TIN008 - Steakdaddy Six - ArkadelphiaTIN008: Steakdaddy Six - Arkadelphia (1993)
Steakdaddy makes their first full-length with Andrew Beddini. Chris Green had left the band to go on the road with Hum and others (he's the guy driving the van in "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart") or maybe he went to Harvard, I can't quite remember the sequence of events. Anyways, Chris was replaced by former Hardcore Barbie and WARD drummer Larry Thompson. Arkadephia is a town in Arkansas. The subtitle of the record is "Birth of the Syndicate" and the front cover features Gordon with tin foil wrapped teeth, holding a tin foil wrapped gun. A human completely encased in tin foil graces the back cover and a tin foil wrapped sneaker, guitar, human head and Millennium Falcon are featured inside. They explained the whole concept to me and it made sense at the time but it's been over ten years now and I've forgotten what it all means.

TIN009: Love Cup - Grefus, Gronks & Sheet (1993)
Definitely the best record to come out of Champaign from this era, and I'm not just saying that because we put it out. Lovingly engineered by Matt Allison who had recorded a ton of stuff in Champaign during the 80's and had moved to Chicago to pursue fame and fortune in the big city (he later produced some Alkaline Trio records). Jason Milam (now of Emotional Rec Club) took over on drums. You should buy a copy of this CD. I think Parasol still has a few copies. There was some touring when Grefus came out and there was some major label "interest" but things never materialized. One begins to question the whole music eco-system when a band like this goes unnoticed.

TIN010: Dis- M386.D57 (1994)
The band returns with a new drummer, Peter Pollack (a momentary Bitch Magnet skinsman) and adds a "-" to its name: Dis-, not Dis; it's a prefix, not an abbreviation of "disrespect". Rob was deeply involved with the cult of library science, hence the title, which conforms to a non-Dewey Decimal library classification system, I'm not sure which. I'm pretty sure Mr. Albini helmed this one also but he's not name checked on the insert so I'm not absolutely positive.

TIN011: Steakdaddy Six - Houstonia: (1995)
Continuing the place names as titles trend started with Arkadelphia, Steakdaddy named this CD after a town in Missouri. This time there's no subtitle but there's a colon in the title continuing the surpurflous use of punctuation started by Dis-. This was recorded in at the Home of Good Shoes which was a loft that Rose and I lived in in downtown Champaign back when there was nothing around but the Blind Pig and a few abandoned department stores. Best song title ever: Hip Hop Chewbacca.

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