Max Rebo Band to Release New Album
Posted by: Jedi Tronzo 12.24.03 12:01am
It's their first new album in 20 years!!!

With the start of the new year right around the corner, the gang from Jabba's Palace is back in the studio recording their first new album in over two decades. Around the Galaxy and Back Again is due out in stores sometime in March. The first single that will be released from the album is Scalper's Paradise. In talking with Max Rebo, he said that the band wanted to do something new that reflected today's society and the band. The band also wanted to get back to it's roots with just the three original members, Sy Snootles, Droopy McCool and Max Rebo. Barquin Dan, as well as Rappertunie make special guest performances on the first release. "We released some tribute albums when the Special Edition was in theaters in the later part of the 90's, but it wasn't the true Max Rebo Band. After the release of the Special Edition, we all went our separate ways for awhile, Sy was working on her fourth marriage, Droopy was in and out drug rehab, he became hooked in the mid 80's after the release of ROTJ. He couldn't handle the fame."

"Scalper's Paradise was influenced by Coolio, who performed Gangsta's Paradise, and "Weird" Al, who performed Amish Paradise. I was battling depression and alcoholism after the Special Edition came out. I started drinking with my good ole friend R2D2. He came clean in his documentary Beneath the Dome, I needed to come clean with my music and a new album, something that was a little more aggressive and edgy than we had done in the past, and something that would tell the tale of the Band's journey through the past twenty years."

Creature Cantina is proud to bring for the first time in the galaxy the lyrics for Scalper's Paradise.

Scalper's Paradise

As I walk through the aisles of my Toys R Us
I look around cause there's no one I trust
Cause I am here early almost everyday
To find the new toys before the collectors and kids
people don't look at me the same way
cause I make my living scalping toys on Ebay
When the doors open up at the store in the morning
I grab a cart and run with out any warning
Knocking little kids over to get 'em outta my way
I need to buy that new Luke Skywalker cause I have rent to pay
Even though I'm 35 and live at home
In my mom's basement I scalp toys all alone

Been searching most my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Been searching most my life, living in a scalpers paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise

Star Wars, super heroes and Lord of the Rings
Hot Wheels, GI Joe and McFarlane sport figurines
I buy them to sell and make lots of money
A fair trade with you? That's not even funny
Why would I trade something I paid five dollars for
When I put it on Ebay someone will pay twenty more
Wal-Marts and Targets its all the same
All the people are crying "Oh what a shame!"
They can't find any new Star Wars anymore
That's cause I'm the scalping pimp and you're my scalping whore

Been searching most my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Been searching most my life, living in a scalpers paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody's on Ebay bidding on my goods
Cause I'm the unemployed scalper in your neighborhood
There's no new figures on the shelf, I bought them all
Cause I'm watching all the stores and I'm watching all the malls
A scalpers only true friend is greed
So what'cha want,,, Bitch! I got what'cha need
Scalper4life is my Ebay username
Scalping is life, it's not fun and games

Been searching most my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Been searching most my life, living in a scalpers paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise
Scalping toys all my life, living in a scalper's paradise