I just bought a CD by the first band I ever saw at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill

[taterguy]

The impossible challenge for the Lounge is to guess who it is.

Hints available upon request.

Good luck.

[leeroysphitz]

1. Cibo Matto?

Edited to add the first band I saw there was Archers Of Loaf. I never liked them but my girlfriends roommate was going out with the drummer...

[taterguy]

3. Nope

I really like the current stuff done by former Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann which has nothing to do with this thread.

[LostinVA]

2. REM

[taterguy]

6. No but someone who performed with REM used to be in a band with someone in this band

[NC_Nurse]

4. Superchunk?

Picasso Trigger?
Zen Frisbee?
SCOTS?

[taterguy]

7. Mary from SCOTS auditioned to be in this band

[MrCoffee]

5. Bell Biv DeVoe?

[idgiehkt]

8. Well since it isn't SCOTS I have no idea.

:( What time period did you see them in?\

edit: Is it the B-52's??

[taterguy]

10. After Billy Johnson started working there but before Frank Heath bought the place

[enigmatic]

9. The dB's

[taterguy]

11. Good guess but incorrect

They played somewhere else in Chapel Hill that night.

[enigmatic]

12. Then I'm going to go with

Let's Active...

[taterguy]

13. Nope, as far as I know Mary from SCOTS never auditioned for Let's Active

[enigmatic]

14. This is going to get me

I should know this; it'll probably come to me at 4am:D

[taterguy]

16. Here's another worthless hint for ya:

Someone in this band appeared in a Miller Beer ad

[enigmatic]

19. It's not Pylon, is it?

I was going to say The Squalls too, but I'm getting really obscure now...

[taterguy]

20. Not Pylon but I'll concede that it is a very obscure band

[enigmatic]

23. I'll give it one more shot

Lava Love; that's the only other one I can think of right now...

[taterguy]

25. I'll tell you the answer later, it's not Laura Love

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Ronald McDonald and the Registered Sex Offenders?

Flatus and the Flatuettes?

The Vulvatones?

The Travelling Dingleberries?

[taterguy]

17. You are incorrect

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Spiro and the Department of Agnewculture?

[taterguy]

21. Bonus Hint: This band qualifies for Joe Fields thread about bands named after members of the band

[NC_Nurse]

22. Rick Rock?

What was his other name? I can't remember - the guy who did "Buddha, Buddha, Buddha"

[taterguy]

24. He was also known as Pathenon Huxley

Not the band but have you heard the version of Buddha Buddha on the Songs for Sixty Five Roses CD? It's performed Robert Sledge from the Ben Folds Five and Mosher and Maxwell from the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

Great stuff.

[NC_Nurse]

26. That's right.

No, I haven't heard that. I'll have to look for it.
Shit, I'm stumped.

Can't be Mary on the Dash...I don't think there was a Mary in the band.

[Okiojira]

27. The Pressure Boys? Sex Police?

...just taking a wild stab in the dark here.

Oops, I didn't catch the hint in #21 before I posted.

[taterguy]

29. Well it's possible that someone named their kid Sex

Unlikely but possible

[NC_Nurse]

28. Root Boy Slim?

He passed away a while ago. But he use to play the Cradle a lot.

[some guy]

30. Jason and the Scorchers? n/t

[YDogg]

31. B52s?

[mzteris]

32. Squirrel Nut Zippers

[mitchum]

33. self-delete

Sorry, posted Snatches Of Pink before I saw the clue in post 21

[taterguy]

34. It was the Wygals, September 1985

Thanks for playing y'all