vibinc

Back in the mid to late 90’s I was looking for a name for a music project. The project was to be something in the same genre as NIN but with a more experimental and less structured musical foundation.

One day I was driving down Chester St. in Little Rock to my girlfriend’s house and I noticed a business that I had never seen before. The business seemed to be no more, but the name on the side of the building was still there in a Copperplate Gothic like font, which was a font I was playing with for potential names.

The name on the side of the building was VIBRATORS INC. INDUSTRIAL VIBRATORS. Vibrators Inc., what an awesome name for a music project that was to be both experimental and somewhat industrial!

I was sold.

I played about 10 shows alone, and one show with another person in the band. Because of the nature of the technology available to me at the time, the music climate in Little Rock, and the fact that I never really figured out how to be “experimental” with a one man band, it never really got off the ground. But I was proud of the things I HAD done, and started using the shortened version of the name to identify myself in USENET groups and other online entities.

Since that time, some 15 odd years ago, I’ve used Vibinc to identify myself. You will find that entity on just about every liberal political blog in the universe, and still own the domains vibroatorsinc.com and vibratorsincorporated.com which will point to this domain soon. Vibinc.com got poached by an outfit in New York that I just don’t want the spend the time or money to fuck with, so I’ve let it go.

So what was Vibrators Inc.? It was a company that sold equipment for paving roads. Their vibrators packed asphalt and concrete and all other sorts of things.

In short, it wasn’t what your dirty mind thought, though my dirty mind thought the same thing.

Update: In a very weird twist, a friend alerted me that vibinc.com was now available, so I snatched it up. YAY!