The Weasels
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The Weasels http://www.theweasels.com are a rock band based in Albany
, New York
. The group has been active in either studio or live incarnations since the mid-1980s. There have been three long-standing core members for most of The Weasels' career: Doctor Fun (vocals, saxophones, keyboards, Onoyodel), Roy Weasell (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards, trombone, roto-vibe, mandolin) and Chris Graf (keyboards, vocals, bass guitar, samples, E-flat horn, trumpet, musique concrete, gadgets). Over the years the band has rounded out its live and recorded output with a revolving cast of keyboardists, guitarists, bassists and drummers.
The Weasels have released five albums since their inception and have played approximately 40 live shows, which have come to be regarded as significant events in the regional musical community. They have been compared in print most often to Frank Zappa
’s Mothers of Invention and Steely Dan
, based on their melodic jazz and blues based music, elaborate horn and vocal arrangements, open-ended and suspended compositional style, exceptionally high recording standards, and highly intelligent use of sardonic, sarcastic, historic, political and scatological themes in their lyrics.
In 1992, The Weasels submitted a tape to the then-annual Metroland http://www.metroland.net Ear Jam contest, and were selected as one of four finalists, despite the fact that no live version of the band existed. They quickly assembled and rehearsed a stage presentation of their material, and won generally positive audience and critical reviews for their performance, despite losing the contest to a defunct industrial metal band.
The Weasels continued to perform live in support of their early material, though with continued instability in the drummer’s seat, which was occupied at various times in their early years by Petrocelli, Jordan Cohen (later of Powerman 5000
and Blue Man Group
), Dave King, Doug Klein, Dan Roberts, Steve Scoons, Dave Berger and Steve Candlen, with the latter two emerging as drummers of choice for their middle recording period. The album’s opening cut, “Let the Killing Begin,” is the first in a series of Weasels songs about notorious killers, in this case Henry Lee Lucas
. It incorporates a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the soliloquy from the Doors
’ “The End”.
Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret included the following songs:
and many others. Maynard, Candlen and Cohen returned to perform with Weasell, Fun and Graf on the New Music sessions.
These initial sessions were creatively fruitful, yet tense from an interpersonal standpoint. Cohen left the group in the aftermath and was replaced by Alan "Annie" Okey for a subsequent two day session at New Music. Okey appears on two tracks from the resulting album, Leon’s Mystical Head (a title inspired by a Firesign Theatre sketch). “Catbox” Joe Dragone (saxophone) and Kevin Hendrick (trumpet) also guest on the record, which features prominent use of found sounds and samples, courtesy Graf. Live shows from this period often featured “Weasel Vision,” a multimedia visual presentation created and presented by artists Michael Oatman http://tang.skidmore.edu/tagword/639/ and John J.A. Jannone
http://www.johnjajannone.net/.
Leon’s Mystical Head featured “Paging Larry Storch,” the first installment of The Larry Trilogy, based on a Weasels theory that the purest essence of contemporary American comedy was to be found in the film and television work of Larry Fine
, Larry Hovis
and Larry Storch
. The Notorious Killer Series continues with “A Fish,” which is about infamous cannibal Albert Fish
. In July 2006, "Bar-B-Q Baby" was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show.
As a result of the emotional and financial burdens that were inflicted by Leon’s Mystical Head, it was decided by the band's core members that all subsequent Weasels albums would be recorded and engineered under the direct supervision of the band, with Graf taking a prominent creative role in the increasingly elaborate productions of Fun and Weasell’s compositions.
Leon’s Mystical Head included the following songs:
Two of Uranus’ songs were commissioned as part of multimedia art installations created by Oatman. “Hall of Pain” (about this album’s representative Notorious Killer, nineteenth-century Troy, New York’s Andress Hall) was composed as part of “Awful Disclosures: The Life and Confessions of Andress Hall,” http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/dbef436fa5cfe639a19afeb4da09e526.html while “Monument Road” appeared in conjunction with “Henry Perkins and the Eugenics
Survey of Vermont.” Maynard composed the music for one song on the album, “Dumber Than Me,” while the Larry Trilogy continues with “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”, which was also performed live by the Clown Punchers, a side project featuring Weasell and Mike Goudreau, VH1
staff writer for such programs as I Love the '80s and Before They Were Rock Stars. In May 2006, "Mr. Yamamoto" (a.k.a. "Jimmy's Talking Pants") was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show.
