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Action Figure Party: Action Figure Party

by Mike Robinson
November 1, 2001

I thought Art Good was nuts. There, on the Sunday morning lineup of the 2001 JazzTrax Catalina Island Festival was this band, “Action Figure Party." “Action Figure Party?!"The band consists of twentysomething musicians from bands like “Garbage," “Buck Cherry," “Incubus," and “Beck." One of the musicians' names is “Flea." Another goes by “Yogi," and a third, with the more-promising sounding name of Sean Lennon, plays... umm... turntable??While some of my friends quietly decided that maybe they ...