Subject: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:26 pm
My sons and I just finished watching the classic '70s Muppet holiday special, "Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas" ... seen it a zillion times since I was a kid and this bit, as always, is my favorite part. The Riverbottom Nightmare Band ROCKS!
Only in the Muppet universe could a snake play a bass guitar.
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Nice!!!!!!!! Me and a friend were jamming these guys at work a lot over the summer.
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:57 am
That's cool!
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:21 am
My Daughter and I watched this the other night.Its a great little show.It always kinda pissed me off that the Nightmare beat Emmets Jug Band at the talent show.
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:44 am
thrasher73 wrote:
My Daughter and I watched this the other night.Its a great little show.It always kinda pissed me off that the Nightmare beat Emmets Jug Band at the talent show.
Awwww, come on... the Nightmare totally deserved to win... they brought a light show and everything!!
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:50 am
I had never seen this before until this morning. Pretty awesome. What the heck is the thing swimming around in the tank in the background?
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:01 am
spectrefate wrote:
I had never seen this before until this morning. Pretty awesome. What the heck is the thing swimming around in the tank in the background?
That's a fish. I don't know his name but he's a member of the "Riverbottom Gang," the local tough guys who make up the band. Earlier in the special the Gang is riding around town in their hot rod and he's in a bucket in the back seat, spitting water at passers-by, haha. When they stop at the music store (so the Snake can get a new string for his guitar), they ask the fish if he wants to go in too, and he sez something like "Nah.. It's a little too dry in there for me."
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:52 am
It would be cool if a stoner or doom band covered this. I could see someone like Orange Goblin, BigElf or Fireball Ministry doing something nasty with this tune.
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Subject: Re: RIVERBOTTOM NIGHTMARE BAND! Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:57 am
MetalGuy71 wrote:
It would be cool if a stoner or doom band covered this. I could see someone like Orange Goblin, BigElf or Fireball Ministry doing something nasty with this tune.
If you just search for the song title on YouTube, several clips pop up of various bands doing live cover versions of the song... including one by Anal C**t, of all creatures.
Someone NEEDS to do a proper studio recording of it though!!
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