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Rolf Conant

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Rolf Conant, an illegal alien from Berlin, is one of Mr. John Flansburgh's alter egos. "Conant" was taken from his middle name, and "Rolf" was chosen because it sounded like a "nice German name". As a home recording enthusiast, Mr. Conant allegedly formed the Hello The Band project with Joshua Fried and contributed lead vocals and guitars on the band's eponymous EP.

Aside from Hello the Band, Rolf has been involved with some art direction for TMBG, including the Miscellaneous T and Apollo 18 album artwork. Rolf appeared in a pre-TMBG art-review parody magazine made by Mr. Flansburgh and Bill Krauss. Rolf is also given "fake drum" credits on the band Spondee's Hello EP, drum programming credit on the demo version of What Bothers The Spaceman? from the John Flansburgh's Mono Puff Hello EP, and photography credits on Mono Puff's Unsupervised and the The Devil Went Down To Newport EP. In recent years, Rolf has made appearances in the liner notes for Indestructible Object, The Spine, The Spine Surfs Alone, and in the Here Come The ABCs DVD.

Recently in a newsletter, John Flansburgh himself has claimed credit for the Miscellaneous T artwork. Could this be a signal of Mr. Conant's untimely death? Or, could this be a scheme of Flansburgh's to finally cannibalize the efforts and achievements of his creative archrival? Despite this hint at John's jealous and perhaps murderous tendencies, we at This Might Be a Wiki have faith in Rolf Conant's continued existence.

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