A Band By Any Other Name

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*1980*

"The two of us wrote *Anti-Oedipus* together. Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd. Here we have made use of everything that came within range, what was closest as well as farthest away. We have assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept our own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn. To render imperceptible, not ourselves, but what makes us act, feel, and think. Also because it's nice to talk like everybody else, to say that the sun rises, when everybody knows it's only a manner of speaking. To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves. Each will know his own. We have been aided, inspired, multiplied."

- First paragraph of *1K Plateaus*, Deleuze and Guattari

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*1989*
The Lee Harvey Oswald Band releases their self-titled debut EP.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

http://recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com/artists/leeharveyoswaldband/leeharveyoswaldband.html

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Hot flashes of light delivered by cloud, seeding the metallic ether in ways that make even the most high-balled rock and rollers eat their own dirt.

Born in a five-star whorehouse in the great state of Texas (population: FUCK YOU), the Lee Harvey Oswald Band is a pack of wild dogs begging at your table for sexual scraps and demanding the quick extinction of your dull affairs.

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*1989*
I write a review of "Steamroller Doggie," the first track from The Lee Harvey Oswald Band EP.
Sewanee, Tennessee

http://www.lab404.com/dreams/words/reviews/oswald.html

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No one knew who they were, or what they were doing / But their legend lives on, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge.

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*2004*
Bruce Duff names "Blastronaut" by The Lee Harvey Oswald Band the second best rock album of the nineties.

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/images/misc/LHOBentry.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415969980/

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The band plays with seventies glitz as cunningly as a cat toys with its wounded prey.

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*2008*
Ezma340 creates videos for the songs "Jesus Never Lived on Mars" and "Surrender Earthlings" by The Lee Harvey Oswald Band and posts them on youTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVhE5IPvEiA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G33hkwtdIO4

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Legendary.
Last I heard Zowie OD'd in Brazil, recovered, found Jesus, lost Jesus, and has since been tweeking bedroom demos.
Only the Japanese could truly appreciate this band.

You rule. If I had typed this in the search bar last week, nothing would have come up.

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*2008*
The full catalog of Lee Harvey Oswald Band songs are posted to the blog rogkentroll as downloadable mp3s.

http://rogkentroll.blogspot.com/2008/09/lee-harvey-oswald-band_19.html

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They delivered full throttle noise punk, with distorted vocals. They released an EP and two albums between 1989 and 1996, and besides that almost nothing is known of them.

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*2010*
Jim Hayes interviews Zowie Fenderblast (songwriter of The Lee Harvey Oswald Band).
Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution
Athens, Georgia

http://assemblyplantmarietta.blogspot.com/2010/06/zowie-fenderblasts-first-interview.html

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But it’s all a mystery, who are these people? Who are these people? Who fucking knows? And that’s the strange thing about it. It’s like well there’s 2000 freaks or accidental freaks or 2000 whatever.

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*2010*
Archive Registrar streams the entire Lee Harvey Oswald Band catalog for the 121st Deep/Young Ethereal Radio Broadcast.

http://deepyoung.org/radio/

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Hello Human Insects

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KEY WORDS:
Adding To The Internet
Pseudonymity
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Sewanee, Tennessee
Athens, Georgia
Texas
Prison
Mars
Terrence McKenna
Zowie Fenderblast
Jimmy Meat
Groovy Carrots
John Cage
Jim Hayes
Curt Cloninger
Archive Registrar
John Wayne Gacy
Frank Zappa
James Huberty
Syd Barrett
Don McLean
Buddy Holly
Carole King
The Amboy Dukes
Peter Frampton
T. Rex
Butthole Surfers