Frogband productions hopped to life back in the early nineties. Most drunken historians have now narrowed it down to some time around 1991 or '92 when a tall skinny boy around the age of ten was finishing his third epic masterpiece of backyard underground filmmaking. The boy knew he needed a production company. Not that he knew what the hell a production company was but they always were referenced in the opening credits and now that he had graduated to actually putting opening titles on his films by god he needed a production company. His eyes feverishly scanned his fathers office looking for inspiration or just some ten year old cool. Then sitting on a Philippine sub-woofer they stared back at him. Frozen in time, forever locked in the middle of a wild thumping chorus sat The Frogs. Brought state side back in the early seventies this stuffed frog rock band was just the inspiration needed. Hence forth from that sunny summer afternoon Frogband Productions was born. Don't ask me for the metaphoric artistic responsibility six instrument playing stuffed frogs stand for, just know that somewhere out there the frogs are watching over the film and they will always keep things weirdly honest and honestly weird.
T.
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The frog band story is wonderful. I remember how much influence they had over the men in our family. The women were underwhelmed and slightly nauseated by the dead, stuffed, and shellacked amphibians weilding their instruments. They tried to hide them in closets and cabinetry to no avail as the men always rescued them and put on them back on display in areas of high traffic in the house. The band sits today on a low shelf in the library accompanied by two new band members acquired in Mexico. A bane to interior design minded women and a beacon to creative men young and old, they still cause comment and criticism and celebration as they play on.
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