Uranus or Bust included the following songs:
GenerationXcrement featured performers from throughout the band’s history, including the following musicians not credited elsewhere in their recorded canon: Mike Sheehan (keyboards), Andy Manion (guitar) and Mary Panza (voice). The album included the following songs:
after Revolver, XTC
after English Settlement and Steely Dan
after Pretzel Logic (but before their 1990s renaissance), the Weasels have existed as a studio-based creative entity alone since 2000, freed from the burdens and pressures associated with live performance of their music.
The first fruits of this era in the band’s history saw light in January 2006, when Axis of Weasel was released. Produced and engineered by Graf at Big Saucy Sound, the album’s 12 songs feature Fun, Weasell, Graf, Jonathan Cohen (bass and Chapman Stick
), Adrian Cohen (keyboards), Appicelli (drums), and new guitarist Matt Pirog, formerly of Caged Monkey and also a member of Jonathan Cohen’s Erftones http://www.erftones.com/ and the Burners UK. Guests on the record include stalwart guitarist Maynard on lead and slide, Rena Graf and Mike Pauley (backing vocals), Dud Hennessey (mouth harp), Nathaniel Ward (guitar) and J. Eric Smith http://www.jericsmith.com (theremin
).
Axis of Weasel was originally titled It Takes A Village to Raise a Village Idiot and is referenced as such in news articles and reviews from this period. The Larry Trilogy concludes here, a decade after it began, with closing track “Everything’s Fine.” Although it appears that no Infamous Killers explicitly appear on this record, the songs “Under a Cheddar Moon” and “Where Cheese Is King” continue a new Weasels' lyrical obsession: dairy and seafood products from Vermont, a story line that had been launched with “Rachel,” the hidden track from Uranus Or Bust. Album opener “Hey Joey Doyle” takes film masterpiece On the Waterfront
as its launching point. An edit from “Dirtnap” was broadcast nationally in January 2006 as part of National Public Radio’s “A Word to the Wise” segment, dealing with coffins, caskets and undertakers.
Axis of Weasel includes the following tracks:
on their 1971 album At the Mountains of Madness. Kash also played drums in Florida for Tiger Tiger, a Miccosukee
Indian band in the 1970s before returning to the Albany area to form regional '80s new wave
legends Fear of Strangers (originally known as the Units), a band that also featured Aimee Mann
collaborator Todd Nelson (guitar), with whom Kash later played in the Rumdummies.
As of July 2010, The Weasels are in the late stages of recording their sixth studio album, with Jon Cohen (bass) and Al Kash (drums) joining Fun and Weasell as full-time Weasels, Adrian Cohen contributing keyboards, and final guitar tracks still in process, with Chuck D'Aloia and Eric Radzminsky expected to be featured players. As Doctor Fun explained, "Matt Pirog and his stupid hat and ridiculous goatee are dead to us." The first single from their new project, "Do The Teabag," was released in September 2010.
The Weasels at Myspace http://www.myspace.com/theweaselsdotcom
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. The group has been active in either studio or live incarnations since the mid-1980s. There have been three long-standing core members for most of The Weasels' career: Doctor Fun (vocals, saxophones, keyboards, Onoyodel), Roy Weasell (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards, trombone, roto-vibe, mandolin) and Chris Graf (keyboards, vocals, bass guitar, samples, E-flat horn, trumpet, musique concrete, gadgets). Over the years the band has rounded out its live and recorded output with a revolving cast of keyboardists, guitarists, bassists and drummers.
The Weasels have released five albums since their inception and have played approximately 40 live shows, which have come to be regarded as significant events in the regional musical community. They have been compared in print most often to Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
’s Mothers of Invention and Steely Dan
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
, based on their melodic jazz and blues based music, elaborate horn and vocal arrangements, open-ended and suspended compositional style, exceptionally high recording standards, and highly intelligent use of sardonic, sarcastic, historic, political and scatological themes in their lyrics.
Early history
The group was founded when Fun responded to a newspaper advertisement placed by Graf and Weasell, who were attempting to find a keyboard and saxophone player for a planned live band. For the first few years of their existence, however, the founding Weasels remained firmly home-bound, writing and recording tracks that would later appear on the discs Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret and GenerationXcrement.In 1992, The Weasels submitted a tape to the then-annual Metroland http://www.metroland.net Ear Jam contest, and were selected as one of four finalists, despite the fact that no live version of the band existed. They quickly assembled and rehearsed a stage presentation of their material, and won generally positive audience and critical reviews for their performance, despite losing the contest to a defunct industrial metal band.
