FELT MAN'S BONES // 1.- felted version of extraordinaire duet Dead Man's Bones created by DFD.
// 2.- the members Felt Man's Bones was born the day Ryan Felted Gosling and Zach Felted Shields met in Damn French Desserts Society studio in Madrid.
As it happened to the flesh and bones version of these gentleman, legend says they didn't like each other at first since Zach Felted Shields didn't quite understand how on Earth -being as they were fingers' puppets- his felted version had to be shorter than his blond collegue.
"WTF?" were his first words, which meaning is believed to be "what the felt?". Or something along the lines.
They were the only ones in their species though, and didn't want to be alone, so they joined forces and formed a duet.
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// 3.- the origins Surprising as it may sound, the idea came from this previous experiment of ours: A sequined version of Chicken Callahan (Go Ahead, Make My Day) threatening a Kokeshi with his 
Magnum 45 .... Yeah, we know. What were we on? Ahem.
That's how these fingers puppets Felt Man's Bones were born.
// 4.- first works As soon as their baby blues were stiched and their mouths (a finest felt thread) were carefully put on place with the help of Solingen tweezers -top notch german technology- these talented souls decided they wanted to sing. Just like that.
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Of course they didn't have an album yet, but that wasn't an obstacle for these gents. "Who needs to write your very own songs when you could play some other blokes' ones? " felted Zach asked to his bandmate.
Dead Man's Bones had released their very own work back in 2008 and weren't touring anymore since the human members seemed to be pretty busy with some other projects (acting, writing, directing ... you name it) so they thought nobody would know the difference and packed their felted van with their felted instruments and hit the road with one thing on mind: conquering the world with their velvet croonish voices.
To promote the tour, the duet did nothing but recreating Dead Man's Bones first promotional video spending the entire day blowing balloons in an improvised set, kidnapping Ben Shields's felted dog Mikey and writing down the tour dates where Dead Man's Bones played back in the day. And that wasn't all, folks. They even plagiarized the most iconic photosessions that the original band did to promote their work. The legend had just begun.
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