* Stillwater, fictional rock band from the 2000 film Almost Famous

He then played Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of the fictional band Stillwater in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous ( 2000 ).

Capricorn was the recording label for many Southern rock and soul bands in the 1970s including The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, The James Montgomery Band, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, Jonathan Edwards, Captain Beyond, White Witch, Grinderswitch, Cowboy, Hydra, Kitty Wells, Dobie Gray, Alex Taylor and Stillwater.

* Stillwater ( band ), a 1970s music group

In the movie Almost Famous, it is said that the fictitious band Stillwater declined to use Johns as their producer for their new album.

Alternative-rock band The All-American Rejects was formed in Stillwater ; and post-grunge band Hinder, notable for their hit " Lips of an Angel " hails from Oklahoma City as well as other local favorites such as: Stone Cold Sober, Aranda and Violence to Vegas.

The band Stillwater used a talkbox on their song " Mind Bender " in 1977.

Railroad Earth is a roots and Americana-based newgrass band from Stillwater, New Jersey.

Stillwater is also briefly featured in the seventh season finale and the eight season premiere.

Crandon Lakes ( 2000 Census population of 1, 150 ) is a census-designated place and unincorporated area split between Hampton Township and Stillwater Township.

Crandon Lakes ( 2000 Census population of 1, 150 ) is a census-designated place and unincorporated area split between Hampton Township and Stillwater Township.

Born in Stillwater, Minnesota, Samuel L. Rothafel ( born Rothapfel ) was a showman of the 1920s silent film era.

A Song Without Borders production directed by Michael Stillwater, the film premiered on February 7, 2012 at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, CA, was voted Best Documentary at the DC Independent Film Festival ( February 29, 2012 ) and received Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Movie Awards.

* Many places in the film directly reference Twin Cities-area locations, including Columbia Heights, Wayzata, Hilltop, Excelsior Bay, Stillwater Prison, etc.

The film included landmarks such as Ground Zero nightclub, used as the “ strip club ”, Minneapolis convention center as the “ airport ”, the Stillwater Lift Bridge, and University of St. Thomas as The University of Memphis.

Kozelek has also dabbled in acting — friend Cameron Crowe cast him in Almost Famous ( 1999 ) as Larry Fellows ( the bass player in Stillwater ), and in Vanilla Sky ( 2001 ).

The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, a comedy based around a fictional 1970s rock band, was filmed in the style of a documentary and includes such details as fake album covers and historical videos done in the styles of the late 1960s and 1970s.

The Lamb was to have revolved around Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer and his emotionally conflicted life as a musician in the public eye.

* Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( musical ), off-Broadway musical about a fictional rock and roll band

Clover, the drummer at a holiday camp during the early days of British rock ' n ' roll in a fictional band called Stray Cats.

The 2008 Norwegian film The Man Who Loved Yngve features the fictional punk rock Mathias Rust Band, headed by the character Jarle Klepp.

* Almost Famous portrayed a fictional 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist writing for Rolling Stone.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

It follows the story of a fictional rock band that tries to get a recording contract.

The town is the home of the fictional character Ali G, and indie rock band Hard-Fi.

It is a fictional flying island or rock, about 4. 5 miles in diameter, with an adamantine base, which its inhabitants can maneuver in any direction using magnetic levitation.

The 1998 film Velvet Goldmine, which chronicles a fictional retelling of the rise and fall of glam rock, contains a flashback to 1970 in which a group of characters converse in Polari, while their words are humorously subtitled below.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

This Is Spinal Tap is an American 1984 rock and roll musical mock documentary directed by Rob Reiner about the fictional heavy metal music band Spinal Tap.

Stylistically the movie is a parody of rock documentaries, purportedly filmed and directed by the fictional Marty DiBergi ( Rob Reiner ).

The faux documentary covers a 1982 United States concert tour for the fictional British rock group " Spinal Tap " to promote their new album Smell the Glove, but interspersed with one-on-one interviews with the members of the group and footage of the group from previous times of their career.

The film opens with Buddy Holly's beginnings as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas and his emergence into the world of rock and roll with his fictional good friends and bandmates, drummer Jesse Charles ( Don Stroud ) and bass player Ray Bob Simmons ( Charles Martin Smith ), soon to be known as The Crickets.

* In 1999, Mike Patton named his rock group Fantômas after the fictional character.

Two modern examples of the " cartoon rock group " could include the British band, Gorillaz — a musical project created in 1998 by British musician Damon Albarn and British cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, and Dethklok, a fictional death metal band created by Brendon Small.

Gröûp X ( also known as Gröûp X: Arabian Rap Sensations ) is a faux Arabian rock band, claiming to be from the fictional village of Cramshananteen, Saudi Arabia.

1981: Compose the song " Road Map of My Tears " for the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, in which Waybill and Welnick appear, among other musicians, as the fictional rock group The Metal Corpses.

In 2001, she also appeared as fictional rock star Anna Raines in the CBS TV drama Family Law with Dixie Carter and Christopher McDonald.

Barnes & Barnes, fictional twin brothers Art Barnes and Artie Barnes ( Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer, respectively ), are a comedy rock duo based in " Lumania ", a fictional mythological civilization ( similar to Lemuria or Atlantis ).

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

The success of the film would later lead to actual recordings of the fictional band and concert tours plus press interviews, all done in character.

Ironically one of the bands on the album, The Headstones, featured singer Hugh Dillon, who also starred in the movie as a singer of the fictional band.

The fictional band's music was done by a real band named " Swamp Baby " with vocals by Dillon.

The song " Teenage Suicide ( Don't Do It )" by the fictional band Big Fun was written and produced for the film by musician Don Dixon, and performed by the ad hoc group " Big Fun ", which consisted of Dixon, Mitch Easter, Angie Carlson and Marti Jones.

The " Wilburys " joke was extended further, with the band members credited under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr.

* Finch and other band members made cameo appearances in Talking Heads leader David Byrne's 1986 movie True Stories, set in fictional Virgil, Texas.

" In 1995, an independent band from Indianapolis, Indiana, named themselves Odd Man and released a CD entitled Hypothesis in reference to the fictional hypothesis contained in the story.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

* Lumi, a fictional character and the singer of the virtual band Genki Rockets, was born on September 11, 2037, and is the first human to be born in space.

* Toki Wartooth, rhythm guitar player for the fictional death metal band Dethklok was raised in a nearby abandoned village.

* Sargon, left-handed guitarist of the fictional band The Mesopotamians from the They Might Be Giants song on their 2007 album The Else

This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for 1970s television programming, became an actual group ( while remaining a parody of The Beatles ) and toured and recorded, releasing two UK chart hits.

Also, in tracing the fictional history of the band, one other member was mentioned:

Other characters, and pseudonyms associated with the band over the years include the fictional manager Morty Allen, jr., Sweaty & Bloated Management, Lounge Singer Nick Deletchi, Presty Gomez, Rockabye Sweetheart, Lenny Wagonmaster, Wildfire Friz the Shasta Man, Blue Joe Roundabout, the Silky Smooth Scrubby Muffin, The Grimmace Groove Dough Boy, The Hot Trottin ' Dictator, Simeon Krease, and Coco the Talking Guitar.

The 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap features the fictional band members Derek Smalls, David St. Hubbins, and Nigel Tufnel attempting a version of the song at Presley's grave.