Perfect Thyroid

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In 1991, Chris Hanson came home to the Hudson Valley (on break from fine art sudies) and met up with high school friend Chris Snykus (home from The Crane School of Music). The two immediately shared new music with each other - as they, along with other high school friends and Hanson's brother Bill, had done regularly in the past. Hanson and Snykus decided to go see their friend's band "Noble House" play one night... which is when the words, "We should form a band!" were really spoken seriously between the two friends. As fate would have it, that show turned out to be the last for "Noble House" - and friends, Jaf Farkas (bass) and Shawn Rice (singer), were now on board for the new potential project. Another friend - and classmate of Hanson's - was Jen Polcari. Jen just so happened to be home from her music studies in Indiana and was playing in a pit band with Snykus for a local, community play. The band (still nameless) now had a talented keyboardist. All they needed now was a guitarist and some horns. Chris Hanson started teaching himself trumpet and painfully learning horn lines - and writing horn parts easy enough for himself to play in a short amount of time. The band was able to find local sax players (usually from S.U.N.Y. New Paltz) - which still left the crucial guitar spot vacant. Dissatisfied with his trombone progress, and seeing the greater need for guitar, Bill Hanson stepped up and said, "I'll learn guitar." The next day, Bill bought a guitar and started practici

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Musical Barnacles

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I’ve Gotcha Covered

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SKA The Third Wave: Volume 3

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Skanarchy

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Skandalous: I've Gotcha Covered, Volume 2

Skandalous: I've Gotcha Covered

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Meet The Deedles

Which One Of Us Is Me?

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Freedom Sounds: A Tribute To The Skatalites

Kiss The Mammoth And Run

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I've Gotcha Covered Volume 2

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Skandalous: I've Gotcha Covered, Vol. 2

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