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Drummer drumming to Super Mario 2 music
(cant get the embed to work)
That was awesome.
About a decade ago (in highschool) my friend Justin and I had this idea that we would start a rap group where we spit (hot fire) rhymes over remixed classic video game music. Our names were D. Bugg Mode and ….(help me out, Justin) DJ I-Triple-E 1394? Something like that. For a while I was also Dirty Jesus X. Anyway. It was a fantastic idea and much like every great idea I had in the 90’s, we talked about it for a year and never did shit. Theres not really a point to that story. Just remenesing. Funny thing is (and I don’t care if you call bullshit or not, it’s true) we invented mash-ups in 2000. Mind you this was 4 years before the Grey Album. I’m not saying we were the first people ever to mash together two songs, but we did come up with the idea with no outside influence or provocation, so we might as well hacve been the first. We started a band sort of based on this idea called Los Hombres de Rock and Roll.A few set list highlights were:
- Playing “Ready to Go” by Elastica/ singing “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top and “Love Shack” by The B-52’s
- Playing “Jane Says” by Jane’s Addiction/ singing the Reading Rainbow theme song
- Playing the most over used riff in 90’s rock (G, D, E, C)/ singing “What’s this Life For?” by Creed, “Good” by Better than Ezra, “When I come around” by GreenDay and about 20 others.
Somewhere there is video to prove it. A guy named MW Wil taped the one and only show we did (with my friend Corn Mo), and I never saw him again. I wish I had that tape.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Bits and pieces:
- I think I was Colonel Debugger.
- William B. was the name of the guy that made the video, as well as a recording of my one-and-only showcase at the Addison Improv, then promptly fell off the face of the planet. I talked to him about 6 months ago, but there’s no way he still has any of those videos.
- The horrible recordings I made in that “era” are still around for anyone with the intestinal fortitude to handle them and the drive to find them. New Kat Food is still a hit in Sweden.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Wil! Right.
I know that neither of our guesses were your rap name. Your obsession with Firewire was post-Beaumont so mine is out. This is going to piss me off. You hadn’t yet invented FG. You weren’t Dougy Dizeez, Mixmaster Mark Misanthropy, Uncle Screw Tape, or Mike Smith. Nor were you DJ Kathy Frazier or MC Nefarious Fat Bitch Riding an Onyx Donkey.
C’mon. D. Bugg Mode (aka Dirty Jesus X) and…..???
Colonel Debugger wasn’t funny until I said it out loud. Then i shit coffee.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Surely it wasn’t the plain and forgettable Fatt J?
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
It most certainly was. I am at peace now.
January 23rd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Oh man… that was Awesome!
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I know I was impressed.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I concur – Colonel Debugger wasn’t funny until I said it aloud. Ah, geek humor…
January 24th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
That was some amazing drumming. He should join the NESkimos – they’ve been using a synthesizer for a while, which actually (surprisingly) sounds good but it can’t beat a live drummer.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I think Ive heard of them. TO GOOGLE!
January 27th, 2008 at 11:13 am
By the way, for the music nerds out there, the “GDEC” thing he’s talking about is “I V vi IV”.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Wow… coming from a guy who epically fails on drums in Rock Band, I am utterly impressed.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Im not enough of a music theory nerd (or one at all). I have no idea what this means.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Look for the rest of his videos. He’s REALLY good.