"FWLS16" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

when I was still in high school, and had a dream about
playing bass guitar in a metal band. After moving from
Japan on Terra to C'atel, I took a few lessons. Turned out
I was pretty good at it. I met Jim Bob when I was ordering
a McBurger from McSpackle's, he was at the drive thru window
and noticed my guitar on the passenger seat. He scribbled
his holophone number on my bag, but I had to try 10
combinations of it when I got home because the grease
obscured the fifth digit. We got together, jammed a bit,
realised neither of us had any talent, so we decided to form
a band.
MR: You had no talent, so you formed a band... I can't seem to
follow the logic...
J: How long've you been reporting the music scene?
MR: Who, me? Three years.
J: Well, about five years back, the biggest thing in the
underground C'atel clubs was the no-skill sound. Total
incoherent mishmash -- bands were picked for lack of sound
rather than hit songs. Anyway, since you didn't need any
other band members if you weren't planning on playing well,
we formed Stomach Contents originally as two people.
MR: So when were the other members linked up to the band?
J: Well, after about a month of this, we were starting to get
booed off the stage. Apparently we were developing talent
and ability with the instruments, and the crowd didn't like
that. We started getting gigs pulled out from under our
noses. Being skilled was almost the death of us, and would
have been, if the music scene hadn't shifted to polka/metal
grunge/rock one week later. We suddenly fit in again, but
we'd been more members. So, we put out a classified ad in
the C'atellian Times.
MR: And that's how the other members joined?
J: Well, the original members. Wazoo joined up first... this
was before the, well, thing with him, and Wrath next. The
main reason why we picked her is because she had access to a
hovervan, two speakers, and her own keyboard. Apparently
she was soloing in the minor punk/thrash/industrial/synth
meaningless scene that faded out a year later.
MR: And your robotic drummer, Zeebo?
J: Well, actually, we had a live drummer back then. His was
this big, lumbering Yttian guy who specialized in playing
drums with his hands, feet, and ears. Psy'kk, if I recall.
We only did five gigs with him before he was involved in a
blimp accident.
MR: And then Zeebo joined?
J: Well, no, then Wrath's cousin drummed for us, but he got
pregnant and couldn't continue the tour.
MR: Pregnant?!?
J: Her family is famous for bizarre medical cases.
MR: And then..?