GIG Saturday Oct 2nd, 2010: 9-11 PM | Insomnia Coffee House 5389 W. Baseline, Hillsboro OR 97123 There's only one place to catch super-sweet night owls in 3D, and that's Insomnia Coffee when Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About hit the stage. Scat-rock, superb coffee, great sound, great space: it'll be a hoot! |
GIG Friday Sept 17th, 2010: 7-9 PM | Rusty Grape 16712 NE 219TH St Battle Ground, WA 98604 Join us for the splendor of Rusty Grape's night of 1000 fans! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About will be your musical Scheherazade. How is that pronounced? Schehawesome, that's how. |
GIG Sunday Sept 12th, 2010: 10AM-2PM | Tigard Farmers' Market 11831 SW Pacific Hwy Tigard 97223 Hey, I heard you need some vegetables. Dude, come buy *these* vegetables! We're totally playing some old-fashioned scat-rock jamboree under the tent. What do you mean you're offended? Would it help if I got you some locally-grown flowers? No? Bamboo? |
GIG Saturday Sep 11th, 2010: 7-9PM | Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 What rhymes with waffles? That's right: lawful. Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About have secured the necessary permits, and are prepared to rock you straight to the legal limit. It is possible they'll be joined by a special guest. It is possible they'll be recording live. It is possible Evan will bring a stripped-down drumset which meets the local ordinances. It is possible that ice cream and waffles will be consumed in the same delectable bite. Anything is possible when you live in the greatest country on Earth. |
GIG Wednesday Sep 8th, 2010: 6-7PM | Jade Lounge 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland 97214 Come catch Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About and help yourself to some happy hour specials in this cozy, Asian-themed neighborhood lounge. Kids are welcome at this early hour, and tiny drumsticks are provided to every table. What? Chopsticks? Never heard of 'em. |
GIG Saturday Aug 21st, 2010: CANCELLED | Blitz Ladd's IPA Brewfest Benefit for Bald Faced Truth 2239 SE 11th Ave, Portland 97214 You know how *you* can help arts & athletics in the schools? Brace yourself, because it involves some noble sacrifice. What you do is: you come down to Blitz Ladd, you select yourself some suds, eat yourself some pulled pork, and you grab an earful of some full-band scat rock with Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About. Only the brave need apply. THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED. |
GIG Friday Aug 13th, 2010: 7-9PM  | Rusty Grape 16712 NE 219TH St Battle Ground, WA 98604 Believe you me, this is the Cheers of sipperies, with a laid-back homespun staff, rustic decor, fabulous open-air views, and a reisling recently awarded the coveted Golden Krajcar(tm). For discerning grownups of impeccable taste, this is *the* summer locale to catch Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About. |
GIG Friday Aug 6th, 2010: 6-7:30PM | Coffee Cat (Newberg 1st Friday) 107 South College St, Newberg 97132 Wander around and look at art, then settle in to a plush easy chair with a peanut butter brownie and some intimate coffeeshop scat-rock. It'll be the cat's meow. I ain't kidding about the brownie, either. |
GIG Monday Aug 2nd, 2010: 9:45PM 
| Knife Shop (aka Kelly's Olympian) 426 Southwest Washington Street Portland 97204 Cut loose as Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About break out their arsenal of rock & roll escalation and turn it up to 11. Well, 11's awful loud. Maybe 7. Still a nice, respectably loud number without getting all ridiculous and British accenty about it. |
GIG Monday Jul 26th, 2010: Noon-1:30PM | Gresham Center For The Arts Foundation's Music Mondays 401 NE 2nd Street (plaza), Gresham 97030 Cody performs a solo lunchtime set for the good people of downtown Gresham. This is similar to breathable air in two important respects: 1.) it is free 2.) it is vital to your survival. |
GIG Friday Jul 23rd, 2010: 9-11PM | Insomnia Coffee House 5389 W. Baseline, Hillsboro OR 97123 It's too hot to sleep. Let Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About pry your eyes open and keep you up past your bedtime in Hillsboro's coolest late-night hangout. Get a black forest mocha and join our fugue state with the other hipster zombies. You know you want to at least see what I'm talking about. |
GIG Saturday Jul 17th, 2010: 7-9PM | Rusty Grape 16712 NE 219TH St Battle Ground, WA 98604 Spectacular view. Tim-approved wine. Scat-rock. And thou. |
