Michael Learns to Rock

Do you know the most famous band in America? In all of America? Turns out: it is Michael Learns To Rock. I nor Bear had never heard of them, and this is partly due to the fact that there not even from America, they're from Denmark.

But while in Cambodia, every other question we were asked was do you know MLR or are you here to see MLR? Sorry, who? Because of their mispronunciation, it took about three times to finally understand the same question. But we came to learn that these guys were playing in a concert in Phnom Penh, which was hosting its "first international concert."

Everyone was really excited to see them (it was broadcasted on TV as well), and all the Cambodians wondered what we thought of them. They were shocked to learn that we had never heard of them. Astounded, they looked at us like we were crazy because we didn't know the most famous band in our own country. We finally figured out where all the confusion is from:

The Cambodian press was promoting MLR as "the most famous band in all of America." Well, beat me with a rubber hose, I never knew. I think MLR should change their name to "Michael Learns to Rock In Closed Information Asian Countries." Oh, yeah, their next stop was in China.

~ J-Dub