It is certainly late at night, no better time to engage the faulty memory banks and try to recreate the entire roster of KLUDGE, the world's greatest tech rock and roll band.
From memory, the original Kludge (aka the New Originals)
Lead Guitar -- Ralph Azzara
Lead Vocals - Paul Kapustka
Rhythm Guitar -- Mitch Irsfeld
Rhythm Guitar -- David Fiedler
Bass -- Joel Dreyfuss
Drums -- Dan Richman
Sax -- Jason Levitt
Lyrics, Producer -- Mike Azzara
Since this is the web and as such all posts are inherently correctable (and god knows we can all use editors) please feel free to correct me in the comments. But as best I can remember, this is the crew that rocked the house at Uniforum early 1994 in Dallas... on an incredibly professional stage (according to the crew it was the same stage setup that John Mellancamp used) put up for a Uniforum "Battle of the Bands." There was no official scoring but due to our nascent but tight rocking skilz and a good set of parody tunes (the killer being "Lotus," sung to "Lola," which brought the heavily Netware-savvy crowd to its feet) Kludge was a winner out of the box.
Anyone else remember the full set list? Here is my guess (they were all parody tunes):
Surrender (parody about Microsoft)
No Matter What (parody about CERT, how geeky can you get)
Twist and Shout (Internet Baby)
Lola (Lotus)
thought there were five tunes, but I may be wrong. Anyway. The after party was hilarious -- I still have the receipt somewhere from the bar tab atop the Reunion Tower Hyatt, one of my bigger CMP expenses ever (in the $400-$500 range, no idea why I picked it up with Irser and Azzara around) and then of course the then-new instant-tradition of post-concert deconstructions in Ralf's hotel room.
More Kludge rosters later.
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I don't mean to leave out the wonderful people who helped put the lyrics on screen... no small task and some stories in and of themselves. Can't remember the original parody crew but I am sure somebody does...
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