GIG Saturday Jul 10th, 2010: 7-9PM 
| Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Special guest percussionist Erik Dillman subs for a vacationing Evan Whitacre as Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About wind you up on caffeine, ice cream, and upbeat acoustic scat-rock then let you careen responsibly about the room. I'm a man your mama warned you about, and even *I'm* warning you about this Erik guy. That makes him a man a man your mama warned you about warned you about. Man, you're probably going to need some coffee to wrap your brain around that paraprosdokian jumble! |
GIG Saturday Jul 10th, 2010: Noon-2PM | Breathe Easy Festival Nick Shannon Memorial Park 16711-16899 SE Valley View Rd Gladstone, OR 97267 (2 blocks south of Jennings on Valley View Road, Gladstone). An annual family carnival and asthma awareness event featuring raffles, face painting, bean bag toss, balloon animals, hot dogs, fire trucks, and the smarmy ringleader showmanship of Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About. In other words, clowns will also be present. |
GIG Saturday June 26th, 2010: 8-9:30PM | Coffee Cottage 808 E Hancock St, Newberg 97132 Get cozy, up close, and personal with Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About in this intimate java gathering. 9 out of 10 Kierstens agree that scat-rock enhances the coffee-drinking experience (the other Kiersten doesn't even drink coffee, so I don't know why we asked her when we could've guessed she'd ruin our numbers with her non-committal answer). |
GIG Saturday Jun 12th, 2010: 6:30-7:30PM (All ages) | Jade Lounge 2342 SE Ankeny St, Portland 97214 It'll be a happy hour indeed with $4 wells, scrumptious Asian-themed grub, sophisticated microbrews, and the most astoundingly-amazing* scat-singing songwriter this side of the Mississippi*. Get a taste of the sound at http://codyweathers.com then come down for the secret, sensational* intimate act you are totally missing out on. It will be even better than advertised*. Cody will be joined by the phenomenal, sensitive talents of Tim Krajcar on bass and Evan Whitacre on hand percussion. Andrew Leonnig headlines from 8-10 *some promotional materials may resort to hyperbole |
GIG Saturday Jun 6th, 2010: 7-9PM  | Cafe Delirium 308 North Main Avenue, Gresham 97030 Get more than a little crazy with Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About. No, seriously, it's encouraged. Pardon? I'm not sure who encouraged it. Let's not rain on the crazy parade now, just bring the kids and let 'em bang on some play-along percussion. That's fun and INSANE, right? |
GIG Friday May 21st, 2010: 6-7:30PM  | Coffee Cat 107 South College St, Newberg 97132 Scat-rock is your catnip. It's an itching spell, and once you get it, gotta scratch it. Meow! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About deliver their trademark slinky feral acoustic caterwaul until you purr and rub the nearest table leg with the purest contented feline appreciation. |
GIG Thursday May 20th, 2010: 6-8PM | Gresham 3rd Thursday (@ Gresham Inn) 117 N. Main St, Gresham 97030 See what the Hamlet of Gresh has to offer in the grand tradition of [Insert Locale] Nth Weekdays! One thing in Gresham that day? Stone-cold awesomeness. |
TV Saturday May 8th, 2010: 4-5PM Comcast Channel 22 Tues. May 11 3:30-4:30PM Comcast Channel 11 Wed. May 12 2-3PM Comcast Channel 23 | Ethos Live (TV Show) Been thinking about seeing Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About, but keep getting tired and lying down on the couch instead? Love scat-rock, but trapped, incarcerated, or otherwise immobile? Always wanted to see Evan Whitacre play the drums, but obsessive-compulsive tics prevent you from attending the grimy cesspools such music is played in (I mean, case in point, Carefree Lounge, right??)? Is your life getting in the way of your love of music? Well, never fear, friend! Now, for the first time ever, through the magic of teleported visualization (TV), Cody Weathers & The Men Your Mama Warned You About will be brought straight to your clean, comfortable, neatly-organized home or cell. Simply tune in to EthosLive on Comcast Cable Channel 22 for your chance to see the boys in action from the comfort of your own couch. It'll be as awesome as the time Mr. Monk solved the case when he noticed that the neighbor watering his lawn was a recognizable veteran character actor who seemed out of place!
