The owner is good friends with one of the spaceoboe players and there just isn't anywhere else to do gigs in small town Mos Eisley. You gotta support the local community
The richest woman on one of the richest planets in the galaxy has a disco droid play tacky EDM at her spoiled daughter's political wedding, and you're wondering why a seedy bar in the shittiest city on the shittiest planet in the galaxy doesn't?
This is good metafiction. The name used on Tatooine, the planet of Jizz music innovation, is erased as unpalatable because that planet is poor. The Galactic elite who write the books love the music, but don't respect the artists who built the genre.
Hey!
That droid writes, composes and performs all her own hits. Mon Mothma's in-laws are so rich they got the one and only TR-808(E-do-e) to play at her daughter's wedding. 808's a one of a kind droid built by the galaxy famous Ro'Land of Niamos.
Max Rebo doesn't have to play some dive bar in the middle of the day, he got the high end gig up at the palace?
Sure, you get dropped into the pit if you play Take Five, but still. The money is good, and Sy Snootles is eventually going to go solo, so cash in while you can.
Wow. How old were you? I was 26 in ‘97, so the next 3 years were a blast for me. I already had some experience with dancing from classes in college, as well as bar hopping when MC Hammer, Young MC, Digital Underground, and C+C Music Factory were at their peak & inspiring people.
I was a teenager when all that was happening. I remember going out regularly to a club that had a swing night in 96/97. I was hanging out with an older girl of legal drinking age—once she bought the first round, I’d be clear to buy beers at the bar. Good times.
I actually love this and it will be my head cannon going forward. Not anti-droids societally, but very committed to The Scene and ready to rumble on a mods v rockers level.
Andor showed us that techno is extremely upper-crust music for stuffy highly ritualized environments like arranged marriages. Jizz is the sound of the masses.
Also, Leia's cinnamon roll hairstyle could have just been a cute bob, or messy bun, instead of some weird thing George Lukas fantasized about after watching a 1930s Heidi film as a kid.
Yeah, in his original concept Amidalla was like ten years old like that Kumari in nepal or something. Basically, her and Anakin were supposed to be the same age but with her being trained to be a ruler from birth.
Ahhh but they were in a outer rim cantina so totally different music style required.
Remember when the Blues brothers tried playing Jazz in the country bar?
Naw. Some bars want multiple musicians performing instruments, live, in synchronicity, not a singular person pressing buttons and turning knobs over pre-arranged recordings.
Nothing has more convinced me that Niamos is on the level of a Will Smith 90s pop song than all the drunk aunts tearing up the dance floor of the child bride's bat mitzvah two years after it was in the charts.
The Mos Eisley cantina band is really only there because they were gonna play at Jabba's but Max Rebo, a much bigger act, beat them there, and they're too fuckin broke to go anywhere else.
They eventually play at a mob wedding outside the city and nearly die when it gets crashed.
Maybe that was the reason why they were playing in the Outer Rim. Place was starved for music and would pay for anyone crazy enough to come out that far.
Now I have flashbacks to a local community band called Grandpa’s Goodtime Gang. There was a reason they were local…
I have this theory that electro swing originated from a guy hearing the cantina band song and thinking it was the best thing ever. Just imagine what we could have been spared from.
Disco Droid is an extremely expensive luxury at a no-expense-spared elite wedding on a core planet. The cantina band is playing an extremely sketchy dive bar in the outer rim - and I bet their cover of ‘Niamos!’ is fire
What if A New Hope takes place during the Star Wars equivalent of the 90s swing revival, and Jizz is just a rehash of what everyone's space grandparents used to listen to? #JIZZ
They're not a band. They're a group who are constantly attacked by sentient instruments and the "music" you hear from them is the desperate attempts of their constant fighting to separate.
Techno would've been the safe choice, but these guys come cheap!
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Literally a party ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXCH09mYZTg
I can barely imagine how diverse a repertoire of music a galactic civilization has produced in the thousands of years since.
Even if its literally just "This backwater town has a different music scene that the capital planet-city"
#technosnob
https://youtu.be/3cAZg_zjH4s?si=p151WVN7tZxqIwFd
Imagine going to a bar today and hearing a song from the 17th Thebes dynasty of Egypt
No... NO DON'T REPORT ME! I'M TALKING ABOUT CRACKERS!
Mon trapped herself in the Electric Slide to dance the pain away
That droid writes, composes and performs all her own hits. Mon Mothma's in-laws are so rich they got the one and only TR-808(E-do-e) to play at her daughter's wedding. 808's a one of a kind droid built by the galaxy famous Ro'Land of Niamos.
The cantina also didn't allow droids!
like what if they called bluesky posts skeets or something
haha how silly
Sure, you get dropped into the pit if you play Take Five, but still. The money is good, and Sy Snootles is eventually going to go solo, so cash in while you can.
Restaurants and bistros can fuck right off with it 🤬😮
https://youtu.be/vmDDOFXSgAs?si=C-T3IGcz5idvY-Ug
Their music in Jon Favreau’s Swingers is what helped kicked off the Swing era.
I guess if someone was too young for bars, various bands could be missed. But missing out on BBVD & the Swingers movie is amazing to me.
R2-D2: [darude sandstorm]
People know it based on that like the Hotdog stand in the USA they won't serve Ketchup or the place that only does fries and nothing else.
And don't even get me started on Amidala makeup
Remember when the Blues brothers tried playing Jazz in the country bar?
I really appreciate those bars.
They eventually play at a mob wedding outside the city and nearly die when it gets crashed.
That's honkey tonk played by aliens btw
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Jizz
Now I have flashbacks to a local community band called Grandpa’s Goodtime Gang. There was a reason they were local…
-Wuher
Techno would've been the safe choice, but these guys come cheap!
Or maybe Wuher can't afford a DJ droid or the Star Wars equivalent of Touch Tunes.