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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: John Junk on May 02, 2007, 08:56:37 PM
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Not necessarily making supergroups, just bands that you'd like to start, or to see, or to know existed.
Jpeg and the Gifs (I call dibs on this name. I've copyrighted it. I might use it some day. I still can't decide if it would be a novelty band about the "early days" of the internet before the dot com bubble burst, or if it would just be a total straight-faced garage rock band in the Little Steven manner)
No Rimbaud!: I've also thought about starting this band called No Rimbaud! It would be like a meta-hardcore band. There would be extended sxe hardcore style between-song monologues about things that suck and then all the songs would sound like Tiny Tim or the worst Donovan ("Riki Tiki Tavi" or "I Love My Shirt"). In fact, maybe they're just Donovan covers. But not in hardcore fashion. It's like a ukulele and a bongo. But anyway, the "No Rimbaud!" title comes from the band's moral position, which asserts itself as a reactionary refusal of Patti Smith, her pseudo-intellectual variation on proto-punk, and all things Bacchanalean, self-indulgent, decadent; including the idea of being defiant itself. This, of course, is a problematic position for the band to uphold because of its own self-indulgent and defiant tirades about the excesses of the Punk generation, not to mention the obvious stoner roots of the Donovan-type stuff it's always playing.
Seriously, y'all better not steal my ideas.
But what have you guys got?
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Jimmy Skadust and the Askanauts from Mars- Bowie ska tribute band
Charlie Babbit and the Rain Men
The Nice Price- a fictional band that I started that only plays inpromptu shows outside bars in the Washington, DC area. We are all named after members of the harDCore scene, and have very weird politics. We have songs such as, "Bookmobile is for the upper class", and "Van Hollen is a Whore". I think my name in the band was Kipp Croft.
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My band will be called The Jack Lemmon Pledge, due to excess cleverness. We'll mainly throat-sing over stomping retro-soul instrumentals. We'll have jet packs and only release cassingles for our first five years of existence. Our mascot will be Darla, the world's first cloned lemur. The fliers for our first gig will depict anti-WTO protesters throwing rocks at Bryan Ferry. Our drummer will get arrested after the same show for punching out Andy Richter (who, after some reflection, will consider it an honor). Oh, it'll be fun.
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My band will be called The Jack Lemmon Pledge, due to excess cleverness. We'll mainly throat-sing over stomping retro-soul instrumentals. We'll have jet packs and only release cassingles for our first five years of existence. Our mascot will be Darla, the world's first cloned lemur. The fliers for our first gig will depict anti-WTO protesters throwing rocks at Bryan Ferry. Our drummer will get arrested after the same show for punching out Andy Richter (who, after some reflection, will consider it an honor). Oh, it'll be fun.
Can I be you're drummer?
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Charlie Babbit and the Rain Men
Ha Ha. And it's like a Tom Cruise/Eddie and the Cruisers frontman singing in the style of Bob Seger with a Kraftwerkian backup band.
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One night in the mid-Eighties, I told my father I was going to see the Velvet Monkeys at the 9:30 Club. He replied, "who is performing with them? Twyla Twitwolliger and The Thumping Tom Toms?" I think he even used his fingers to part his hair in the middle while saying it. Every time I remember him doing that, I get a little scared. Like when I listen to the picture disc of Psychic TV's "A Pagan Day."
Anyway, I'm not asserting copyright on that name. If it speaks to you, by all means, run with it.
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A friend of mine and her pals developed the fake band Jimmy Drywall & The Sheetrockers, a group of construction workers who used to harmonize at the jobsite until they were discovered by the head of a major record label while laying drywall for his house. It's the ultimate "whistle while you work"-to-riches story!
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The fake studio where I record (aka my basement) is called the Flavius Josephus Institute.
A few songs that would be required if I saw Jimmy Drywall & the Sheetrockers;
1. Sixteen Tons
2. Working in a coal mine devo style
3. Up on the Roof
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A few songs that would be required if I saw Jimmy Drywall & the Sheetrockers;
4. A House is Not a Home
5. Rip This Joint
6. Our House (because they invented Ska)
Found this video of Jimmy Drywall kicking back.
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This is mostly unrelated to this thread, but recently in one of my classes I was talking to a cute girl who was reading a fantasy book. I kept thinking of the Wurster pronunciation (fontasy), so when I asked her about the book, I said: "So what kind of fontasy is that?"
I think I blew it with her.
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What--no pawing ensued?
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Why would Lilly Tomlin take OFF her glasses to see better?
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OBViously they are reading glasses.
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John H.:
Keep effing with the bull and you'll get the horns. There'll be a guy named RayRay coming round with a skimask and a knife.
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Hey Man, it's not my fault the bull keeps asking dumb questions. Does the bull think that all glasses are like made out of binocular material or something? A farsighted woman would totally have too much glare in her eyes if she was trying to scope out a construction worker through a window AND through an extraneous pair of reading glasses. You should know as much. How dare you. Tell Ray Ray I'm gonna smash his face in.
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Why would she walk down the hall wearing reading glasses? Was she eagerly scrutinizing the "lift with your legs, not your back" posters on the wall as she went to ogle the man-candy?
She's taking off the glasses to be sexy and impress Hasselhoff/Jimmy Drywall. No sale!
For the rest of you:
When they talk about the degeneration of our culture in the last 20 years: what are the odds of a commercial - even an outdoor bathtub commercial for a pharmaceutical product - featuring "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" as the soundtrack?
And not even the Foghat or April Wine versions!