Meat the Weasels Volume 1: Fondue Cabaret
Inspired by the response to their Ear Jam performance, the expanded band polished their basement tapes and released Meat the Weasels: Volume 1, Fondue Cabaret in 1993. In addition to Fun, Weasell and Graf, this record featured Jonathan Cohen http://www.erftones.com/jon.html (bass guitar and slide whistle, sometimes billed as Jonny Weasel), Rocky Petrocelli (drums) and David Maynard (guitar). Maynard had once been a member of the New York Rubber Rock Band, whose 1975 single "Disco Lucy" http://www.disco-funk.com/n/NEW_YORK.HTM was named "Worst Single of the Year" by Billboard Magazine.The Weasels continued to perform live in support of their early material, though with continued instability in the drummer’s seat, which was occupied at various times in their early years by Petrocelli, Jordan Cohen (later of Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000 is an American Metal band formed in 1991. Through the span of over two decades, the group has released several albums and gained their highest commercial success with 1999's science fiction themed Tonight the Stars Revolt!...
and Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group is an organization founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring popular music, comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; television appearances for shows such as The Tonight...
), Dave King, Doug Klein, Dan Roberts, Steve Scoons, Dave Berger and Steve Candlen, with the latter two emerging as drummers of choice for their middle recording period. The album’s opening cut, “Let the Killing Begin,” is the first in a series of Weasels songs about notorious killers, in this case Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas was an American criminal, convicted of murder in 189 cases and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer; he later recanted his confessions, despite professing information only the assailant would know and flatly stating "I'm a liar" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady...
. It incorporates a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of the soliloquy from the Doors
The Doors
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...
’ “The End”.
Meat the Weasels Volume I: Fondue Cabaret included the following songs:
- “Let the Killing Begin”
- “Amway Man”
- “Red Meat”
- “Might As Well Try You” (Sometimes listed as “Might As Well Try Ewe”)
- “Plastic Plant”
- “Dancing On Your Grave”
- “Have A Nice Day”
- “Never Been to Jersey”
- “Maybe You’re Dead”
- “Put Your Finger in My Brain”
- “When the Fat Lady Sings”
- “Little Town Ashtray Disaster”
Leon’s Mystical Head
In 1995, with a new collection of songs under their belts, the Weasels undertook their first formal studio experience, executing a blitzkrieg four day recording session at New Music Studios with production and engineering support from Ted Malia, who has also worked with R.E.M., Bobby BrownBobby Brown
Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...
and many others. Maynard, Candlen and Cohen returned to perform with Weasell, Fun and Graf on the New Music sessions.
These initial sessions were creatively fruitful, yet tense from an interpersonal standpoint. Cohen left the group in the aftermath and was replaced by Alan "Annie" Okey for a subsequent two day session at New Music. Okey appears on two tracks from the resulting album, Leon’s Mystical Head (a title inspired by a Firesign Theatre sketch). “Catbox” Joe Dragone (saxophone) and Kevin Hendrick (trumpet) also guest on the record, which features prominent use of found sounds and samples, courtesy Graf. Live shows from this period often featured “Weasel Vision,” a multimedia visual presentation created and presented by artists Michael Oatman http://tang.skidmore.edu/tagword/639/ and John J.A. Jannone
John J.A. Jannone
John J.A. Jannone is a musician, installation artist, videographer, and founder of the graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, which he directed from 2003-2008...
http://www.johnjajannone.net/.
Leon’s Mystical Head featured “Paging Larry Storch,” the first installment of The Larry Trilogy, based on a Weasels theory that the purest essence of contemporary American comedy was to be found in the film and television work of Larry Fine
Larry Fine
Louis Feinberg , known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American comedian and actor, who is best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.-Early life:...
, Larry Hovis
Larry Hovis
Larry Hovis was an American singer and actor best known for playing a fictional prisoner of war on the 1960s television sitcom Hogan's Heroes.-Early life and career:...
and Larry Storch
Larry Storch
Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is an American actor best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for top cartoon shows, including Mr...
. The Notorious Killer Series continues with “A Fish,” which is about infamous cannibal Albert Fish
Albert Fish
Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that he "had children in every state," and at one time put the figure at...
. In July 2006, "Bar-B-Q Baby" was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show.
