Vaganza

Vaganza was a somewhat detached, ironic, self-aware, and decidedly excessive/theatrical art-rock-pop duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists David Longworth Wallingford and Quigley. Whether they were behind the times, or ahead of their time, could potentially be a matter open to debate if anyone on Earth had ever heard of them. Dressed in spangled, space-aged, "zoot suit" type apparel, singing in rather brazenly affected voices, and accompanied by more or less a full orchestra (plus much other extraneous instrumentation) on nearly each of the ten tracks on their debut album, the one thing that is for certain is that they were not "of" their time. Their first unofficial release was a 1994 demo entitled "Are You Willing to Die for Rock 'n' Roll?" The recording cost only $5,000, but was an overproduced and excessive affair all the same. Circulating this demo to various fabulous friends, and those friends' friends, while decked out in their full regalia, at this get-together or that, Vaganza were eventually able to generate something of an industry buzz even while lacking a live band and being mostly unknown to all.