Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What else does this professor enjoy doing on the weekends? A big clue comes in the form of his Web page, www.geocities.com/SoHo/6816, the home of his band, the Redundant Steaks. The group, which Vaux formed with three other classmates in his undergrad days at the University of Chicago, has produced four major projects to date. "Columbian Inventions" (a collection of songs in honor/protest of Columbus Day), "Buster Crabbe" (celebrating the life of the actor who played Tarzan, Superman, and other macho characters in early movies), "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: The Twelve-Tone Rock Opera," "Liquid Dwarf, Rusty Dwarf" (an album...
...Vaux starts by discussing the unorthodox song-writing methodology the band employs. The Redundant Steaks pick the title first and write the songs after. "We look at it as an intellectual challenge to pick random names and create lyrics that fit them," explains Vaux...
...high school band we played a lot of Led Zeppelin. I think that was pretty typical of male high school bands. I was watching "The List" last night on VH1--do you ever watch that? Don't bother watching the List, except for sociological reasons--but last night they had the question: 'What are the four most influential bands?'" After listing all of the random celebrities hosting the show, including the guy who played Elaine's leather-jacket-wearing boyfriend for an episode of "Seinfeld," Martha Sokoloff, and "some California-looking guy from Baywatch" (a later e-mail revealed...
...After we picked the title, "Steak," we thought, people will think there is the potential to exploit it in a stupid, sexual way. But there are no sexual connotations in the names of our band and its members, just bizarre, random implications. So that when people see the lead singer is named Ribeye, they'll try to think of the implications, but there aren't any really...
...Each member of the band has a carnivorous nickname. Ribeye is a lawyer for the House of Representatives. Cubesteak is a physics professor at George Mason University, focusing on chaos theory. Buttersteak is an insanely wealthy computer programmer. Bert Vaux is Buttsteak...