Did you ever make up a fantasy band? When I was in 11th grade, I made up a heavy metal band called, get this, Hydra Strain. I even made a list of their albums in a notebook with song titles I can no longer recall. We'd get on stage in black leather (I know, nothing new here) but here's the twist: We'd all have tails. Thick leather tails. And we would wear alligator and komodo lizard masks. All I can say is you had to be there. You had to be in my lonely, sweaty, sickly bedroom to witness the magic happening.

Dude after watching ESPN's XXL surfing competition last night, I had wet dreams. Thanks for reminding me.

To the Hoop hoip!

in my mind all my friends are my bandmates and we have all broken off and have done solo albums and have played on each others work.
at work the same comparison.

my fictional band is called the ungrateful lving.

I just submitted several posters to a show here in STL dedicated to concert posters for non-existent bands, featuring such combos existing only in my mind as the Eisenhower Death Train, Advanced Idea Mechanics, Savage Breast and Reverse Cowgirl.

If I figure out how, I'll post some images.



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three notes on this topic: The imaginary band of my high school years (in the late '60s, remember) was Funky Bulldog. There was a fictional TP house band Dave Schulps led (and, I believe, at one point incarnated) called Ace Ligger and the Hors D'Oeuvres. And Dr. Frank's novel King Dork is filled with fleshed out bands conjured by the imagination of its teenaged protagonist

Has anyone ever pondered why women almost never post to this board?

"Has anyone ever pondered why women almost never post to this board?"

Not really. The reason is as apparent as the nose on one's face. Or as the tails on hoip chiggs's "band."

Actually, there's a whole section in the GBV documentary where Bob Pollard runs down all of the make believe bands he and his brother devised while growing up, complete with artwork and track-listing.

So Guided By Voices is like a make-believe band on steroids. And redemption for all those make-believe bands that dissipated into thin air...

Mingering Mike



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As threatened, here are the posters I created for the real posters for fake bands show at the local university.

[www.facebook.com]

Theoretically that's a public link and should work even for non-Facebook members.

Good work. It makes me wanna vote for Eisenhower in November.

i'm ordering advance tickets to Death in Silver.

Ooh, I wanna see Reverse Cowgirl someday!

Great job!

during my early 90s corporate music mall store days I, as well as a female co-worker, created a fictional hardcore band called the Geriatric Stiffies who semi-regularly played gigs in New Brunswick, NJ. She'd made a 7" inch cover for her artclass that depicted old man from the waist down with a growing bulge in his slacks aided by an air pump he was squeezing. i don't recall the name of the song.



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