1994
20-40 handmade cassette tapes

1. River
2. Chaos In The Park
3. Nod

Unfortunately, I can only see a few glimpses of this time. I remember this was collectively our first time in a recording studio. A man named Bob Pollotta (if Stage was a biblical story, he would be an important religious figure) was at my house installing our cable. Growing up, my family didn’t have cable; it was just the seven stations you get with the antenna plus the occasional Connecticut station or two. I was in High School and I was playing around with my brother’s awesome stereo and the speaker wire came out of the system. I really didn’t know how to fix it so I asked the cable guy and it was obviously easy. He mentioned that he owned a recording studio and I took his card for Nu-Life Studios. It was on my mind for some time. I was doing my 4-track recordings that I let him hear and I could tell that he saw something there. Months went by before I called him. This was 1993 and although I was playing with Greg and Mike, the band was still not together for real yet. Once we were ready I called Bob and the rest is history.

The songs we recorded all made it to “Historical Underdosing” shortly after, but that was not important. Now we were real. Now we were wolves with the taste of blood in our mouths (very small, pre-pubescent mouths). I remember being so excited holding our first demo in our hands. When Peter’s father picked us up that night, we played it in the car right away. His most honest words were “I’ve heard worse.” We will take that as a compliment.