Do you ever wonder about the Star Wars cantina band?

Do they have groupies they get to go home with every night?

Did they ever get a recording gig? Did they move off Tattooine? Or are they still stuck in that backwater hell hole, playing for drunk, scummy ruffians and villains who can’t appreciate true genius when they hear it?

I think there needs to be an expanded universe novel featuring their story.

Do you mean Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes?

Are we talking about this band? :confused:

Yeah, they seem peppy and upbeat to me.

Wookiepedia kinda ruins the fun of threads like this one. We could have fun speculating what the cantina band does in its free time. But no, everything is already mapped out and answered in excruciating detail.

Considering how often Figrin D’an threw their escape money away in Jabba’s Mos Eisley casinos, I’m surprised the rest of the band didn’t dump him into a Sarlacc pit themselves…

Plenty of local bands here on Earth that no one’s ever heard of. I love how Wookiepiedia gives them names and backgrounds.

Stuck? No man, they kept it real. They could have sold out and played in some neon and plastic franchise club on Coruscant for the soulless spawn of the bureaucrats, but they were in it for the Music and the real fans who knew what honest artists were

I feel the same way about the Wikipedia pages on pirates, vikings and ninjas.

If the Knights of the Old Republic game is any indication, Bith bands usually have Twi’lek dancers associated with them. That the Mos Eisley group didn’t likely indicates their declining fortunes. Also, playing at a wretched hive of scum and villainy wouldn’t have done them any favors.

She dropped out.

In retrospect, she should have stayed with the band no matter how much money Jabba was offering.

They do occasionally play at Disney World, though.

Even though they all tried to keep things friendly, the parting was not without rancor.

The Bith are greatly offended by the merry reactions of other sophonts to the traditional funeral dirges of their people. To react with good cheer - even dancing! - when listening to these tragic meditations on the transitory nature of life and the impenetrable mysteries of the next world is a disrespect of the highest order!

But the money’s good, so what the hell.

When the movie had its debut in Seattle, our band was playing a gig in the Pioneer Square district and we decided to go and see it. When the ‘cantina band’ scene played we all pretty much shouted “Holy Shit, it’s the XXX’s” !! Band name hidden to protect the guilty parties. Probably every ‘club’ musician who ever saw this for the first time had the same reaction. :smiley:

in the expanded universe (before Disney decanonized it) one of the denizens of the cantina (can’t remember which now) ran a bit of a scam on Figrin Dan and ended up owning the band’s instruments. He was in the employ of Jabba and worked it so that the band ended up basically in indentured servitude to Jabba playing at his palace and on his barge. It was all in the anthology "Tales From the Mos Eisley Cantina"that told the back stories of the various characters seen there.
ETA I have the book, but may have the details a bit off. In the link the guy with the horns is the dude who maneuvers them into the gig in Jabba’s palace

Why? He’s a HUGE fan of theirs

You can buy their CD on Amazon.

I know that Max Rebo is not a blue elephant.

She didn’t appreciate being tied down.
Y’know, to a contract.