Screeching Weasel started in 1986, a few weeks after I saw the Ramones play. Mr. Jughead and I got together with a couple of future ex-band members and put together the derivative, cliched songs I’d been working on for a year. We played to crowds of three and five people inside dingy bars owned by men of questionable reputation. Our girlfriends were duly impressed and our performances were highly regarded by the soundmen of the greater Chicagoland area who always had a perfect line of vision to the stage, no matter what their location.
     
      A demo tape was recorded in December of ‘86 and a month later, a local sucker approached us to do an album for his bedroom-based record label. Our self-titled album was released in the spring of 1987. 1,000 copies sold fairly quickly but the album was not to be reprinted by the label. We spent most of 1987 begging our friends to come see us play and experimenting with funny haircuts.
     
      In 1988 we were drawing crowds of fifty and sometimes sixty people. Enter our second bassist. Our second album, BoogadaBoogadaBoogada!, wa... (More SCREECHING WEASEL Biography)