Imagine for a second that you’re watching television. Your favorite program breaks for commercial.

Enter: A guy taking a shower. He is washing his hair while using the shampoo bottle as a microphone to belt out a great rock ballad.

A playful song chimes as the soundtrack. “Perfect hair is all we really need,” sings the sudsy guy in the shower. “We spend so much of our energies on recipes/ Life success it can’t be guaranteed/ With the modern style you can go the mile/ It’s perfect hair.”

This is the scene Ultimate Fakebook had in mind for the beginning of its song, “Perfect Hair.”

“It’s kind of a joke,” says Eric Melin, drummer of UFB. “That song is definitely our way of saying a lot of bands get somewhere because they look good.

“It’s also kind of poking fun at all the hair metal bands we used to listen to when we were kids.”

Poking fun seems to be an important part of what UFB is all about. The band members somehow manage to strike a balance between being a serious rock band and keeping their lighthearted antics at the top of their priority list.

“We’ve always been more of a have-fun, party-type band,” Melin says. “We don’t usually go to bed until four in the morning, and we don’t wake up until noon.”

UFB may know how to party until all hours of the morning, but the band’s members still take their job as musicians very seriously. Their stage presence screams of a band with a tight, professional rock sound, yet unconventionally fun.

“Some bands get up [on stage] and they’re really serious about their music, and I think sometimes can be too serious and pretentious and boring,” Melin says. “We’re very serious about what we do, but for us to just get up there and sing our songs would be boring.”

The animated rock stars they play on stage are, for the most part, an extension of the three unique personalities that make up UFB.

“We do have really distinct personalities,” Melin says. “Nick [Colby] and Bill [McShane] have known each other pretty much their whole lives. If Nick is trying to tell me something and he can’t get it out, Bill will help him.”

Five years ago McShane and Colby added Melin to their roster, self-proclaimed as “outspoken and kind of nutty.”

Since the last time UFB graced the Maintenance Shop with their rock-star poses and booty-shaking tunes, they have undergone a few setbacks in the way of their label.

550 Records, a division of Sony Records, re-released the band’s second album “This Will Be Laughing Week” in 2000. Shortly after the release of the single, “Tell Me What You Want,” the label informed UFB they weren’t going to put any further promotion behind the album.

About a month after the re-release of the album, 550 records decided the hit single was a flop.

“[The song] only got played on 70 or 80 radio stations, which would be huge if you were an independent band,” Melin explains. “But if you’re on a major label, it’s considered a flop.”

UFB was left out on tour without any promotional help at all. The label wasn’t around to see the band’s music was beginning to catch on. Slowly the crowds began to sing along and catch on to UFB’s brand of power-pop.

“The big major labels aren’t out in the trenches,” Melin said. “They don’t see how people are reacting. The problem is there’s only a couple hundred people singing along instead of the couple thousand that they’re expecting.”

Friday, UFB finished recording 11 songs slated to be on its new album, the band’s first since its departure from the now defunct 550 Records.

The musicians now have a clearer picture of what is in the best interests of their band.

The album will not be released on a major label this time around, but rather will be released on an independent label or will be self-released.

UFB has learned a lot from its label dilemma, but that doesn’t mean the band has grown up, yet. Fakebook’s new stuff will be in the same vein as the old, packing in even more of the rock its members made their name by.

UFB is set to play its first show fresh out of the recording studio on Friday with a promise of performing songs yet to be heard at the M-Shop.

“A lot of the songs on the album are about how we want to take over the radio, kill all the boy bands and bring rock and roll back,” Melin said. “They’re a little bit more angry this time, but there are still a lot of songs about girls.”