Your Food
from http://members.iglou.com/maxson/Music/YourFood/YourFood.html:
"Out of nowhere these two young guys, John Bailey and Wolf Knapp, started coming around 1069 Bardstown Road, the so-called Punk House. John played guitar and Wolf bass and they were sort of in a band; eventually they talked their way into getting use of the band room. Soon afterwards Tari Barr, who lived in the upstairs apartment, joined them as drummer and den mother. They were named Orange-Orange and played out a few times. The recently repatriated Doug Maxson saw a massive hole in the line-up and dove in with vocals, words, and odd percussions. After a show or two the name was changed to Your Food, at the suggestion of booster Charles Schultz. This line-up recorded a 5-song 4-track home demo on 1/4" reel. They played around town for a year, until Tari decided to leave the band. Fortunately Charles was keen enough to come in on drums. This match steamed ahead, trying to find places to play, doing away gigs and odd ones back home. In 1983 they independently recorded, pressed and released the album Poke It With A Stick. There were reviews, forays to the East coast, talk of going back into the studio for a follow-up effort . . . but Your Food toured in an ancient van so shot-to-hell it was provisioned with milk jugs of used motor oil--the only affordable way to feed it the gallon of oil it drank every 100 miles. Unfortunately a January trip home from D.C. turned brutal and disastrous--in subfreezing weather the clutch gave out in Maryland, then the transmission died in West Virginia. The band was towed home broke and broken.
No footage and not very many photos exist of Your Food. Early on, though, I bought this Magnavox boombox from Sears for under $100 that came with two condenser mikes for a crisp stereo sound, and by fluke some amazing little recording head. "Order" on side two of the album was dubbed straight and unadulterated from the live cassette onto the master tape. Half a dozen sweet quality shows were preserved, and have since been cleaned up and digitized. There's a 2-disc catalogue raisonne CD-R compiled from these sources called Your Food -- Full Meal Deal. Your Food had a few practices and smashed together a pair of Derby reunion shows in 1991 & 1992. Photos from '91 are below; the '92 show was recorded on DAT & transferred to CD-R."
Members:
(began as Orange-Orange):
original:
- John Bailey - guitar
- Wolf Knapp - bass
- Tari Barr - drums
- Doug Maxson - vocals, lyrics, odd percussions
after Tari left, added:
- Charles Schultz - drums (as well as "band booster" & name-changer)
Shows:
Derby reunion shows in 1991 & 1992
Releases:
- lineup with Tari Barr - 5-song 4-track home demo on 1/4" reel
- Poke It With A Stick - 1983, self-released
- Full Meal Deal CD-R
Compilations: