As told by Eddie:
I was definitely underage and just an alcoholic college kid playing in a shitty band who stumbled on mr ts. then we soon met mike tv and he booked us at some show at the echo with billion stars who we had met before and the letter openers who we had not. i was blacked out for some reason or another when i met nancy jean and cooper there. they say we danced, but to me its like it never happened. i lost my amp head that night and poked matt in the eye so i had to find a ride home with someone else.
A few weeks later mike tv booked some show at the alterknit and matt and i were there. from across the room i heard nancy say, its the oaots. she even pronounced it right. i had no idea who this girl was, but i'm sure matt covered for me somehow.
The sequence of events gets blurrier and blurrier as i moved to silverlake and became perpetually wasted. i remember one night at the echo talking to matt bang. i had my recorder and have the minidisc somewhere in my moms house of him talking about exactly what kiss or kill was supposed to be. not having to call up every one of your friends and beg them to come see you do what you love because they love it too. i guess we all just wanted cooler friends. found them.
We played a show at the garage a little bit before kiss or kill started playing there. all the coolest kids were there. i think it was just random justice and bang, maybe silver needle and false alliance. i think we then played two KOK nights a few months after that and the second night the place was fucking packed to the back. were we residents that month? i think it was pretty early on. i dont remember. i was underage and abusing my body during a still developmental period in my life. i;m sur ei have slight brain damage from it.
im sure i had fun. sleeping behind bangs drum kit, breaking my bass constantly, wasted in vegas, recording with matt southwell, international noise conspiracy, breaking other peoples belongings continually, busted hand cast rock show on all a bunch of codeine with a guest bassist, too drunk to sing at the knitting factory in front of the biggest crowd we ever played to, our drummer quitting (again) over it.
all in all a spectacular part of my life.
Here are two OAOT's videos:
The OAOT's in New York
Their Video for Guided by Choices
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