The Clinton Years | LIVE in Third Rail

In 1999, Benny, Danny, Jamie, and Matty were rehearsing their favorite contemporary covers in the basement of their local video arcade. The owner, distraught over that day’s resignation of the first president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin (an act which left upstart prime minister Vladimir Putin acting President) accidentally placed his arcade’s new Street Fighter 3: Third Strike machine in front of the door to the basement trapping the young boys inside. After little to no effort to escape, our heroes went back to practice. Subsisting on a cache of Mondo, Surge, and Dunkaroos they hammered classic alternative rock 24 hours a day, reluctantly throwing in pop songs to appease the sandwich-eaters, until they were unearthed in the construction for Klyde Warren park. They sprung restless and anxious into a world they never made. Phones were used for everything except calling people, television (now called “reality television”) was poorly written and terribly acted, and that damned Putin was still in power. Appalled by the decline of civilization, they knew their mission. They hoisted their instruments and set out on a mission to rock America and defeat their nemesis, Vladimir Putin. Thusly were The Clinton Years born. “Great!” shouted Benny.