A place for those who "Trust the Fungus"

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The Piranha Plants, oh boy. You know, when me and the others took up a gig for the Boom Boom Bar, you can bet your ass we didn't expect a fourth of the stuff we experienced. Hell, the whole idea started off as a way to get Toad off my back. I was at the Hammer Brother's Tattoo Shop, the old store across the Donut Land Shop not that glitzy one they have by the Thwomp store nowadays, and I went there to get this nice tattoo for a discount price, I think it was about 2 or 4 coins, and right next to me is Toad. And of course, Toad's bothering me, asking when I'd finally start that music career I talked about. Now, I liked Toad, he was a fun man to be around but he would not shut up about this damn music career so finally, at that shop I gave up. I looked right at Toad and said something like "Ok, you win, I'll start!"

At the time, I wasn't really considering it. I mean, at that point in my life, the name Boo Didley was only gonna be associated with a lonely janitor who worked at a doughnut shop. Then next thing I know, Toad's calling me, saying something about starting a band with me, him, and two other guys and I'm like thinking....What have I done? I wanted to back out of it you know, tell Toad that I was only joking but then I'm thinking why not? I mean, in all likely hood this'll just be like a one time deal and the next day or two, we'll all be back to our normal lives, ah ha ha ha, ha ha ha, no.

So I met up with the other guys whose names were Iggy and Spike, they seemed like rather talented men, Iggy could sure as hell play the drums. I looked at Toad for a while and then said like, "Alright, let's make music!"

Now the only real difficult step for us right then was to get gigs. I mean the kids back then were easy to win over, you could play any song that was popular and they'd eat you up. Our goal was pretty much to play songs we liked for a while and come up with original songs later down the line. Of course you can't achieve as simple as that without actually getting gigs. We applied everywhere and only got like what, 5 seconds in before the managers called for the next band? We weren't the luckiest guys I'll tell you.

And then one morning, while I was out cleaning the bathrooms, Toad found me and told me we got a gig. I remember sort of chuckling and saying "Well it's about damn time!"

Then, we all sort of geared up and moved onwards to the Boom Boom Bar where I think we can all agree is when the Piranha Plants rose from the drawing board. I'm only half joking by the way, we literally hadn't come up with a name for our band before this and it was at that Boom Boom Bar when we were asked what we called ourselves, Toad just gave an aside glance to a Piranha Plant that I think, belonged to a little 10 year old girl and basically said "The Piranha Plants."

Soon after that, it was already 5:00 P.M. Time for the adults to come in and practically raise hell. It was Toad and Spike with the guitars, Iggy at the drums, and myself at the microphone. I'm standing in the middle of my friends, basically watching as the bar begins to fill up with drunken music fans and bad dancers. Soon, we all heard a guy at the left who announced us, some of the crowd clapped, others just acted like idiots. All four of us just shrugged and began playing "Sucking the Glass Teat" an anti-television song that we all found to be relatively good.

Apparently it wasn't that good, because as soon as we got into the chorus, this big guy with like a giant snake tattooed around his stomach rose from the crowd and pulled out a flame thrower and started shooting fire balls at us! I wanted to get outta there as soon as possible but Toad and the others just kept on playing! There was a freaking assassination attempt directed at us going on, and they just kept playing as if it were nothing! Me not being one to argue, I just kept on singing as well.

By the time the song ended, the entire stand was scorched. Most of the paying customers had left, that dumbass with the flamethrower got arrested, and at the bar stand was me, Toad, Iggy, and Spike having a free round of beer as a bonus for not leaving the stage during the whole time. History has quite a way for making itself doesn't it?