Conflicting activities and over all unseriousness about trying to start a real band, found Jeremy and Nate alone with the dream to play original music. This is where Dennis, a friend of Nate's since grade school, decided to come over and jam with them.
Although Dennis had a guitar, they decided that they should just have one guitar, a bass and a lead singer. Mostly because Dennis couldn't play worth shit at the time.
They immediatly formed their first song "You" which had lyrics that Jeremy and Dennis worked on together. It was a cheap hardcore song, but it somehow attracted Jeremy's neighbor Ben, to come over and see what was going on, when they decided to play on the deck one afternoon.
Ben was a drummer in the high school band, and said he would be interested in buying a drum set, if they wanted to use him. Of course! This would be much better than buying a faggy drum machine.
It took awhile before Ben came up with the money. In the meantime, they came up with more songs. Preparing for the day, that summer, that it all came together.
That summer they put together many songs, including: "You", "Bond", "Word of Mouth", and their personal favorite "Suicide Slope", which had their friends jumping.
All they needed now, was a name. They wanted a name that meaned absolutely nothing. A funny name that would go with their clashing style of hardcore, funk, punk, and pop rock. They fooled around with several names until finally sticking to one.
They played their first gig at the Old Armory in Marshfield, as juniors in high school. Calling themselves Tipsy And The Porpoises, they played a few more concerts in the area, including a gig at the student union in Oshkosh, WI, which 10 people total showed up for throughout the night.
Knowing they weren't going to get anywhere in this lame ass town, without their music recorded, they decided to work on their first album entitled "Berardius Arnuxi" at Parker Studios in Marshfield. They then lost $515 and got nothing in return. But, thats a long story.
Dennis, the computer expert in the band, decided to begin a web page to get their name out. As their junior year came to a close, they began to grow tired of their hardcore and poppy rock songs. They decided to stick to mostly punk from now on. They also began making some ska punk songs using Dennis' trombone he played in school band.
This summer was a long summer of working on songs and skating it up, and getting kicked out of every place they went for skating. They were satisfied with their new sound, and wanted to record again. This time they decided to do it themselves with a Hyper-Cardiod microphone and a Mini-Disc player. This amazingly remains to be their best sounding demo tape.
As their senior year approached they began to grow tired of their name. With their new sound and more seriousness towards the music, they decided they needed a new name. Since they were always pissing people off with there sarcastic remarks, and no one could ever tell when they were being serious or just joking. They based their name off of something that had meaning this time.
With their new name The Sarcastics they set out to become known, and to recognize all things in this world that don't suck. Of course they play music about what does suck, which is school, dumb people, and their hometown(the racist hick infested city in the center, Marshfield, Wisconsin.)
Making a new demo tape with the songs "Obtuse Inhabitance", "Contadickshins","Lateral Slush","Home Town Pride", "Broken Caddy", and "There's Someone In The Bathroom And I've Really Gotta Piss", was the start of their new name. They also made a documentary video about their band for the school television show.
The Sarcastics are well known as Marshfield's only performing punk band, but can they get they're name out to other Wisconsin towns? We'll see, as they are slowly approaching towards their big debut at Concert Cafe in Green Bay, on April 15th, 2000.
The time for the Green Bay concert has come and gone, and The Sarcastics are currently seperated and going to college. But that doesn't mean that they don't still get together and kick a little ass. They are currently working on finishing what will hopefully be they're first studio-quality demo tape. Thanks a whole freakin' load to Dr. and Benny Goldberg for all the help and stuff. All the band can do now is hope that the demo will be finished during winter break.
Oh yeah, and if you missed Jeremy's mohawk, you're gonna have to wait a long time for it to come back.
NEW SHIT AGAIN!!!!
The demo tape did not get finished during winter break, but maybe this summer or during spring break we can work on it. In the meantime we've had some pretty fun and interesting shows.
Can't remember when the fuck it was but we had a show in Wausau, WI with our pals the Aggresive Fluids. It was a christmas party for the National F-ing Guard, and what a riot it was. The Aggressives jammed first while we ate and chilled with the NG. Then we went on. By this time the kegs were getting tapped out, and the NG's were sick of our punk asses and decided to shut off the power on us, after playing only 4 or 5 songs. But, not to fret folks, because we moved our shit to a house in Wausau and had a great time hangin with the locals who actually wanted to hear our shitty music.
Next, the opportunity arouse to travel to a small Wisconsin town called Plainfield, on the 26th of February, 2001. Thanks to Cole, who put on the show, and all the other cool bands we played with. The scene in this town is actually pretty cool, and the building ( The Plainfield Oprah House ) was a nice venue. Better than anything in lameo Marshfieldo.
By this time Jeremy's Mohawk is long gone, but Ben steps up to the sheers and cuts himself a Mo. Then, he cuts it before the next show for reasons I could never comprehend.
This weekend ( March 2 ) was the mother of all shows, SKA FEST 8, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, put on by UAC. This would probably have to be our snip-znap-zappiest of shows ever. The bands included One Louder, Flipsyde, and MU330. The stage rocked, the dressing rooms was a bonus, and the crowd was cool. The bands were all the shit, and we all had a great time. Thanks a lot to the "Ugly Ass Cunts" ( quote Matt from One Louder ) for inviting us.
Hope to see you all soon at a concert hall near you.
Dennis
