I don’t even bother watching The Next Great American Band, I simply can’t invest that sort of time into a show that might now be around in a couple week. However; luckily for them I still enjoy nerding out and making a good graph. Last night The Muggs and Rocket got kicked off the show.

Here’s the percentage increase of MySpace page views since last week:

• The Clark Brothers: +17%
• Cliff Wagner & The Old #7: +41%
• Denver & The Mile High Orchestra: +46%
• Dot Dot Dot: +16%
• Franklin Bridge: +17%
• Light of Doom: +36%
• Sixwire: +13%
• Tres Bien: +8%

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My TiVo jumped ahead of itself by doing daylight savings last night instead of tomorrow, so thankfully I missed half of The Next Great American Band. I’m going to say it every week, FOX what kind of loser is home on a Friday night to watch your shitty show? There were more people playing Halo 3 with me last night than there were watching The Next Great American Band…

Here’s the difference in percentage in MySpace page views from last week to this week. Last week The Hatch had the lowest number difference in page views, they were eliminated during last nights episode. Coincidentally enough, The Likes of You was also eliminated and last week they had a +105% increase. So, we’ll see what happens over the next couple weeks.

• The Clark Brothers: +19%
• Cliff Wagner & The Old #7: +46%
• Denver & The Mile High Orchestra: +44%
• Dot Dot Dot: +21%
• Franklin Bridge: +37%
• Light of Doom: +48%
• The Muggs: +8%
• Rocket: +5%
• Sixwire: +36%
• Tres Bien: +9%

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Resident asshole judge Ian “Dicko” Dickson ended up in the hospital this past week for dehydration and a stomach bug during the taping of his new show, The Next Great American Band. Now I’m noticing a common theme with American reality variety programs. Why are they always judged by foreigners? I mean how are we supposed to find the next great American band if we’ve got an Aussie, a Mexican and some dude from the Buffalo judging the competition. None of that says America.

Dicko’s manager (since he can’t actually speak himself) said this about his illness:

“It was nothing life threatening. It was not a brush with death. There is nothing dramatic about it. It was just unfortunate timing. He is fine and the hospital staff were fantastic.”

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So I watched (and by watched I mean fast forwarded) last nights episode of FOX’s The Next Great American Band and I only have one question:

Where did they find so many Mexicans?

The audience was full of them, as if that was the only race available on a Friday night to actually go to a free taping of some shoddy FOX show. I was bewildered, but I think they learned their lesson. Anyways, onto the graphs.

The above graph shows the difference between last weeks MySpace views for each band and the MySpace views as of today. Below, is the difference in percentage of hits to each bands page. The clear winner being Cliff Wagner (Ampersand) The Old #7, only because they had less than 2,000 hits last week and slightly over 6,000 as of today. The band with the most total MySpace views is Rocket with almost 300,000 page views.

• The Clark Brothers: +38%
• Cliff Wagner & The Old #7: +235%
• Denver & The Mile High Orchestra: +17%
• Dot Dot Dot: +37%
• Franklin Bridge: +73%
• The Hatch: +11%
• Light of Doom: +165%
• The Likes of You: +104%
• The Muggs: +12%
• Rocket: +83%
• Sixwire: +73%
• Tres Bien: +15%

If you can’t read your numbers, get more MySpace views!

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I thought I would start this week and make a bar graph representing each of the 12 bands that made it to the finals of FOX’s The Next Great American Band. Each bar represents the number of MySpace band profile views leading up to and after the season premiere. I will update it each week so you can see the flux of viewers in relation to how far each band makes it in the competition.

Here is each of the bands MySpace pages:

• The Clark Brother
• Cliff Wagner and the Old #7
• Denver and The Mile High Orchestra
• Dot Dot Dot
• Franklin Bridge
• The Hatch
• Light of Doom
• The Likes of You
• The Muggs
• Rocket
• Sixwire
• Tres Bien

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Light of Doom is a heavy metal band from The Next Great American Band consisting of all teenage brothers. Maybe Hanson on lots of drugs? The youngest is 12 and the oldest is 14. They cited their inspirations as being: ninjas and boobs. While Dicko (the mean judge) called them a “gimmick”, they still were perhaps the best act of the night, with one of the guitarist playing an amazing solo. So they were a gimmick but the next band called “Big Toe” that featured a guy with no arms playing with his feet Dicko called “amazing”.

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The Clark Brother from Nashville, Tennessee are a Bluegrass brotherly trio who made it to the final 12 bands in last nights episode of The Next Great American Band, however; it looks like this trio has a 19 Entertainment and American Idol connections as these pictures show the lead singer, Ashley, performing with Carrie Underwood. While I’m more interested in seeing their sex tapes, I’d settle with watching them sing. But it all makes me wonder if this didn’t help advance them to the next round.

You can listen to their cover of “This Little Light Of Mine” on the MySpace page.

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So, I actually watched The Next Great American Band last night and it was actually quite impressed by its presentation. But come on FOX, Friday night? Really? What kind of loser is home on a Friday night tuning into FOX to vote for their favorite band…

This is the same mistake ABC made almost six years ago with The Mole (one of my personal favorite reality shows of all time) after ABC, in all their brillance, scheduled it for the doomed 8pm on Friday time slot. You can put a show on Friday who’s target audience is 16-24 years olds… they’re… not… watching…

They announced in a short and concise two hour episode the final twelve bands. Instead of, like American Idol, showing us 90% bad people and 10% good people they took the time to actually show us the good bands.

The final 12 bands are:

• The Clark Brothers: Bluegrass (Nashville, TN)
• Cliff Wagner % Old #7: Bluegrass (San Pedro, CA)
• Denver & The Mile High Orchestra: Big Band/Swing (Nashville, TN)
• Dot Dot Dot: Modern Rock (Chicago, IL)
• Franklin Bridge: R&B/Soul (Philly, PA)
• The Hatch: Pop/Rock (Brooklyn, NY)
• Light of Doom: Heavy Metal (San Marcos, CA)
• The Likes of You: Pop/Rock (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Muggs: Classic Rock (Detroit, MI)
• Rocket: Pop/Punk (Los Angeles, CA)
• Sixwire: Country (Nashville, TN)
• Tres Bien: Retro Pop/Rock (Clearwater, FL) 

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