Death Bus
!!This blog was originally posted on 10/13 but mysteriously disappeared off the site!!
So a couple of us NWMB “writers” had a discussion last night regarding what 5 *influential* bands we wanted to put on a bus which would in turn then drive off the side of a cliff, and best of all, never to be heard from again! It’s such a good question, every time I ask it, people take it completely seriously and put a lot of thought into it. The answers and reasons why are always entertaining and intriguing.
At any rate, when this topic came up last night, I found that this question is also referred to as “Death Bus”. I was shocked and horrified! I’ve been asking this question over the past 6 years — NEVER running into anyone who has ever heard of it. How could it be, someone other than me is asking that all important question? Ok, I’m just kidding (sort of) but truth be told, it did come to me by my friend Dan Blasko in Chicago… I first heard it while hanging out and drinking with Dan and some friends at the Red Lion Pub. Such a great bar in so many ways. Plus it’s haunted. I could digress here and tell you how my friend Amy and I (after drinking a few Boddingtons) would try to summon the ghost in the upstairs women’s bathroom. Never worked. Maybe we had to be sober and take it seriously??? Who knows, but back to the topic at hand, what I’m trying to get at is that I guess I can’t take credit for the “Death Bus” quesiton anymore -oh well, it was fun while it lasted. So after all that, are you curious to see who’s on my bus, well here ya go:
1. Phish
2. U2 (yes, shocking and bold move, I know, but I can do without ever hearing anything from Bono and is it “The Edge”? again)
3. Steely Dan, i don’t get them at all.
4. Bruce Springsteen, he made me cringe when I was 10, he still makes me cringe today.
5. And last, but surely not least The Dave Matthews Band! I really wish I could just use one category and put all “jam” bands on here but there’s not enough room on the bus to fit them all.
Your turn! Who’s on your bus?
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1) Jimmy Buffet drives the fucker while drunk as shit on cheap tequila and choking on a cheesburger (that’s MY paradise)
2) Christina Agulara is pinching his nipples from behind. Not influential..? ask 1 billion school girls. I know someone who thinks of her as a hero because she has freed women’s sexuality. She too is a wicked slut.
2.1) Oasis can be pinching his nipples if you like.
3) Nickleback. Which one of you assholes keeps buying their albums? QUIT IT! Even hearing them on a quick scan of the radio (which is inevitable) pisses me off.
4) Neil Young. Fuck that guy. Fuck his new album. Thank God KEXP finally got tired of it
5) Tim McGraw sits in the back so he can let ALL of his friends in the emergency exit
Three Cheers for Kev and a thorough and pretty much iron-clad list.
I play this game at work regularly, it never grows old.
Jules: As a strange footnote to your list, a major guitar magazine surprisingly rated a Steely Dan song as having “The Greatest Guitar Solo in Modern Rock Music”. Weird. Trivia time: From where or what do they get their name? Which “SNL” veteran had auditioned to be their singer?
All you have to do is look in your purse for the first answer Jules. It’s printed on the base of your little “friend”. As for the SNL reference… not sure. Victoria Jackson?
haha Kev! No one was supposed to know that. I *used to* keep it in my purse but now it’s too small — the purse that is. I now keep my steely dan in my backpack for safe keeping!
Answer: Chevy Chase is a part of the Steely Dan past. Though wikipedia tells me that he was a drummer in an early iteration of the Walter Becker/Donald Fagen hit machine.
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