An east coast Dan Deacon Show is much better than a west coast Deacon concert. For starters they usually spell his name right out east. The marquee at LA troubadour read Dan Deacan.

Missing were the motley crew of dressed up characters from Deacon's Baltimore art collective Wham City. Gone was the guy in the Tigger costume, the dude who always dressed as a capped superhero and the usual voyeurs dressed in neons.

What Deacon did bring with him out west was LOUD by way of a 13-piece orchestra all dressed in matching white paint suits. It included 2 drum kits with a chick percussionist several keyboards, xylophones, and the usual bunches of 'tars.

Deacon's Troubadour show, which started late and was even further delayed due to venue lighting issues (he wanted it pitch black, but to no avail), came at the same time his sophomore album BROMST hit Number Four on College Radio's Top 10, according to the back page of my Rolling Stone magazine's Kings Of Leon issue. From the first report about BROMST, the follow-up to his 2007 breakthrough Spiderman Of The Rings, bloggers were tagging it a more percussion heavy album. This little fact helps explain the dueling live drummers and rest of the ensemble on the stage that night at the Troubadour.

For the most part Deacon's theatrics stayed true to form and included: a quick group stretch to start things off with everyone reaching for above on their tip-toes, Deacon stopping the show to demand everyone stop pushing, and a dance off between spectators. Despite the technical issues in the beginning Deacon still spat his usual impromptu stories before tracks "Silence Like The Wind Overtakes Me" and "Baltihorse" also ensued. This particular night Deacon's spiel took you back to a made up scene that included your second ever Phish show, on a hunt for weed from a guy wearing a Primus Frizzle Fry t-shirt. "The Frizzle Fry dude pops off the weed dealer's shirt and into your mouth and says, 'I'm the weed, 'Deacon told the crowd before cracking into the fan favorite "Wham City."

But the best part was the trademark serpent tunnel of love and dance, where everyone in attendance linked arms to form a human tunnel leading up the stairs, into the balcony and back down again and around the entire venue. A Deacon show wouldn't be what it is without it.

With his effects pedals distorting in the background a journey through the swerving man-made tunnel dumps you out into the surreal frenzy that is a Dan Deacon concert, and just one stop short of Willy Wonka's candy factory…whether you're on the east coast or west.