SXSW report # uno

I'm going to keep the gossip to a minimal actually, and just write about the bands, but first...the arrests!

This is a myspace bulletin from the rad dudes of Red Rocket (aka Rad Racket)

From: Danger Danger House

Date: Mar 16, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: RAD RACKET settles out of court! DD may follow suit!
Body: So as the rest of the Danger Danger (shhh!) constituency receives word about our house band formerly known as Red Rocket (shhh!) having to legally change 2 letters to form RAD RACKET, and safely escape a Texas jail sentence... We all are considering following suit for fear of being sued by the Australian hair-band of 80's fame, Danger Danger

We're thinking of going with DOINGER DOINGER, so as to stay safely out of the lawsuit limelight, and also as reference to how said Australian band probabaly pronounces their own name.

These are just ideas right now, still up in the air...but what's definitely now finalized is RAD RACKET's coming into existence, and Red Rocket from philly being killed off by the class-action cavalry...

Apparently Myspace is the second-most official forum of public address, and the first of many small public service announcements RAD RACKET must make in order to comply with their settlement.

As a showing of loyal and unwavering support, we shall repost the bulletin:


Hey everyone!

the sxsw smorgesbord (sp?) was eye-poppingly hilarious and helluva good:) ...we engaged in some pivotal exchanges that left us arrested, temporarily incarcerated, threatened with a class-action law suit, then ultimately freed and reinvigorated

...It all started when some drunk dude on 5th and Red River started harassing us as we strutted back to the van, he rudely demanded a cel-phone and called us "dorks" .."Dorks!" ...f that.

So when I responded, all amped on free energy drink swag, he took my glasses...as Roman came to get my back, I managed to intimidate the guy to return said spectacles.....but then he started f-ing with Roman, lol...eventually we were left no choice but to hurl full beercans at one another until the cops came.
Once arrested and brought downtown, they ran a check on us and alerted us to a class-action lawsuit that had been left pending and delinquent against us! Uh-oh, rotf lmao!

We thought that it had just gone away on its own, but apparently EVERY other band named Red Rocket in the world put together a class-action law suit against us concerning copyright infringement on the grounds that we were the only Red Rocket in the world that wasn't total bullshit, thus breaking the agreement established in 1988.

We were informed that we had failed to appear at 2 separate hearings last year, and are still in danger of facing fines up to $7,500!

This, coupled with disorderly public conduct misdemeanor, made for a very difficult situation in which each of us desperately wanted to figure out the fastest possible way to get out of there.
After several hours acting as our own collective lawyer, consulting unofficial legal advice from a certain friend at Stanford, we managed to arrange for an out-of-court settlement and a dismissal of said misdemeanor.

The top condition presented to ud was that we had to at the very least change 2 of the letters in our band name,"one for each hearing they ignored," as the plaintiffs' lawyer put it.

So, after a cathartic and exhilarating ordeal, the box of chocalates that is life has led us to bring to you an official disbanding of Red Rocket from west philadelphia, and an official debut show tonight in Hot Springs, AK of RAD RACKET!

Links to all the other Red Rockets will be provided later, so our supporters may solemnly condemn their childish actions!

See you all back in Philly, RAD RACKET friends! Thanks for the years of deviant support!

Xoxo!

P.s. - Nintendo, please be kind to us!


Please feel free to send your love to RAD RACKET as they settle back and adjust after a turbulent affair. No matter what the vowels are, RAD RACKET and DOINGER DOINGER love you!

Take care, god speed.