Back in the day, Adult Swim’s website offered a few shirts styled as tour t-shirts; they were clearly designed with the fictional band in mind.
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I own a Berserker shirt, from their “F*ck Your Yankee Blue Jeans” world tour.
Berserker is the song sung by Jay’s cousin Olaf, the Russian metal singer, in Clerks. They must have made it big because Jay is wearing their shirt in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Mine is long-sleeve, and was purchsed at the Secret Stash in Red Bank.
The recording of the song used in the movie Clerks was by Love Among Freaks, a NJ alternative metal band.
The Dregs of Humanity. I was a fan even before they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Oh, and Crisis of Conformity.
It was a joke band name from (I think) Monty Python before an actual band used it. Willie and the Poor Boys followed a similar existential trajectory.
Citizen Dick (from “Singles”)
Cap’n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters (“That Thing You Do”)
How about Scum of the Earth. The original hoodlum rock group from “WKRP in Cincinnati”.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
There’s a lot of Sex Bob-Omb merch out there. They may be one of the most successful fictional bands of losers ever.
Enjoy,
Steven
I was going to say The Clash at Demonhead instead.
Reggie Wanker
King Blues
Auden
Captain Cloud
Nada (with Piggy)
—all from Get Crazy (1983)
The late SF writer Jack Chalker had a similar experience. He wrote a trilogy featuring an organization called, I think, “General Ordering and Distribution” or “GOD Inc”. His moment came when he first saw a truck for “Guaranteed Overnight Delivery”.
For Christmas this year I received a t-shirt with the Frogtown Hollow Jubilee Jug Band.
Doctor Teeth & the Electric Mayhem?
Maybe the “real” TtWS from the Python album, not that later faux name stealers.
For me: another vote for Scum of the Earth.
Beat me to it. Love their song ‘Way Out’! You know you’re dealing with a one-hit wonder when the name of the band and first song is practically identical. No wonder the manager went with an Orson Wells-type promotion for them.
So I’ll go to my backup picks, Fred “The Velvet Smog” Flintstone (When the Saints Go Marching In’), Bug Music (‘I Said Ya Ya Ya!’), and an honorable mention to Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm (‘Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)’).
I’d add The Beau Brummelstones and Ann Margrock, but the performers and songs are a little too close to nonfictional for this thread.
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