History Main / TrashCanBand

* This troper can't remember the title or author, but knows she once read a picture book about a family where the four kids go down to the junkyard and find a bunch of trash that they use to make instruments. Their father is a painter and wants them to be quiet so he can work, and the parents are also none too thrilled about them building drum sets out of the kitchenware.

* ''TheTripletsOfBelleville'' have quite a few moments like this. And when the composer was invited to perform the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome main song]] at the Oscars, his backup band was playing on vacuum cleaners and bicycle spokes...

* ''CatsDontDance'' has Danny pull together one of those to help the disillusioned animal actors get their spirit back. It eventually grows into a huge block party, with a montage of all the characters dancing or playing makeshift instruments.
* ''{{Doug}}'', as per the above quote.
* ''FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids''.
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Trashin']] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1lxROkYSs The Camp]].
* The "Riff-Raff and the Catillac Cats" shorts on the syndicated ''{{Heathcliff}}'' cartoon arguably qualify.
* "I Ain't Got Rhythm" from ''PhineasAndFerb'': The drummer of the band disavows his ability to drum even as he's unconsciously drumming on anything in sight.
* ''TheLittleRascals'' did this, at least in {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated series.
* ''TopCat'' and his gang also have done this.

* In the US (and possibly other countries) there's a rather large number of street-corner drummers who ply their trade using buckets and other random junk. They're usually very good.

You've got music in your soul. You can feel the rhythm, see the crowd, and hear the notes play out even in the most deafening of distractions. But you've got a problem: you don't have any instruments. Maybe you lost yours, maybe there's no way to get them, or maybe, as is sadly often the case, you just can't afford it... either way, it doesn't matter. You can feel the music and you're not going to let something so simple as a lack of instruments stop you.

The [[https://www.facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie Landfill]] [[http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com/ Harmonic]]

* TruthInTelevision: Steel drum bands play drums made from steel 55-gallon barrels.
** Calypso drums started out the same way.
** Most kids who went to primary school in Australia had at least one day where they learned about "bush bands" and their instruments, which included the "tea-chest bass" and a kind of giant wooden cross with bottle caps nailed to it.

** In the US (and possibly other countries) there's a rather large number of street-corner drummers who ply their trade using buckets and other random junk. They're usually very good.

* Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Down on the Corner" is about a partial trash can band called Willy and the Poor Boys.

* ''[=~Cats Don't Dance~=]'' has Danny pull together one of those to help the disillusioned animal actors get their spirit back. It eventually grows into a huge block party, with a montage of all the characters dancing or playing makeshift instruments.

* Two words: ''FatAlbert''.

* SpikeJones' version of ''The William Tell Overture'' (also known as ''Feitlebaum'') was played entirely on kitchen implements.

* Two words: FatAlbert

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* ''TheTripletsOfBelleville'' have quite a few moments like this. And when the composer was invited to perform the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome main song]] at the Oscars, his backup band was playing on vacuum cleaners and bicycle spokes...

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* SpikeJones' version of ''The William Tell Overture'' (also known as ''Beetlebaum'') was played entirely on kitchen implements.

* ''[=~Cats Don't Dance~=]'' has Danny pull together one of those to help the disillusioned animal actors get their spirit back. It eventually grows into a huge block party, with a montage of all the characters dancing or playing makeshift instruments.

* {{Doug}}, as per the above quote.
* ''FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids''.

* ''TheTripletsOfBelleville'' have quite a few moments like this. And when the composer was invited to perform the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome main song]] at the Oscars, his backup band was playing on vacuum cleaners and bicycle spokes...
* In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1InfoCfipM ''It's Always Fair Weather'']], three buddies attach trash can lids to their left shoes and do a wonderful sort of pre-Stomp tap dance number.
* Spike Jones' version of ''The William Tell Overture'' (also known as ''Beetlebaum'') was played entirely on kitchen implements.
* A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug_band Jug Band]], as seen on ''TheMuppetShow'' from time to time, as well as in ''Emmett Otter's Jug Band Christmas'', is a specific type of Trash Can Band, consisting of a jug, a washboard and a washtub bass.
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Trashin']] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1lxROkYSs The Camp]].

* The "Riff-Raff and the Catillac Cats" shorts on the syndicated ''{{Heathcliff}}'' cartoon arguably qualify.
* "I Ain't Got Rhythm" from ''PhineasAndFerb'': The drummer of the band disavows his ability to drum even as he's unconsciously drumming on anything in sight.
* TruthInTelevision: Steel drum bands play drums made from steel 55-gallon barrels.
** Calypso drums started out the same way.
** Most kids who went to primary school in Australia had at least one day where they learned about "bush bands" and their instruments, which included the "tea-chest bass" and a kind of giant wooden cross with bottle caps nailed to it.
** That would be the "lagerphone". The "bush band" phenomenon is also found in England, under the name of "skiffle", and in America as "jug bands".
** In the US (and possibly other countries) there's a rather large number of street-corner drummers who ply their trade using buckets and other random junk. They're usually very good.

* TheLittleRascals did this, at least in {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s animated series.
* This troper can't remember the title or author, but knows she once read a picture book about a family where the four kids go down to the junkyard and find a bunch of trash that they use to make instruments. Their father is a painter and wants them to be quiet so he can work, and the parents are also none too thrilled about them building drum sets out of the kitchenware.

* In the GordonKorman book ''Bugs Potter LIVE at Nickaninny'', the title character steals pots and pans from his family's campsite to make an impromptu drumset.
* TopCat and his gang also have done this.
* Disneyland's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuGU9OQG1nk Trash Can Trio]] appear to be part of the regular janitorial staff until they suddenly launch into a performance.

Compare EverythingIsAnInstrument.

** Calypso drums started out the samw way.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp1lxROkYSs Trashin' The Camp]]. [[XJustX Just...]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Trashin' The Camp]].