Passive Aggressive Timeline and More

Timeline:

1. Horace Mann High school, April 1996

2. The Bitter End, June 6, 1996 - at Paul Colby's The Bitter End. The band's first real gig... Before the show Charles saw someone with a T-Shirt that said "Hot Pink Tuna Taxi Co." and so that replaced their previous name, "Greasy, Smelly and Disgusting."

3. Wetlands, July 1996

Record Drum Solo single, August 1996

Wholesome White Soul rehearsal tape, August 1996

Long Hiatus - "Andy and Dave go to college. We all start playing with other bands."

4. Horace Mann High school, February 1997

5. The Bitter End, February 1997 - "Everything went wrong at that show and I kept losing sound COMPLETELY from my guitar..and then I broke a string and proceded to rip all the strings off my guitar. That got a great crowd resonse...And I jumped into the crowd, kicked a chair and broke off my toenail, threw a roll of duct tape at the audience, and played the last song lying on my back..." - Charles

Record Somebody to Love Demos- March or April '97...

6. Horace Mann High school, May 1997 - Charles, Dave, and a stuffed gorilla standing in for Andy played "Crystal Ball," "Subliminal" by Suicidal Tendencies, and "tourette's" by Nirvana...

7. The Spiral, May 1997: ". . . a good show. It was sloppy, but together enough and the music moved...so it was probably our best show." - Charles

8. The Union Terrace, April 23, 1998 - Charles Balter goes solo for the night at the UW-Madison Union Terrace. Charles plays "Modern World," "Pretend," and "Ugly."

Stories behind the Songs:

"Girl Song" - about June '96.

"Somebody to Love" - about Oct. or Nov. '96, written by charles on drums. "I came up with the beat, which I though was really cool at the time...I'm more of a punk-oriented drummer than guitarist, I think... And just turned up my guitar really loud and played those two chords and it was a lot of fun. We first performed 'Somebody to Love' c. Feb. '97." - Charles

"Pretend" - "I wrote 'Pretend' on the scrape line [of Pop's Club]..." - Charles

"Drum Solo" - "'Drum Solo' is 33-33-33% on the music." - Charles, on who wrote the song.

"Eating Crackers..." - Charles wrote 75% of the song, Dave 25%

"It Does Have a Title" - Charles wrote 90%, Dave 10%

Videos?

"The only two I've thought about are "Pretend" and that new one about forgiveness."
"I wanna have a video starting with aguy losing his job, losing his girlfriend, getting in his car and saying, "I wish someone would just sh;oot me."...and then his head is ripped off by 12-gauge shell..."
"I'd want the lighting to be a drab daylight. Not really scary or ominous. Just boring is the only way I can describe it. A typical parking lot, ya know. Right outside an office near a corporate park. Nothing scary at all, and then his head is blown plum the fuck off. My other video features lots of blood too..."
"some pathetic office worker. Perhaps a computer programmer? I don't know. Somebody in the band would shoot him and that's how the song would begin..."