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The Rock-afire Explosion - “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”

» beingsnoyman:

A little sad that I missed the documentary about the Rock-afire Explosion last night. I have weird memories of these guys standing about a million feet tall in a darkened hall in a Chuck-E-Cheese on Sports Arena Blvd. Sometimes I wonder if they were real or if I was just in the midst of a fake cheese-induced pipe dream.

I think the lesson we can learn from this video is that the greatness of any song exponentially increases if the Rock-afire Explosion gang plays along.

The best thing about the Wikipedia entry for The Rock-afire Explosion is the section titled “The ‘break-up’”. This part right here is particularly rife with tension:

“…However, relations between the company that owned and programmed The Rock-afire Explosion, Creative Engineering, and ShowBiz soon began to cool. In fact, ShowBiz began toying with the idea of replacing The Rock-afire Explosion with licensed characters, such as Spider-Man or Garfield, and three locations actually retrofitted the robots at stage left into Yogi Bear and Boo Boo ^[1] (it is unknown what, if anything, was done to the other two stages at the aforementioned locations although it had been witnessed that Yogi and Boo Boo interacted with the band members on the center stage).”

I see the authors of this article fancy themselves a Behind the Music writer.