Musical Influences Wild Seeds, Lionel Richie, Lisa, Nine Inch Nails

Artist History In the summer of 1996, my friend and former roommate from college, one Erik T., traveled from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio to visit. We walked from my apartment to a nearby strip mall which contained a Coconuts record store. (I'm not sure they exist anymore, I know that one went out of business.) While there, we were fortunate to stumble upon quite a rare find in the budget cassette racks, over twenty copies of one particular album so unpopular and unwanted that it had been reduced in price to a mere 29 cents each. We quickly purchased all the copies that they had with great plans in mind. (The name of the band and album have been withheld to protect the innocent and the guilty.) Since we'd never be able to put out a real album of our own, we decided this was our chance to make it look as if we had: We had all tapes with song titles professionally printed on them and tape sleeves with professionally done graphics. We co-opted and slightly changed the album name and that became our band name “Huge, Lies and Shame”. The name of our album became "Lisa's Wild Seeds", named after Lisa, the girl at the record shop that sold us the tapes. We were stuck with the song titles, so we set out to write and record our own songs with the very same song titles that were printed on the cassettes and sleeves. The song titles acted as inspiration to push the lyrics in strange and interesting directions. We made it a point not to listen to the actual songs to keep our piracy legitimate. We only had time to re-write 6 of the ten songs and to record three of those 6, but it was a fun endeavor and the result was especially humorous, at least to me.

Group Members Erik T. - songwriter, lead and BG vocals, piano Steve H. - songwriter, lead vocals, keyboards, drum programming

Instruments Korg X3, Boss DR-500, Alvarez Acoustic Guitar

Albums Lisa's Wild Seeds

Press Reviews We have no press reviews because we choose to not let the press hear and misrepresent our music.

Location Columbus, Ohio - USA

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