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The Rock Bottom Remainders is a rock & roll band consisting of published writers, most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language book, magazine, and newspaper authors. The band took its self-mocking name from the publishing term "remaindered book", a work for which the unsold remainder of the publishers stock of copies is sold at a reduced price. The band members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Joel Selvin, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Fulghum, Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Tad Bartimus, and Greg Iles. Band members collaborated on a book about the band, Mid-Life Confidential.
History The Remainders were founded by Kathi Kamen Goldmark in the early 1990s. Kathi is a trained musician whose day job is book publicity. Through this, she met many prolific authors. One day while driving one of the authors around she came upon the idea of making a band of them. It stuck. The Remainders' first performance was in 1992 at the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim, CA. A review of the concert, appearing in The Washington Post *, claimed it was "the most heavily promoted musical debut since the Monkees." The Remainders also played at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 1995. * Quotes Concerts Guests Song covered include Discography Several RBR songs are featured on the double album Stranger than Fiction ("Don't Quit Your Day Job" Records), also featuring other noted authors' comic attempts at song. * | ||||||||
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