Evil Music Insects (EMI) to MFUJ: "We have dominion over your cover of Dominion." MFUJ: "EMI? EMI?"

                 Since the last time we saw of our band of misguided musicians in exile, the situation has changed. After a long drought of new music, the band got to work recording their solo albums. G Mod is temporarily out of the picture due to his growing paranoia of persecution by an anthropomorphic bear wearing a Che Guevarra T-shirt (see picture here.... NO PICTURE ABVAILABLE? What? I could have sworn we had an image on flickr or photobucket. You generally have to have an account with one of those sites in order to have photos there, genius. Well, why don't we? It's not in the budget. But aren't those sites free? We can't afford free. Dang...)

                Brick, in his rejuvenated state (short hair, not to be confused with the whiny webisode version with long hair) has managed to record an original song/lead single for his solo band, The Falcons, 99 (too many commas?)... No that last part is not part of the song. He also recorded several covers, including Masters of War, Meet Me in the Bottom and Tiger Man (featuring Tigerman on vocals).

                Not to be outdone, Slate, in a moment of total brilliance (which is rare for him), contacted his old singer songwriter friend, the lovely and talented Eyeway (link...UNAVAILABLE? What the hell? Oh yeah, research is also too expensive for us. We couldn't find a link? We couldn't find a link. Oh fudge! Language! Oh, sorry.) With her awesome singing and Slate's average musicianship and mediocre production skills, they released the first single of his solo album, a cover of Sisters of Mercy's Dominion / Mother Russia, as Slate & the Revolution:

                Of course everything was all well and good at first. Aside from the minor mixing problems and totally inept placement of drum samples, the cover was received well by those who heard it. All but one group. Out of the darkest void of copyright protection hell came a swarm of Evil Music Insects (EMI), hell-bent on quashing Slate and Eyeway's tour de force performance (Slate's words, not ours) and, ironically, claiming dominion over the song, even though everything was sung and performed from scratch by Slate and Eyeway. Could it be that Slate and Eyeway did such a good job in covering the song that the Evil Music Insects (EMI) mistook the song for the original? Or could it be that, in a moment of true stupidity (something all too common for the MGUJ singer), Slate used the original song to help him organize his cover version and, despite his best efforts to mute any sign of the original song, somehow the Evil Music Insects could sense the heart of the original song beating within this newer version?

The world may never know.

Stay tuned for further updates on MFUJ's newest faux nemesis as well as an unlikely turn of events for the band of misfits known as MFUJ. Lets' just say, they might not have to be MFU+ any longer. (Will Shadow ever appear on camera outside of stock footage from old music videos?)

And now the Sex Pistols with their ode to Evil Music Insects, EMI

Thinking that the Occupy protesters had finally caught up with him, G Mod almost had a heart attack. It turns out that it was just a family of deer. Slate, you Wild Child!

Well, just chalk this one up as miscommunication at its funniest. Embattled manager of MFUJ and former member of the 1%, G Mod, had a rough day recently. After getting all of his paperwork done early in order to relax with a jar of macadamias and whatever was on the tube, something went horribly askew.

The band's leather lunged singer, Slate, came into the house and locked the door, thoroughly out of breath. Brick, the normally detached guitarist and founding member of the band, was the first to notice the singer's nervous countenance.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"We're surrounded!" he yelped with an exasperated voice.

"What?!" screamed the perturbed record producer/manager as he stood up, spilling all of the half eaten macadamias from his shirt.

"No...it can't be! This was a secure location. Oh Judas Priest! Say it ain't so. SAY IT AIN'T SO!"

G Mod proceeded to clutch his chest as he fell to the floor. Brick ran to his side, reluctantly, and immediately began to put his limited medical knowledge to work. Whether or not he actually helped or in fact worsened the blow of the chest pains is still up to debate.

"How did the Occupy Protesters find us?" Brick asked Slate.

"Occupy whatnow?" replied a confused Slate. "There's a family of deer out there! Grazing the grass and stuff."

"What?" G Mod asked, still clutching his chest.

"Deer! There's like six  of them."

"You mean to say...that you barged in here, out of breath, shouted that we were surrounded...and YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT A BUNCH OF ****ING DEER?!?"

"Um, well yeah..." replied the now frightened Slate.

"One of these days...he's gonna be the death of me..." lamented the weakened G Mod, lying in a pile of cracked macadamias and broken dreams.

  

A new year and a new misadventure begins. The Third Webisode premiere is here. *clears throat* Well, the rain exploded with a mighty crash as we fell into the sun. And the first one said to the second one there I hope you're having fun...

Despite technical difficulties caused by a burnt out computer, the transition to new video-making hardware/software and an angry mob led by an ursine rebel-rouser sporting a Che Guevarra t-shirt, MFUJSF would proudly like to present our third webisode. Well, perhaps proudly is too strong a word. We don't want to build up to much hype for a single episode.

What can we say? Well...the episode was filmed around Thanksgiving time but is only now being released. Yeah, that wasn't exactly scintillating behind-the-scenes commentary. I apologize. Also, despite previous posts saying otherwise, neither Shadow nor Tigerman appear in episode 3. Sorry for the disappointing news. We did record an epic Bass and drum jam with the two of them doing an epic cover of inna gadda-da vida. Unfortunately, the footage was snatched out of the camera by  a particularly aggressive protester and used as a jump rope. As of the writing of this blog, both Tigerman and Shadow have refused to play the song again so the performance will be lost forever.

Alas...

What do you need to know in order to watch this video? Hmmm. Let's see...
- Following financial difficulties (Downgrade from MFUJ to MFU+) and the appearance of an irate group of protesters who detest the extravagance of individuals like G Mod, the band was forced to flee their precious HQ and seek refuge in a distant hideaway.
-Shadow was left behind to take care of the HQ while the rest of the abnd went with G Mod. Though his story was not explored in this episode, perhaps a flashback sequence episode will reveal what Shadow is up to.
- Tigerman, who travelled with Brick, Slate and G Mod has not been seen in days. Where could he be? Future episode? Maybe.
- Brick is pretty mad at G Mod for soooo many reasons.
- Slate is pretty happy. Remember, whereas Brick accumulates angst into an ever growing wall, Slate wipes all his feelings clean all the time.
 -Despite his gruff public persona, G Mod's armor is imploding from within as his past mistakes are slowly coming back to haunt him. More on this in future episodes.


And now....the feature presentation.

And to thank you for watching, here is Band on the Run!