The Aquabats Super Show Talkback!!!

Longtime fan here...I liked em ever since Super-rad.

Just checked out the video. I love that voice over guy also! Ever since he narrated Doug and Nicktoons Network...
 
Wait? When did Doug get a narrator? I dont remember someone narrating on Doug.

I was 11 when i became friends with someone who moved from Calf who got me into ska with The Aquabats, Reel Big Fish (with their only public hit "Sell Out") and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Since then, im still a fan.

And the friend of mine who was the winner of the contest is also from calf, who took me to RBF last year in Richmond VA. He was like "yea, i dont know if you heard of these bands, but there Street Light Manifesto, Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake." Im like "Dude, you kidding me, ive known about RBF and LTJ for like the past 10 years." Concert was awesome, specially the "game show" LTJ put on when they preformed.

And apperently, The Aquabats are coming to the east coast to Washington DC in Nov. I gotta get up with my friend to see if hes going, then drive 5 hours to meet him, then drive there...
 
Yeah, in middle school, LONG time ago, I was into the pseudo-local music scene at my school. We all took the same gifted classes. We were kind of like "cool nerds", and belonged to no official subculture but our own. Not then anyway. We would always trade alternative music CDs with one another when the teacher wasn't looking in class, bring CD players into class (cuz we technically weren't allowed at the time), and basically talk a lot about music and comics mostly, good times. Everything in the mid 90s from They Might Be Giants to Primus to SQUEE and Jhonen Comics and Scud: The Disposable Assassin, and various alterative rock acts like Sugar Ray, The Aquabats, Marilyn Manson, Royal Crown Review, Cake, Sublime, Bloodhound Gang etc. It was like our own little middle school music club. So awesome looking back on it. Gave me a reason to look forward to school back then..We were so very cool and counterculture back then in certain ways. That's what hanging out in my friends in school was like. Anything but pay attention to what we were learning. And anything to entertain our kid dude selves. We had good local radio back then, so I would always listen to the radio on the Weekends when they played the best music, then go out and buy the best stuff I heard on the radio. That was in one of alternative music's heydays. Radiohead was still relatively obscure and unknown at the time. Around that time I was still being introduced to them through music videos on 120 minutes. (yeah I'm kind of a trendsetter like that)...Now that I mention it, I'm still into music, but I don't buy music like I used to. Not like how I buy DVDs and books nowadays anyway...Music kinda sucks now, with the exception of old bands like Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, etc., and whatnot that are still around. Back then I bought a lot of individual comic book issues too, not just CDs. I still have stacks of hundreds of weird-as-all-heck black and white indie comics I bought in the late 90s and early 2000s. (i.e. Evan Dorkin, Jhonen Vasquez (before he had a TV show), Rob Schrab, Cerebus, Spawn (before it was a movie or TV show), The Maxx (before it was a TV show), Hepcats. Certain manga in individual issues like Tenchi, DBZ, and Gunsmith Cats. You know: Relatively early stuff from Dark Horse and Viz, before Tokyopop shrunk everything...It's tougher to copy drawings from now for fanart work, the drawings are so small. I liked when the images in most manga were not so small. I like how DBZ is releasing a larger size edition again. Just bought volume 2 of that series...)

Whoops. Sorry about that. Got off topic. There I go reminiscing about my more humble pre-Internet/Anime/Manga/Cable Animation-era days again.

But enough about me!

But yeah dude. Doug had a narrator. He narrated certain sequences in Doug. He wasn't really supposed to be the "main narrator". That was Doug Funnie. The Doug "other narrator is the same guy who narrates all the in house commercials for Nicktoons Network. He has such an cool voice! He's really underated and basically never spotlighted, so I don't know what his name is, but yeah, he's cool.
 
Wow, yea that is pretty long winded. That was like me an the group i hung with in HS and basicly whoever in school. Yea, i miss the pre internet/anime/manga. Whatever info i got, was by word of mouth and magazines, not the internet. The only music i was into was what was on the radio and such and what my friends gave me. Speaking of individual issues for anime, i did have some Gunsmith Cats one a couple of years back and ive got a few here and there like Silent Mobius, Patlabor and Cannon God.

Yea, it ment something when you got anime overseas/bootleg back in the day, not like now, where its a common fad to do so. Obtaining stuff bootleg was cool till about 2001/02, till everyone started coping with kazaa and morpheus. But hey, now we have bittorrent.

