Don't hurt em', kid.

Gabbard relived one of the band’s more spectacular performances, “So here we are, playing at some bar down in the University District…I can’t recall which one because we play out so much…anyways, it was wild.  The five of us each had to have drank four or five beers and I mean we were rocked!  That’s what we did too…rocked!  We rocked so hard that my shoes fell off and then some girl asked me if I knew where the bathroom was, I mean, it was unreal.  Most of our fans can usually only stay for the first ten or fifteen minutes of our gigs because of how hard we rock, it’s like that everywhere we go!” 

Idol Fret is a five-piece band consisting of a guitar, drums, bass, more guitar, and a singer…a very uncommon set-up in the music business these days.  Aside from their unconventional instrumentation, the band’s songs are also quite original, with songs about everything from getting drunk and meeting girls to falling in love and failed relationships.  Most of their songs are up-tempo with a three chord structure, not like much of the music heard on the radio right now.  The band also has a couple of slower ballads that they usually reserve to “get chicks”.  The band’s new CD, Slippery Morning, contains some live tracks recorded at area bars and a few pieces that were recorded in their studio in the drummer’s basement and mixed on a home computer.  

With offerings like “She Told Me to Go Away”, “Fanciful Pants” and the title track, “Slippery Morning”, the CD is the most ambitious of the band’s six previous releases and promises to be a “real romp” according guitarist Andy Lawling’s new girlfriend.  Some readers may recall Idol Fret’s last CD, Lickity Spit which was mentioned in passing by a DJ on K-BOINK radio by mistake.