16: Star Wars
We see a band in Star Wars before we meet Han Solo.
I imagine Tatooine is one of those towns planets where all the venues are owned by or giving kickbacks to the Hutts so if you want to play you have to deal with that.
But the Cantina is just going for some smooth jazz for the afternoon crowd so it’s probably a steady gig. Not as lucrative as Jabba’s Palace, but you’re less likely to get fed to a Rancor.
And Jabba letting a band play is the only episode of Visions season one that isn’t about a lightsaber fight.
Anyway, there’s room for bands in Star Wars.
Kids on dead-end planets with junk instruments to megastars on interstellar tours, court musicians for space royalty, punky underground renegades attacking the Empire with their art...
You could also go all in like Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas’s Michael Jackson Disney park ride film Captain EO with “a ragtag band” with Droid members-slash-instruments and music as the hero’s Force-style power. Skeleton Crew threw in a reference with the butterfly gopher KB releases from captivity.
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| Freddie Mercury riding on Darth Vader’s shoulders is not canon, however. |
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(For Ash I could also have gone with Lose Control opening their album 1977 with the TIE Fighter roar, or Clones as featured in the Republic Commando trailer, or indeed their version of the cantina band tune.)
Concept
A small time band with big time dreams, playing dives on the Outer Rim, shuttling around in a beat-up freighter.
Zax, lead singer, starry-eyed dreamer and sucker for a pretty face or a sob story
Eldi, strings, wannabe gruff cynic but too idealistic for it to stick
Day, horn and backing vocals, mostly in it to get away from her home station
Snap, percussion, silent and protective
5, drum machine, has been dealing with various band egos for three hundred years
Statistics
A New Hope 1
Ego 1
Fanbase 1
Cash 0
Performance Traits
Technique 2
Force 3
Stagecraft 2
It’s Star Wars, there will be Clash Scenes and Showboating
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