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Article: Faking the band
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2008
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The new Rainn Wilson comedy "The Rocker," which opens Wednesday,
features songs by the film's fictional bands, the hard-rocking
Vesuvius and teen-pop act A.D.D. The bands may be fake, but the
songs are real. Musician Teddy Geiger, who plays A.D.D.'s frontman
in the film, has even added his onscreen band's single, "Tomorrow
Never Comes," to his real-life tour set list.
Of course, Vesuvius and A.D.D. aren't the first fake bands on
celluloid that have been surprisingly realistic (and in some cases,
talented). Here are some others:
STILLWATER
Peter Frampton supposedly helped style the fake rock band in
Cameron Crowe's 2000 film "Almost Famous," which starred Jason Lee
as Stillwater's lead singer ...
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