I was in a “band” in High School. Correction. I hit a few musical instruments for a few weeks with some other people that hit musical instruments. We called ourselves NMOA - Nazi Milkmen on Acid. There were three of us and none were Nazis or had ever done acid. But one did work in the dairy department of a grocery store. We got together a few times and just were silly - everything really clicked the second “jam” we had and we set up a tape recorder in front of us. We had a bass, guitar, and keyboard (set to percussion). I played the percussion (in the form of a roll of masking tape being rolled on the keys) and sang for a few of our four tracks. One song was “Arthropod Murderers” and was about turning on the shower and not clearing out the spiders and moths before drowning them. Another was “Sloth” where two of us fought about whether sloths were marsupials or not. “Sloths are not marsupials!” “Sloths ARE marsupials!” “Sloths do not nurse their young in a pouch!” “You nurse your lung in a pouch!” Then there was “Squaredance Song” which combined a nice polka beat with thrash metal guitar rifts. It alternated between a nasal squaredance caller and the shouts of - well, nothing really. We just shouted a lot. Our last song was “El Fundador” which supposedly was a tale of the other two band member’s trip to Taco Bell where one ate El Fundador and later passed gas so awful that the other one threw up his Taco Bell meal. Good times. Good until we took on a fourth member. Another guitarist. The only problem was that he could really play. He played so well that i quit. You would have too if a deaf guy was a better musician than you. He played with his foot on the amp and just felt the vibrations.
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February 3rd, 2004 at 12:31 pm
I always wondered what NMOA stood for!
February 5th, 2004 at 5:52 am
i was in a band with a few coast guard kids that lived next door to me. It was called Dead Bugs in a Jar. We wrote a lot of songs but by the time everyone had really gotten into it, all their parents got transferred. Otherwise we’d be makin it BIG right now…
February 9th, 2004 at 4:14 am
I actually have one of the tape - “NMOA”, I was waiting for you guys to hit it big
February 9th, 2004 at 5:15 am
I looked around for a copy of the tape but could not find one. I’d convert the tracks to mp3 format if i had one so the whole world could enjoy our silliness.
February 9th, 2004 at 3:22 pm
If I find any around here I’ll send them up to you. Who knows what is lurking in the hidden corners of this house…