The
BoyNamedSue story...
Part
one...
Well kids,
this thing started a few months back. Not too long before Walker
officially
called
it quits, Dave, Matt, and I were talking about doing
a side project to kill some time
while kenny
played with his other band(M.T. Rhodes) since the three of us were
constantly
practicing
without our mysteriously vanishing singer type guy. We were busy trying
to
write the
material for the second Walker album and thought it didn't make
alot of sense
to write
all this stuff without kenny being around to get in on the action.
We kinda
had a feeling that the end of Walker was drawing nearer and started
to talk
about doing
this side project so we'd already have something going on if and when Walker
finally
split up.
So, since
it had been a long time since I got stuck playing bass when Greg
left the band
and Dave
couldn't do it thanks to this crazy steel rod bolted into his left arm(which
is
why we
refer to him as the 2,600 dollar man!), we decided to start looking for
someone
to take
over bass duties so i could finally switch back to guitar again. After
talking to a
few of
our close friends who could actually play, and tryin' a couple out, we
opted
to enlist
the services of one Bryan Bush, formerly of Sostenuto, manager
of Einstein
Bagels,
and operator of the beloved Door#3.
And then
of course when everything seemed ready to get underway, Matt
decided
to call it quits as well. He basically came to the realization that he
started
playing
drums when he was 13 or 14 to be in a band and has been playing with bands
ever since
without a break. This may not seem like a bad thing to most people, but
he's also
a music major at Indiana University with the goal of becoming a profesional
studio
musician afterwards and he's been playing in hardcore and punk bands all
this time
and felt like he was stuck in a rut. He just wanted to take some time off
from being
in bands altogether to practice on his own. He offered to keep playing
if we couldn't
find anyone else but we didn't want him to play if he wasn't into it so
it was
cool.
Luckily,
we know this sassy little guy named Ben Bailey who plays with the
Smegmites, so
we asked
him to fill the position and he's doing a damn fine job of it too.
Anyway,
as soon as the lineup was solid, we started practicing like mad to write
songs and
get used to playing together and all such nonesense. Things are going well,
and we
should start releasing stuff like crazy soon enough.
Part
two...
fall
'98-early'99-the first record
