Two Gallants (band) the pair decided to just make music together, plugging Stephens' guitar into Vogel's bass amp in order to play bass lines with melodies. The name Two Gallants was chosen after a short story of the same name from James Joyce's "Dubliners", as both were reading the book at the time and the name "seemed obvious". With Stephens on guitar, harmonica, and lead vocals and Vogel on drums and vocals, Two Gallants began playing house shows around the Bay area and busking outside BART subway stations, particularly the stop at 16th and Mission. Two Gallants released their debut album, "The Throes",
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants competitors who claimed that they possessed Shi Yukun's story as "shameless crooks". Although "The Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" completed the tale, it could not stop enthusiasts and profiteers from writing and publishing more sequels, such as "Another Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (再續小五義), "The Third Sequel to the Five Younger Gallants" (三續小五義) and many others, with Lu Xun in 1924 counting 24 sequels. An explosion of copycat novels also flooded the market in the last years of the 19th century, assuming similar titles such as In a 1909 essay, writer Shi An (石菴) lamented the cheapness of