False step

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False step is the name given to a rumored (and infamous) local band from Long Island, New York. Considered by most an urban legend, the threat of "False Step will come and play a show right in front of you" is often used to frighten scene teens into logging off of myspace and going to bed. Elements of the story often change, but the ones that are present in every account are these: 1)There are five members (although a few accounts exist placing them at 3,4, or 6) 2)The music hurts every ear present 3)Bad fashion sense 4)They are of advanced age, perhaps 45-93 years old. 5)They make people fall out of beat while dancing

Stories of False Step have been circulating since as long as anyone can remember, and some scholars claim that they have found evidence dating back to colonial America that early settlers told of "five gentlemen, banging on pots and pans at all hours of the night, and disrupting farm work during the day with word salad"

Complicating the matter further, some local bands on Long Island have been known to imitate False Step, using their name and imitating what they think the music would sound like. This causes a great problem to researchers, who have to differentiate between sightings of the "real band (the "fake" one) and the "fake" band (the "real" one).

Sociologist Simon Shuttle put it best: "If you don't know about this, then you're obviously too much of a putz to know a God damn thing." Long story short: don't fall for everything you hear, the False Step before you isn't really there.