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The name is a reference to the movie "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" by Stanley Kubrick. The scene in particular is towards the end of the film. Major Kong (more on this later) ends up riding a nuclear weapon on it's way to inadvertently destroying civilization via a Doomsday Device. In the scene, the good Major waves his cowboy hat around with glee. As the camera moves away from him, the missle begins to look like a large male organ. Some interpretations of this have been that Mr. Kubrick was making a statement about the US military's feeling of potency, but that the unleashing of this power is death. While the cold war is over, this view still resonates now.
We're a group of musicians that view art, music in particular, as one of most beautiful things a person can do. While art doesn't build buildings, grow food, or balance your checkbook, it does give a person a reason to engage in these things. What good is living without a feeling of connection? Any artform is an expression of the human experience - something we are all experiencing at this time.
First, we didn't want it to be about the musicians but the music. If 3 people enjoy what we do, let it be because of the music and not because they know us (or in the marimba player's case, they want a date). Besides, we're not as cool as Tool and don't have the kind of lighting rig that would obscure our faces. If you do know who we are and like what we do, don't walk up and say "hey, great show!" Just tell us here that you liked something. Either that, or talk to us about what the songs mean to you. If you want to thank us for a show, do it when we're playing or do it on this site. Second, the outfits give us a chance to say something politically or whatever. If it's the marriage of Bert and Ernie, the ritual abuse of George W. Bush by Exxon, or Colin Powell as Lando Calrissian, each idea is a remark about current events... some absurd... some geniune commentary... all of it done for a reason.
It sounds like Kahn in the film. We thought it would be easily recognized.
For the most part, yes.
