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Haji's Kitchen
12+ albums
Progressive metalgroove metalProgressive rockhard rockalternative metal
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Haji's Kitchen was formed in 1992 or 1993. (There were incarnations before this, but I'll start with the first one that actually played live). It was Eddie Head & Brett Stine on guitar, Derek Blakley on bass, and Clint "Barfight" Barlow on drums. We now needed a name... and here's the story: It was yet another case of a band taking a name due to a lack of superior alternatives. Eddie has an affinity for Indian food, and those that know, know that it has a rather pronounced odor. Especially when brought into the rehearsal room as leftovers for Sunday Morning Rehearsal (known as "Metal at 12" at the time). Clint walked into the room, where Eddie was consuming his leftover lunch, and said "Damn.. it smells like Haji's Kitchen in here". It shortly thereafter became a joke, and then a band name. I'm mostly sorry it's not a better story, truth be told. We played a few gigs purely instrumentally, (performing such hits as "The First Progressive Song", "The 7 String Song", "Satan Music" and "The Shuffle Tune"), before borrowing Eddie Ellis from Tommy Lamey to sing on a few tracks. Shortly thereafter, he was dismissed from TL and we picked him up full time. In '94, we parted ways with Clint, and seeing how well raiding Tommy Lamey worked the first time, liberated Rob Stankiewicz from them as well (actually I think it was "Crimeny" instead of TL at that time). This was the 5 piece lineup that got signed to Shrapnel Records, and released the S/T debut in '95. For a while, life
