Brent Karnes - Bass/Vocals
Erinn Fralich - Drums
Joe McCargar - Guitar/Vocals
The Batcows were around in the late 80's for a little over a year, they relocated to Eugene from Grants Pass when the entire band enrolled at the U of O. My first not-so-great band The Exploding Cats used to play regularly with these guys at house parties all over campus. I recorded this demo on a 4-track in the living room of Patrick's apartment. I think it sounds pretty good considering that towards the end Joe was so drunk we had to lean him against a wall to play his parts. Favorite part was that Patrick had wired headphones into a football helmet and the vocals were all performed with that on. I think this is all that has survived, there were a few additional songs recorded but the master is long gone. The tape was eventually released by Patrick about a year after the band broke up but I don't have the cover art. Patrick?
The Batcows - F is for Fred (1989)
1. No Fun Tonight
2. Hell
3. Do You Ever Wonder Why?
4. You're Almost More Important
5. Green Felt
6. Everywhere I Go
7. Options
8. Life, Death or Whatever
9. You Don't Understand
10. So What
11. Purport Animation
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Live in Grants Pass (1988)
1. Intro
2. Life, Rain and the Terrible Thing
3. Intro
4. Peace of Mind
5. I Love You
6. Hell
7. Strange Days
8. Tonight
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Wow....This is Brent Carnes. Joe's last name is McCargar. This is quite a pleasure to come across. Thanks for having this here. I have photos, including a couple of Exploding Cats pictures, but no music.
ReplyDeleteHi Brent,
ReplyDeleteAre you on Facebook? It's Jeff here and I would love to get copies of those Exploding Cats pictures as they would be to my knowledge the only pics that exist. A 4-track demo survives too but it's pretty terrible. Write me at panicon13th@sbcglobal.net