The latest issue of Spin features a really interesting read on what has become the cult phenomenon of The Rock-afire Explosion. If the name doesn’t sound familiar, think back to the days of attending birthday parties at a place call ShowBiz Pizza. While you plunked quarters in arcade games and stuffed your face with pizza you more than likely were entranced by an animatronic band of animals that combined a corny stage show with playing rock music.
While the chain is long gone, thanks to the effort of Chris Thrash – who bought an entire set of the animatronics for an undisclosed amount of money – the Rock-afire Explosion has been living on and thriving via a number of clever YouTube clips – which inspired the making of a documentary movie about the whole thing.
Trash, with some assistance from one of the original animatronic engineers, has re-programmed the band to perform everything from Usher to Against Me! to MGMT – all via some ancient Apple computers. Let’s check out the reprogrammed Rock-afire Explosion covering Arcade Fire’s Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)…
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If you raise enough money you can get the band programmed to perform the song of your choice. Right now the money leader is a NIN song at $401. So, who wants to see them play something a bit headier? Let’s get the bidding going, leave some suggestions in the comments…
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