Bobtones

Bobtones is a record label situated in Bikini Bottom. The studio of the same name that it was based in was opened in 1959, but the label began cutting demos of local bands in 1963. The resulting acetates have become quite rare.
== History ==
Sherm SquarePants (1911-1969), ever the shrewd businessman, purchased a failing music studio in 1961 for an undisclosed fee. The methods he used to find the money are shady at best and murderous at worst, and eventually cost him his life. 
The first record cut was a cover of "Louie, Louie", a song popularized by the Kingsmen and written by Richard Berry. The B-Side was an original, titled "She's Gone", a heartbroken ballad. This record, artist unknown, only made it to the test pressing phase and was not uncovered until 2012. "She's Gone" has now been streamed 30,000 times. 
After this, the label dealt with an explosion of garage bands post-Beatlemania. Bands like "MeepMeep Meep (the Lovesick Five)", "The Stars" and "King Neptune's IV" cut demos with the label during the mid-sixties. The Stars in particular had a rather interesting sound.
Far from sappy pop rock, proto-punk sleaze or pyschedelic surf, The Stars could not play their instruments. They were terrible, but that doesn't mean they didn't make interesting music. "Oh Lord / My Poem" was released in 1965 in an edition of 100 copies. Most were destroyed but upon reissue in 2001, these recordings became near and dear to the more adventurous among Bikini Bottomites. The guitar wasn't tuned, the vocals were out of key and unintelligible, the drummer was falling down six flights of stairs. It's hard to really put across how awful they really were, but some people loved them for that - a truly unique band born out of innocence/ineptitude. 
After The Stars cut their single, Sherm stopped cutting records altogether. Whether or not he was offended by the performance has never been specified, but Bobtones would never release anything again. It would continue operating as a studio until 1980, coming under new ownership when Sherm was killed in 1969. The building was demolished in 2004.
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