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Category: Blogging
YETTI FUN FACTS!!!!
1. THE YETTI was originally a three piece band, consisting of Jason Little on guitar, Shannon Stowers on bass and Ben Coll on drums.
2. Our first gig as this line-up was at Bret Nida's Pimp n Ho party, at his house by the tracks.
3. Before Brad Kinder joined the band, he sat in on vocals, at the above mentioned party, for a tender rendition of Dr. Dre's "EXXXPlosive".
4. THE YETTI has rocked some fucking Huntington house parties in their day....Exhibit A. Matt Green's on 7th Avenue. Exhibit B. Elm Street Halloween Block Party.
5. Two long-lost, rare tracks by THE YETTI include "Mexico to Philly" and "The Shocker". These two instrumentals may have been performed at two shows tops.
6. There is currently a four way tie for "The Most Drunken Performance by a Yetti"...and the Nominees are...Jason Little for his work at the Zen City Festival, Brad Kinder for his shocking role in "Brian Sedlock's Gazebo Party" and again, Jason Little for his shit-talking manifesto at "Marley's Doghouse 420 show", and AGAIN, Huggy Brad in Morgantown after the Marshall-WVU game at 123 Pleasant St.
7. The man, the tooth, the legend Andy Masker used to perform as a sax-wielding fifth member of the band.
8. We once covered "Feel My Heat" from Boogie Nights.
9. After a blistering gig, and a night of debauchery in our tent cabin, some fucking tourists at North American River Runners locked us in to teach us a lesson. It didn't work.
10. Tony Hawk 2 practically caused every member of THE YETTI to flunk out of college.
11. Billy Lotion is THE YETTI's retarded cousin.
12. We have played many, many shows with Vern's Pot O' Chili and The Zen Fishermen.
13. Our Bridge Day show at Songer a few years back nearly collapsed the fucking floor.
14. We try to overcome our lack of musical virtuousity with charisma and club-handed flailing of our instruments. So far, So good.
15. THE YETTI has never stepped foot in an actual recording studio. Any recorded tracks you hear have been captured in Brad Kinder or Ben Coll's dining rooms. Eat up!
16. The 3 most common complaints about THE YETTI are: too loud, too late, too vulgar. Some people just don't get it. That shit is part of our mystique.
17. ST. PADDY's DAY is THE BEST DAY FOR A SHOW.
18. THE YETTI is the first band in the history of THE UNIVERSE to write a song about BRIDGE DAY. huh, huh? I bet that shit is a fact.
19. Similarly, no other band has ever addressed the topics of "Capital Classic" or "Multi-Fest" in song.
20. Here's a surreal YETTI moment...4th of July, in front of the Fayette County courthouse, THE YETTI rocking the stage....elderly ladies line dancing in the street. True story, no shit.
21. You should never, ever, ever, inquire about THE YETTI playing at your wedding. We're not built for that kinda stuff.
22. No, Valerie Spears, we will not ever cover Fleetwood Mac.
23. We were nameless as a band up until about the fall of 2000, we almost went by "Camp Viking"
24. "Hurricane Drew" was a destructive nemesis of many Huntington bands at the turn of the milennium.
25. The 11th Avenue house occupied by J, Ben and Shannon circa 2001-2002 had a shack full of dead bums in the back yard.
26. We spent many, many years borrowing a PA system from Bryan Roberts before piecing one together finally in 2004.
27. "Call the Cops", another lost/rare track, featured Ben on the RotoToms (which were stolen from Megan & Jordan's house after a party)
28. Brad's dad walked in on us smoking a blunt with the Zen Fishermen backstage at the Sound Factory in 2003.
29. Our summer home has been referred to as "Fay-YETTI-ville" and "Fayette-nam"
30. The only time we've ever played outside of West Virginia was at the Zen City Festival in *sigh* Ohio.
31. Shannon & Brad once cheers'd so hard after an Irish Car Bomb that they broke their pint glasses at Mycroft's.
Feel free to share any more yarns of Yetti debauchery in our comments section.
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