Ex Member Of...

Just clearing up the haze of FOB's former members.

Our original drummer was a guy named Ben Rose who of no relation to Spitalfields Mark Rose, lived across the street from him.

Our second offical drummer was named Mike. The reason to no one says his last name is because no one remembers how to spell it. Phoenetically it was pronounced "Paris-kev-itch." But i believe it was something along the lines of "Pareskuwicz," or something like that (sorry Mike...Haven't seen you in a while. Make contact!)

We had a guitar player for our first show named John Plamondon who i guess wasn't really in the band but played a show with us. There's quite a few of those but he was technically in our original lineup, if only briefly.

The longest running guitar player of the 5 man lineup before i gave in and picked up an axe as it were was TJ "Racine" Kunoch. Again, no one really remember's how to spell his last name. He was from Racine Wisconsin, hence the nickname.

Andy was the first person we asked to play drums in the band, be he was rather busy. His first show with us (and with me officially as guitarist) was with Andy's other band the Kill Pill at the Fireside Bowl. I think As Friend's Rust played that show too.

Another interesting note, before Andy was in the band I was supposed to play drums on two recordings. The first was the demo that became half of the Project Rocket split (I had school on drum day so Jared who recorded it simply played drums). The second was the second demo, a three song session that included "Dead On Arrival," "Homesick At Spacecamp," and "Saturday." I actually checked drums for that one because Andy (who wasn't yet in the band) had offered to record them, but was recording another entire album that very day in another state. He raced over and walked in the door the second before my first take. He completed his recordings within 2-3 takes. He's been in ever since.


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- thanks to everyone who tipped us off - especially failboats who took the time to type this up, despite being ill (get well soon!); most of us were otherwise engaged today, apologies for the delay.