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.
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…
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
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.
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!
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.
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