Bingo Hand Job

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(thing) by Gamaliel (4.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jul 12 2000 at 1:51:02

A number of popular bands books shows in small, intimate venues under fake names. REM has done this a number of times. Bingo Hand Job was the name they used at The Borderline in London on March 14 and 15, 1991. They took it a step further by using fake names for each of the band members and guest musicians:

Michael Stipe - the Reverend Bingo
Peter Buck - Raoul
Bill Berry - the Doc
Mike Mills - Stinky
Peter Holsapple - Spanish Charlie
Billy Bragg - Conrad
Violet (on March 14) - Robyn Hitchcock
Ophelia (on March 15)

The opening act was the Chickasaw Mudd Puppies, playing under the name Stump Monkey.
The second night they recorded a parody of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" called "Tom's ?", which later ended up on a B-side and a cover album.

By the way, I'm not a total REM freak, I just got this information from a zine a friend of mine published a while back.

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Giving a handjob to a woman	oral sex in middle school	Best way to a man's heart	How to give a blow job
Reconciling conflicting states of arousal with a hand job	hand job	cowflop bingo	20 Questions
Billy Bragg	Goat Punishment	Buzzword Bingo	We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
Scott Thompson	orgasm	Michael Moore	Oral sex
Black & White	spin the bottle	Robyn Hitchcock	Banach-Tarski Theorem
You are taking yourself too seriously	Michael Stipe	marijuana	summer job

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