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Release date: October 26, 2008, 21:53
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Sphingo Ate My Baby gains Legendary Status
Successfully completes Rock Band's Endless Setlist
Earns $32K, 0 new fans
October 25, 2008
Last night, at approximately 9:30pm, Columbus, Ohio-based Sphingo Ate My Baby finished its world tour in Moscow with the 58-song Endless Setlist, thereby achieving Legendary Status and the adulation of thousands of fans. The new status is an important step in rehabilitating the reputations of the band's members after the scandal that rocked the plastic-instrument cover band scene earlier this year.
Longtime fans will remember that Sphingo's predecessor, Slütty Fetüs, had achieved Legendary Status earlier in the year at a different venue, but the newfound celebrity that came afterward did not last long. In mid-July, Slütty Fetüs went on an indefinite hiatus when founding member uberhasselhoff suddenly left the band to pursue a solo career. After weeks of soul-searching, finger-pointing, and laborious contract negotiations, the three remaining members, stinky_monky, becc367, and rdchino, began playing together again in small nightclubs under various band names before settling on the Sphingo project and launching a world tour that included shows in Berlin, Stockholm, Rome, Sydney, and London. To round out the band's sound, Sphingo occasionally brings in additional musicians for specific shows, including the codename-less Joe, who helped out with bass and vocals during the Endless Setlist show. The band has made no comment about expanding its permanent lineup.
At the alcohol-fueled wrap party after the show, with Ohio State's loss to Penn State playing on a huge screen in the background, band members were heard to complain about the lack of new fans and the lousy paycheck, which barely covered the band's travel costs. Between rounds, rdchino said "sure, we have the greatest fans in the world; it'd be nice if they brought some friends along though, you know?" By sunrise the musicians affiliated with Sphingo were responsible for seven trashed hotel rooms, two hospital visits, twelve illegitimate children, and at least one attempted coup d'etat against a small former Soviet Republic.
So far there have been no plans announced for a new tour.