As a result of the emotional and financial burdens that were inflicted by Leon’s Mystical Head, it was decided by the band's core members that all subsequent Weasels albums would be recorded and engineered under the direct supervision of the band, with Graf taking a prominent creative role in the increasingly elaborate productions of Fun and Weasell’s compositions.
Leon’s Mystical Head included the following songs:
- “Leon’s Mystical Head”
- “A Fish”
- “Bulldoze the Moon”
- “Klaus Barbie and Ken”
- “Bang My Head”
- “Poor Blind Sheehan”
- “Bitch Is All Business”
- “Paging Larry Storch”
- “Bar-B-Q Baby”
- “Murder of Crow”
- “Ahab”
- “The Short Song” (a hidden track)
Uranus Or Bust
The next Weasels album, Uranus or Bust, was three years in the making. Behind striking cover art by Oatman, Fun (billed as Racer Fun), Weasell (billed as Chairman Wow) and Graf (now Sir Mixalot of Ice-T) offered 16 new compositions (one hidden) produced and engineered at Graf’s Big Saucy Sound Studio. Berger, Maynard and Okey returned to the band, and were joined by keyboardist Adrian Cohen http://www.adriancohen.com/, brother of Weasel emeriti Jonathan and Jordan. Jonathan Cohen (bass) guests on Uranus, as do drummers Candlen, Petrocelli and Larry Levine, Amy Abdou (violin), Rena Graf (vocals), Mike Pauley (bass) and “some Russian friend of Candlen’s” (voices).Two of Uranus’ songs were commissioned as part of multimedia art installations created by Oatman. “Hall of Pain” (about this album’s representative Notorious Killer, nineteenth-century Troy, New York’s Andress Hall) was composed as part of “Awful Disclosures: The Life and Confessions of Andress Hall,” http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/dbef436fa5cfe639a19afeb4da09e526.html while “Monument Road” appeared in conjunction with “Henry Perkins and the Eugenics
Eugenics
Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...
Survey of Vermont.” Maynard composed the music for one song on the album, “Dumber Than Me,” while the Larry Trilogy continues with “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”, which was also performed live by the Clown Punchers, a side project featuring Weasell and Mike Goudreau, VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
staff writer for such programs as I Love the '80s and Before They Were Rock Stars. In May 2006, "Mr. Yamamoto" (a.k.a. "Jimmy's Talking Pants") was selected for broadcast on Doctor Demento's internationally syndicated radio show.
Uranus or Bust included the following songs:
- “Harvey Loped Along”
- “Something Wicked”
- “Onan Spilled His Seed”
- “Small Engine Repair”
- “MacNeice”
- “Alison Wonderbread”
- “Ou Est Monsieur Crane?”
- “Monument Road”
- “Lemons”
- “A Million Vacations”
- “Dumber Than Me”
- “Crogolin Grange”
- “Jimmy’s Talking Pants” (sometimes listed as “Mr. Yamamoto”)
- “Hale-Bopp (Recorded Live at the Village Gate, NYC, November 23, 1961)”
- “Hall of Pain”
- “Rachel” (a hidden track)
GenerationXcrement
Originally conceived as the bonus disc for a planned four-record box set retrospective, GenerationXcrement was released in 2000 and provided an assortment of alternate takes and unreleased tracks from the group’s first decade, including some of the earliest “basement tapes” from their pre-live incarnations. On October 28, 2000, the band played what is, to date, their last live show at Valentine’s Music Hall http://www.valentinesalbany.com/ in Albany to support this disc’s release. Fun and Weasell were joined onstage by Jonathan Cohen (bass, who had returned to replace Okey after Uranus was completed), drummer Scott Appicelli and hired hands Steve Watson (keyboards) and Nathaniel Ward (guitar). Graf no longer performed onstage with the Weasels, but provided sound mix and supplements from the engineer’s booth.GenerationXcrement featured performers from throughout the band’s history, including the following musicians not credited elsewhere in their recorded canon: Mike Sheehan (keyboards), Andy Manion (guitar) and Mary Panza (voice). The album included the following songs:
- "Man On the Moon”
- “Fluffy Wuffy Bunnies”
- “Billy Boy”
- “Let the Killing Begin”
- "Have A Nice Day”
- “Old Spot Old Stain”
- “Amway Man”
- “Gawdzilla”
- “A Fish”
- “Fat Lady Sings”
- “Part On the Square” (written for an art installation by Oatman, and sometimes listed as "Hard On the Square")
- “Generation Excrement”
Axis of Weasel
Like the BeatlesThe Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
after Revolver, XTC
XTC
XTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Senses Working Overtime" , but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical success.- Early years:...
after English Settlement and Steely Dan
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...
after Pretzel Logic (but before their 1990s renaissance), the Weasels have existed as a studio-based creative entity alone since 2000, freed from the burdens and pressures associated with live performance of their music.
