This needs to be updated. Soon enough.

Straight to Your Brain: According to Semke
We formed the band in June of 1999. Due to a general lack of interest in our 9-piece locally owned ska-punk cooperative "The Skamish", we decided to start this clever little act as a side-project. If you just started listening to us now, you probably think I'm making this up. But seriously, we had a ridiculous band, we should be more embarassed. Hank was a friggin' saxaphone player, can you believe it? Back then it was a fella named Jim Heiderscheit on the drums (Hank wasn't any good). I (Matt Semke) played guitar. I taught Hank how to play the bass a little bit. We sounded like some sort of Assorted Jelly Beans wannabe crap. We started playing shows after a couple months. One year after that (It's now the year 2000) we're all living in a dumpy brick house in Winona, Minnesota. We had a four track recorder so we made our first cd. "Crucial Instruments for Social Stability" was made up of 13 songs that sound like highschool. The sarcasm that comes from being late-bloomers. Some asshole just mail ordered that album yesterday. He's in for a treat. Sometime between then and the next year we recorded our follow up EP "I didn't know I had it in me" and a split 7" with Good Morning. I guess these are a little less embarassing. Eric (everyone should try crack) from the Brokedowns thinks "that red album is your guys best stuff. Me and my wife still listen to it everyday."

So it was the summer of 2001, when we did our first tour. We left for a month and did the east and the south. I'm positive we had the world's most annoying roadie. Either way it was a pretty intense experience for us. Our van got robbed in Baltimore, us little boys got to drink underage at a big-person bar, and that damn drummer did all kinds of things that he didn't want his lady knowing about. We came back with like 900 dollars, I have no idea how that happened, but hopefully someday it happens again. Jim decided he didn't want to be involved anymore, and he's gone on to do some pretty amazing things let me tell ya. But Hank and I were jus' fine with that cause we'd been fuggin' around with Hank on drums and our new friend Jason Zabrowski (Zabby) on bass, it was all like meant-to-be and shit. So we wrote tons of new songs. After a few shows we did our first studio recording. This was "swingers, winos, and sunday school teachers." We made some cd-r copies of it to sell until we could afford to press the cd. Now we're in summer of 2002, we went on tour. This time with the finest roadie in the land Stevo. We had the pleasure of meeting I Farm on a farm. Lots of shows fell through. It got really hot. Zabby briefly quit the band in New Orleans. Lost a ton of money. What a blast tour is. So winter rolls around and we get back into the van. This time around we head to the south with our longtime friends the Brokedowns. We made a movie that might only be funny to us. We spent new years eve alone in a bar where we watched eachother play and the bartender shot fireworks at us. Some crazy fucker tried selling me some extacy in the middle of our set. Some asshole in Texas offered up his girlfriend for the night, a long with some expired meat. I got stomach cancer from some eggs. Again a total blast, where much money was spent. This brings us to the summer of 2003 where we head south and east (hopefully we head in a different direction soon) with the Gammits MW and Stevo. Spent many a night getting drunk at truck stops. Went to NYC for the first time and had a big kung fu match (everyone vs. leif) while I Farm and their friends looked at us like we was crazy. Locked the cashbox in my sister's house in Boston. Built a fort in our hotel room in Nashville with Robot has Werewolf Hand. Zabby quit the band in Memphis, took his van and all the shit back to Winona. The rest of us piled into the Gammits van. 9 people in 1 van with no AC...in fact we had to run the heater because it was overheating. We still played the rest of the shows with many many different bass players and some songs as a two piece nightmare. Our last show in Madison was definately the highlight because we had like nine different members that night. Stevo passed out in the parking lot for a while. So then we got back and we didn't have a bass player. We tried Jason from the Krammies. After he learned all the songs and played a show, he left the band. Then Zabby kind of joined the band again but didn't have enough time. Now we got the friggin roadie playing the bass and it's working great. We've got a new album written and we'll record it as soon as we can. We won't stop playing anytime soon.