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Twitch (1990 - 1995)
(As Jeff remembers - please someone put in a good one)
The Kalamazoo band twitch came into existence around the end of 1990, out of the remains of the rarely-heard "Crowded Morgue". At the time, band members included Kevin Oberlin (vocals and guitar), Steve Martin (bass), Kevin Farkas (drums), and Rick Cutsinger (guitar). Within this line-up, they released the metal-with-some-clean-guitar cassette "Feel the Palm" and gained relative popularity around town, playing the club and parties. Within the next year or so, Chris Bryers joined the band as vocalist, leaving "Selling Heaven" and Rick Cutsinger left. Chris joked that he had won the "Honorary Sammy Hagar Ruin your Favorite Metal Band" award, but in fact, Twitch took quite a turn towards improvement. In 1993 they released the very popular EP CD "Homewrecker", and became fixtures in Kalamazoo and played the big festivally shows. Another demo was recorded at the Western Studios which was never released. They released the 7' of Jedi/Maryjane to a dwindling number of turntables. They were signed to Grass Records and recorded their first full length, "Beaten Senseless and Giddy With Love" (1993?). A video for "Locomotive God" was produced. They were also included on a Frank Sinatra tribute record. At the height of the Kalamazoo local scene, twitch was picked up by major record label R C A Records and recorded two albums worth of unreleased material (a demo and an album) with producer Dave Ogilvy. In 1995, they were dropped by the label and broke up shortly afterward. Members went on to start Owlsa, Sleet and Dead River Drag.
Chris Bryers, Vocals
Kevin Oberlin, guitar (and lead vocals pre-homewrecker)
Kevin Farkas, Drums
Steve Martin, Bass
Rick Cutsinger, Guitar (feel the palm)
For about a day, Brent Oberlin and Geoff Halsey joined Twitch for what seemed like a practice and a photo shoot
Chris was previously in Son of One, Selling Heaven/Killswitch. He later played in Owsla, Sleet, TASM Lab, Knives are quiet, and recorded a solo record
Kevin Oberlin went to play in Dead River Drag, Sleet, and then to a very successful booking and management career in LA
Kevin Farkas went on to San Fransisco to play in Dustin Donaldson's I Am Spoonbender
Steve Martin played in the Kzoo version of Sleet. He is now a double-daddy and loves his sweetheart, Allyson.
Twitch mini site including flyers, photos and more, created by Allyson Martin
EXCLUSIVE - FEEL THE PALM Cassette (1991)
Feel the Palm
Body Twitch
Eyelock
HOMEWRECKER EP (1993)
Here are a couple of freebies to get you back into the swing of things:
Leon's Temple (!)
Now go get the rest of HOMEWRECKER from Apple iTunes: HOMEWRECKER
WMU DEMO (Unavailable right now)(1993)
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD (Unavailable right now)(1993)
JEDI / MARYJANE 7" (Unavailable right now)(1993)
BEATEN SENSELESS AND GIDDY WITH LOVE (1993)
Locomotive God
Nero Apologizes
Now go get the rest of BEATEN from Apple iTunes: BEATEN SENSELESS
POST-BEATEN DEMO AND ALBUM (Unavailable right now)(1994)
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