It was kind of embarrassing when the host of
The Next Great American Band touted the
two million votes received by the show's phone lines last week, although you had to give him credit for trying: Compared to this year's record sales, after all, two million
does sound like a big number. (Which makes one wonder: Is the prize of a record deal really all that great? Another question for another time, I suppose.) Anyway, with only three bands remaining, each band got to perform three—
three!—songs; two covers selected by the show's powers that be and one original. And the post-show voting would be not for the purpose of saving a band from getting voted off, but to allow one band to declare victory! Which fanbase would sacrifice its Friday night for the chance to make their band No. 1 on one of prime-time TV's lowest-rated shows?
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As my Christmas present to you (and myself), I will not go into full detail about the final episode of The Next Great American Band, which aired Friday night to a little bit of fanfare (I think?). Instead, I'll just let you know that the next-generation bluegrass pickers the Clark Brothers were voted the winners, and that the Google Blog Search results for the phrase "DMHO was robbed" were zero at the time that this post went up. [
