"The demise of 12 Rods had everything to do with [that band]." ???

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A woman i used to work with, and hated, gave me a tape with their album on one side and a todd rundgren best of on the other.

Was that intentional? (Rundgren produced one of their albums, see.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link

sort of; she was some kind of crazy rundgren fan! like lifetime fanclub autograph hunting know everything type superfan. and she liked 12 rods. and she had a crush on me. and i hated her.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

You know in the Norweigan black metal scene bands do a lot more than steal each other's guitar strings. 12Rods should consider themselves lucky.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha that Albini bit of the interview is HILARIOUS. "Reliable sources" oh please stop it.

I don't recal anything about 12 Rods except they were on V2 and I used to get them confused with 12 Rounds, whose album you can probably also find in many charity shops

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

12 Rods were pretty good...good new wave band, but I never really understood the "they've come to save Mpls hype"....the Dave King effect maybe....(they were lots better than the Love Cars though)....

G--ff - I WILL PAY YOU 2.5 MILLION FLOOZ TO REVEAL TEH MYSTERY BAND!!!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if he's talking way back when, like '98 (e.g. when they first got signed). Because then it would be one of two very anticlimactic nothing bands and this is hardly worth talking about.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

haha m@tt, check yr email. (i'm usually well out of any gossip loop, i'm kinda enjoying this)

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link

tell me!

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw them some months back at St. Olaf College (MN) and they put on a damn fine show. They never seemed "like typical primadonna assholes" and were quite enjoyable while joking with the audience between songs and even played a song twice (although maybe a bit begrudgingly) by request. All this and there couldn't have been more than 20 or 30 people at the show. Anyways, I bought Split Personalities after seeing that show and I have to say I think it's a great record.

(it would be interesting to hear who this other band was...)

― Just Some Lurker, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It was the Icarus Line.

― ape's hand, Friday, 13 August 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I edited Lindsey's 12 Rods piece. Both Lindsey and I wanted to keep the part in there about the band that allegedly sabotaged their gear, but it's potentially libelous and there isn't any evidence to support it. Regardless of whether it's true or not, it would have been bad journalism to include a pretty serious allegation that doesn't have any evidence to back it up. Still, I didn't want to take the story out completely, because I think it says a lot about the way 12 Rods perceive their fall, so that's why it looks the way it does.

― Melissa Maerz (Melissa Maerz), Friday, 13 August 2004 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, and it wasn't Icarus Line. It's possible that if you email 12 Rods through their web site, they might tell you, though I don't think the band's name matters as much as the story itself.

― Melissa Maerz (Melissa Maerz), Friday, 13 August 2004 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

I still want to know who that mystery band was

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Misfits-Jr-Tee.jpg

― David R., Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link

haha never saw this thread before the 12 Rods guys are cousins of mine

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link

"A mechanical bass player"? WTF, are they the Country Bear Jamboree?

― Martin Van Burne, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link

the mystery band was Soul Asylum.

― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link

"A mechanical bass player"? WTF, are they the Country Bear Jamboree?

-- Martin Van Burne, Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:45 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it was the late 90's, everyone was still using really confused terminology for programmed/pre-recorded backing tracks.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link

So there was no robot bassist?

I have no further interest in this band.

― Martin Van Burne, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Wow, didn't expect to see this revived today. I wrote the story. Trust me; the identity of the band isn't nearly as interesting as the story itself. Seriously.

― lindseykai, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link

Right ok.

But who was the band?

― Drooone, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Well then email us and tell us!! We all want to know!!

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link

please?

― Drooone, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Lucy's Fur Coat

― David R., Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link

j3sus 1f 1t's n0t th@t inter3sting th3n ju$t g00glepr00f 1t alr3ady.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link

If you send me an email, I'll tell ya. I just feel weird about message board gossip mongering, Google-proofed or not.

― lindseykai, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

The name of the band was Cocks, Lindsey and Melissa just missed that last mention.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

who was that band tho

― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link

whoever it was, I want to thank them..

― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 09:21 (seven years ago) link

I always confuse 12 Rods with 12 Rounds

― akm, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link

no idea what happened to it but used have this local bands 90s CD comps (i don't know if every city was like mpls in the 90s but holy shit there were so many fucking local CD comps back then) that had a very very early 12 Rods song before they figured out their identity and it sounded EXACTLY like Jane's Addiction, kinda funny

― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link

"A mechanical bass player"? WTF, are they the Country Bear Jamboree?

irl lol

― this is a salad for the BALSAMIC REVIVAL (Dan Peterson), Friday, 29 July 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link

so who was the band

― ♫ Corbyn's on fire / PLP is terrified ♫ (jim in glasgow), Friday, 29 July 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link

Biohazard

― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 29 July 2016 19:52 (seven years ago) link

this was a really ugly band iirc? i actually like that record gay? at the time

― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 July 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link

showbiz pizza band. fueled by love triangle with 12 rods bassist.

― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 29 July 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link

every time I see "gay?" i think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeahDax24Dg

― laraaji p. henson (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 29 July 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://prod3.agileticketing.net/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=275372~163a5c15-c3ae-4635-ba12-bbe995cbeb29&epguid=a38ceb8d-93ea-46b9-935c-0541270e134a&

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link

Bonus after-credits sequence will reveal who the mystery band was.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link

heh

really I should just ask Ryan, but I don't communicate w him much and he's p bitter about the Rods' career

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

he still makes really cool music, electronic stuff under the name "c.kostra"

https://ckostra.bandcamp.com/

i only know him a bit from around and as a the sound mixer/booker at local club, he's always been super pleasant and great to deal with

― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link

agreed although sometimes he is really grumpy on FB :(

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 9 May 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link

four years pass...

can’t believe all this time the band was Gay Dad

― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 17 September 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link

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