We's gonna have ourselves a centennial! Yee-haw!
Sorry about that...I just got back from another whirlwind trip to Fresno. This trip down, treasure was uncovered. My mother was cleaning out a closet and found four authentic The Gout t-shirts! That's right, The Gout -- the rockingest band to ever practice in my bedroom...authors of such hits as "cadaverous Beauty", "Little Cow", "Father Father (Dogma in Red Ink)", and "It Was Like the End of a Movie"...
We played one show (in my backyard), recorded one demo, made one sock puppet named Shleppy, and apparently made four t-shirts. The funny thing is that none of us remember ever making them, as if it was collectively wiped from our minds.
The line up was:
Desmond Miller -- bass, vocals
Tony Souza -- standup bass, Shleppy
Chaz -- drums (can you tell I forgot his last name?)
Karl Jensen -- percussion
Max Baloian -- guitar (...and was the only real musician out of any of us. He actually made our songs sound like songs)
Me -- piano, accordion, vocals...made sure all songs were in the key of C.
Andras Kis Horvath -- guest lyricist (Hungarian exchange student. Wrote "Little Cow")
Justin Genini -- guest vocalist on "Ganja in Jamaica"
Anyone else who happened to be over.
It's true that all writers really want to be rock stars.