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GIG Saturday May 8th, 2010: 9-11PM | Insomnia Coffee House 5389 W. Baseline, Hillsboro OR 97123 How can anybody get to sleep under these conditions?? Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You about won't rest until you collapse into a fitful slumber of pure booty exhaustion. Come hear the Northwest's premier scat-rock ensemble in the coolest late-night hangout in Hillsboro. |
ANTHEM Friday May 7th, 2010: 7:00 sharp ($25) | Milwaukie Alive MMA First Friday Fights 13121 SE McLoughlin Blvd, Milwaukie 97222 Cody's been taking Muy Thai & Jiu Jitsu classes all month, so you better believe he can belt out the National Anthem like nobody's business. |
GIG Saturday May 1st, 2010: 7-9PM | Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Cody & Evan trim it down and deliver an energetic musical rodeo of unfamiliar tunes and new takes on old favorites while Tim takes a night off for personal reflection (I believe he's spending a meditation weekend at a nearby monastery of rock and roll). No sweat, as these two percussive performers compensate with zany rhythmic interdimensionality unheard of in these realms. This kind of mind-blowery is best experienced accompanied by a bottle of beer, glass of wine, or jug of blended mocha. Fortunately, the Elevated can oblige all three options. Family-friendly and open to the entire public. |
GIG Sat Apr 24th, 2010: 11AM-12PM 
| Mississippi Spring Greening Festival 4205 N Mississippi Ave (in front of Cafe naranja), Portland 97227 Go green! Go street green! Get your green on with the boys as Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About pie the pipes and Johnny the appleseeds on Mississippi Ave. It's a festival, and that should count for something! Even if you don't go, you'll be green. Green with envy! Oh, come check it out --none of us knows what to expect except darn good music and overall fun times. That much seems clear even to us greenhorns. Family-friendly, outdoors, and FREE Also on the bill: Bradley Wick, Patrick David, Kory Quinn, Bad Austin, Dead Peasant, Johannin |
GIG Fri/Sat Apr 9-10th, 2010: 8-10PM (21+) APRIL 10th CANCELED | Care Free Lounge 10209 SE Division, Portland 97266 That is two whole nights in a row of rockin' good times and the what have you. This is a festival atmosphere, I kid you not! You think night #1 was funtastic and outstanding, you just wait for night #2!! Because when Evan breaks out the drum kit, crazy fun stuff happens, and you can take that to the bank.... Laissez your fair self on down --we're not sure when, but it'll be a hoot when you get here! |
GIG Tuesday March 30th, 2010: 9PM 
| PDX Songwriters' Showcase @ The Thirsty Lion 71 SW 2nd Ave Portland 97204 RAWR! Get yer claws out and roar for Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About at the Thirsty Lion Tuesday Songwriter Showcase. Get a coupon for a free appetizer here. Click the picture to see an animated .gif of Tim kicking Cody for looking down too much. |
GIG Saturday Mar 27th, 2010: 7-9PM 
| Block House Cafe 302 Ferry Street, Dayton OR 97114 Some days, you eat the burger. Other days, the burger eats you. And then there are the days where the burger goes all Keyser Soze on you and eats you, your family, everyone who owes you money, everyone who ever did business with you, your french fries, your will to live, and a piece of cherry pie. A. La. Mode. All I'm saying is, don't take that burger lightly. Don't turn your back on it or give it your PIN or anything. |
GIG Saturday Mar 13th, 2010: 7-9PM | Rusty Grape 16712 NE 219TH St Battle Ground, WA 98604 Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About provide the robust, nutty, quietly intense musical bouquet you were hoping to find in the Wine Cellar. Pour yourself a glass of acoustic scat-rock and consider getting bottles for all your friends. |
GIG Friday Mar 5th, 2010: 9-10PM 
| Dublin Pub (21+) ($5 Cover) 6821 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Portland 97225 I bet people who attend this gig can reach 1 million first !!! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About implore you to take your social networking savvy to the VERY NEXT LEVEL by mingling with friends, friending new friends of friends, and watching 3-D full-color streaming tactile sculpture-video of the greatest scat-rock band of the year 2010 (this is the latest technology, and everyone will be envious of the hyper-realism you're privvy to --it's like they're right there in front of you)! Netizen, I command you to RSVP "yes" (or failing that, "maybe")! Because you're paying a cover, we will be rewarding you with your choice of cool giveaway items, including album download cards and secret live CD's. This unique event will be hosted at the Dublin Pub, where burgers and beers are offered in abundance. |
