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Gila Bend
12+ albums
emoemocoreUSAreal emoemotive hardcore
about
Gila Bend formed in Downers Grove, IL in late1993 under the name Double Odd Buck. Double Odd Buck was vocalist Robert Glen Fogarty (ex. Ivy League, Sleepy Bear, and Smug), guitarist Mike Hanyzewski (ex: Black Bear), bassist Eric Kmiec (ex: Trigwater), and drummer Tim Albert. As Double Odd Buck, the band recorded a 4 song cassette for Liberty Park Recordings and played shows through 1994. In December of 1994, due to the exit of Fogarty and a house fire that destroyed almost all of the band's equipment, Hanyzewski, Kmiec, and Albert formed Gila Bend with bassist / songwriter Basil Shadid. Kmiec switched to guitar. The new band spent the first few months of 1995 writing new songs and went into Experimental Sound Studios with engineer / producer Jacob Ross on April 15th and 16th of that year to record several songs, four of which would be released. The instrumental "Smile" (Hanyzewski) and the songs "Keep Your Head Up" and "A Falling Star" (Shadid) would be released as a self-titled 7 inch record and "My Dream Locomotive" (Shadid) would be released on the "Emo Schmeemo" 7 inch compilation. Both records would be released on Liberty Park Recordings. This line up of the band would play shows through the summer of 1995, some of which were recorded onto video and released on Nate Dykeman's MF entertainment featuring a show in a garage in Port Washington, Wisconsin during the Herbal Flesh Tea / Gila Bend summer mini, mini, mini tour. In the fall of 1995, partly inspired by Jack Ke
