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1. 
   middlenamewayne
   (20 Posts)

   The first band Britt Daniel ever played with was in high school in Temple, Texas. The band were called "The Zygotes".

   BD adamantly insists that he was NOT responsible for coming up with that name.

   - MNW

   BTW: It is doubtful that any recordings of the Zygotes exist (or were even made, for that matter); BD's first known recordings are on the 3 cassettes he released with his early 1990s pop combo Skellington.

   EDIT: Coincidentally enough, I just found myself flipping through the October 4, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, in which a small tidbit of relevant fact is revealed:

   The [SPOON] frontman covered the punk classic "She" by The Misfits with his high school band. "I heard it in a record store the other day, and I was like, 'Oh, yeah!'" he says.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 
   monkfishblues
   (195 Posts)

   The Zygotes.

   That does sound like a band name a high school kid would come up with

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 
   Gabriel
   (48 Posts)

   It's the last word in the dictionary... that's probably where they got it, unless one of the players actually knew his (scientific) stuff.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 
   middlenamewayne
   (20 Posts)

   I'm sure that Britt is at least grateful that they didn't put an awful pun in and make it worse, like:

   The ZyGoats or something like that!

   - mnw

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 
   nefarious
   (116 Posts)

   haha ZyGoats. that makes me laugh.

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 
   skellington-ex
   (4 Posts)

   I am a former member of both the Zygotes and Skellington. The Zygotes were primarily a cover band. I have one live recording cassette with about 20 80's covers. We also did one "studio" recording cassette which included 6 original songs. The studio we used was the fromer recording studio of Little Joe and LaFamalia in Temple, Texas. It was very poor quality--they didn't let us use the good equipment! Adi Hernandez, the son of Little Joe Hernandez, went to high school with us--that's how we got access. The original songs on that cassette are: Flame, Deceiver, Selfish, Wahalote, Salsburg and Cloudhead.

   Discography for Skellington (also cassettes): The Town's Gone Dry and "Skellington" The third cassette that people attribute to the band "Skellington Rex" was not really recorded by us. The music was written by us with the exception of the song "Weah." The cassette was actually recorded in August of 92 by Britt, Joel Freid and Cliff Gaines. I believe it was done on a 4 track mixer britt used to keep at his house--which was our practice studio.

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 
   skellington-ex
   (4 Posts)

   oh and by the way...I didn't pick the name The Zygotes either! I actually joined that band after it lost their first drummer--who also happened to be a high school teacher of Britts! I think the bassist came up with it. He now plays in a band in Dallas with Chris Savage--formerly of the Buck Pets. I cannot recall their name off hand.

   Oh I forgot, Skellington had a song included in a compilation tape in 1992 also. The tape was called Freak Show: A compilation of bands from Austin.

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 
   wantsarevolution
   (144 Posts)

   Very cool! I'm sure we'd all love to hear those tracks if you're ever willing/able to share them!

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 
   skellington-ex
   (4 Posts)

   I just checked his facebook. Mic the Tiger is the old Zygote's bassist's new band..Chris Chapman is his name.

   someone else commented on a misfits cover song the Zygotes did. I know we did a song called Bullet by the Misfits..its on the tape i got. World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope is covered on there too...Britt was a fan of Cope's even in high school. We also did a cover of the Metallica remake of Breadfan...wish I had that recorded, it kicked ass.

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 
    middlenamewayne
    (20 Posts)

    Hmmm. If my Skellington sense is working, then the above "bullet"-in must have come from a "cannon"...

    BTW: Who or what is Captain Metaphor?

    - mnw

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 
    Poco Y Loco
    (8 Posts)

    The trviia is awesome. seems like skellington used to play parties around town, dont nkow if they were at BRitt's house or not. Wonder if skellington ex was also a roommate?

    You need spoon tours around austin...

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 
    Poco Y Loco
    (8 Posts)

    Okay three rumors:

    Britt was married very young
    Britt has a ying and yang tatoo
    Britt used to live with skinheads

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 
    Poco Y Loco
    (8 Posts)

    BUMP

    Posted 1 year ago #

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