GIG Friday Feb 26th, 2010: 8-9PM $4 
| Flip Side (21+) $4 2908 SE Belmont, Portland 97214 Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About flip the rock switch and peel your faces clean off with their amazing improvisational energy. Evan Whitacre breaks out his drumset, which emits a top secret highly-facepeeling radiation that may or may not come from Area 51! Tim Krajcar goes to Defcon 8, which is more Defcon than even the United States Government can handle! Cody sits comfortably on a stool, but is nonetheless QUITE INTENSE as he sings his uniquely-feral scat-rock singsongs. This confluence of rock and roll hysteria is not to be missed, except by the timid or people who are particularly attached to their faces. Reconstructive surgeons will be on hand to assist with re-facing after the set. After you sign a waiver promising not to sue the band for rocking your universe so hard, you will receive a special awesome giveaway prize. Also on the bill: Farethewell and the Foolhardy & Stanley Jay Tucker. |
GIG Saturday Feb 20th, 2010: 7-9PM | Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Get up, get out, and get coffee! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About take it to another level with their trademark blend of manic scat-rock, catchy tuneful melodies, and energized musical conversation. Get something delicious and settle in, for pity's sake! |
GIG Saturday Feb 6th, 2010: 7-9PM | Cafe Delirium 308 North Main Avenue, Gresham 97030 Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About make their triumphant return to this, Gresham's coolest java joint, where Cody once ran the wild west's most dangerously-fun open stage. Guaranteed quiet intensity, you read it here first. |
GIG Saturday Jan 23rd, 2010: 7-9PM | Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About turn up the heat on this cold winter's night with sizzling interplay and hot cocoa. That oughta warm your cockles! |
GIG Friday Jan 15th, 2010: 9-11PM | Insomnia Coffee House 5389 W. Baseline, Hillsboro OR 97123 Anything can happen when you ain't been sleepin'! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About deliver their trademark unpredictable, energetic mishmash in this, the secret Mos Eisley of Hillsboro Coffee Shops. |
| GIG Monday January 4th, 2010: 9-10PM | Dublin Pub (21+) 6821 Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, Portland 97225 Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About kick it up a notch in this full-band 45-minute set, and then Evan gets a glazed, berserk look in his eye and chants, "More notches! More notches!" The waitress brings him nachos, but he won't be satisfied with that. No, he won't be satisfied until your booty is sore from overshaking. He's like that, see. |
GIG Monday December 28th, 2009: 8:30-10:30PM 
| The Goodfoot Sonic Forum (21+) 2845 SE Stark, Portland 97214 We don't normally plug open stage appearances, but this one will be special. If you've been digging recent video evidence of what that Evan Whitacre guy can do with just brushes and a djembe, you will be beside yourself to see him play the real McCoy sitting slot in a full kit. It turns Tim into Teen Wolf --I won't say it twice. You might have to inquire after his instrument! Cody & The Men Your Mama Warned You About are slated to play 20 minutes in the early bracket (8:30-10:30). This show is 21+ because those beats are too flat-out *nasty* for impressionable minors. $1 cover. |
| GIG Monday December 21st, 2009: 7-10PM | KJ's Bar & Grill Songwriter Showcase 2002 SE Division, Portland Cody will be one of four featured PDX songwriters, playing a 45-minute set in this, the karaoke capitol of Portland. No, it won't be karaoke. Yes, you could call it Codyoke. |
GIG Sunday December 20th, 2009: 11-1PM | Division Farmers' Market Holiday Bazaar (NEW TIME & DATE) 4725 SE Division St, Portland 97206 This would be a good time for Improv Everywhere (tm) to suddenly show up and give me the gig of a lifetime. And a space heater. Cody performs a solo acoustic set while you shop for last-minute stocking stuffers.... wait.... what's this? A $5 download card for Least Significant Failures?! That fits perfectly inside a stocking! It's a holiday miracle!! |
