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About Brian Shambaugh
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I can answer just about everything about 311 and their past as a band. I can mainly answer questions about the band as people, their albums, (all of them), their tour history, the names of their bootleg albums, where to find those, the best places to get 311 merchandise, their favorite songs to sing, what songs each member of the band has written, and unusual facts about the band. What I could not tell you is the names of their families, other than Nick`s brother, and some of the songs that appear on certain bootleg albums.
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311 has been my favorite band since 1995. Since then, I have always read up on them, their tour history, all kinds of facts about them, like the cars they drive. I also spend alot of time on-line reading about them.
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I am on the 311 on-line team helping promote their new album "From Chaos," I also help with other various things like sending e-mails, radio requests, video requests, and going to the shows to show my support and how inspirational the band is.
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Topic: 311
Expert: Brian Shambaugh
Date: 10/1/2001
Subject: band name
Question
why is 311 named 311, i heard its for 3 K's, three times the 11th letter in the alpahbet
apreciate it...
311 rocks!!!
Answer
311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. One rainy day, P-Nut and some friends went skinny dipping in a public pool. They were apprehended by police. One of P-Nut's friends (Jim Watson) was arrested, cuffed (naked) and taken home to his parents. He was issued a citation for a code 311 (indecent exposure). We thought this was funny, so we took it as our band name. After the humor of the name wore off - we still kept it because we liked that it was just abstract and that it did not define us in anyway. The name did not describe our sound or our politics, it just let the music speak for itself. Since most interviewers always ask us "What does 311 mean?", we have come up with lots of different answers over the years. Some include.... Nick - "five friends making music", Tim - "a number dictated to me by a higher intelligence", P-Nut - "knowing a little numerology and studying a little magic, which I do; in some factions, three is man and 11 is magic. So 311 is like male magic."
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