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Spawned from the twenty-year friendship of Reed Oliver and Jeff Coleman (aka Isaac Priestley), World Racketeering Squad came about when Reed jokingly suggested that someone should write "Tangled Up In Tubes" to make fun of Senator Ted Stevens and his quote about the internet being made of tubes - made infamous by the Daily Show. Jeff, grinned and got Reed to write it himself, spawning their first tune.

A few songs followed, but nothing truly gelled until Reed wrote a blues tune about his neighbor who made a spectacle of herself at one of his parties. Jeff turned it into the pop tune "Sylvia," and from then on the songs just started coming.

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World Racketeering Squad videos--Green Muse Cafe Oct 11, 2007 Oct 13

On Thursday, October 11, the World Racketeering Squad played another open mic gig at the Green Muse Cafe here in Austin. We've been doing that regularly for a few weeks now, and it's a great time. Jules and John who run it are super cool, and they play great music when they get up on stage. It's a friendly atmosphere of cool people.

There were two major differences in our show this week. We used keyboard instead of guitar, and we videotaped the performance in iMovie on Reed's laptop!

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Where in the world is World Racketeering Squad?

We have a World Racketeering Squad photo group on Flickr, for anyone to join and post photos, either pictures of us performing, or anything that's related to the world of racketeering, and being a squad.

On YouTube, we have a video channel for videos of our performances and demos.

We also have a World Racketeering Squad band page on Last.fm, in case you're listening to our music through Last.fm radio or using one of its plugins to track your listening patterns.

Oh, and we're on MySpace.

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• Isaac Priestley - Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Vocals, Songwriting

• Reed Oliver - Vocals, Songwriting

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