Long ago in a far away land, brothers Albie and
Anthony Strange left the Amish community in which they were raised for the
traditional year of experiencing the real world. Almost at the end of their
“real world” year, their careers took a touching and slightly
frightening turn on the day they met the Weird Sisters at a Shoney’s
outside Pittsburgh, where the Sisters were bulking up for an expected loooong
weekend intervention for blues legend B.B. King. Albie, noticing Sissy’s
barely touched corned beef hash asked, “You gonna eat that?”
The Sisters promptly had the manager arrest both brothers and charge them
as “mashers.” Albie refused to be jailed without his bass, and
when Ludovica saw the size of his impressive instrument, she quickly offered
to post bail only if the Brothers Strange would devote the rest of their
lives to providing back up to the Sisters, not only musically but also in
the occasional situation calling for bouncers, alibis, or late night sandwich
runs. Trapped, and without a zipper to their names, Brother Anthony and
Brother Albie agreed. They traded in their wide-brimmed hats for sunglasses
and a case of Cabernet, and headed off to seek their fortunes with the Sisters.