The Arrogant Worms
How did the
worms come to be? Here's your answer,(It came from Live Bait. )
The Arrogant Worms were born on a summers day in the midst of a
kingston winter. Three young boys were wandering through the
feilds when suddenly, the heavens opened upand a golden flash of
sunlight fell to the earth in the form of a 18 inch (7cm)
stainless steel spike which landed in one of the boys heads. Hee
exclaimed, "Blggh@#&!! Eojgh'ih6
The boy with the spike in his head was left in Red Deer and the
other two formed their troi with a white rabbit named Lawrence.
After 30 years of paying their dues, they decided they'd had
enough and tried to write a song. This song was an immediate hit
and lauched their careers in Poland, where they were mitaken for
figure skaters. Returning to Canada after an unfortunate incident
with a waffle iron, a french chef and a basket of underwear, they
wrote new songs based upon shared experiences of Canadians. That
album remains a classic and like other classics is
incomprehensible. Taking this success as a cue, the group began
touring poultry farms across the country; gaining enough chicks
and yolks for another album. (*gratuitous pun*) This album had
success written all over it, making it very difficlt to play on
modern recording equipment, but nonetheless released as
"Russel's Shorts" (1994). The album had charted new
frontiers for the band artistically as it was brown.
Mean while, there were problems in the band. Lawrence the rabbit
had gotten big and fat and Australian and so had to be replaced.
Also, the band was tiring of poultry circuit and began desiring a
change of venue. Subsequently, they moved to Vancover, ate the
rabbit, became vegetarians, took aerobics from a Belgian Sumo
wrestler, hired a sock puppet (Chris Patterson) to play bass for
them and released a 3rd musical comedy album, "C'est
Cheese". This revolutionary album had both an Engish and
French word in the tittle.
Still there were problems. They were not solved.
One spring day in Northern Ontario (there are usally two) the
band, which had long since run out of material, decided to
release another album. One fan, their manager Jean, said to them,
"You're not going to be really lame and release a live
album?". Which the did.
A few years later, they released a Christmas album. That sent
many worm-sick fans to the stores.
And Now They've released "Dirt". It's about damn time.
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