Ultimate Fakebook is an American three-piece

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from

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, United States.

Albums and EPs

Ultimate Fakebook has released five

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and an EP: ''Electric Kissing Parties'' (1997, Noisome Records), ''This Will Be Laughing Week'' (1999, Noisome Records & 2000, 550 Music/Epic Records), ''Open up and Say Awesome'' (2002, Initial Records), ''Before We Spark'' (EP, 2003, Initial Records), ''Daydream Radio Is Smiling Static'' (2010, Self-Released) and ''The Preserving Machine'' (2020, Sonic Ritual Records).

First break-up and post break-up activities

Shortly after releasing their 2003 EP ''Before We Spark'' they broke up. In 2007, Melin and Warnock both appeared on VH1's World Series of Pop Culture on the team "Westerberg High". They advanced to the quarterfinals before being eliminated by "Three Men & A Little Lazy". Together, they now run a movie review and film pop culture website, scene-stealers.com. On December 30, 2008, Ultimate Fakebook played a small reunion show for a friend's birthday at the recordBar in Kansas City, Missouri. On Thursday, February 5, 2009, Ultimate Fakebook reunited again, this time for a much larger "official" reunion show at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. This was also a benefit for the JayDoc free clinic, where licensed volunteer physicians supervise

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students who provide care to the area's under-served populations. The clinic operates on a volunteer basis, with supplies and medicines purchased through grants and donations. On December 18, 19, and 20, 2009, the band opened for former touring mates and friends

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at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois. The band played a concert in Kansas City at Record Bar on December 28, 2013, performing material from ''Daydream Radio is Smiling Static''. In 2024 and 2025 the band played several shows across the United States in support of the 25th anniversary of the original indie release of ''This Will Be Laughing Week'' in which they played the album in its entirety.

Newer releases

On July 27, 2010, the band self-released their first album since 2003. A digital download comprising 16 original songs and one cover, the album is entitled ''Daydream Radio Is Smiling Static'' and is available exclusively on the band's website. In April 2020, they released ''The Preserving Machine'' on Sonic Ritual Records, which features singles ''After Hours at Melin's'' and ''Manhattan, KS''.

Members

*Bill McShane - (

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Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

) *Nick Colby - (

Bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

) *Eric Melin - (

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

) *Jason "Mot" Waldmann - (

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

) *J.D. Warnock - (

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Discography

References

External links

scene-stealers.com
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