For those of you who don't know, I took part in one of the loudest bands in Carbondale. I specifically remember Eli at PK's telling us to turn down and looking up at the crowd of people at the back of the bar, cowering in fear.
The initial plan was a "trip-hop/downtempo/dub-style" band, at which we failed miserably. But we soon captured the "krautrock/psych/play-one-riff-really-loud" sound perfectly. The original lineup comprised of Matt on drums, Howard on bass, Nick on keyboards and trumpet, and myself playing Minesweeper. A while later James was added on guitar and I followed suit in addition to some percussion.
To get a really good sample of us in our prime, check out this series of videos by IzzyThePusher. He did a great job documenting EVERYTHING and still uploads stuff from years ago. Thanks Tom!
If you wanna hear the coolest drum break ever (covered in a bunch of feedback), check out minute 1:55 of track 5. Tracks 3 & 4 are split but they are actually one song, and our best at that. So if you wanna listen to just one awesome track, you'll still have to listen to . . . uhh . . . two tracks. I'll stop rambling and give you the link:
Drunk Virago Live at the Ski Haus 5/14/11
But this little recording of mine is from long before that era. Apparently the backbone had thought that the guts weren't practicing enough, so they recorded backing tracks and gave them to us on CD-Rs. Yep, this is 20 minutes of drum and bass. I'm not gonna lie, I still noodle on guitar to this.
Download Practice Disc
Practice Disc-ing
UPDATE: Another of our songs, recorded by Karthik, was brought to light by my ever-inquisitive brain. Here it is on the ever-contemporary MySpace:
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