Since you asked, here’s what the Flake music was based on. My technique was born of people always breaking the strings on the guitars that were lying around. I always struggled to play and sing standard 6-string at the same time -which kept me from fronting my own band, or performing “live”. My good friend …
This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Thanks to Ron Swanson for this: