The Solids

From the "Loyalties" episode (02/20/01) of the NBC primetime series Ed. The titular Ed (Thomas Cavanagh) loses a court case about singer Amanda Bays (Paige Price) getting kicked out of this band. Amanda was replaced by Vanessa at the instigation of Jordi Hasler, pet store owner and rock manager. She doesn't want back in, she just wants them to stop using her songs, but when her notebook goes missing, she can't prove authorship. After the trial, the band tries to get her to rejoin (Vanessa quits for a better gig in Jaspertown), but she refuses and watches them blow an audition for a record company exec.

Their big song: "Watching Him Go" (Amanda wrote it about her ex-boyfriend Gideon, but in court Kerry testified that SHE wrote it, and it was about Jim Peterson). The actors portraying guitarist Kerry Thomas and drummer Barry Jessup (Carter Bays and Craig Thomas) are both staff writers for The Late Show with David Letterman.