Deep in the bowels of the CCHS music room, Instructor Davis Monroe leads a rigorous course of practice and organized competitions for his ostracized students known as the Band Geeks.  Despite a wide breadth of jazz standards under study, the music always seem to eventually morph into a disjointed cover of 'Smoke On The Water'.

  Replacing the former CCHS Stage Band deposed guitarist, Thomas Nims (due to a dramatic political scandal in which Nims is 'asked' to leave the school and the Middle Fingers are also disqualified from the talent show because of their controversial name), Dodge chooses to organize the rock-n-roll power-house trio, PINK MILK, which include fellow Stage Band members, Steven 'Luce' Cebula on a newly acquired bass and young Thomas 'Flip' Lenz on the skins.    Yearning to break into the Portland music scene, they are mostly relegated to 30 second snippets of Zeppelin & Rush covers between time-outs at sporting events.

  In the fall of 1987, Thaddeus Dennison joins Dodge in a duet entitled, "You and Me and A Boy Named Ray".  Shortly thereafter, Dennison (also a stage band guitarist) drafts a few other classmate musicians into local act, 'THE FLIES'.