Dead Oceans Band the Donkeys in "Lost" Mystery

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Dead Oceans Band the Donkeys in "Lost" Mystery

Here's a curious one. On the TV show "Lost", ever since the second season there's been a running thread about a mysterious 1970s band called Geronimo Jackson. In the past few years, the band's name has turned up on the show over and over, in conversation, on T-shirts, and on posters. Lostpedia has an obsessive list of references to the band on the show. In a few podcasts, the show's producers apparently suggested that Geronimo Jackson was a real but obscure California band who only released one album in the late 1970s.

Well, all of this might not actually be the case (as things tend to go with "Lost"). On a recent episode, the character Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) is heard listening to a Geronimo Jackson song called "Dharma Lady", and last week, the song appeared as a free download on iTunes. Over on the "Lost" message board Dark UFO, someone noticed that "Dharma Lady" is almost the exact same song as "Excelsior Lady" by the Donkeys. The Donkeys are a San Diego retro-rock band on Dead Oceans; they are not a mysterious 1970s band. Confusing!

So: Are the Donkeys Geronimo Jackson? A Dead Oceans publicist could neither confirm nor deny: "It seems as though it's possible that the Donkeys also existed as Geronimo Jackson in 1977. It might be possible that they were part of a Dharma Initiative experiment on time travel." Right. She also had this to say: "Geronimo Jackson is likely to appear on extras of the season five 'Lost' DVD, where they will feature the band recording 'Dharma Lady'."

If the Donkeys are, in fact, Geronimo Jackson (which sure seems pretty likely), that's a pretty big break for them, even if it does greatly increase their chances of death by smoke monster. Seems like a worthy trade-off.

Source: Pitchfork

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