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ABOUT THE SATANIC PUPPETEER ORCHESTRA
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The Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra is... - SPO-20 (Self-Programmable Oration - Version 20), the Robot. Vocals. - Professor B. Miller. The creator of the robot, and the mastermind behind the band.
Introduction... Heavily steeped in concept, few people truly understand the essence of the Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra. "The Cat Who Stole the Teeth of God" is the culmination of sixteen years worth of recording, touring, and scheming, without ever releasing a single album to the public. Complete with track by track liner notes by members of the band, and an introduction by music journalist Gene Lamont from Popular Science Magazine, this is the ultimate collection for both avid fans and music lovers in general.
Why a 5 CD Box Set... "Ever since day one, we wanted our debut album to be a five CD Box Set," stated SPO-20 to me the first time I met him when I was the music editor for National Geographic. "Bands nowadays do not have the balls to do something that outlandish." Maybe they don't have the balls, but they don't have the business sense either. As Professor B. Miller explained, there was more behind the idea than just balls... "It was a business move as well. We thought if we have one hit song in our career and sell a million copies of that record for ten bucks a pop, that's great. But what if that song was only available on a five CD box set, so for every record you sell, you actually sell five? Now you've got something." A few years later, the Caucasian upstart rapper Vanilla Ice adopted the SPO strategy and refused to release his hit song "Ice Ice Baby" as a single. If you wanted to hear the song, you had to buy his entire album at full price. The result... Vanilla Ice's career quickly melted away, but he remains monetarily set for life and has been deemed a marketing genius. A genius? And he only made the public buy a single full length CD. I suppose that means historians will hail the Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra as genius five times over. Without any further ado, I present to you for the first time ever, the exotic robotic sounds of the Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra.
Gene Lamont, Music Editor |