"We were a band for about a year and a half before I moved out of state with my then-fiancee (now wife) and my little brother went off to college in 1998. Kevin still performs around Cedar Rapids/Iowa City doing solo stuff and as part of the punk band, CR Dicks (check them out on Facebook). He also performs in a cover band, Julie & the Mad Dogs. Jamie was in many punk bands in the CR area in the mid-90s to early 2000s, including The Pee Pees, Brazil, Wheel and the Fence, and most prominently, The Horrors (they put out two albums on the Southern California trash-rock label, In the Red Records). He now lives in Madison, WI, where he is still involved in the punk/underground music scene.
"We performed a grand total of two gigs and recorded 9 songs that have never been formally released. It's all snot-nosed punk music, most of it I'm still quite proud of although a few songs missed the mark and don't hold up to listening nowadays. If you ever want the rest of the songs for future shows, let me know. You could put out a whole series of episodes on the 90s punk scene in Cedar Rapids & Iowa City -- we are really the tip of the iceberg from those old days."
- from an email by band member Alex Pelzel
Lineup:
Nic Pelzel - vocals, guitar
Kevin Michael - guitar
Alex Pelzel - saxophone, backing vocals
Jamie McLees - drums
CR Dicks' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/yourgirlfriendsplace/
CR Dicks' BandCamp page:
https://crdicks.bandcamp.com/
The Horrors' page on the Red Records website:
https://intheredrecords.com/collections/the-horrors
To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode54/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2054_.mp3
Labels: 1990s, 1998, Barbara!) (song), Cedar Rapids, Cedar Rapids area, Ep 054, Halloween, Halloween 2017, Jamie McLees, Kevin Micheal, Mega Blast (band), Nic Pelzel, punk rock, They Want Brains (They're Coming To Get You
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