Bands Birthed from Movies and TV Shows (Episode 56)

For the past few episodes, we have been examining the thin line
that separates authentic from fraud in rock n roll. The fantastical
world-building of Mingering Mike showed how one can create true
inspiration and beautiful art even without ever actually making
music or having an audience. The deception and tomfoolery of the
music industry to create whole phantom biographies and personas as
a means to some sort of end: financial, creative, critical or
otherwise. Today, the last piece falls into place. Not individuals
trying to become stars. Nor stars trying to gain back some
individuality. No, we are looking at bands that accidentally became
real. Bands that took on a new life from an existence that was
entirely, by definition, staged. Today’s episode we look at
musicians and bands that broke free from the binds of television
and movie screens to become actual stars.  To learn more about
JemCon, read this Rolling Stone article which we used for some of
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