
LETTER Thank Christ we made it. I thought for a minute there they had us at port.When Guy and I set out to make this band we had no idea of the attention we'd get from all the wrong people. Of course, to our Moroccan fans, Thanks for nothing. Present company excluded. Thanks for ratting us out to the zealouts and the dope smokers and the customs man. Six years in Tangiers, and in an instant, we get run out of town with nothing 'cept a few francs two out of three passports and a business card that says Such and Such at Such and Such Entertainment company. So, thanks for electing us winning of the International battle of the bands, but, for real, we can't do anything until we get all our passports back from Tangiers! Until then we're all sharing Guy's passport and hiding out in tenements in Jersey. Please come to our music performances, unless you are police.
Love, GUY |
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BIO Guy had been performing in the Tangiers, Morocco kasbah circuit for the past 6 years. They may have been originally from Belguim or Germany where they learned to play krautrock beats, which not only became a part of their sound, it also allowed Guy to play very long sets. Sometimes 48 to 72 hours shows. Such were the dues you had to pay to play in the dangerous Rock and Roll underground of Tangiers. Sometime in 2006, Guy's performances started to change. Not the 4/4 beats, but the crowd. Soon there were more and more women showing up to see the guitar players. Some started to undress at certain points in the set, and while Guy specifically discouraged this type of crowd participation, the female fans' antics lead to a virtual landslide of popularity in the city. Guy became so popular that, despite selling out every kasbah nightly, and even after entering and winning The International Battle of the Bands, Guy had to flee the country, and the police, for a more low key hideout - New Jersey, USA. In their haste, the four members of the band only grabbed three passports, and since that fourth guy is the shadiest anyway, each member of the band is using one passport - Guy's. To keep a low profile, the band signed up to work with a pay-to-play Staten Island Booking Agency that puts them on Live bills with pop-punk bands and death metal acts, but even so, Guy still is managing to make a name for themselves in the underground music scene. Let's hope they don't get too big though. |