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		Less Than Jake
	When you first start a band you never really think that it's  going to get heard by anyone outside your small group of friends and teh practice space walls. We thought the same exact thing. Chris and I started playing in a different band when we were both in high school. It was sloppy and messy but it was fun to stumble over drumbeats, hear all the mumbled words and half finished chords on guitar. It was our noise, it was our messy half assed songs, It was good to drive my neighbour "Herb" with the chours repeatedly chanting "Hey Herb" over and over again till either the police came or we had to go outside for a smok break. After Chris moved up to Gainsville, from our shitty town 3 hours south, to go to college it was kinda clear - either I had to move or the band would consist of me, a few  guys who did cinstruction (meaning they drank Budweiser at heights from 20 to 50 feet in the air and could smoke cigarettes and hammer nails at the same time), and one guy with a mohawk who couldn't sing or even show up for practice. With all that in mind I moved up to Gainsville to go to school and to start a band with Chris. By the time I got up to Gainsville, we already had a few songs for the new band. Between Chris driving down on weekends or me and Mark Cruce coming up for a visit we had a hadnful or new songs but no bass player or name Chris had a few ideas for the bass players by the time I got into town. We decided before we tried to get a bass player we'd zero in on a name for the 'band' - to either (A) - to make it seem like we had out shit together or (B) - make ourselves feel better. I think it was (B) or maybe it was just so I could write it over and over again on notebook paper during my anthropology class. After practising for a few weeks with this one bass player, who I will still say to this day, wore the baggiest pants I've ever seen and had an even worse voice than myself, we met Roger through Chris's roomate's sisters friend (that was confusing). Roger had never played bass before LTJ but actually was amazing (still is) on guitar. After Rog went out and got the cheapest bass as possible at one local pawn shops, we knew we found a new bass player or at least someone who actually knew who the DESCENDENTS were. Either way it was a win-win situation.