I set up (actually, I can't remember if I set it up or someone else did) a house show for them in Bloomington, IN that was pretty poorly attended, but the band did their best to rock the shit out of the few people there. Everything is pretty hazy because this was a fairly drunken period in my life, but I remember that one of the guys in the band barely talked to anyone until he got good and wasted.
That's all beside the point though. What's important is that they had this demo with them and it sounds, to me, like a proto-FROZEN TEENS, before they got their bearings. The song, "Brian Jones Haircut" could easily be a deep cut off of their later FT demos, but the rest have more of a Nuggets-era, garage rock sound to them that works for me. The song "Phillips" is especially excellent, showing that these guys really have a knack for giving a song the room to breathe; something that I have always had a problem executing myself. Excellent!
Download their demo
Updated May 2014
Updated May 2014
Fun fact: After some time, their guitarist Mike Wilson either quit or got kicked out....I don't know which. The band later replaced him with another guitarist named Mike Wilson!
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So many funny stories about this band/original mike wilson. We (punkin pie) played multiple shows with them after the show YOU booked in bloomington on that tour we did w. those stoners LANDLORD. Still when they came to the west coast and played a show WITH US in OUR HOUSE and mike saw a flier on the wall from a show we played in nyc he pointed at it and said "punkin pie! we know those guys!!!!". Ski also told me that he was commuting back and forth from Fargo to Minneapolis w. no glasses for a little while. Also maybe he was a teacher?
Yes, I've heard the glasses story too. However for as much of the party/show playing lifestle he was (still is?) an English teacher!
btw thank you for posting Cortez the Killer, they played here in Fargo abit.
Also thanks for posting all the bands with Ski, he's been in alot!
I'm a big fan and good friend of Ski's. There is more to come.
could you please reupload this please?
Done!
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