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The Evolution of The Victims
| show, but eventually started throwing a few cover songs in to the set lists which would really please the crowd when they played and thus more and more cover songs were being added to the sets. It was eventually decided that cover songs, with a few originals mixed in, would be the new angle of the band as this would bring in more people to their shows and open more doors into clubs. They also needed a new name, but what? They wanted something that would sound heavy and would have some sort of a meaning. After tossing around several ideas, they agreed on THE VICTIMS which was their own self-description of their failings in the previous "all-originals" scheme. It should be noted however that THE VICTIMS did have success as an originals band. In 1998, they were on a local cable access show and wound up being on the program's "most requested" show for that year, but the guys demanded mayhem at every show and knew they needed to keep working for that to happen....they would need to make more changes. The other three wound up at a party at Dave's house and started jamming with him. Dave was very impressed and was equally giddy with Chad's vocal capabilities. Lawson anxiously called Danny immediately and they invited Chad to try out. Havlat had been involved in the garage rock scene around Lincoln in recent years and was also waiting for something special to happen. It did for all four of these guys!!! After asking Chad to join the band, he accepted and the four rocking crusaders practiced their asses off for about two years (gigging sparingly) before really starting to get jobs with any consistency. Continue> |