GIG Saturday December 19th, 2009: 7-9PM 
| Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Climb aboard Cody's zany futuristic shiny mylar balloon and get yourself some attention through inappropriate *elevation*. They're scrambling helicopters as we speak.... What? Too soon? Too dated? Already? Sheesh. Whatever --rock and roll smooths all lumps. Anyhoo, Cody and bassist Tim Krajcar *up* the stakes with some holiday tunes to *raise* your spirits. Guitar, bass, piano, and s-c-r-u-m-p-t-i-o-u-s espresso. Family-friendly (since we apparently won't have the balloon after all). UPDATE: Cody, Tim, and Evan will be joined for a handful of tunes by Ama Bentley of Vivian's Keeper on lead guitar. Ama will also perform a short 3-song set of his own material with Cody on djembe in the middle of the evening. |
GIG Thursday December 10th, 2009: 6:30-9:30PM 
| Capitol Coffee House 6446 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland Unplugged? Unproblem. Kids love butcher paper & crayons, while grownups enjoy wine & Boggle. Everyone likes a little intimate nerd-rock as the mood music to their Thursday happy hour. |
GIG Wednesday December 2nd, 2009: 6:30-9:30PM 
| Capitol Coffee House 6446 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland Unplugged? Unproblem. Enjoy an amazingly scrumptious gourmet burger in this intimate, family-friendly show. Introducing our new pal, Evan Whitacre, on djembe. |
| GIG Saturday November 14th, 2009: 9-11PM | Insomnia Coffee House 5389 W. Baseline, Hillsboro OR 97123 Oh, Edward! Oh, Bella! Oh, Jacob! Calling all moody vampires! It'll be late, and you'll need to get together over coffee and TALK THROUGH A LOT OF COMPLICATED SUPERNATURAL FEELINGS. Let Cody be the soundtrack to your misunderstood love story. He totally glitters under certain conditions. |
| GIG Wednesday November 4th, 2009: 6:30-9:30PM | Capitol Coffee House 6446 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland A truly unplugged set in the coolest room you've never been in. That's Cody, Tim, and Bill in the corner. That's you at the table, losing inhibitions. Did I mention it's happy hour and they serve wine, microbrews and delicious food? Seems like the sort of detail you might enjoy knowing. |
GIG Saturday October 24th, 2009: 7-9PM 
| Elevated Coffee 5261 NE M L King Blvd Portland 97211 Teach your kids the value of a safe high at this early, family-friendly show. Taking set list requests for either guitar or piano. High because it's Elevated Coffee, see? What? Right, you're right. Stay away from drugs, kids. Get high on life, only life. Update: Cody will be joined by percussionist Bill McDonald --whose drum isn't really metal as previously reported (but who's to say his attitude isn't?)-- and bassist Tim Krajcar for the entire 2-hour set. Cody waxes in eerily similar fashion, "he's like the Larry Elwood of Portland --unflappable, solid, roll-with-the-punches groove machine. Plus his drum really is made of metal. Wait? What? It's not? Who keeps telling me that?" |
| GIG Tuesday October 6th, 2009: 9PM | PDX Songwriters' Showcase @ The Thirsty Lion 71 SW 2nd Ave Portland 97204 RAWR! Get yer claws out and roar for Cody at the Thirsty Lion Tuesday Songwriter Showcase. Get a coupon for a free appetizer here. |
| GIG Saturday July 11th, 2009: 12-2PM | Breathe Easy Festival Nick Shannon Memorial Park 16711-16899 SE Valley View Rd Gladstone, OR 97267 (2 blocks south of Jennings on Valley View Road, Gladstone). Cody entertains and hopes his tiny daughters do not take control of the visiting fire truck at the 5th annual Nick Shannon Breathe Easy Festival promoting asthma awareness. From Portland, take 99E to Jennings, east on Jennings past Oatfield, turn right (south) on Valley View Road, two blocks down and there you go --at Nick Shannon Memorial park. Kid-friendly event features hot dogs, playground, sandbox, activities, the aforementioned under-defended fire truck, and many many more diversions to keep your mind off of all that pesky acoustic scat-rock over there under the tree. Donations to the cause welcome. UPDATE: Cody will be joined by percussionist Bill McDonald (of Portland's Budget Airlines) for the duration of his set. Cody waxes, "he's like the Derek Sanchez of Portland --unflappable, solid, no-rehearsal-necessary groove machine. Plus his drum is made of metal." |
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