The first fruits of this era in the band’s history saw light in January 2006, when Axis of Weasel was released. Produced and engineered by Graf at Big Saucy Sound, the album’s 12 songs feature Fun, Weasell, Graf, Jonathan Cohen (bass and Chapman Stick
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
), Adrian Cohen (keyboards), Appicelli (drums), and new guitarist Matt Pirog, formerly of Caged Monkey and also a member of Jonathan Cohen’s Erftones http://www.erftones.com/ and the Burners UK. Guests on the record include stalwart guitarist Maynard on lead and slide, Rena Graf and Mike Pauley (backing vocals), Dud Hennessey (mouth harp), Nathaniel Ward (guitar) and J. Eric Smith http://www.jericsmith.com (theremin
Theremin
The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...
).
Axis of Weasel was originally titled It Takes A Village to Raise a Village Idiot and is referenced as such in news articles and reviews from this period. The Larry Trilogy concludes here, a decade after it began, with closing track “Everything’s Fine.” Although it appears that no Infamous Killers explicitly appear on this record, the songs “Under a Cheddar Moon” and “Where Cheese Is King” continue a new Weasels' lyrical obsession: dairy and seafood products from Vermont, a story line that had been launched with “Rachel,” the hidden track from Uranus Or Bust. Album opener “Hey Joey Doyle” takes film masterpiece On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...
as its launching point. An edit from “Dirtnap” was broadcast nationally in January 2006 as part of National Public Radio’s “A Word to the Wise” segment, dealing with coffins, caskets and undertakers.
Axis of Weasel includes the following tracks:
- "Hey Joey Doyle”
- “Where Cheese Is King”
- “Flergen, A Swede”
- “Suckling”
- “Transparent”
- “Whither Goest the Waitress”
- “1973”
- “Officer Gerbils”
- "Cosmic Rays”
- “Under A Cheddar Moon”
- “Dirtnap”
- “Everything’s Fine”
Recent Works and News
In spring 2006, a new Weasels song called "Little Big Man" was featured in "Model Citizens", an exhibition and series of documentary videos spanning four Northeast communities and featuring the work of over 25 model makers and curated as part of the Public Art/Moving Site Project; the show also involved longtime Weasels collaborator Michael Oatman. "Little Big Man" featured Fun, Graf, Weasell and Pirog from the Axis of Weasel band, joined by returning Leon/Uranus bassist Alan Okey and Al Kash, an internationally recognized veteran drummer whose first recordings were with Australian band, BlackfeatherBlackfeather
Blackfeather was an Australian rock group in the 1970s. The group had many members and went through two major incarnations - the earlier heavy rock version of the group, which recorded the album At The Mountains of Madness and the hit single "Seasons of Change", and the later piano-based lineup...
on their 1971 album At the Mountains of Madness. Kash also played drums in Florida for Tiger Tiger, a Miccosukee
Miccosukee
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida are a federally recognized Native American tribe in the U.S. state of Florida. They were part of the Seminole nation until the mid-20th century, when they organized as an independent tribe, receiving federal recognition in 1962...
Indian band in the 1970s before returning to the Albany area to form regional '80s new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
legends Fear of Strangers (originally known as the Units), a band that also featured Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.-Early life:Aimee Mann grew up in Bon Air, Virginia, graduated from Open High School in 1978 and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes...
collaborator Todd Nelson (guitar), with whom Kash later played in the Rumdummies.
As of July 2010, The Weasels are in the late stages of recording their sixth studio album, with Jon Cohen (bass) and Al Kash (drums) joining Fun and Weasell as full-time Weasels, Adrian Cohen contributing keyboards, and final guitar tracks still in process, with Chuck D'Aloia and Eric Radzminsky expected to be featured players. As Doctor Fun explained, "Matt Pirog and his stupid hat and ridiculous goatee are dead to us." The first single from their new project, "Do The Teabag," was released in September 2010.
Additional Resources
The Weasels' Official Website: http://www.theweasels.comThe Weasels at Myspace http://www.myspace.com/theweaselsdotcom