The Rocklopedia Fakebandica

We continue our multi-part series on the fake bands of Saturday Night Live with a discussion of the year that almost killed the show, the long fruitful years after,...and the year that almost killed the show. Kinda like a Double Stuf Oreo, except instead of double stuffed, it’s octuple stuffed, and instead of being sandwiched together with cookies, it’s sandwiched together by turds. Good luck getting that image out of your mind!

This week, we celebrate that day long ago in Plymouth, Mass., when Americans broke bread with some illegal immigrants. Or Pilgrims. Maybe we should call the immigrants  Pilgrims. Anyway, we choose to mark the holiday by discussing Native American fake bands in pop culture. Because let's face it: Native Americans are the reason we have Thanksgiving in the first place. And it's also hard to find fake bands filled with Pilgrims or turkeys.

This week's writer introduced the world to the hardest-working music geek in all of Ireland, the great Jimmy Rabbitte. While Jimmy may think he's shite, possibly overproduced, and less musical than And And! fecking And, we are all fans of novelist Roddy Doyle, the third member of the Fake Band Hall of Fame's latest class of inductees!

The Fake Band Hall of Fame's new members are two of the biggest TV stars of the past 50 years. Plus, they have also played fake musicians on TV, in movies, on streaming, and even in video games. Please welcome Lynda Carter and Lily Tomlin to the red, fake carpet!

With the election right around the corner, we look at politics and fake bands, and the warnings that Hollywood keeps giving us, over and over again. Get out and vote, then listen!

It’s Halloweek, so we’re going to discuss one of the scariest things to ever haunt the world: the many heavy metal fake bands that occupied those “metalsploitation” films of the 1980s. We discuss three of them and wonder if we are wetting our pants from fear...or just age.

This week, we talk about one of the people that shaped popular culture  and changed the world forever. His music and his showmanship are still iconic to this day, and his face adorns as many velvet paintings as Jesus. It’s one for the money… two for the show… three to get ready… fake bands go!

In the second of our two-part exploration of fake Beatles-related bands, we grapple with the possibility of other fake universes themed on bands. And then you can actually hear Alan's blood pressure shoot up as he talks about 2019's Yesterday.