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Star64 - The Band Star64 used to be a band called Angry Salad. Angry Salad had a record deal with Blackbird/Atlantic records. At the end of last year (2000) America On-Line merged with Time Warner (who owned Angry Salad's parent company Blackbird/Atlantic Records. The accountants at AOL went to each of the departments at Time Warner and told them they needed to cut X amount of dollars so the AOL stock price could be bumped up a little bit. They went to CNN and fired a bunch of people, went to Time magazine and fired a bunch of people, and then they went to the Warner label group (of which Angry Salad was a part) and fired a bunch of people there. The industry word was that there would be "no creative cuts". True, Angry Salad as a band wasn't fired, and Angry Salad as a band had a contract for their next album, but all but two members of the Blackbird/Atlantic staff were told to clean out their desks. That left two Blackbird people to stay on at Atlantic, but they were given no power. In the words of one of them, they had to "hang their balls outside the door of the Atlantic office." Uhhhh, ouch. So, with a signed contract for the next record, no label people to help promote it, and lawyers preparing lawsuits, Angry Salad dissolved and Star64 was born. So, if you liked Angry Salad, you'll
probably like Star64. It's more of the songs that Bob wrote and some
you might recognize if you saw the band on tour. If you never heard
of Angry Salad, well, here's Star64...
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