My friend went to see Radiohead in Charolette a few months ago with his brother. Said it was pretty good, and packed too. j

Yea, everyone liked the cool nerd, because they got you stuff you never heard of and was really awesome. Its good to expand your horizons in every aspect, not like todays culture, same watered down crap.

Ok, i know the narrator your talking about, heh, 'that guy'.

But yea, back on topic (i guess, its my thread, anything goes at this point), Aquabats rock!!! Cant wait to see what happends next...
 
Yes. I agree with that opinion (that it used to mean something to get direct imports (radio-promoted albums) and be one of the "in the know" people, especially locally and when people talked to eachother face to face, before the internet spoiled people). So much information the internet has. The internet has helped things to a degree, but at the same time it's made almost everything in pop culture so watered down, including things that were much cooler initially speaking, like anime and alternative rock during the 90s (people like you and I LIVED that, from the way it sounds. We didn't just read about it on some website), so if someone's really a pop culture / internet poser in disguise, they can just lie or manipulate info about stuff in a way they present themselves and look like they're the "expert" and seem like they've been into something or doing something "original" for years when they really only just found out about it. Such lameness. So much for underground credibility. The internet kind of killed that for a lot of stuff that used to be considered cool and counterculture. I don't know how it's affected Japan, but it's definitely a big influence on the underground and pop culture scene in the U.S..

Because of this relatively new situation with pop culture, I'll tell you a secret of mine. I get a kick out of taking old things from my room I was really into growing up, doing web searches for them on places like Wikipedia, just to see if they're still on the internet radar. Often I find people who are internet savvy are often clueless about some of the things that existed, hit the scene before the internet era, just to see if they made the adjustment of slipped under the radar...Try searching for obscure 90s memorabilia and pop culture-type things from the 90s and 80s on Wiki and other database sites. It's fun to find out just how much people know and are aware of currently, as compared to what people knew and were aware of on any sort of level ten to twenty years ago. Sites like Wikipedia mostly seem to document things, people, projects that most people were either aware of or discovered AFTER Wikipedia and YouTube were around. It's rarer to find things that were around beforehand. I've learned objects of nastalgia and obscurity, or that have aged like wine from past generations (the 90s and 80s for example...an example being retrojunk.com), no matter how obscure, in the internet era, hold a certain mystique to the younger generation, especially online.
 
You figure the internet would be used to research things that no one else knows about, even with what we see today. But the internet has became a pop culture thing, its watered down to an extent. Wikipedia is just a reference to things that people may or may not know, even obscure things. You really dont know if the info is right till you get the accuall source, and if you do, you can see what reference the "person" has posted up.

The internet back in the day was a grand source to find things that no one else knew, because people seemed to have cared more back then. Now, i go just about Brock Samson when someone adds "Myspace" to every freaking sentence in a conversation. Myspace was cool, like 3 years ago, when no one knew about it.

It seems no matter what you do or start, its only cool till it gets marketed. You want your views to be seen, but if it gets in the wrong hands, your down crapcreek without a paddle and you cant stop it till you hit the rocks at a dry area or it goes off a waterfall.

Im currenlty reading "Masters of Doom" for my video game class, and from what im reading, when there was an internet back in the day, it seemed alot more helpful to the certain few who knew about it than what it is today. John Carmak would use BBS's and look up info to brodan his programming skills and his "phreaking" and "hacking" abilites, which transformed him into what the man he is today. And you sadly realize, its never going to be like that again. My first experiance with the internet is what its commonly used for today, porn. The friend from calf that introduced me to ska long ago basicly looked at what porn was on the internet, for just kicks and giggles (somethings im sure is considered "avg or mediocure on 4chan"). But if i knew information i could only get on the net at the time, i would have tried to convince him to search that and learn something from there.

Ah, a toast to the good ol days.

But i will till you something, i find it good that there is only a few certain people who want to know more while the rest of the world squanders and becomes out of touch with what happends underground. They may get picked on for being the "oddball", but how many oddballs went to be successful and changed the world? Pretty much alot of them.

If everyone was all into the undreground, then the underground would never change anything, it would become the watered down norm. The norm is there for the underground to break, thats why it exsist, and thats why there are people to bring parts of the underground up to the public. Its a constant vicous cycle, because once the great thing dies, you have to go back to the underground and find something else to get the norm into. The Underground exsist to change, not to be no where near the norm.

And thats my say...
 
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