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Toenut
12+ albums
indie rockalternativenoise popalternative rockunder 2000 listeners
about
Now it can be told! The story of toenut. Way back in the summer of 1991, Skipper Hartley was holed up in a laboratory in Italy, trying to make computers behave like humans. Back home in Atlanta, his own little Hal 9000 was starting to sputter to life. Earlier that year, Hartley and fellow guitarist (and toenut clotheshorse) Richie Edelson planted the seeds of the 'Nut in the moist confines of a rehearsal cubicle. By the following January, they were working Atlanta clubs with a slow-morphing line-up that included Katie Walters singing timidly offstage and the notorious Elephants Gerald tweaking a batterie of tape recorders and Dictaphones, a bricolage of gear that hardly suggested the sampler stylings that would become the band's trademark. Skipper's old bandmate Chris Collins was shipped in from Columbia, South Carolina, to play bass, and a slew of drummers came and went. In 1993, a ragtag iteration of toenut straggled into Clint Steele's Atlanta studio to record their first single, "Heyward"/"Information," released on the wee Half Baked Records. By then, the band had such a rabid following in the Southeast that national attention was imminent. The 7" landed on the plate of ruthless indie starmaker Kramer, who invited the band to his Noise New Jersey studio to make a full-length demo. At Noise, the band met their production svengali, Steve Watson, who helped hone the toenut sound and has continued to work with them through the recording of their current LP. In the summer of
