There’s even a 63-page discography listing all the imaginary albums discussed in the book, plus some that aren’t discussed but only exist for the sake of the list. But with their mindset being so Clash-oriented, the dubby strains of “Bank Robber” are never far away, speedily puttin the kibosh to that suggestion. Suggestions for their protection ranging from burying them in the forest with an X marks the spot map - Hans all ready to go, sure he’d seen a shovel somewhere in his mother’s garage - to taking out a safety deposit box in a local financial institution. ![]() Knowing they have something special, Buttery Cake Ass become terrified of anything happening to the tapes in the meantime. Regarding Buttery Cake Ass’ first full-length album, Stone writes: The story blends credible band worries with comic exaggeration and just plain weirdness. ![]() Musicians around the world will sympathize. It’s the story of a band that has a few troubles along the way to tenuous cult success. Thirty five years later, Buttery Cake Ass’ “Live in Hungaria” is the basis for a 300-page novel about the amazing world of indie rock in the 1980s and ’90s. It was a meaningless prank played for their own amusement, but the sheer delight of it stayed with Stone. Neither the album nor the band really existed, but the clerk dutifully looked up these figments of the boys’ wild imaginations, even asking if they meant “Hungary” rather than “Hungaria.” They assured him it was “Hungaria.” ![]() In 1988, two 15-year-olds named Aug Stone and Brian Ewing went into Cutler’s Records & Tapes in downtown New Haven and requested an album, “Live in Hungaria” by the band Buttery Cake Ass.
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