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The Show Business Giants began life as a collaborative in-joke between ex-Neo Steve Bailey and failed restauranteur Tom Holliston. Combining acerbic wit and chord changes much too complicated for “The Five-Fingered Ones”, as they referred to their fellow-Victorians, they wrote songs about jerks and disease, with only one criterion: if Bailey had to stop rehearsal in the midst of a new work’s unfolding to facilitate, they knew they were “on to something.”
Conscripting to their ranks mandolin player Scott Hendersomething of skatepunks Shovlhed, they recorded their first cassette, Gold Love at Hendersomething’s Dollhouse Studios. The tape was outsold in its first quarter only by Suicidal Tendencies and the amazing Neil Diamond. One of the songs, “My Girlfriend’s A Robot”, was later a big hit for SBG hometown coevals, puck-rockers The Hanson Brothers.
For their second foray into the recording milieu, the boys were joined by Gulf Island cable TV personality Tom Holliston, and many hungry vagrants. Expectations were high from press and fans alike after Gold Love’s stellar chart performance, and pressure from the record company, Incentive, to duplicate the success of that collection’s smash single, “Papa’s Got Some Brand-New Lederhosen”, was felt by the songwriters. A source close to the group described the atmosphere in the studio as “tense.” Hendersomething, who was also engineering the sessions, was now smoking fifteen packs of cigarettes a day, while Bailey had visibly lost weight and was occasionally seen to kick the studio mascot, Imru The Dog, when he thought no one was looking.
Conscripting to their ranks mandolin player Scott Hendersomething of skatepunks Shovlhed, they recorded their first cassette, Gold Love at Hendersomething’s Dollhouse Studios. The tape was outsold in its first quarter only by Suicidal Tendencies and the amazing Neil Diamond. One of the songs, “My Girlfriend’s A Robot”, was later a big hit for SBG hometown coevals, puck-rockers The Hanson Brothers.
For their second foray into the recording milieu, the boys were joined by Gulf Island cable TV personality Tom Holliston, and many hungry vagrants. Expectations were high from press and fans alike after Gold Love’s stellar chart performance, and pressure from the record company, Incentive, to duplicate the success of that collection’s smash single, “Papa’s Got Some Brand-New Lederhosen”, was felt by the songwriters. A source close to the group described the atmosphere in the studio as “tense.” Hendersomething, who was also engineering the sessions, was now smoking fifteen packs of cigarettes a day, while Bailey had visibly lost weight and was occasionally seen to kick the studio mascot, Imru The Dog, when he thought no one was looking.
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Hazenpepper wrote:
will there be corn is really captivating and emotional in some respects, but i find alot of their stuff too self indulgence for my liking..
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SSMT wrote:
Goddammit, why don't more people listen to this great band?
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Julian-Thome wrote:
I like the song about Eric Burdon
Japan Is Turning Into Eric Burdon
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Eve-Lau wrote:
And you both look like Mark E. Smith.
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SSMT wrote:
No, I am the yellow fly.
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i am the yellow fly!
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