Talk:? and the Mysterians

message: Weirdness--I just made a brand-new article for two kinda obscure 60s bands.  First, I did the 13th Floor Elevators and everything worked fine except for interminable slowness.  Then, I did ? & the Mysterians and once again, everything worked fine except for slowness.  Then, since I knew I had seen a few references to the Mysterians that didn't show up on "what links here", I did a search and found two alternate methods of writing the band's name, and I redirected them.  Going to recent changes, I saw the two redirects but not ? & the Mysterians.  13th Floor Elevators was listed, and then the redirects a few minutes later but not the article itself (which does exist; the redirects work perfectly).  Did anybody see the actual article appear on recent changes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MartinHarper (talk • contribs) 11:14, 21 April 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Bugs and redirects

message: An anonymous contributor just wrote in this article that ? and the Mysterians were written up by Dave Marsh in the May 1971 Creem Magazine as being "the first punk band". It is not totally clear that this is the case. The anonymous addition was "? & the Mysterians was also the first band to be described as punk rock." It has apparently been in the Punk rock article for some time. I don't have access to the original Creem magazine article, unfortunately, to check Marsh's words. I am just assuming the folks over at the Punk rock article checked this out. It would not nescessarily be out of the question for it to be the case. -- (Bob) Wikiklrsc 01:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: First "Punk band" ?

message: The article describes "96 Tears" as the band's "first and only hit" – and then goes on to say that their next two singles "were also hits, but nowhere near as popular as "96 Tears"". Either "96 Tears" needs to be described as their "first and only major hit" or the other two singles shouldn't be called hits. I'll leave it to someone who knows more about the band than I do to decide which. Russ London 06:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hit count

message: nowhere in the article (particularly needed in the infobox) does it give a list of members of the band. - -[The Spooky One] | [t c r] 10:20, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: No list of members of the band

message: I understand writing out "Question Mark" in the page title, but why did the "and" become "&"? I didn't want to just change it because other pages redirect here and I don't really know what I'm doing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.193.42.59 (talk) 23:53, 27 June 2009‎ (UTC)
:I had a similar question come to mind when I read the article today. I was under the impression the official name of the group was "? and the Mysterians" - with the 'and' possibly being an ampersand. Other articles have dealt with this and it is usually decided that the published version of the name - what is on the record label or album cover - is the correct way to identify the artist in question. I'll see what I can find. THX1136 (talk) 21:23, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that didn't take long. From record labels and album covers the name appears in at least 3 formats: ? & the Mysterians, ? (Question Mark) & the Mysterians and Question Mark and the Mysterians. Questions answered (no pun intended). THX1136 (talk) 21:30, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Why the ampersand?

message: This article mentions PA-GO-GO records as being located in Michigan, however, there is a picture of the original 96 Tears 45rpm record on the bands official website and the label has an address of 408 Hazel, San Antonio, Texas.  Was this just where this copy was pressed?
Tonyhauser (talk) 11:39, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michigan or Texas? 

message: Does anyone know why "The Real Jimmy Hollywood" insists on writing credit for "96 Tears"? It's on his web page, he refers to it regularly... is it true?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.165.172.37 (talk) 16:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Jimmy Hollywood

message: Does Rudy Martinez merit an entry for himself as ?107.221.229.121 (talk) 09:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, all the credit goes to Question Mark. Rudy has been riding his coattails for years. Tillywilly17 (talk) 15:59, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rudy Martinez