Brave Dot Com

Summary

How a misfit polka band scored a premium spot on the World Wide Web in 1995.

Show notes

• “The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience.” (The Verge)

• More Brave Combo accolades are on their Wikipedia page

• Bob Dylan’s version of Brave Combo’s polka arrangement of “Must Be Santa” (YouTube)

• Domain Name Journal

• What Brave.com/bo looked like in 1998 (Wayback Machine)

• Appropos of nothing, here’s a figurine of Carl Finch for sale on Etsy. He also has his own Wikipedia page

• Beer Barrel Polka by Diet Polka (Soundcloud)

• Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Polka, from Brave Combo album Polkasonic

• Brave Combo performs the Chicken Dance at a live show (YouTube) Brave Combo songs in this episode (Spotify playlist):

• “Do Something Different”

• “The Simpsons Theme”

• “In Heaven, There Is No Beer”

• “Ice Machine in the Desert”

• “Crazy Serbian Butcher’s Dance”

• “Purple Haze (Polka Version)”

• “The Chicken Dance”