The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Get that song on tape! Errr... disk?
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The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:27 am

...is my old band, Idiot Bear. We split up in 2003, but we had a reunion before Christmas and we're thinking of getting back together before the Big 3-0 hits us all, and record some new stuff, plus some older stuff that never got recorded before we split, but which is dead good (IOHO).

Anyway, we've set up a MySpace with three of our older songs on it. Check it out.

:)

www.myspace.com/idiotbear
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by pullover » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:16 am

I couldn't listen to the first song, "They Don't Show Up," (Damn you Myspace!). My wife heard me playing "Future Song" and asked me if it was John Frusciante.  :)  You should get back together.
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:07 am

Whoah! I'm flattered! Thanks!  :-[ :D
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by Naturality » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:14 pm

This is really cool! but They Don't Show Up didn;t work for me either. Well Done!  :D It reminds me of Thom Yorke
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:44 am

thanks guys. Radar should be working now....
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by JazzBlaster » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:09 am

great tracks! I added you guys  :D
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by Maggieo » Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:43 am

Excellent stuff!  Really super!!!

Thanks for making it downloadable- it's going on my iPod!
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by Marc » Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:44 am

Idiotbear,

are you the one from Edinburgh? I just lived there for 3 years and moved to York with my wife 2 weeks ago :(

But York is good too :)
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:36 pm

Hey Marc,

Our drummer, Ross, is in Edinburgh. Me and Lynden (the bass player) live in London, and our other guitarist, Nick, lives near Newcastle.

York's a nice place though. In a reversal of your situation, my sister in law recently moved from York to Edinburgh. Hope your move is working out.  :)
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by Marc » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:10 am

Hey thanks Mr Bear!
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by Who Ran The Iron Horse? » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:17 pm

Are you the singer of "They don't show up"?  In any case, what immediately sprung to mind was the singer from Feeder, and when I looked up at the screen there was an advert for AOL about a backstage interview with...Feeder. How peculiar.

By the way, how did you decide on the name Idiot Bear? I thought it was a Radiohead reference, that is to say, the Bear logo and Idioteque. Any truth in that at all?
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Sat Feb 24, 2007 4:16 am

I'm the singer of all of them. And the name comes from getting frustrated with playing as Kuma on Tekken  :D
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by aen » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:22 pm

idiotbear wrote: I'm the singer of all of them. And the name comes from getting frustrated with playing as Kuma on Tekken  :D
ahahahahaha!

I love those kind of stories, and Tekken as well.
I prefer their older stuff.
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Re: The reason I'm called idiotbear...

Post by idiotbear » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:20 am

Yeah, it was one of those moments when we we'd been trying to think what to call the band for a while, and nothing was working. So we were having some much needed downtime (y'know, we were university students - it's so pressurised  ;D) and we were playing Tekken 3, and I was playing Kuma against Nick, our guitarist, who was playing as that dipshit little dinosaur, Gon. Kuma couldn't do shit against the yellow midget reptile, and I was getting more and more het up, until I got KO'd and yelled "oh, you fucking IDIOT BEAR!" at the screen.

There was this beat of silence, and Nick says "OK, that's the name of the band."

The name always divided people. Some people like it, some people think it's stupid. I like it, while acknowledging that it's stupid.  :D
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