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The Spent Shells
5+ albums
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Charles Whitman and The Spent Shells were a fake band that played a show in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2003 when a real band that was on tour and assumed that the three guys they met at the club must be a band because they all smelled bad. It featured Mark from Red Foxx on drums and Tony from Real Live Tigers on guitar, and Dan who'd never been in a band on vocals, all using borrowed equipment. The following year, Dan used The Spent Shells as the name for the band he played with on a tour with The Malcontent Party. This version of the band featured Tony on guitar again, and Donner and Marc from the Malcontent Party on drums and bass, respectively. In 2006, The Spent Shells recorded the full-length album Alamo in Chicago. James Laczkowski from Garden on a Trampoline produced it, and a handful of other people played on it. Tony contributed guest vocals and a guitar solo and played a really nice piano melody on "The Killer". Donner's vocals are used on "The Beast", but it's just a sample from a Charlie Daniels Death Wish song, and James sang the hook on "Annie Says". There was a tour behind Alamo, but it was just Dan solo, not a full band or anything. The follow-up, Welkin, will almost definitely not ever get recorded. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
