Two Truths and a Lie: The Star Wars Cantina Band

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Two Truths and a Lie: The Star Wars Cantina Band
You know the cantina band - those jaunty fellows who provide a few moments of intergalactic muzak while Han shoots Greedo's dick off. They only make a brief appearance in A New Hope, but they've inspired a surprising amount of canon and semi-canon lore.

You might think you know everything about them, but see if you can tell which statement isn't true:

2 TRUTHS AND A LIE: THE CANTINA BAND They're a species of super musicians. The music they play is called jizz. They have a name: Filgrin D'an and th

TRUTH: They're a species of super musicians. The Bith are biologically near-perfect musicians: They Their practice bagpipe-y music with lungs allow ma

TRUTH: the Bith can't get enough jizz. Jizz' is the actual name of the genre they play. There are two distinct jizz songs in A New Hope: Mad About

LIE: the band is actually not called Filgrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. KATHY TYERS STAR WARS WE DON'T DO WEDDINGS THE BAND'S TALE DRAMATISATION #Harpe

But they went behind Jabba's back to play at the wedding of his rival, Lady Valarian. Jabba discovers the betrayal, and sends his henchmen to break up

In the ensuing mayhem, the Modal Nodes run into our pal Wuher. Wuher invites them to play at his cantina, just down the street. CRACKED.COM

They agree, but first they change their name to avoid getting their asses bountyhunted. When we see them in the cantina, they go by the name Babbarine

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