Mark Mulcahy and his Pete-&-Pete-House-Band Polaris are coming to Brighton Music Hall in two damn days, with local faves Hallelujah The Hills opening! This is their first time through, and at this rate it will be another 20 years before we get another so
this.
Below, watch an animated retelling of Mark’s one-and-only trip to the set of the Pete & Pete that we made just for you, the reader!
The great thing about a band like this is that there isn’t much homework to have as good a time as anybody else. While you should check out the whole album on Spotify, or pick up a brand new vinyl on Record Store Day, here are some essentials:
“Hey Sandy”
I guess I don’t really know how to embed a video that starts at a specific point but in this clip at 2:55, you’ll hear “She Is Staggering” and at 4:47, “Summerbaby.”
Look how much work I just did for you!
I was the Prop Master for The Adventures of Pete and Pete, seasons one and two.
I have no memory of Mark’s “borrowing” of the prop bike. Maybe it happened. It’s been a long time.
HOWEVER:
If he did this, I would have had every reason to have been angry. We didn’t have doubles for any of the bikes on the show. If Mark had wrecked or damaged the bike, I would have been royally screwed.
Also, it is possible, if this did happen and I were this angry, that the reason for my anger could have been that we needed the bike for the shot we were setting up, then suddenly it was gone. If that were the case, then the entire crew might have been waiting on me as I would have been frantically searching for the prop that we needed — all because Mark was bored and felt out of place on a professional film set.
BUT:
I deny categorically that I ever did or would have cursed at him or anybody on the set as he described. It is not my style, nor has it ever been, to loudly curse at anybody, in anger or otherwise, and I most certainly would not have called a complete stranger an asshole.
I maintain that Mark has embellished this story to make me sound more like a douche and himself more like a victim.
I do think calling me out for this, and lying about it, over twenty years after the fact is pretty douchey, though.
And I look nothing like Carrot Top.
Regardless, I remain a fan of Polaris and treasure the contribution that Mark made to our show.
P.S.: Even if the bike weren’t a prop, maybe just some local kid’s bike, lying around — why just grab it and start riding? What kind of grown man does that? If it weren’t the prop master who would have been upset by him doing that, it could’ve been a little New Jersey kid who thought somebody stole his bike. That’s not cool. It wasn’t Mark’s bike. He shouldn’t have swiped it.