Most people don't know that the shows that Four String Samurai does on stage are actually the shows within the shows, or the "mise en abyme" as the incredibly nerdy might call it. You know, it's the same as the technique used by Shakespeare in Hamlet ("The play's the thing") and Gary Shandling in The Larry Sanders Show and a bunch of other stuff. So the meta show is us hanging around and doing stuff and preparing for the show within the show that we put on stage roughly once a month. We also drive around in a van and solve mysteries.
What you didn't know when you started reading the previous 102 words was that all of that was prologue for this, the release of the 4SS season 5 spoilers!
- A new member joins the group who knows more about '60s R&B, soul, and proto-punk than Paul! Is this the start of a beautiful friendship, or is there only room in Four String for one person with obscure taste in old music?
- Ben places Chris on an exacting calisthenics regimen. Has he gone too far, or is this just what the doctor ordered?
- The guys learn an important lesson about fire safety from Purple Feather recording artists The Donnas.
- It just so happens that Bret is a corpse that only moves when music plays like Bernie does that one weekend. What happens when Eric and his piano go out of town for a few weeks?
- Ryan learns to astrally project himself thousands of miles. Will he use this new-found power for good... or evil?
- The group has their toughest mystery yet. They can only solve it with the help of this week's guests, the Harlem Globetrotters!
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