
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