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originally known as Evar Orbus and His Galactic Wailers, the Max Rebo Band was formed after Orbus was killed in a firefight with Figrin D'An and the Modal Nodes. Formed from the trio of jizz-wailers who survived Orbus, the Max Rebo Band consisted of Max Rebo on keyboards, Droopy McCool on various wind instruments, and Sy Snootles as lead vocalist. They were were also Mistress Valarian's favorite band, just before the Battle of Yavin. The Devish Labria convinced her that Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes were better, as part of a plot to get the Nodes to play at the Mos Eisley cantina. This left Jabba the Hutt in a lurch, since he had just hired the Nodes himself, so Jabba ended up hiring the Max Rebo Band. The deal was sealed when Jabba offered Max Rebo a lifetime supply of food as payment, although Max's other bandmates were angry that he had let his stomach speak for them all. The rival bands got into a blaster fight when Fiery Figrin wanted to eliminate the competition, but neither band prevailed. Instead, the Modals Nodes remained at the Mos Eisley Cantina while Jabba took in the Max Rebo Band. By the time the band was hired by Jabba, though, they had added six additional players and a trio of dancing backup singers. Three of these new musicians, however, were actually spies within Jabba's organization, inserted into the band to ensure they weren't going to be a threat to the crimelord's existence. At this point, the band was known as the Max Rebo Twelve. In the aftermath of Jabba's death near the Pit of Carkoon, the band dissolved and its members went their separate ways. Only Max Rebo and Sy Snootles remained together, playing briefly as the Max Rebo Duo before Greeata and Rystall rejoined them. They again adopted the Max Rebo Band as their name, although Sy Snootles eventually went solo.