the shitty wizards

about

The Shitty Wizards were formed in the spring of 2004 by long time friends Josh Hotchkin and Jason Wickman. Jason had set up a rudimentary recording studio in his farm home outside of Williamsburg, Iowa, and had been working on his solo project 'Ten For Tea'. Josh visited the Wickman family for a weekend under the premise of preparing Jason and Wendys wedding ceremony, as Josh was to perform the ceremony. They decided to record a song, and much alcohol and marijuana later, their first track 'Kite Envy' was laid down. The song was inspired by events which had transpired earlier when four people had to share three kites. The first track layed down was a keyboard track that Josh had been playing with and had been arranged by he and Jason, with Jason backing him on the drums. The two then filled in more instruments on other tracks. This became the pattern by which they would continue to record. One live rhythm keyboard or guitar track accompanied by drums and then built upon. This was not only necessary due to a limited amount of band members, but a limited amount of equipment played a major role. After this recording session, the two sat down and decided to continue working together in the same style. The name Shitty Wizards was taken from a line on a Seattle Public Access television show called The Jerkbeast. The line was, "Thats not Jesus, thats just a shitty wizard." Soon both memebers were busy writing new material. On several weekends Josh would stay at the farm and the two

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