The Secret History of...

If you're familiar with my work at thewidgets.com, you may have already read The Secret History of The Widgets. I wrote that quite a while ago out of desperation as much as anything else. I had built the site to include a page about the history of the band with the expectation that they would write up some kind of biography for me to post there. That never happened and since the button was already made I decided to write something myself. Now, I'd know the band for a long time so it would have been possible for me to slap together a passable account of the actual history, but that didn't sound like much fun. Instead I wrote a fictional account of the bands formation and posted it.

After it was up I didn't really think about it for a long time. It probably wasn't until a year later that someone actually mentioned to me how much they liked it. Looking back now, it's not my best writing, but it's full of a bunch of inside jokes about the band and stuff I was into at the time. I didn't think much about other people reading it, but from what I understand it was pretty popular in some sects, particularly with parents of band members. I was glad to hear people had actually read and enjoyed it and I eventually followed up that piece with a short story I called The Continuing Adventures of The Widgets which cast the band as super heroes. At one time I actually had the idea of serializing the band's exploits, each time choosing a new genre to place them in. That never came to pass.

Since that time I became acquainted with Typhoon. I knew them to be Widget fans from way back so when they asked people to submit a fake bio about them, not unlike the one I've been known to write, I decided to take a stab at it. The result was The Secret History of Typhoon. I was really pleased with how it turned out, and so were they. A fast friendship was formed and I've become something of a official biographer for Boy Gorilla Records.

So far I've also written a Secret History of the Black Black Black and I am currently finishing a Secret History of Eskimo and Sons. I have a lot of fun doing it but I usually wait until I have a good idea to pair up with a specific band. I've also written a Secret History of Evolver's Remorse, unaffiliated with Boy Gorilla. That one's actually just about a musically inclined friends from school who now lives in Seattle.

Right now my plan is to start posting any future secret histories here first, starting in the next day or two with the final version of the Eskimo and Sons bio. Until then I encourage you to read the other histories. They aren't long, I think they're pretty cool and I imagine all the histories take place within a single continuity.