Previously, when bassist Rich Cefalo moved to New York City and was unavailable, Matt Wagner (of LFM Band Preston Furman) sat in with Earwig on the bass in Athens, Ohio at Follett’s Bookstore. McGee returned to Ohio and in 2004 teamed up with bassist Matt Wagner. McGee and Kapololu also recorded several unreleased demos at Avalon studios in San Jose, CA. Playing live in the Bay Area as a duo with drummer Raj Kapololu, McGee also went on 2 solo tours of the West Coast, playing shows in Seattle, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. That same year he began running LFM Records, increasing their distribution and recognition. McGee moved to California in 2000 and released the widely available version of Perfect Past Tense on CD on LFM Records that same year. Rich now plays in the NYC band ‘Estranged Estates’ with Chuck Palmer, who also moved to New York in 2000, on drums. He went on to direct the music video for the song The Horror, the first single from RjD2’s debut album Deadringer. The band toured the Midwest and east coast, eventually releasing a very limited, hand-pressed, early edition of Perfect Past Tense in late 1999 at a show in Columbus. This trio of Rich Cefalo on bass, Justin Crooks on drums, Lizard McGee on guitar and vocals recorded Perfect Past Tense with producers Steve Evans (who also produced the Major Label debut of Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments on American Recordings) and Jared Kotler (producer of the multi-planinum selling band Marcy Playground on Capitol Records) in Long Island, NY. Swinarski participated in two recording sessions with the band resulting in three released songs: A cover of " Do They Know It’s Christmas?" released on the LFM Chris-single cassette, "Anatomical Gift" and "Two Dragons." In 1996, Justin Crooks, formerly the drummer for LFM band Parsnip, joined Earwig on drums. In 1996 drummer Chuck Palmer left the band and was briefly replaced by Brad Swinarski, who played only two shows with Earwig before leaving the band. With the release of this CD, Terry Lo and Jeff Perkins left the band and Rich Cefalo joined on bass for the nationwide tour.Įarwig is featured with interview and photo in The Big Takeover Issue No. 61, 2007 The four-piece began playing shows as they worked on their debut CD, Mayfeeder. The group was soon joined by Terry Lo on guitar and cello. and Capitol Records.Īt this time, Earwig consisted of Lizard McGee on guitars and vocals, Chuck Palmer on drums and bassist Jeff Perkins. The response was promising, and after sending the tape out to zine and record labels, McGee received calls back from labels such as 4AD, Warner Bros. The resulting album, entitled "Dead Slow Hoot", was the first release on LFM Records and saw a limited printing of 300 cassettes. In February 1992, the band recorded a 5-song EP on 1/2" 8 track in McGee's garage. Their most recent album Pause For The Jets was released in October 2016. The band consists of vocalist and guitarist Lizard McGee, bassist and vocalist Costa Hondroulis, vocalist, keyboardist James McGee-Moore and drummers Jeremy Skeen and George Hondrouls. They have released music on micro-indie LFM Records and Anyway Records. George Hondroulis, Chuck Palmer, Brad Swinarski, Justin Crooks, Nicholas Nocera: drumsĮarwig is an indie rock band from Columbus, Ohio. Rich Cefalo, Jeff Perkins, Matt Wagner: bass
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